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15, rue des Prés
Lunay
77171 Léchelle
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 64 00 86 92
www.zellige.eu
Zellige: enamel-coated chips of terra cotta set into plaster, used to decorate monuments and home interiors in the Arab world.
With a firmly international focus, and a deliberately diversified catalogue (novels, essays and albums), Zellige aims to develop close partnerships with publishers, bookstore managers and distributors in the French-speaking world. So the works can be published simultaneously in all the countries involved. And at prices tailored to local buying power.
Steering clear of the centralising mindset, programmes are not systematically initiated in France. Out of the thirty titles featuring in this catalogue, half have originated from one of Zellige’s partners, in Algeria, Haiti, Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium or Lebanon.
Furthermore, Zellige has expanded into graphic design and communications, with customers sometimes hailing from other walks of life than publishing.
As for the publishing house’s name, recalling mosaics, it expresses its sharing, partnership-focussed, open attitude.
Benjamin STORA
À quand un couple algéro-marocain, indispensable moteur d’un Maghreb des régions ?
Une telle perspective réclame, de ces deux pays qui ont la même langue, la même culture, la même religion, de regarder sans fard ni complaisance leur passé, y compris le plus récent, pour préparer l’avenir.
Fort d’une vision comparatiste des deux « faux-frères» du Maghreb, Benjamin Stora apporte ici une contribution majeure, loin des silences officiels, des manichéismes simplificateurs ou des masques de circonstances.
Luttes d’indépendance, nationalisme arabe, Islam, litige saharien, minorités berbérophones, enjeux de mémoire, l’auteur nous révèle des singularités, mais aussi des imaginaires communs qui pourraient augurer d’un Maghreb uni et démocratique.
Benjamin STORA, professeur à l’INALCO, auteur de nombreux ouvrages, est considéré comme l’un des meilleurs spécialistes du Maghreb.
Nouvelle édition : janvier 2010 - (première parution : 2001) - 208 pages - 14 X 21 cm - 19 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-30-0 - Essai
Marie VIEUX-CHAUVET
Un chef d’œuvre de la littérature haïtienne signé d’un écrivain qui l’a payé cher (Le Magazine littéraire)
Édité initialement en 1968 par Gallimard… qui ne l’a jamais mis en vente ! A la demande de la famille de l’auteur, menacée de mort par Duvalier et ses tontons macoutes qui faisaient alors régner la terreur sur Haïti.
Livre culte, unanimement salué comme l’un des chefs d’œuvres de la littérature francophone, le texte a circulé sous le manteau avant d’être réédité en 2005 chez Zellige.
Avec ce roman dérangeant et provocateur, Marie Vieux-Chauvet dénonce le cynisme, l’hypocrisie, les injustices et le compromissions qui font le lit des dictatures. Même si souvent, dans un sursaut tragique et digne, ses personnages atteindront à la rédemption.
Marie VIEUX-CHAUVET, née en 1916 à Port-au-Prince, est morte à New York en 1973, après avoir dû fuir Haïti. Considérée comme l’un des écrivains les plus importants de la francophonie, elle est également l’auteur d’un roman historique dont l’action se déroule à la fin du XIXe siècle, lors des prémisses de la révolution haïtienne, La Danse sur le volcan (Zellige).
Parution : 2005, réimprimé en 2007, 2008, 2009 - 384 pages - 14 X 21 cm - 24 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-08-9 - Roman
Ibn AL-MUQAFFA
Une nouvelle traduction, fluide et agréable de ce classique de la littérature arabe (Le Temps, Genève)
Étudié dans toutes les classes, de Bagdad à Marrakech, traduit en plus de vingt langues, Kalila et Dimna est l’une des œuvres majeures de la littérature arabe.
Ces contes animaliers, s’enchâssant les uns dans les autres à l’instar des Mille et une nuits, également d’origine indienne, circulent en Perse avant qu’Ibn al-Muqaffa n’en livre la version de référence.
Au-delà de préceptes moraux, s’affirme ici un manuel de bonne gouvernance et du vivre-ensemble où la ruse supplante la force, et le sage le despote.
D’emblée, Kalila et Dimna a fasciné maints chefs politiques, qu’il s’agisse d’Al-Mansur, de Philippe le Bel ou d’Alphonse X de Castille. Quant à La Fontaine, il ne cacha pas y avoir puisé une part de son inspiration.
Né à Djur (aujourd’hui Fîrûzâbâd, en Irak) autour de 720, Ibn AL-MUQAFFA, écrivain reconnu, se servit du livre de Kalila et Dimna pour dénoncer le pouvoir absolu, la corruption, le népotisme et inciter à une réflexion sur l’amélioration de la société. Mal lui en prit, condamné à mort par le calife, il fut brûlé vif à Bagdad en 759.
2007 - 160 pages - 24 aquarelles originales - 16 X 24 cm - 17 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-06-4 - Contes
Contact : Roger TAVERNIER
28, rue Dayat Aoua
Agdal
10000 Rabat
Morocco
Tél: (+212) 53 7 68 64 30
www.yomadeditions.net
Yomad was founded end 1998. It is a small publishing house specialising in books for young people. Its means are tiny but its ambition is huge, stemming from the dearth of local creation witnessed in literature for young people. It is true that the children’s departments in bookstores are crammed with books from elsewhere, books filled with references which are completely foreign to the culture and environment of Moroccan children. Whereas children need to set down roots in order to forge their identity and live in harmony with society. This is what underpins Yomad.
An initial collection, “mini Yemma”, of three books by Driss Chraïbi and a second collection, entitled “Yemma”, comprising two books by Habib Mazini were published in March 1999. With Driss Chraïbi as the star author in the catalogue, Yomad was able to get noticed quickly. Next came Zaïna et le fils du vent which proved highly popular among young readers. It received the high-school children’s Grand Atlas 2001 award. Further to requests from young readers, a second volume was published: Le défi de Zaïna.
The Yomad catalogue now features 10 collections comprising 40 books. The collections “Hikayat”, “Mini-Yemma”, “Mini-Yemma novels”, “Yemma”, “Contes du Maroc” (Moroccan folk tales), “Rêves d’enfants” (Children’s dreams), “Yemma junior”, “Raconte-moi l’Histoire” (Tell me a story), “Mini-plume” and “Nostalgie”.
Heavyweights in Moroccan and Algerian literature have contributed several of their own writings, including Driss Chraïbi, Fouad Laroui, Abdellatif Laâbi, Abdelhak Serhane, Zakya Daoud, Mohamed Dib and other less well-known authors such as Jocelyne Laâbi, Habib Mazini, Mehdi Degraincourt, Ouadia Bennis, Charlotte Bousquet, Véronique Abt, Dominique Logié, Françoise Chémaô, Christian Devèze, Zidrou, Samia Benatya, Keltoum Mosdik, Majid Al Amiri and Florence Deville-Patte. The illustrators who have provided pretty decorations for the texts are Nathalie Logié, Alexis Logié, Virginie Soumagnac, Abdellatif Mitari, Moshine Drissi, Saïd Boucetta, Karim Yahia, Noureddine Lahrech, Tasneem Allouch, Carole Gourat, Saïd Oumouloud, Jean-Paul Favreau, Pierre Léger and Orélie Gouel.
Je suis partie de « nomade » car pour moi, l’éditeur, l’écrivain, le lecteur, le livre sont tous des nomades. Le nom n’a pas été accepté, car il existait déjà. J’ai juste retiré le N et je l’ai remplacé par Y. Je trouve que Yomad a une belle sonorité.
Laurence
LE GUEN - illustrations d’Anthony COCAIN
Lorsque Briac et Maëlle posent leurs pieds sur le sol marocain, ils
sont loin de se douter que ce qui devait être un paisible voyage
jusqu’à Marrakech, va se transformer en une course poursuite après un
étrange individu. Que trafique-t-il à la tombée de la nuit dans les
ruelles de Tanger ? Que cherche-t-il dans les ruines de Volubilis ?
D’autant qu’il semblerait que les enfants ne soient pas tout seuls sur
les traces de cet homme...
À partir de 9 ans
2009 - 114 pages en noir & blanc -
12 x 18 - ISBN: 978-9954-0-0077-1
Mohammed
DIB - illustrations de Virginie SOUMAGNAC
Bilingue arabe / français
Il y a bien longtemps, un méchant sorcier était servi par un petit
garçon du nom de Salem. Un jour, le sorcier entendit quelqu’un frapper
à la porte de sa maison. Il ordonna à Salem d’aller ouvrir. Ce dernier
refusa. Quelle fut sa punition ?
Collection Hikayat - à partir de 4 ans
2003 - broché, 28 pages -
18 x 19 - ISBN: 9954-0-0040-2
Véronique ABT
Aïcha vit dans un village au Sud du Maroc. Tous les jours, elle regarde, avec envie, les enfants qui se dépêchent sur le chemin de l’école. Elle aimerait bien y aller aussi, mais elle doit aider sa maman à faire le ménage, laver le linge, aller chercher l’eau au puits...
Aura-t-elle une place à l’école un jour ?
Collection Rêves d’enfants - à partir de 7 ans
2005 - 40 pages en couleurs - 17 x 24 - ISBN : 9954-0-0061-5
Contact : Nadia ESSALMI
7/10, First Floor, Sarvapriya Vihar
New Delhi 110 016
India
Tél: (+91-11) 2652 4129 / (+91-11) 2686 6596
www.womenunlimited.net
Women Unlimited is an associate of Kali for Women, India’s first and oldest feminist press, which publishes scholarly and academic books in the social sciences; fiction; general interest non-fiction; autobiographies, reminiscences and memoirs; oral histories; books for young adults; pamphlets and monographs; and activist material. The Kali for Women/ Women Unlimited list combines the best of Kali’s titles published between 1984 and 2004, and an exciting range of books and authors commissioned by Women Unlimited. Women Unlimited has close links with the women’s movement, and the women’s studies in India, South Asia, and internationally. We participate in campaigns, nationally and regionally, and have organised extensively on issues to do with alternative media, women’s writing, and gender-based censorship. We consider all this as just an extension of our publishing activity.
WU is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).
Read here the interviews with Ritu Menon:
Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Insecurity - by Vandana Shiva
“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”
—The Guardian
“The South’s best-known environmentalist.”
— New Internationalist
CLIMATE CHANGE will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
In Soil Not Oil, bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. Bold and visionary, Shiva reveals how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
Condemning industrial agriculture and industrial biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva’s champion is the small, independent farm. What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production, Shiva outlines our remaining options; a market-centred shortterm escape for the privileged, which will deepen the crisis for the poor and marginalized, or a people-centred fossil-fuel-free future, which will offer a decent living for all.
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin and the Slow Food movement. Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993. She is the author of many books, including Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed (2007), and Globalization’s New Wars: Seed, Water & Life Forms (Women Unlimited, 2005). Before becoming an activist, Vandana Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
May 2009 - 164 pages - paperback - Rs. 225 - ISBN: 978-81-88965-55-3
Sexual Economies in Contemporary Bombay Cinema - by Karen Gabriel
This insightful analysis of popular Bombay cinema presents a comprehensive discussion of its contemporary history, background, financing and social and political underpinnings. It maps the cultural landscape of this medium, tracing the relationship between the state, cinema and society. It reviews the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated in the organisation of images, and demonstrates how heterosexuality operates as a stabiliser within this constellation. More generally, it looks at the emergence of heroes and anti-heroes, at the changing faces of masculinity, at femininity and the regulation of desire, and at Bollywood’s construction of gender, sexuality and the nation.
Karen Gabriel is currently Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. She has taught at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and works on issues of gender and sexuality.
350 pages - paperback - Rs. 450 - ISBN: 81-88965-49-9
Edited by
Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic
Terror has had different philosophies in history; and philosophies have their own engagement with terror. Can these two realities be judged historically? The question is important not only because today’s world is marked by different kinds of terror – individual, state, anarchist, revolutionary, religious, communal, but that these have different ideological and philosophical justifications which must be understood in their differential particularities, especially when these particularities are sought to be obliterated by the use of the term, ‘terrorism’, and its perceived practitioners as ‘terrorists’.
This book includes papers on important issues such as: terror as historical event; terror as a generalised discourse of ideology; terror as a feature in the continuum of violence; terror as ‘extreme violence’; war on terror, and the need for legitimacy; race, gender, difference, and the instruments of colonial terror; the early nationalists as the early terrorists; post-colonialism, societies, and terror; terror as the final marker of identity ascribed, undertaken, imposed; Enlightenment on terror and Philosophy’s engagement with terror.
The contributors include well-known international academics and philosophers: Artemy Magun; Ivaylo Ditchev; Stephen Wright; Daho Djerbal; Ranabir Samaddar; Didier Bigo; Paula Banerjee; Virgilio Alfonso da Silva; Pradip Kumar Bose; Alain Brossat, Samir Kumar Das; Shahnaz Rouse; Bechir Chourou; Boyan Manchev; and Francisco Naishtat. The editors are Samir Kumar Das, Professor at Calcutta University, political scientist, and author and editor of many publications; and Rada Ivekovic, Professsor of Philosophy and Programme Director at the Collège international de philosophie, and has written several books.
October 2009 - 300 pages - ISBN: 81-88965-56-1
Contact : Ritu MENON
No. 44, First Floor
Shahpur Jat
New Delhi 110 049
India
Tél: Tél: (+91-11) 2649 7999 / (+91-11) 4617 0894
www.tulikabooks.in
Tulika Books is an independent publisher based in Delhi, India, specializing in non-fiction, academic books in the social sciences and humanities. Established more than 10 years ago, it has published nearly 65 titles to date, and has been able to attract reputed scholars from various disciplines — such as history, economics, development studies, literary theory, cultural studies, art, sociology and politics — as its authors.
Tulika Books is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).
Listen here the interview of Indira Chandrasekhar - interview by Frederick Noronha at the workshop on ’Spreading the Word: Copyright, Dissemination and Independent Publishing’ organized by the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPDA) in collaboration with Alternative Law Forum, 24–25 June 2010, Bangalore.
Contact : Indira CHANDRASEKHAR
11, route de Sainte-Anne
13640 La Roque d'Anthéron
France
Tél: +33 (0)4 42 50 59 92
www.ventsdailleurs.com
Vents d’ailleurs was founded in 1999 by Gilles Colleu and Jutta Hepke. Publishing professionals for about 25 years, our starting point was when we noticed a great emptiness, a great shortage in the publishing industry. Book supply is substantial in France, yet many cultures are missing or under-represented. We are convinced that the knowledge of cultures from abroad, the others’ cultures, helps build a society with more solidarity and enriches any human being in his quest for humanity. It is therefore important to build bridges and to make available to everybody the tools to become or to be a citizen of today’s world. Written works, literature, arts, books contribute to this.
We want to contribute to building tomorrow’s world, to opening doors and windows wide to other visions of the world. We have thus opened our door to authors and illustrators, to visions and ideas from abroad, so as to continue together, on the long term, the journey of creation and literature.
Our editorial policy focuses on books telling stories from the “inside”, texts, narratives which do not contemplate other cultures or faraway fantasies – but which, on the contrary, come to us from elsewhere. These stories make us dream and wonder, they question us. The approach is reversed; shifting the point of view changes everything. Our representations, here in France, in a rich Northern country, are questioned, and our landmarks shifted away. Imaginations, languages, ideas, images, cultural expressions clash, cross, permeate each other.
Vents d’ailleurs is a member of the Alliance of independent publishers, the association Éditeurs sans frontières and the association Jedi Paca. Vents d’ailleurs is distributed in Haiti by Communication Plus and in Canada by Dimédia.
Contact : Jutta HEPKE
Responsable : Gilles COLLEU
292, avenue du Colonel Parant
BP 13822 Libreville
Gabon
www.afrilivres.net
A limited liability company founded in 1996 in Libreville to design, publish, and distribute intellectual works, Éditions du Silence started out publishing scientific journals for the University of Libreville before branching out into the publication of essays, accounts, memoirs, and writings about traditional culture. In 2007, it opened up to fiction and confirmed its grounding in the milieu of schools and universities and, more generally, in the world of ideas to better share our home: Earth.
Contact : Auguste MOUSSIROU-MOUYAMA
Sankofa & Gurli is a Burkinabe publishing house created in 1995. With its creation, several objectives were fixed to promote literature while acting in various and complementary plans which include writing (support of and follow-up with authors), reading (communication with the public), and output and diffusion; to promote and revalorize the African languages, especially those spoken in Burkina Faso and transnational languages, across an editorial policy which avoids marginalizing publication in African languages (aesthetic of the form and the contents, topics, circulation of the publications...); to produce literature of quality at costs corresponding to the local purchasing power; to work to arouse in the children and the young people the taste for reading and writing, and anchor in them, as soon as possible, practices of output and consumption of the writing; in a general way, to contribute to the promotion, the development, and the reinforcement of culture, especially literary, in a context of generalized illiteracy. Since 1999, the contacts have been diversified, the commitments reinforced and widened: Sankofa & Gurli Editions participate with various partners (African, European, North American) in co-publishing projects;
Member of the Alliance of independent publishers, Sankofa & Gurli contributes to the debate and to the fight for bibliodiversity and solidarity in publishers’ independence across the world.
Le nom de la maison d’édition est double. SANKOFA est le nom de l’oiseau qui, dans la cosmogonie des peuples AKAN, symbolise la conscience historique. Son slogan est « Il n’y a pas de honte à revenir sur ses pas pour prendre ce qu’on a perdu/oublié en cours de chemin ». GURLI est le nom du hérisson en gulmancema. Il symbolise aux yeux du fondateur de la maison d’édition l’ingénuité enfantine et le caractère absolu de la liberté des idées. On racontait souvent aux enfants qu’il était impossible de garder prisonnier un hérisson. Toutes les tentatives par ces enfants d’en enfermer un se révélaient vaines, le hérisson disparaissait toujours de sa prison. Bien des années plus tard, l’enfant que j’étais (suis ?) a appris que c’étaient nos aînés qui libéraient le petit animal. Ainsi en est-il des idées : on a beau les enfermer, les emprisonner, il se trouvera toujours un moyen, une personne, une circonstance, qui les libérera...
Contact : Jean-Claude NABA
1260 rue Bélanger, Bureau 201
H2S 1H9 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: (+1-514) 989 1491
www.memoiredencrier.com
Mémoire d’encrier was founded in March 2003 in Montréal by the writer Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI. It publishes works of fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays and accounts. Mémoire d‘encrier offers a varied catalogue that builds bridges between cultures and imagination in the North and South. The basic idea underlying our work is that of dialogue between cultures in a perspective of solidarity and of accepting the Other. Mémoire d’encrier is geared around a body of over a hundred works by authors from Canada, Quebec, the Caribbean, Native America, Africa, and Europe. The goal being to refuse exclusion and to redefine collective living.
Mémoire d’encrier : enraciner l’encre (l’écrit) dans le patrimoine oral. Associer la mémoire à l’écrit ; associer en ce sens littérature (écrits) et oraliture (traditions orales) ; assumer la continuité entre mémoire et modernité.
Jean FLORIVAL
Spectateur et souffleur, Jean Florival est dans l’œil du cyclone; à l’intérieur du régime, sans un quelconque titre officiel. C’est en témoin privilégié qu’il plonge dans l’intimité du pouvoir, relate des faits jusque-là inconnus du grand public. Ce livre a le mérite d’exposer avec sérénité des événements tantôt tragiques, tantôt loufoques, dans le dessein de refuser l’oubli, et de mieux comprendre cette tyrannie qui a endeuillé les familles haïtiennes, afin de sortir du cercle de l’impunité et de la logique bourreaux-victimes. Découvrez les frasques d’un pouvoir qui fige depuis un demi-siècle l’histoire et l’imaginaire d’Haïti.
Jean FLORIVAL est né en 1930 en Haïti. Journaliste, proche du régime duvaliériste, il a fréquenté le milieu du pouvoir haïtien. Ami et conseiller de ministres et de dignitaires du régime de 1957 à 1967. Se sentant menacé, il choisit l’exil en 1967, et part à New-York, puis s’installe en 1973 au Québec, où il a travaillé dans l’enseignement. Il partage son temps aujourd’hui entre la lecture, les conférences et l’écriture.
2008 - 29,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923153-92-6 - collection «Chroniques»
Jean BERNABÉ
Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. Tous ces personnages, bigarrés, cocasses, hilarants, tournent sous le couvert d’un mouvement écologiste militant pour le changement social et se renvoient intrigues et hostilités. Le narrateur, pour différentes raisons, est l’objet de toutes les menaces. Jalousies, amertumes, ressentiments – mais aussi naïveté, trait d’esprit et générosité – servent de marqueurs à ces récits.
Jean BERNABÉ est né au Lorrain en Martinique en 1942. Écrivain et linguiste, il est le co-fondateur avec Patrick Chamoiseau et Raphaël Confiant du mouvement littéraire « La Créolité ». Il a été durant plusieurs années le Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.
En 1983, il publie “Fondal Natal”, la première thèse de Doctorat sur le créole antillais. En 1989, il signe avec Chamoiseau et Confiant, l’important manifeste Éloge de la créolité. Il participe ensuite à la reconnaissance du créole dans le milieu universitaire et scolaire par l’intermédiaire de la création du CAPES de créole. Fondateur du GEREC-F (Groupe de recherches et d’études en espace créole et francophone), il est l’auteur d’importants ouvrages dans le domaine de la syntaxe du créole, ainsi que de nombreux articles de sociolinguistique et de littérature.
2009 - 24,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-01-4 - collection «Roman»
Jean PRICE-MARS
“Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est le premier manifeste de la condition noire. Paru pour la première fois en 1928, l’ouvrage a influencé l’œuvre et la pensée des auteurs du mouvement de la négritude comme Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire et Léon-Gontran Damas.
“Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est suivi du collectif Revisiter l’Oncle qui réévalue les incidences et résonances de cette œuvre dans le monde entier. Revisiter l’Oncle accueille les textes de Maryse Condé, Dany Laferrière, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Raphaël Confiant, André Corten, Jean Bernabé, Léon-François Hoffmann, Maximilien Laroche, Jean Morisset, et bien d’autres.
Réédité dans un nouveau format, avec une iconographie nouvelle (paysages et figures de l’Afrique et d’Haïti), l’ouvrage propose une relecture de cette œuvre monumentale qui a servi de bréviaire aux intellectuels des peuples noirs. Pour penser le monde, pour comprendre les mécanismes de l’aliénation, soit du «bovarysme culturel», Jean Price-Mars a mis en avant les traditions, les légendes populaires, le vaudou et tout l’héritage africain qui fondent les cultures noires.
2009 - 39,50 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-03-8 - collection «Essai»
Contact : Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI
51-55 rue Hoche - Bât. B - Hall 1 - étage 3
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 45 15 20 20
www.editionsatelier.com
Globalisation, new information and communication technologies and individualisation are all radically overturning how people live and work, what they think and believe. L’Atelier hopes to help humanise this transformation, by encouraging the re-establishment of social ties and by making it possible for people from humble backgrounds to take a proactive stance in their own lives, through the publication of books in three fields: Christianity; culture and religion; social and human sciences.
True to the tradition of Editions Ouvrières, a publishing firm set up by the Young Christian Workers movement in 1929, L’Atelier aims to promote works that bridge different spheres of knowledge, that which is forged by experience as well as that which results from analytical work, for books to act as an agent of emancipation and enrichment of social ties for as many people as possible.
Contact : Gaëlle BIDAN
Ipek Sokak 5, 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul
Turkey
Tél: +(90-212) 245 46 96
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/metisbooks
Founded in 1982, Metis Publishers has established itself as one of Turkey’s leading
publishing houses, renowned for defending its independent spirit and radical commitment, celebrating critical thinking, original talent, and bringing distinguished letters from the world to generations of Turkish readers. With over 800 titles to its name, Metis is reputed for its careful translations and editorial integrity.
Metis list includes both fiction and nonfiction, specializing in high literature and critical theory. Some of the literary authors published in translation are Ursula K. LeGuin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Salman Rushdie, Henry Bauchau, Georges Perec, John Berger, J.R.R. Tolkien and Maurice
Blanchot. The works of such distinguished Turkish authors as Murathan Mungan and Bilge Karasu are also published by Metis.
Metis nonfiction list features works of an interdisciplinary character that
have the potential to intervene in the cultural climate of Turkey from a
radical political perspective, such as those by Walter Benjamin, Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, Immanuel Wallerstein, Emile Cioran, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Nurdan Gürbilek and Nilüfer Göle. World-class literary theorists including Gyorgy Lukacs, Tzvetan Todorov and Mikhail Bakhtin, philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Roland Barthes and psychoanalytic masters including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut are also amongst the authors Metis has published in Turkey.
Metis was the Goddess of Wisdom, first wife of Zeus, before he swallowed her up when she was pregnant and gave “birth” through his forehead to the next Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, who was “born from a man, fully armed”, whereas Metis was against the use of arms, worked with the knowledge of nature and used the skill of the craftsperson to solve disputes, like a captain navigating rocky waters.
Hence metis came to signify the “knowledge that the Power detests”, in addition to nobody, bastard, craftiness...
Cultural Climate of Turkey
by Vitrinde Yaşamak (1992) and Kötü Çocuk Türk (2001)
A collection of essays on Turkey’�s cultural climate in the last decades from a most insightful literary and cultural critic. The first two essays of this collection, “Life in the Shop Window” and “Return of the Repressed”, attend to the 80�’s � a period of radical economic, political and cultural change following the coup d�état of 1980. Nurdan Gürbilek argues that this was not only a period of oppression of speech but also a period of explosion of speech; an incitement to speech. A period when two seemingly opposed cultural strategies, the old one of repression, forbiddance and annihilation and the new one of provocation, assimilation and incorporation came together, weaving a cultural fabric that had significant results in shaping the cultural climate of modern Turkey. Gürbilek also argues that this was a period of cultural pluralism� - a result of the collapse of the modern Kemalist identity. Years of the “return of the repressed”; the voices that were previously repressed by the Kemalist project of modernization, the voices of the Islamic and Kurdish opposition, those of the lower and peripheral cultures, of women and queers and also the discourses of desire and sexuality returned to a relatively liberal cultural market ready to incorporate rather than suppress.
The following essays on Turkishness and evil explore the rather sinister cultural climate of the 1990�s and 2000�s when the efforts to redefine the Turkish identity predominated the cultural scene. She takes as her point of departure some of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture: popular arabesque songs of the 70s and 80s, the figure of the snob in modern Turkish literature, a news article on the death of a porn star, an oddly popular poster illustration, the child hero archetype in urban popular culture� With utmost care and justice Gürbilek weaves these into a keen understanding of their political, social and cultural significance, exploring Turkishness not as an autonomous and essentialist local truth but rather as an impasse always already shaped in relation to the modern world, as a double-bind that has always produced oppositional sentiments in the cultural sphere. This is where the desire to be the other coincides with the fear of losing one�s self in the other, where xenophilia is simultaneous with xenophobia, and the feeling of inadequacy is concurrent with a reflex of self-defense. And evil here has to do with the unleashing of all things dark and sinister when the liberal promise fails to deliver, when the shop windows cease to dazzle and the struggle for livelihood turns bitter in urban wilderness. Where do “Turkishness” and “evil” converge? And how do we gain insight into these moments of convergence?
By Bilge Karasu
In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the players (visitors versus locals) bearing weapons. This archaic game, the central event of The Garden of the Departed Cats, may prove as fatal as the deadly attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Vizier, or Captain, of the home team. Their “romance” (which, though inconclusive, magnetizes our protagonist to accept the Vizier’s challenge to play) provides the skeletal structure of this experimental novel. Each of their brief interactions works as a single chapter. And interleaved between their chapters are a dozen fable-like stories. The folk tale might concern a 13th-century herbal that identifies a kind of tulip, a “red salamander,” which dooms anyone who eats it to never tell a lie ever again. Or the tale might be an ancient story of a terrible stoat-like creature that feeds for years on the body of whomever it sinks its claws into, like guilt. These strange fables work independently of the main narrative but, in curious and unpredictable ways, (and reminiscent of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table), they echo and double its chief themes: love, its recalcitrance, its cat-like finickiness, and its refusal to be rushed. The Garden of the Departed Cats is a work of peculiar beauty and strangeness, the whole layered and shiny like a piece of mica.
Istanbul Culminating Session, 23-27 June 2005
Müge Gürsoy Sökmen (ed.)
“The records have to be kept and, by definition, the perpetrators, far from keeping records, try to destroy them. They are killers of the innocent and of memory. The records are required to inspire still further the mounting opposition to the new global tyranny. The new tyrants, incomparably over-armed, can win every war � both military and economic. Yet they are losing the war (this is how they call it) of communication. They are not winning the support of world public opinion. More and more people are saying no. Finally this will be the tyranny�s undoing. But after how many more tragedies, invasions and collateral disasters? After how much more of the new poverty the tyranny engenders? Hence the urgency of keeping records, of remembering, of assembling the evidence, so that the accusations become unforgettable, and proverbial on every continent. More and more people are going to say no, for this is the precondition today for saying yes to all we are determined to save and everything we love.”
� John Berger, from his message of support to the WTI
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was a collective effort involving hundreds of people worldwide, most of whom never met in person. About twenty sessions were held in various cities of the world, focusing on different aspects of the war on Iraq. The findings of these sessions were incorporated into a culminating session held in Istanbul on 23-27 June 2005. This book consists of the proceedings of that session.
A civilian initiative inspired by the Bertrand Russell Tribunal of the Vietnam Era, the WTI aimed to record the crimes committed in Iraq, to note the historical, economic and political reasons behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq, to document the extent as well as the details of the destruction caused, and to write a counter-history to that of the victors�. The texts in this volume, an assemblage of experts� and witnesses� testimonies, provides a comprehensive grasp on what an invasion today means.
We hope that this book, which is the result of a worldwide effort involving activists, lawyers and experts from diverse backgrounds, that is, a product of the global opposition to war, will feed back into the global movement, inspire new forms of resistance, providing information and grounds for action, be it for appeals to the International Criminal Court or the United Nations, or for the individual acts of resistance, including that of conscientious objectors.
Contact : Müge GURSOY SOKMEN
280 rue Saint-Joseph Est, Bureau 1
Québec, G1K 3A9
Canada
Tél: +1 418-522-1209 (poste 1)
www.editionsalto.com
Alto is an independent literary press founded in Québec City in 2005 by Antoine Tanguay. Very active on the international publishing scene, Alto publishes unusual and bold literary fiction from Québec, Canada and abroad. As we try to follow the mantra “Publish less, publish better”, we only publish 10 to 12 books per year.
In our quest to astound and confound, Alto has a new tool at its disposal: a publishing lab we call Alea. A playground for a team bursting with crazy ideas for books, a sort of R&D department even, Alea is to our publishing house what a yard is to a real house: a space where we can run free and also plant beautiful things.
Nicolas DICKNER
Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général – Rights sold in 10 countries
Lisa is a young girl who wants to push the limits of human experience and free herself from the constraints of modern life. Her only problem is that she doesn’t have a dime to her name. Her best friend, a computer hacker trying to manipulate international marine traffic, might just have the solution for her: living and traveling as a stowaway in a shipping container. Demonstrating a wild imagination and sparkling erudition, Nicolas Dickner is in top form here. Considered a unique writer in both Quebec and beyond, he is part of an elaborate family tree whose branches include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Nick Hornby, and Haruki Murakami.
2015 - 344 pages - 16,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-253-4
Dominique FORTIER
Prix Renaudot (Non-fiction) – Rights sold in 14 countries
One of the most important writer of the nineteenth century, a mythical figure of American literature, Emily Dickinson remains an enigma to this day. With Les villes de papier, Governor General’s Literary Award-winner Dominique Fortier explores the quiet existence of “the lady in white” from the inside, through the books she loved, her garden, her ghosts. Inspired by episodes of both Emily’s life and her own, the author gives us a novel as limpid as it is earnest about how the worlds we build within ourselves in turn build us.
2018 - 192 pages - 15,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-469-9
Larry TREMBLAY
Prix des libraires du Québec | Prix littéraire des collégiens + 8 others prizes – Rights sold in 23 countries
Somewhere in the Middle East, twin brothers have lived peacefully under the shade of the orange trees until, one day, an explosive crosses the sky, killing their grandparents. The horrors of war seize hold of their childhood and crush their destiny. Men come to take vengeance for the blood that has been shed. One of the brothers must wear an explosive belt over the mountains and into a military camp. Who will be the chosen one?
2013 - 152 pages - 14,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-231-2
Contact : Anne-Marie GENEST
Derrière la DGSN, Yaoundé – Nlongkak
B.P. 14268 - Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tél: +237 677 39 62 80
www.editionsakomamba.com
Founded in 1995, Akoma Mba publishers is the oldest publishing house specialised in illustrated comic books in Central Africa. Their main objective is to promote Africa through innovative editorial content as well as African, universal values to young children. They have a catalogue of about a hundred titles, published in several languages (French, English, and local languages).
Akoma Mba distributes its books in Cameroon and internationally. Its authors come from Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, France, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Togo, amongst others. Initially part of the association AILE Cameroon, it was taken over in 2018 by Robert Nkouamou, a Cameroonian cultural entrepreneur aiming to support new talents for the development of readership on the continent.
Several books published by Akoma Mba were awarded internationally, including the International Library of Munich, UNICEF in Dakar, and IBBY International. Magoulina by Joël Eboueme Bognomo won the Honorary Prize for Youth Literature with the American publisher Boyds Mills Press.
Akoma Mba participates in international book fairs and events: Bologna in Italy, Montreuil and Paris in France, FIBDA in Algeria, Frankfurt in Germany, Casablanca in Morocco, Fildak in Dakar...
The publishing house organises a Youth Book Fair in the city of Yaoundé (SALIJEY) and recently launched an African Prize for Comics and the “Marie Wabbes” Grand Prize for Children’s Books, named after the Belgian writer who initiated the Akoma Mba project in the 1990s. It is directed since January 2020 by Ulrich Talla Wamba, writer, book and publishing professional.
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Mani LI (Cameroun), auteur ; Georges PONDY (Cameroun), illustrateur
Depuis la disparition de son père, Noah n’aime plus lire. Un jour, il est aspiré mystiquement au fond d’un livre qu’il avait donné à manger à son chien. C’est le début d’une belle aventure dans Il était une fois, le pays des contes de fées. Découvrez les aventures d’un petit garçon qui n’aime pas les livres, mais qui doit retrouver et sauver son père en parcourant plusieurs histoires dans le bouquin magique.
Illustrations : 2D réaliste
2021 - 68 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101917
Aude PERALTA EXCOFFIER (France), autrice ; Edji ONABEL (Cameroun), illustrateur
Ce matin-là, tout semble paisible. Pourtant, cette quiétude va bientôt être troublée. Le chef Tabot s’installe sereinement et improvise une visite aux parents de Yoaddan, Eseck et Muslimah. Chef autoritaire, il a déjà dix épouses. Ébloui par la beauté de Yoaddan, il se marie avec elle sans aucune épreuve. Mais la jeune femme ne l’aime pas et noue secrètement une relation amoureuse avec un autre. Que se passe-t-il ensuite ?
Illustrations : 2D très réaliste
Critique : https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/the-magic-coconut-tree-19001831
2021 - 52 pages - 21 X 14 cm - 4 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101771
Simon de SAINT-DZOKOTOE (Togo), auteur ; Maryse MONTRON (France), illustratrice
La petite Ayélévi est très rusée. Elle gagne toujours le jeu “Qui trouvera la plus jolie fleur”. Cette situation intrigue son frère qui veut comprendre le secret de son succès permanent. Ayélévi est très sage. Le sera-t-elle encore longtemps ?
Illustrations : aquarelle
Critique : https://takamtikou.bnf.fr/bibliographies/notices/afrique/le-secret-d-ayelevi
2020 - 32 pages - 14,5 x 20 cm - 3 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789789561414
Contact : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA
Rotterdam
Netherlands
www.denabooks.com
Dena is publishing books whose authors are in exile, or books that were not allowed to be published in Iran due to censorship.
Despite the limited publication of the books, Dena as the only Persian-language bookseller in the Netherlands, plays a significant role in the availability of Persian books for Iranians living in the Netherlands.
Nasim KHAKSAR
This collection includes nineteen short stories written by Nasim Khaksar between 2001 and 2014.
The title of the book is taken from the name of one of the stories that Nasim wrote fourteen years after the massacre of political prisoners in 1967 in memory of the victims of this massacre.
Mehdi YAHYAWI
The collection of short stories “A Butterfly Under the Rain” written by Mehdi Yahyawi was published in the spring of 2019 by Dena Publishing in Rotterdam.
Dimitri VERHULST
Dimitri Verhulst presents the history of mankind in less than two hundred pages, in a big bang of language. From the moment we crawled out of the water and started walking on two legs to the years when we bombed each other to the other world. A story with a main character in which you will no doubt recognize yourself every now and then.
Contact : Reza CHAVOUSHI
Čechova 23
Praha 7 Bubeneč 170 00
Czech Republic
www.by-wo-men.com
The small independent wo-men publishing is oriented toward gender-focused art documentary books. The publishing house was established in 2012 by a literary documentarian Barbora Baronová to create books ambitious both in content and design. The main aim of wo-men publishing is to share high quality literary and photographic non-fiction projects created by Czech authors. Mostly, the books by wo-men include voices of marginalized people, such as women, seniors, people with disabilities, and cover non-mainstream topics, such as feminism, aging, activism, parenthood, and environment. The books published by wo-men are printed in low numbers (sometimes as limited editions) on high-quality ecological papers in local printing companies. Many books by wo-men were awarded in the Czech Republic, as well as abroad.
Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE
The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social issues in women’s lives, such as disability, prostitution, depression, cancer, and dying. Individuals are often unable to respond to these topics in direct confrontation other than with stereotypes and prejudices. Intimacy seeks to describe some habitual patterns of behaviour and demonstrate their real content through the stories of six specific women. The book-object contains one book of text and six photographic notebooks with flaps and coated embossed motifs. The book got the highest Czech award Magnesia Litera for the publishing achievement and received the 2nd place within Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category in The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015. The book was also shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016 in France and at the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018 in the Czech Republic.
2015 - 588 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-905239-3-7
Price: 698 CZK
Published in Czech only
Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE
The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists, politicians, and journalists, exploring themes inherent in women regardless of their different cultures, such as their status, career options, and the expectations placed on them. The book is based on interviews recorded during Barbora’s research stay at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2017. Among the people telling their stories is prominent feminist Anne Summers, who describes her own abortion as one of the moments that initiated her activism. Anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of a struggle for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker’s story is the tale of a young Australian lesbian poet’s journey from rural communities to Harvard Law. Publisher Susan Hawthorne thematises her transition from an employee at the global publishing house Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream titles. The story of Olga Horak and Halina Robinson reflects the topic of the Holocaust – while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina was thrown over the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. Barbora Baronova and Dita Pepe’s documentary book on Australia is part of a free-form literary and photographic series, Voices of Women, in which the authors explore the lives of contemporary women from diverse parts of the world.
2021 - 522 pages - 17 X 24 cm - price: 1 390 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Dita PEPE et al.
Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen chapters investigates the borders of love, trauma as motivation to create art, and photography as therapy. In this publication, which is also the creative part of her doctoral thesis at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Dita combines an artistic approach with scientific research. She worked on the publication with many interesting artists and researchers as well as people who analyzed the topic from purely personal perspectives and experiences. Besides photos, the book contains dozens of texts in many forms – interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, passages from lectures, and specialized texts through which Dita together with invited guests look at various forms of love. These are interlaced with her photos – self-portraits, archival family photos, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photos, still lifes… The photographic part of the book typically involves an almost obsessive examination and repetition of motifs with the same form and content to strengthen the feeling of order and clarity the author would like in her life. The book is being published in a small printing of 700 in a Czech–English version as a cooperation between wo-men publishing and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
2021 - 804 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-907641-5-6
Price: 1 590 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Contact : Barbora BARONOVÁ
Av. Augusto Meyer 163/605
Porto Alegre (RS) - CEP 90550-110
Brazil
Tél: +55 51 3024-0787
www.dublinense.com.br
Dublinense is an independent publishing house focused mainly on literary fiction, with the vast majority of its list formed by contemporary fiction, a few very singular contemporary non-fiction narratives and essays and a small collection of psychoanalysis. Our focus is to present the best in contemporary Brazilian literary fiction along with relevant works that can present different cultures and singular approaches and points of view for the Brazilian readership. Our goal is to start conversations on relevant subjects through good literature. During our 12 years, our original titles have received important recognitions such as Prêmio Jabuti, Prêmio Açorianos, Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional and are constantly shortlisted for other literary awards too. Our international titles were also distinguished with important awards such as Prêmio José Saramago, European Union Prize for Literature, among others.
Natália BORGES POLESSO
Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti
Vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos
Vencedor do Prêmio AGES (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores)
Seria pouco dizer que os contos de Amora versam sobre relações homossexuais entre mulheres. Também estão aqui o maravilhamento, o estupor e o medo das descobertas. O encontro consigo mesmo, sobretudo quando ele ocorre fora dos padrões, pode trazer desafios ou tornar impossível seguir sem transformação. É necessário avançar, explorar o desconhecido, desestabilizar as estruturas para chegar, enfim, ao sossego de quem vive com honestidade.
2015 - 256 pages - ISBN: 9788561249564 - R$ 54,90 - Literatura brasileira / Contos
Cristina JUDAR
Ana e Joan. A primeira é diurna e contemporânea, bombardeada pelo consumismo e por pressões estéticas e comportamentais. A segunda é noturna, influenciada por noções de ancestralidade, ritos de passagem e intuições do inconsciente. Ambas estão prestes a completar dezoito anos e acompanhamos suas histórias em paralelo, mês a mês, até a data de seus aniversários. Mas não se engane: mais do que o relato da jornada de duas jovens mulheres, Elas marchavam sob o sol é um romance sobre violência, perseguição religiosa, perda de liberdade e direitos, além de ser um libelo sobre a necessidade dos ritos, dos sonhos e da ressignificação dos corpos, questionando papéis sociais através da linguagem vibrante e singular de sua autora.
2021 - 160 pages - ISBN: 978-65-5553-031-5 - R$ 44,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Henrique SCHNEIDER
Vencedor do Prêmio Paraná de Literatura
Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de 1970: destina todas as suas energias ao trabalho e a política não lhe interessa. Até que um dia, em meio ao clima de euforia patriótica às vésperas da final da Copa do Mundo, ele é confundido com um militante, preso e atirado em uma cela para confessar algo que não sabe. A partir daí, o jogo vira, e ele passa a viver o que de mais terrível aconteceu no Brasil nos anos de chumbo.
2019 - 152 pages - ISBN: 9788561249700 - R$ 39,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Contact : Gustavo FARAON
Egypt
www.daraltanweer.com
Dar Altanweer is a company with offices in Beirut, Cairo, and Tunis. Overall strategy is coordinated between the three offices. The company has been publishing philosophical and literary classics and contemporary works since 1982. In 2012 was sold to a group of seasoned publishers who partnered in restructuring and relaunching the company in each location.
Since 2012, Dar Altanweer has expanded its geographical and genre breadth and strengthened its quality and marketing depth. Select titles are printed in three countries thereby providing for more efficient distribution and marketing. Expanded genres include classical, modern, and contemporary literary fiction, commercial fiction, philosophy for beginners, self-help, popular science, sociology/political science and graphical novels.
Contact : Sherif Joseph RIZK
Syria
Tél: +00971557195187
marwan@mamdouhadwan.net
The Publishing house, founded in Damascus in (2005), was established in honour of the late Syrian writer Mamdouh Adwan (1941-2004), who wrote more than ninety publications in poetry, drama, novel and different translations. Our publishing house came as a realization of his dream to establish a publishing house that provides a platform for new writers and translators.
Hence, the publishing house is first and foremost dedicated to publishing distinct literary and intellectual books of new writers and translators whose works would enrich the Arabic library.
Drawing on its awareness of the importance of revitalizing the cultural life and raising awareness on the different forms of cultural achievements and their huge impact on the formation of intellectual awareness in Arab societies; the publishing house is keen to publish important Arab literary works which are no longer available in the markets, and to provide accurate translations and revised versions for books of international writers.
The publishing house ceased its operations between 2012 and 2014 due to the compelling circumstances witnessed by Syria. However, it resumed its work by the end of 2014, and currently has more than 250 titles including: poetry, drama, intellectual and literary studies, short stories, and novels of writers from different Arab countries, as well as translations from English, French, Spanish, Swedish, and German.
In Sharjah Book fair 2016 the publishing house was awarded as Best Arabic Publishing House 2016.
Khalifa Al KHUDER
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.
152 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction
Mamdouh ADWAN
The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.
Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.
Mamdouh ADWAN was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.
288 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction
Mamdouh AZZAM
After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years: his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.
Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.
256 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction
Contact : Marwan ADWAN
12, boulevard National
13001 Marseille
France
www.wildproject.org
Wildproject is an independent publishing house founded by Baptiste Lanaspeze, a pioneer in French-language ecological humanities. Dreamt of in New York in 2003, established in Paris in 2008, Wildproject is growing since 2009 in Marseille, between city and nature, between North and South.
The catalogue explores the ecological revolution of knowledge and practices, with a focus on places and stories.
In 10 years, Wildproject has become a reference in ecological humanities. Philosophy, biology, ethology, social sciences, geography, literature, urban planning, agriculture, music, contemporary art...: far from being a niche, ecology crosses all spheres of culture.
Wildproject thus invites us to go beyond the project of modern civilization – with founding works of ecological thought, with essays on political and decolonial ecology, with geographical narratives.
Read:
Rachel CARSON
Collection « Petite bibliothèque d’écologie populaire »
« Printemps silencieux constitue la naissance du mouvement écologiste. » Al Gore
Premier ouvrage sur le scandale des pesticides, Printemps silencieux a entraîné l’interdiction du DDT aux États-Unis. Cette victoire historique d’un individu contre les lobbies de l’industrie chimique a déclenché au début des années 1960 la naissance du mouvement écologiste.
Printemps silencieux est aussi l’essai d’une écologue et d’une vulgarisatrice hors pair. En étudiant l’impact des pesticides sur le monde vivant, du sol aux rivières, des plantes aux animaux, et jusqu’à l’ADN, ce livre constitue l’exposition limpide, abordable par tous, d’une vision écologique du monde.
50 ans après sa conception, on redécouvre Printemps silencieux au moment où l’on commence à s’intéresser, en France, à la philosophie de l’écologie. « Ce n’est pas moi, c’est Rachel Carson qui a inventé l’écologie profonde », affirme en effet le philosophe norvégien Arne Næss.
Vendu à plus de 2 000 000 d’exemplaires, traduit en 16 langues, Printemps silencieux n’est pas seulement un best-seller : c’est un monument de l’histoire culturelle et sociale du XXe siècle. Point de référence difficilement contournable de l’histoire de l’écologie, cet ouvrage fait partie de la bibliothèque de l’honnête homme.
2019 [2009] - 352 pages - 11 ×17 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 978-2-918490-999
Marin SCHAFFNER
Collection « Le monde qui vient »
Pour ses 10 ans, Wildproject propose une synthèse pédagogique et accessible des grands enjeux de l’écologie.
Depuis une décennie environ, une scène des pensées de l’écologie a émergé en langue française.
Comment décrire et nommer ce nouveau continent à la croisée des luttes, des arts et des sciences ? À quelles œuvres collectives ses acteurs sont-ils en train de donner vie ? Quelles sont les grandes dynamiques en cours ? Comment l’écologie transforme-t-elle nos façons de penser et d’agir ?
Une sélection d’auteurs, mais aussi de journalistes, éditeurs, traducteurs, libraires, militants… répond à ces questions.
2019 - 180 pages - 13 × 20 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-918-490-784
Collection « Petite bibliothèque d’écologie populaire »
Bien plus qu’un ebook, le livre peut être un support écologiquement vertueux.
Mais depuis vingt ans, l’objet livre et ses usages se sont industrialisés et mondialisés – concentration du monde de l’édition, délocalisation des impressions, essor du numérique…
Cet objet manufacturé séculaire se retrouve aujourd’hui pris en tenaille entre des logiques artisanales et industrielles.
Face aux exigences nouvelles des lecteurs, des questions inédites émergent. Sur quels piliers voulons-nous construire la chaîne du livre de demain ?
Entretiens, écofictions et manifestes : des libraires, des éditeurs, des auteurs et des forestiers invitent à imaginer le livre de l’après-pétrole.
2020 - 112 pages - 11 ×17 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 978-2-918490-968
Contact : Baptiste LANASPEZE
Responsable : Marin SHAFFNER
rue 544 – porte 92
Quinzambougou
Bamako
Mali
Tél: +223 20 22 40 79
www.caurislivres.com
For twenty years, Cauris books, founded by Kadiatou Konaré, has promoted modern and dynamic African publishing by offering various books (French and national languages) on Mali and Africa: cultural and tourist guides, reference works, general literature and children’s documentaries.
Its innovative editorial policy highlights thematic collections, the most emblematic of which are:
Françoise KERISEL ; Isabelle CALIN (illustratrice)
Il y a très longtemps, la belle reine Makeda dirigeait le royaume de Saba, dans l’Est de l’Afrique. Les contes et les textes sacrés parlent de cette souveraine légendaire qui a donné naissance à Ménélik, le premier roi d’Éthiopie.
Françoise Kerisel est un autrice d’ouvrages illustrés, passionnée par les légendes et la philosophie, elle s’est lancée dans des études de lettres classiques. En collaboration avec des illustrateurs très différents, ses textes ont notamment été publiés par Magnard Jeunesse, Didier jeunesse et Desclée de Brouwer.
Septembre 2019 - 32 pages - 20 X 22,5 cm - 7 € ; 4 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-60-47-7
Collection “Lucy”
Documentaire illustré
Public : 7-11 ans
Langue : français
Alpha Oumar KONARE ; Adame BA KONARE
Restituer près de deux mille ans d’histoire relève d’une véritable gageure. C’est pourtant cette entreprise colossale qu’Alpha Oumar et Adame Ba Konaré ont menée dans cette deuxième édition rénovée et prolongée des grandes dates du Mali.
Sous forme de repères datés et sur la basse de l’événement strict, cet ouvrage unique relate les faits autant qu’il éclaire et instruit. La riche iconographie qui l’accompagne en fait un véritable outil pédagogique, agréable à parcourir et précieux à la fois pour le chercheur et pour le grand public.
Alpha Oumar Konaré est professeur en archéologie, homme d’Etat – président de la république du Mali de 1992 à 2002, président de la Commission de l’Union africaine de 2003 à 2008 –, il est coauteur avec Adame Ba Konaré des Grandes dates du Mali, dont la première édition a été publiée en 1983 aux Editions-Imprimeries du Mali.
Adame Ba Konaré est professeure, elle a enseigné pendant presque 20 ans l’histoire de l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara à l’Ecole normale supérieure de Bamako. Féministe engagée, militante des Droits de l’homme, elle est auteure de nombreux ouvrages.
Septembre 2019 - 480 pages - 32,3 x 21,7 cm - 30 000 FCFA ; 49 € - ISBN : 978-99952-60-28-6
Genre : histoire
Langue : français
Reliure : cartonné
Adrienne YABOUZA
Les coépouses Ndongo Passy et Grekpoubou s’aiment comme deux sœurs, unies pour le pire et pour le meilleur. A la mort de leur mari, face au mensonge et à l’injustice, elles engagent une lutte pied à pied avec le destin.
Dans un style mordant, Adrienne Yabouza emprunte à la rue de Bangui ses mots les plus colorés pour raconter la vie en dents de scie de deux femmes de caractère, généreuses et avisées.
Costarmoricaine d’adoption, Centrafricaine, Adrienne Yabouza écrit avec enthousiasme aussi bien pour les petits que pour les grands avec un style qui lui est si particulier : humour, franc-parler, néologismes savoureux … le tout empreint d’émotion et de sagesse.
Octobre 2015 - 168 pages - 11,5 x 19 cm - 14 € ; 7 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-60-29-3
Genre : roman
Langue : français
Contact : Kadiatou KONARÉ
The word “gashingo” in Kanuri means chameleon; it was chosen to represent our ability to publish in multiple languages.
Gashingo’s activities build on the premise that the development of African countries depends on the internal and external efficiency of their education systems. This prerequisite can only be fulfilled by establishing and maintaining a literate environment in the first languages already mastered by children before they enter school and shared in their home communities, and in the widely spoken, local or foreign languages.
Gashingo’s main activities are the production and sale of books; Gashingo also graciously supports the training of authors and the organisation of meetings and exchanges between the various actors of the book ecosystem at the national and regional levels.
Over the next few years, Gashingo intends to strengthen its base through a large production of both paper and digital books and the gradual establishment of its nation-wide network of bookstores. Regionally, the company intends to diversify its partnerships to play a pioneering role in the extension of projects such as DEELMA (“Projet de Développement de l’édition et des environnements lettrés multilingues en Afrique” from Septembre 2006 to April 2007) where it was the coordinating structure. The interconnection of Gashingo’s national distribution network with those of its regional partners will enable its products to be as widely distributed as possible. All of these activities are aimed at increasing Gashingo’s production capacity to make it competitive and eligible for the textbook market.
Kadri HAMADOU
Un album pour enfant illustré en couleur publié en bilingue (en français et en 5 langues nationales du Niger). Un livre sur l’handicap, la tolérance et le respect.
Kadri HAMADOU a embrassé la carrière de peintre après avoir abandonné les études universitaires en 1997. Ses toiles ont été exposées à Niamey, en France et en Côte d’Ivoire. Il est aussi bien illustrateur qu’auteur de textes.
Novembre 2010 - 24 pages - 20,5 X 19 cm - 2 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-91960-701-3
Malam ADJI ZATOULOUR
Un roman en français qui retrace la vie d’un instituteur qui évolue dans le milieu rural. L’oeuvre fait ressortir les difficultés actuelles de l’enseignement et apporte des pistes de solutions.
Malam ADJI ZATOULOUR est né en 1952 à Goudoumaria, dans la région de Diffa au Niger. Sa carrière d’enseignant commença en juin 1974. Il fit valoir ses droits à la retraite en octobre 2006. Se sentant encore capable d’enseigner, il est présentement professeur de français, histoire et géographie au CES de Goudoumaria. Chevronné lecteur de la littérature, il décida de se lancer dans l’écriture.
Janvier 2015 - 132 pages - 13 X 17 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-37235-025-9
Boubacar HAMA BEIDHI
Cet ouvrage présente des proverbes et des devinettes utilisés dans la vie de tous les jours. La maîtrise des proverbes traduit en effet chez l’individu son enracinement dans sa culture, dont il contribue à maintenir et à pérenniser la valeur. Ils sont utilisés pour rappeler, sous une forme imagée et lapidaire, les règles en vigueur d’une société nécessitant une grande mobilité d’esprit pour discerner, sous leur forme condensée, toute somme d’observation, d’expérience, d’humour.
Boubacar HAMA BEIDHI, conseiller pédagogique à la retraite, a consacré tout son temps à la recherche sur les traditions et l’histoire des Peuls. L’ensemble de ses textes publiés en France et au Niger constitue une vraie bibliothèque de référence, témoignage de la richesse de la culture nigérienne.
Avril 2017 - 172 pages - 16 X 24 cm - 7 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-919607-16-7
Contact : Bako MALAM ABDOU
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