As many publishing houses are located in the same country (or even in the same city), it is necessary to zoom in on the country or city you are interested in to see all the publishing houses.
Chá de CaxindeChá de Caxinde publishing house and bookshop was founded in 1999 by a small group of people who were members of the cultural organization Chá de Caxinde in Luanda, working in the cultural domain for nearly a decade. The social objective of this publishing house is publishing, production, and distribution of books and magazines, to distribute Angolan authors in Angola and internationally, but also to publish foreign authors in Angola, at prices that are affordable for the local readership. Their catalogue includes around 100 titles, of children’s and adult literature, as well as of works in the human and social sciences.
Contact : Jacques DOS SANTOS
Boitempo
R. Pereira Leite, 373, Sumarezinho
Sao Paulo - SP 05442-000
Brazil
Tél: (+55 11) 38 75 7285/50
www.boitempoeditorial.com.br
Boitempo is the title of a short poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, on the topic of his childhood. Naming our publishing house after this poem was a way of paying tribute to one of the greatest Brazilian poets. Founded in 1995, Boitempo has made its mark as a quality publisher, both in the choice of publications, and in the printing and presentation of the works. We seek to put together a consistent catalogue, with a clear-cut editorial line: human sciences, literature (acknowledged works and first-time writers), historical and contemporary essays. Our Web site www.boitempoeditorial.com.br presents an up-to-date version of our catalogue. We take great care in the publication of our works, and we strive to respect our readership.
Read here the interview with Ivana Jinkings, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (July 6, 2017).
Contact : Ivana JINKINGS
Red de editoriales independientes colombianas (REIC)The Network of Colombian Independent Publishers, Red de Editoriales Independientes Colombianas (REIC), was created to respond to the concerns of a group of publishers eager to strengthen independent publishing in Colombia. The Ministry of Culture and CERLALC (Regional Center for the Development of the Book in Latin America) have demonstrated a clear commitment to national independent publishing by joining efforts to support the creation of the Network of Colombian Independent Publishers. This initiative initially brought together some 30 publishing houses, rallied around the notion of bibliodiversity and the need to sensitize the country to the fact that independent publishers exist, allowing Colombian writers, and others, to express themselves. Since its creation, the REIC has ensured that independent publishers receive state support to promote the allocation of public libraries, to encourage fairer commercial conditions, etc. Colombian independent publishers, unlike major publishing groups, have shown that they are active advocates for Colombian authors, and that they are major players in bibliodiversity. On April 28, 2008, the REIC was established as a legal entity headquartered in Bogota, and in association with independent Latin American collectives. Through the Spanish-speaking network of the International Alliance of independent publishers (AIEI), the REIC contributes to the Ibero-American regional editorial integration.
Here, an interview of Gustavo Mauricio García, president of the REIC, directed by the CERLALC, September 2018.
Contact : Gustavo Mauricio GARCIA
Txalaparta
San Isidro, 35-1.A
31300 Tafalla - Nafarroa, Euskal Herria
Spain
Tél: (+34) 948 70 39 34
www.txalaparta.eus
Since 1987, Txalaparta has been the name of a free and independent Basque publisher. Txalaparta is committed to the cultural and editorial sovereignty of our country, Euskal Herria (the Basque Country). We also try to be the voice of whatever literary creation that improves the relations between the people of the planet, that helps to transform reality, that guards our historical memory, that opens paths towards diversity, to utopias…
We publish on average between 30 to 40 books a year in Basque and Spanish: Basque and world literature, political and historical essays, social criticism, classics of the political left, historical encyclopaedias. Our most distinctive feature is the wide base of readers who support Txalaparta´s projects by subscribing to one of our collections. Under the name of “editores independientes” we work and publish together with various publishers in other countries (Era in Mexico, LOM in Chile, Trilce in Uruguay) in order to guarantee our editorial freedom and diversity against monopolies and unified thought.
Contact : Mikel BULDAIN
Ediciones Trilce
Durazno 1888
11200 Montevideo
Uruguay
Tél: (+598) 98 433 560
www.trilce.com.uy
Founded in 1985, Trilce has published some 600 titles and continues to publish 30 to 40 titles every year. Although initially focused on fiction – which is still an important element today – essays have taken on increasing importance in Trilce’s catalogue. These essays discuss national identity or identities, and report on debates aimed at finding solutions to today’s challenges in the areas of culture, political science or history.
Because it firmly believes that independent publishing is crucial to the preservation of cultural diversity, Trilce has been a member of “Independent Publishers” since 1998, which includes Lom in Santiago, Chile, Era in Mexico and Txalaparta in Spain – Basque country. What is more, Trilce has been a member of the Alliance of Independent Publishers since its inception.
Contact : Pablo HARARI
Responsable : Anna DANIELI
PluralPlural Editores is the most active publishing house in Bolivia, with annual output of 90 works, divided into 34 collections. Founded in 1987 as an Information Centre for Development (CID), it started publishing social science and human science books as Plural Editores in 1992, and as from 1999, it consolidated its position as an independent publishing house. Plural Editores has published over 500 works to date, many of these in co-publication with academic institutions, research centres, multilateral organisations, NGOs and artistic bodies. Moreover, the firm has opened two bookshops, one in Cochabamba and the other in La Paz. Plural has co-organised the Yolanda Bedregal National Poetry Award since 2000 and the Franz Tamayo National Tale Award since 2006.
Contact : José Antonio QUIROGA
LOM Ediciones
Concha y Toro 23
Santiago
Chile
Tél: (+56) 2 688 52 73
www.lom.cl
LOM Ediciones, a publishing house founded in 1990, started out by working to preserve the social, political, literary and cultural heritage of Chile in the last decades of the 20th century; LOM aims to foster creativity, thinking and criticism. Lom publishes poetry, accounts, theatre, works on human sciences, education and photography, by well-known authors as well as new ones. LOM has an up-to-date catalogue of 850 works, and every year publishes 80 new works by Chilean, Latin American and other authors. Lom is a member of the network of independent publishers, with Era, Trilce and Txalaparta, and of the Chile Publishers Association.
LOM significa sol en la lengua de los Yamanas o Yaganes, pueblo nómade del extremo sur de América. Con el gesto de recuperar su voz, el rostro de una de ellos en el logo de la editorial, buscamos mantener en la memoria sus miradas; fortalecer la creación, la reflexión, y el pensamiento crítico a través de la palabra escrita, desde el sur.
To listen: an interview of Paulo Slachevsky, during the Forum of Scientific Publishers of Chile, in 2017 and here an interview on the theme of “Diversity” (Ivoox, August 26, 2020).
Contact : Paulo SLACHEVSKY
Responsable : Silvia AGUILERA
Libros del Zorzal
Tucuman 3350 PB A - 1189
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tél: (+54 11) 4867-1661
www.delzorzal.com.ar
This publishing house was founded in 2000 by Octavio Kulesz, philosopher, and his brother Lopoldo, mathematician. Their first publication, Leyendo a Euclides (Reading Euclid), by the great Italo-Argentine mathematician Beppo Levi, met with success (three editions, all out of print). Gradually, Libros del Zorzal has added to its catalogue authors of both national and international renown, such as Silvia Bleichmar, Ivonne Bordelois, Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieu and Immanuel Wallerstein. Today, over 130 works have been published, written by authors from all over Latin America and Spain. Some have been translated into French, Italian and Portuguese.
Contact : Octavio KULESZ
Libros de la Araucaria
Chacabuco 1421
C1140AAE
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tél: +(5411) 43 62 54 35
www.librosaraucaria.com
Libros de la Araucaria, an independent publishing house, was founded in 2004. It mainly publishes works in the following areas: anthropology, human and social sciences, philosophy, literature and religious debate.
Hay muchas variedades, son unos árboles muy antiguos que crecen en la Patagonia argentina y chilena. Son una sabia combinación de fortaleza y belleza.
Contact : Hector DINSMANN
la marca editora
Pasaje Rivarola 115
1015 Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tél: +(5411) 43 83 62 62
www.lamarcaeditora.com
Founded on 1992 by Guido Indij, la marca editora is an independent publisher specialized in art, photography, essays and poetry. In the last few years it has ventured into the publication of multiple numbered portfolios and experimental art books, along with more famous authors such as Michel Foucault, J-F Lyotard, Paul Virilio, J-L Nancy, Sylviane Agacinscki. The main innovation of la marca editora is to experience in the relation between formats and contents. Thus, in each project it looks to extend the limits of the concept of what is known as a “book“.
Cuando creamos la marca hace 25 años, sabíamos que queríamos producir cultura y creatividad. Y sabíamos que para eso debíamos forjar una marca. El primer sistema de isologos que nos entregó el estudio de diseño incluía la marca videos, la marca cine, la marca música, la marca diseño y la marca editora. Aunque desde que alineamos una estrategia de trabajo y solo usamos el último...
Listen here the interview with Guido Indij, directed by the CERLALC, September 2018.
Contact : Guido INDIJ
Dena Publishing
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
wo-men
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
Dublinense
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
Dar Altanweer
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
Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House
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
Wildproject
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
Cauris livres
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
GashingoThe 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
Sefsafa Publishing
49 Al-Makhzan St. Omranya
Giza
Egypt
Tél: +(20) 1110787870
www.sefsafa.net/en
Sefsafa Publishing established in 2009, since then Sefsafa has published more than 200 titles and organized many activities proved to be one of the most active small cultural entities in Egypt.
Sefsafa Publishing translated more than 50 titles (fiction & non-fiction) from 18 languages including: Irish, Slovak, German, English, French...
We like to describe ourselves as a progressive publisher, supporting the freedom of publishing and ideas of “Enlightenment”.
One of our non-fiction titles: Temptation of Absolute Power won a prize (the Ahmed Bhaa El-Din prize) in 2010, and one of our novels Al-Hareem won the Cairo International Book Fair award for best novel in 2015.
Sefsafa distributes through the independent bookstores in Egypt and Arab countries, also through Arab and international book fairs.
Contact : Mohamed EL-BAALY
Éditions En toutes lettres
28 avenue des F.A.R., 5ème étage, app. 59
20000 Casablanca
Morocco
Tél: +212 5 22 29 68 48
www.etlettres.com
Since 2014, En toutes lettres is specialised in the publication of essays by writers, researchers and journalists. Our books address societal issues related to Morocco, by exposing the situation on the ground, as well as making the work of researchers and academics accessible to the general, non-specialised public. They contribute to the dissemination of discussions and critical thinking. This aim is achieved through five collections: ‘Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne’, ‘Enquêtes’, ‘Les Questions qui fâchent’, ‘Droit et Citoyenneté’, et ‘Traduction’. En toutes lettres also spearheads Openchabab, a training project for emerging journalists and civil society leaders, bound to become future authors espousing humanist creeds and investigative reporting.
To read:
*« Au Maghreb, il y a urgence à structurer le secteur du livre », Kenza Sefrioui, Le Monde Afrique, 8 February, 2019
*“A Moroccan Publisher Reflects on the Struggles Independent Presses Face”, Kenza Sefrioui, Al-Fanar Media, 10 January, 2019
Fadma AÏT MOUS et Driss KSIKES
Collection “Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne” / Prix Grand Atlas 2015 et Prix Grand Atlas des étudiants 2015
Depuis les soulèvements de rue en 2011, les peuples attendent des intellectuels qu’ils les aident à mieux s’orienter dans la sphère publique. Au Maroc, quinze penseurs, ayant en commun une éthique de chercheurs et restant en interaction avec la société, livrent le fond de leurs pensées, puisant dans les héritages humanistes et analysant les réalités politiques et sociales.
2014 - 380 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 95 DH / 20 € - ISBN : 978-9954-33-164-4
Hicham HOUDAÏFA
Collection “Enquêtes” / Prix spécial du jury du Prix Grand Atlas 2017
Filières des études islamiques à l’Université, parcours de salafistes, problématique de l’enseignement religieux à l’école, quartiers marginalisés en proie à la délinquance, niqab… À travers huit enquêtes et reportages, Hicham Houdaïfa éclaire la banalisation de l’extrémisme religieux dans la société marocaine.
2017 - 94 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 65 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9954-39-363-5
Asma LAMRABET
Prix Grand Atlas 2017
Voile, polygamie, égalité dans l’héritage… Asma Lamrabet fait l’inventaire des discriminations imposées aux femmes au nom de l’islam. Elle démontre que la plupart des interprétations médiévales classiques, produit de leur milieu social et culturel, se sont construites à la marge et parfois à l’encontre du Coran, porteur d’une vision beaucoup plus égalitaire et ouverte.
2017 – 214 pages – 14 x 20,5 cm – 95 DH / 20 € – ISBN : 978-9954-39-271-3
Contact : Kenza SEFRIOUI
International Alliance
of Independent Publishers
38 rue Saint-Sabin
75011 Paris - France
