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 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
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
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
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
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
Plural 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
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
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
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
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
Wanfield Hall - Woodcock Heath
Kingstone - Uttoxeter
Staffordshire, ST14 8QRT
United Kingdom
Tél: +44 (0)1650652370
www.victorinapress.com
Victorina Press is an independent publishing house in the West Midlands, UK. Established in 2017 by Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, a Chilean-British Teacher of EFL, poet and writer of short stories, MA in Sociology and Women’s Studies, PhD in Women’s Studies and MA in Publishing. She chose to name her press “Victorina Press” to honour her mother who passed her love for reading and literature on to all her six children.
To achieve her mission of publishing great and inspirational books as well as to publish local authors in Spanish and English, Victorina Press follows principles of Bibliodiversity.
Listen here the conversation with Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, by Christopher Fielden (July 2020).
Contact : Consuelo RIVERA-FUENTES
BP E 5229
Bamako
Mali
Tél: +223 76 71 57 13 / 76 46 21 14
www.editionstombouctou.com
Éditions Tombouctou was co-founded in 2007 by the Malian writers Ibrahima Aya and Aida Mady Diallo. From the name of the famous city of knowledge and writing, it gives to authors and other writers the means to express their word towards the African continent and the whole world. It aims to produce and disseminate quality writing at affordable prices for the local market in particular, thus contributing to the fact that Mali and Africa are telling themselves and the world.
Éditions Tombouctou is the initiative of the “Rentrée littéraire du Mali”, the reference literary event in Mali, created in 2008, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in February 2018 and which hosts for some years between 40 and 50 foreign writers by edition.
Furthermore, since the break-up in 2012 of the security, institutional and identity crisis in Mali, Éditions Tombouctou has initiated several collective reflections that have resulted in the publication of reference books on this crisis and Mali: High voices for Timbuktu, Mali between doubts and hopes, Africa of secularisms, Contemporary Mali, Regionalization in Mali, Challenges of the reconstruction in Mali...
Albakaye Ousmane KOUNTA
Talfi, originaire de Tombouctou, rêve de sillonner le Sahara et de devenir un caravanier renommé et fortuné. Mais son père l’inscrit à l’école moderne. Talfi ne renonce pourtant pas. Ses études terminées, il rentre aussitôt au bercail. Commence alors une odyssée épique pleine de chants, de bravoure et d’amour.
2014 - 248 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-14-1
Paul-Marie TRAORE
S’amouracher de sa sœur au point de lui faire un enfant relève plutôt du grand scandale. Un jeune fonctionnaire talentueux, ignorant tout de sa vraie identité, mène une existence décousue. Les conquêtes et les enfants abandonnés se suivent. Mais les chemins se croisent. Alors le passé resurgit, brûlant, déchirant…
2016 - 216 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-26-4
Kabiné Bemba DIAKITE
Lobèle et Bata, employées d’une entreprise, se vouent une haine inaltérable pour un poste de secrétaire. Elles placent au centre de leur brûlant antagonisme Diarisso et Kariba, membres de la junte militaire qui régente le pays. Désormais, rien ne peut les arrêter, tout comme leurs protégées, jusqu’au dénouement tragique.
2016 - 216 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-27-1
Contact : Ibrahima AYA
København
2400 Copenhague
Denmark
Tél: (+45) 20 84 50 65
www.diyareketab.wordpress.com
Diyar-e Ketab is an independent publisher of literature in Persian language. Texts published by Diyar-e Ketab are uncensored and the purpose is to promote a culture of reading in Persian as well as create an open space for the literary and linguistic exchange about Iran and other subjects.
Diyar-e Ketab aims to assist Iranian authors in publishing their works and to promote understanding and appreciation of Persian culture and literature.
Masoud KADKHODAEE
In this novel, along with Ketayoun and Bahram and their young children, we leave Iran. Behind the borders of the homeland, we encounter with this family a variety of problems, the problems that we sometimes face and need to resolve. We evaluate our previous moral and historical boundaries with a fresh look.
282 pages - 130 DKK (17 €) - ISBN: 978-87-970588-0-0
Contact : Esfandiyar SANAYE
Regensi Melati Mas A9/10
Serpong
Tangerang Selatan 15323
Indonesia
Tél: +62 813 85319131
www.marjinkiri.com
Founded in 2005, Marjin Kiri (literally means “left margin”) is a small independent Indonesian publisher dedicated to fostering critical/leftist thinking within the academia and general readers. Marjin Kiri mostly publishes on humanities and social theory, political-economy, history, cultural studies, ecology, and literature.
The team…
Ronny Agustinus, Muhammad Iqbal, Roos Wijayanti Ken Petung, Mia Fiona Erlita, Pradewi Tri Chatami and Ramandhatia Ulfa Atrianto
Wijaya HERLAMBANG
“When normality is built atop mass graves, and secured by terror and lies, a moral vacuum is inevitable. Wijaya Herlambang brilliantly analyses both the historical development and discursive dynamics of this vacuum.”
— Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the award-winning documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
The persistence of anti-communism in Indonesia was not only a result of years of political campaigning by the New Order regime, but also of cultural aggression against communism, particularly through the justification of the violence against the alleged communist members in 1965-1966.
By discussing how the New Order and its cultural agents utilised cultural products –literary works, school textbooks and films—in legitimating violence against communists, this book attempts to explore the ways in which the 1965-1966 massacre was normalised.
A controversial bestseller upon its release, this book reveals the previously unknown ties between Indonesian literary giants like Goenawan Mohamad and Mochtar Lubis with CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom and its agents in Asia. It also analyses the resistance of contemporary cultural organizations in Indonesia against the anti-communist legacies of the New Order.
November 2013 (first published); third edition - 334 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR85,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 43 5
Mahfud IKHWAN
Winner of the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2017
“This is a story that happened not so long ago. A grim tale full of blood. Just about two times village chief’s elections ago, probably right after the government party won for the first time against Islamic party around here.”
Thus how Warto Kemplung began his story to whoever wanted to listen to him on the coffee stall: a love story between Mat Dawuk and Inayatun, an ugly withdrawn youngster and a beautiful flirtatious girl—controversial couple disdained by their own neighborhood, with social life in a remote Javanese village as a background, an idyllic life that was transformed heavily by cash crop, illegal logging and job as migrant workers in Malaysia.
The problem is: was there any truths on Warto’s story, or was it just a babbling nonsense to cover up his own past?
A powerful novel told with humor, actions and rhytms of Hindi movies—from the erudite pen of a rising star in Indonesian literary scene.
June 2017 (first published); third printing - 182 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR58,000 - ISBN 978-979-1260-69-5
Saras DEWI
Environmental ethics and movements have accurately demonstrated the various damages and degradation of nature due to human activities. The anthropocentric worldview has been blamed as the source of disequilibrium between men and nature.
However, ethical approach to the problem of disequilibrium is no longer sufficient. There must be a new and vigorous method to solve the crux of the matter. Ecophenomenology proposes new ontology towards human and nature. Through the philosophies of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, ecophenomenology aims to a more rigorous argument to investigate the relation between human and nature, enables us to think a more radical problem of disequilibrium.
“[The author] believes that philosophy is conscience, and intellectual arguments were built upon that. This book was written to defend Benoa Bay from the threat of reclamation.” — Bali Post
March 2015 (first published); second printing - 172 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR54,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 42 8
Contact : Ronny AGUSTINUS
Responsable : Pradewi TRI CHATAMI
Rue Edgar Laurent
Curepipe
Mauritius
www.atelierdesnomades.com
L’Atelier des Nomades is a French-Mauritian publishing house created in 2010 by Corinne Fleury and Anthony Vallet. Over the years, the publishing house has developed a list with a strong visual writing in lifestyle and children’s books. Each book is a bridge towards the valorisation of art in the Indian Ocean region through the meeting of cultures, the mixing of ideas and creation.
Read here two interviews with Corinne Fleury, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (March 20, 2018) and in partnership with ActuaLitté (August 19, 2020).
Shenaz PATEL et Sébastien PELON
Comment Tizan a transformé une sauterelle en vache? Pourquoi un éléphant et une baleine sont convaincus qu’un petit lièvre est beaucoup plus fort qu’eux? Autour de Tizan, du compère jaco, du lièvre et des personnages populaires de la tradition orale mauricienne, ce recueil réunit 9 contes rusés et drôles pour découvrir une île Maurice remplie de malice.
2013 - 48 pages relié cartonné ou 24 pages broché - 18 x 26 cm - 12,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-03-7
Corinne FLEURY et Sébastien PELON
Dans un village de l’île Maurice vit le dodo aux plumes d’or. Son fabuleux pouvoir attire la convoitise des villageois. Le dodo est menacé. Seule la bonne femme Mimine décide de le protéger.
Mais saura-t-elle déjouer les ruses des cupides villageois ?
2014 - 24 pages - relié cartonné - 21,5 x 19,5 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-07-5
Shenaz PATEL et Emmanuelle TCHOUKRIEL
Les singes chapardeurs, des bêbêtes-ciseaux qui n’ont peur de rien, un gecko qui se prend pour un papillon, un courtpas bien trop rapide... Un recueil de 9 contes tendres, drôles, malicieux autour des animaux de l’île Maurice.
2016 - 48 pages - relié cartonné - 18 x 26 cm - 13 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-09-9
Contact : Corinne FLEURY
46, avenue Bosembo, 7è rue
Quartier Industriel, Limete
Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Congo
Tél: (+243) 89 89 75 868
elondja.blogspot.com
Founded in 2004 by Dan Bomboko, Elondja focuses distinctly on Congolese comics in order to promote comics creators from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Elondja is specialized in comics and children’s books.
Read here the interview with Dan Bomboko, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (October 9, 2018).
Dessin : Dick ESALE
Après s’être enfui du centre de réinsertion pour enfants, Elikya est recueilli par son parrain. Malheureusement pour le petit garçon, sa belle-mère décide de le faire passer pour un enfant sorcier. Il retourne auprès de l’Abbé Simon où il retrouve ses 4 amis, Jeannot, Coco, Bambi et Doudou. Peu de temps après, ils sont obligés de prendre la fuite suite à l’arrivée des rebelles qui envahissent le village et menacent de faire d’eux des enfants soldats.
2017- 48 pages - 16,2 x 22,9 cm - 3 euros - dépôt légal : JU 3.0116-57114 - ISBN : 99951-610-8-7
Dessin : Dick ESALE
Elikya, le petit orphelin se retrouve avec ses 4 amis, Jeannot, Coco, Bambi et Doudou dans un centre de réinsertion pour enfants. Malheureusement, la discipline imposée au sein du centre ressemble plus à de la maltraitance. Nos cinq amis vont prendre la décision de s’enfuir de ce lieu isolé du monde.
2009 - 44 pages - 21 x 29,7 cm - 1,5 euros - dépôt légal : XR 3.0908-5734 - ISBN : 99951-610-2-8
Alain PIAZZA
Dinanga et Paya, deux jeunes africains décident de partir pour l’étranger dans le but de trouver une vie meilleure. Durant leur voyage, ils sont victimes de la cupidité et de la malhonnêteté de leurs passeurs et la vie se transforme en un cauchemar.
2017 - 44 pages - 16,2 x 22,9 cm - 3 euros - dépôt légal : MS 3.01703-47103 - ISBN : 99951-610-9-5
Contact : Dan BOMBOKO
345 Archway Road
N6 5AA London
United Kingdom
www.plutobooks.com
Pluto Press is a radical political publishing house. Founded in 1969, we are one of Britain’s oldest radical publishers, but our focus remains making timely interventions in contemporary struggles. Though our collective outlook has developed over time, we proudly identify as anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent.
To read: “Inside the UK’s most radical indie publishers, Pluto Press”, published by huck, June 2018
Contact : Anne BEECH
9, rue Ricour Omar - Ben Aknoun Rp
Alger
Algeria
Tél: (+213) (0) 21 91 16 17
https://www.facebook.com/apiceditions/
Founded in 2003 by Samia Zennadi (archaeologist) and Karim Chikh (electrical engineer), APIC publishing has since embarked on a literary cruise aboard a paper ship blackened with words.
A cruise that did not necessarily sail on a calm sea, under a bright sun, sailing off where new horizons would on the next page and waves a parenthesis to be opened; rather on a stormy sea, struggling to balance on a semicolon – one foot anchored on the ground, as a perched dot on land –, and to navigate through an unstable equilibrium among letters, words, verbs, without jostling or belting the woes caused by the abuse of iodine. Full stop.
A cruise that can be conjugated in all climates and tenses, with a preference for the literary near future, so that nobody can forget.
“A publishing house that tombe à-pic” (“just in time”), some said. “Apic, ça pique!” (“it bites!”, said others. Also reminiscent of a beekeeper, passionate by shaping literature and harvesting an intoxicating nectar.
Between novels, poetry, short stories, essays and coffee table books, the waltz of books lulls the contrasts of a daily newspaper on the run and dreamy nights, always on the lookout for a new literary cruise, aboard a paper ship blackened with words, with one destination: safe arrival at the harbour of letters.
« Les éditions qui tombent à-pic », nous avons souvent travaillé avec des auteurs qui sont tombés à-pic ; « Apic, ça pique ! » avec des textes qui dérangent, qui suscitent des questionnements, à contre-courant ; « Apiculture, ou la passion du façonnage des belles lettres et la récolte du nectar enivrant », dans l’espoir d’apporter, dans le courant de l’évolution humaine.
Mohamed ABDALLAH
« Une sage malice rayonnait de ses traits, et on avait toujours l’impression qu’il en savait plus qu’il ne voulait bien le dire, qu’une réflexion astucieuse se cachait derrière ses sourires. Son esprit vif et sa bonne bouille faisaient le bonheur de la Mauresque et de ses environs ; un rappel par son charme si tranquille que le monde pouvait encore recéler de la délicatesse. » M. Abdallah
Oran, automne 1954.
À la Mauresque, un espace symbole de tout un pays en agitation, au cœur de la ville indigène d’Oran, les doutes de ses occupants se multiplient et les questions abondent.
Journalistes, politiques, romanciers, poètes, artistes se débattent dans un moment charnière
de l’Histoire de leurs pays. Le monde ancien se meurt, tandis que le nouveau tarde à naître pour eux. Les hésitations comme les initiatives sont légion.
Ils essayent de naviguer à vue dans un océan si vaste qu’il se confond avec l’horizon ; un horizon qu’ils semblent parfois oublier mais que l’auteur a essayé de donner en permanence
à voir aux lecteurs à travers son roman : Le Vent a dit son Nom.
Multipliant les références aux figures emblématiques de l’éveil des consciences pour la liberté, Mohamed Abdallah tente d’offrir un regard neuf sur le rôle que peuvent tenir les hommes de lettres, les intellectuels, et plus généralement les gens de la culture, au moment où une Nation s’apprête à connaître de nouvelles épreuves. Autant de thèmes qui résonnent encore avec notre actualité.
Mohamed Abdallah est auteur de trois romans. Épris de littératures et d’Histoires, il fait partie de cette nouvelle génération de romanciers algériens qui ne cessent d’étonner par leurs audaces littéraires.
Les éditions APIC ont reçu le Grand Prix Assia Djebar 2022 pour Le vent a dit son nom.
Djawad ROSTOM TOUATI
« Il pensa alors écrire une pièce, en s’inspirant de la grève des résidents, qui battait son plein. Il était en cinquième année de médecine et son avenir était directement engagé par l’issue de ce mouvement, pour lequel il s’enthousiasma. Pourtant, lorsqu’il voulut s’intéresser aux rouages, aux détails qu’il pourrait fondre dans son art, une gêne indéfinissable le prit, sans qu’il pût en saisir tout à fait la cause. Le projet restait en berne dans un coin de sa tête, et la fin de la grève acheva d’accumuler dessus la poussière de l’oubli. » Dj. R. Touati
L’un est multiple, et ce qui réunit, passé le moment de l’égrégore, devient ce qui divise ; irréconciliablement. Dans une époque où jamais n’a été aussi prégnante, aussi généralisée, la défaillance de l’intuition du divers, il a semblé salubre à l’auteur de montrer — sans chercher à démontrer — par la peinture d’une réalité esthétique, que si un moment historique a suscité débats et divisions au sein d’une même classe, rien n’est alors plus absurde — ou plus spécieux — que la prétention à l’unanimisme au sein de tout un peuple. Contre la fausse identification schizophrénique, tenter de saisir la totalité apparait comme l’unique moyen de faire
face au totalitarisme, qui est, comme font mine de l’ignorer ceux qui le dénoncent afin de mieux s’en disculper, LA PARTIE QUI SE PREND POUR LE TOUT.
Sur scène, se jouent alors de l’histoire Molière, Brecht, Kateb, Alloula et les autres… sur fond de rideaux rouge bordeaux, où un dialogue de sourds impose une cécité aux comédiens en action. Loin du « bruitage » imposant du mouvement, La scène et l’histoire, tel un filtre « socio-temporel », remet les pendules à l’heure historique : lever de rideau.
Le professeur de théâtre Nadji, à l’affût de l’ancien temps, Rahim et Lamia, les prétendants d’un avenir politiquement meilleur, et tous les autres… adeptes de la culture, c’est nous…, (se) battent le parquet du présent.
Djawad Rostom Touati est l’auteur de La civilisation de l’ersatz, Prix Ahmed Baba de La Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2020, deuxième volet de sa trilogie romanesque, «Le culte du ça ».
Contact : Karim CHIKH
26, Delmas 8
Port-au-Prince HT-6120
Haiti
Tél: (+509) 37 48 59 51 / (+509) 37 45 33 05
www.legsedition.com
LEGS ÉDITION is a publishing house founded in October 2012 by Wébert Charles, Mirline Pierre and Dieulermesson Petit Frère in order to support and promote authors, and re-energise the Haitian book market. Specializing in the reissue of classic literary texts, the publishing house also publishes works by contemporary authors, children’s books and textbooks, including the journal Legs et Littérature. It is made up of a group of writers, publishers, researchers, professors, chroniclers and literary critics.
Among other things, LEGS ÉDITION aims to promote literature in all its forms across all media; to work to safeguard the Haitian literary and artistic heritage; to advocate Haitian values; to establish bridges of communication between foreign literatures and cultures.
LEGS ÉDITION se veut un héritage, un patrimoine qu’on entend laisser (léguer) aux générations futures. C’est ce lien que nous essaierons de maintenir avec l’autre, celui/celle/ et ceux/celles qui vient/viennent. Nous sommes donc une passerelle...
Read here the interview with Dieulermesson Petit Frère, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (February 20, 2018).
Dominique BATRAVILLE, Faubert BOLIVAR, Jean Watson CHARLES, Wébert CHARLES, Marc EXAVIER, Charles Frédo GRAND-PIERRE, Georges Eddy LUCIEN, Kettly MARS, Jean Euphèle MILCÉ, Dieulermesson PETIT FRÈRE, Mirline PIERRE, Emmelie PROPHÈTE, Marie Alice THÉARD, Gary VICTOR.
12 janvier 2010, Haïti tombe sous le poids d’un séisme dévastateur. 31 mai 2014, le centre-ville de Port-au-Prince est abattu par les bulldozers, les marteaux-piqueurs et les démolisseurs improvisés du Portail saint-Joseph.… Le centre-ville de Port-au-Prince
devient poussière. Les rues de la Réunion, de l’Enterrement et Saint-Honoré ne sont plus. Quatorze écrivains et un historien se souviennent de ces rues et se proposent d’écrire l’histoire du bas de la ville ; de ces lieux devenus sans repères/repaires, pour dire au monde qu’ici les rues avaient une âme. Et que les souvenirs demeurent au-delà de la poussière grise des gravats.
2014 - 126 pages - 10.16 x 18.491 cm - 978-99970-4-243-9 - 12 € ; 600 gourdes (Haïti)
Yanick LAHENS
La petite corruption est le deuxième recueil de nouvelles de Yanick Lahens. Il dit toute la saveur du vécu social, politique et culturel haïtien. Le déclin de la classe moyenne, le départ massif et croissant des cadres vers d’autres cieux en quête de mieux-être. Une œuvre qui esquisse un véritable tableau de la dure réalité caribéenne toute empreinte de modernité et d’originalité. Le recueil nous plonge dans un univers féminin et met sous nos yeux des personnages ordinaires aux prises à des situations extraordinaires. Des femmes courageuses, victimes dans leur chair et dans leur âme.
Yannick Lahens est née en Haïti en 1953. Après ses études de DEA en Lettres Modernes en France, elle a enseigné pendant plus de dix ans à l’École normale supérieure de son pays. Romancière, nouvelliste et essayiste, elle a obtenu le prix RFO pour son roman La couleur de l’aube en 2009, et le prix Femina pour Bain de lune en 2014.
2014 - 106 pages - 12.852 x 19.812 cm - ISBN : 978-1497-3678-1-4 - 12 € ; 600 gourdes (Haïti)
Nadine MAGLOIRE
Le sexe mythique est un court roman paru pour la première en Haïti en 1975. En effet, ce livre est le premier roman haïtien écrit par une femme qui va aussi loin dans la description érotique. On était toujours à ce qu’on pourrait appeler la pudeur romanesque, la description voilée des scènes de sexe, la peur ou le refus de son corps par une femme ou un personnage féminin. En 1975, un petit livre est venu chambarder cet ordre. Le sexe mythique fait de Nadine Magloire la première femme-écrivain à être allée aussi loin dans la description érotique.
Née en Haïti en 1932, Nadine Magloire est la fille du journaliste Jean Magloire et de la compositrice Carmen Brouard. Auteure controversée et souvent traitée de subversive, elle est la première auteure haïtienne à avoir publié un livre féministe, Le mal de vivre. Elle vit actuellement au Québec.
2014 - 126 pages - 12.852 x 19.812 cm - 978-99970-4-243-9 - 12 € ; 600 gourdes (Haïti)
Contact : Dieulermersson PETIT FRERE
Responsable : Mirline PIERRE
6e arrondissement, quartier Nzeng-Ayong (Cité des ambassadeurs)
B.P 16032
Libreville
Gabon
Tél: (+241) 07 75 21 46
www.leseditionsntsame.com
Ntsame publishing was founded in 2010 by Sylvie Ntsame, writer and former president of the Union of Gabonese Writers (UDEG).
The publishing house is located in the Nzeng-Ayong district, in a complex consisting of a secretariat, a bookstore, three machine rooms, a boardroom and five offices. A priority is to make books whose copyrights are paid to published authors. Sylvie Ntsame explains that their mission is to “to produce books of all kinds, and to disseminate them on the national level and outside the country”, and adds “I wanted to cast my little stone in the building, for a stream of local productions to be published”.
She aims to make the national writers’ books more visible on the national territory in order to raise the public awareness about the literary works produced by Gabonese writers but also to inspire the pen of the latter.
Ntsame publishing aims to master the entire process of book making so that the books they publish are entirely made in Gabon. That is why this structure has a digital printing facility.
Contact : Sylvie NTSAME
International Alliance
of Independent Publishers
38 rue Saint-Sabin
75011 Paris - France