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Prozart media
str. Pushkinova 15, 1/34
1000 Skopje
North Macedonia
Tél: +389 78 32 12 52
www.prozart.mk
Publishing house Prozart media is the organizer of the International Literature Festival PRO-ZA Balkan and of the Skopje Fellowship Program. We were the first festival that organized Fellowship program in Southeast Europe, 10 years ago, in 2013. Using this platform, we have hosted dozens of foreign writers and publishers in capitol city of Skopje. The founder and director of all three entities is Macedonian writer and editor, Dejan Trajkoski.
We also publish a wide range of titles in segments such as fiction, YA, children literature and poetry. We have also translated some high quality titles into Macedonian language such as books by the best writers from Balkan region – Danilo Kis, Slavenka Drakulic, Miljenko Jergovic, Svetislav Basara… We publish around 20-30 titles per year.
Prozart media was presented with own stand at foreign book fairs such as Frankfurt Book Fair (2022), Jakarta Book Fair (2019), Istanbul Book Fair (2019), and visited a number of other Fairs.
Aleksandar PROKOPIEV
Homunkulus: postmodern fairy tales for grownups
Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen “fairy tales for adults” with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with. Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more “mature” themes too – the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as “Tom Thumb”, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or “The Huntsman”, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.
Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph. D. in comparative literature and literary theory. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is considered to be one of most acclaimed macedonian writers. He is two time nominated for prestigous literature award Balkanika.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of literature award Balkanika in 2012 for his novel Homunkulus. Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of Bulgarian literature award Helikon.
Finished postgraduate education in 1982 in Sorbonne, France. His works are translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and many other languages.
2011 - ISBN: 978-608-223-058-0
Ermis LAFAZANOVSKI
“Hrapeško”: novel about the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love
Hrapeško, an experienced wine-grower, lives somewhere in the region of Tikveš, at the time of the 19th century. Until one day he leaves the epicentre of the Balkans and goes on his travels, to the West and to the East. Far away from home he learns a new profession and becomes famous. Humorous and serious at the same time the author tells of Hrapeško’s fortunes and mishaps, of the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love, of the homeland and foreign countries.
PhD Ermis Lafazanovski is a short-stories writer, literary essays, and anthropology studies writer. In 2001 he received the ‘Stale Popov’ Award of the Macedonian Writers’ Association for the novel “Portrayer”, and in 2003 he received Prose Masters for the novel The Novel About Weapons. His novel Hrapeško was nominated in 2006 as the Macedonian representative for the Balkanika Award. He is a member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. He was president of the Macedonian PEN Center (2014-2017).
2006 - ISBN: 9989-144-82-6
Branislav NIKOLOV (artistic name: Drunken NIGHTINGALE)
Polygraph is the third poetry book by Branislav NIkolov (Drunken Nightingale).
Branislav Nikolov is one of the most original poetry voices in North Macedonia.
As Macedonian writer and critic, Olivera Kjorveziroska says, Branislav Nikolov’s poetry is “…an impressive “erotomaniac” collection of poems that is in figth with the current loveless times, communicating with the most beautiful poetic tradition in our region”.
Several of his poems are texts of the songs performed by the most famous art band in North Macedonia, Foltin, where Nikolov is the singer.
Pijan Slavej (aka Branislav Nikolov) is a renowned musician, performer, songwriter, poet, singer and frontman of the group Foltin. He was born in 1971 in Bitola. As one of the founders and key members of the band, he has nine studio releases, as well as music for over thirty theatrical performances and several documentary and feature films, including the Oscar nominee “Honeyland”, the internationally acclaimed “Secret Ingredient”, “Avec L’Amour”, “Cash & Marry” etc. He has performed in Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Montenegro, England, Lebanon, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Czech Republic. Nikolov has received many recognitions and awards for his creative work. He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and charismatic individuals on Macedonian music scene today, known for his spontaneous, explosive, warm and passionate live performances. Apart from his work with Foltin, he has performed with Macedonian Philharmonic and has two poetry books published. Pijan Slavej is his first solo outing in music and poetry.
2022 - ISBN: 978-608-256-118-9
Contact : Dejan TRAJKOSKI
La Maison du livre
2 Boulevard Béji Caeid Essebsi
Imm. Inès Centre Urbain Nord
1082 Tunis
Tunisia
Tél: (+216) 71 947 727 / (+216) 52 947 727
www.maisondulivretn.com
Publishing house La Maison du Livre targets citizen action, based on a strategic vision of the sustainable development of the book sector in its entirety. It wanted to stand out for its very selective editorial line and it strives to support a culture which promotes the development of reading, an act as natural as breathing.
In addition, La Maison du Livre works to establish links between Tunisian writers and their counterparts in the Arab world through co-publishing and exchanges of ideas and experiences. These are facilitated by the publisher’s presence at trade fairs and exhibitions and through exchanges between book professionals.
Its catalogue is continually growing both in terms of quality and of the number of books published each year. Despite the current circumstances and the increased price of paper on the world market it considers that it is continuing to successfully honour its commitments towards the industry.
Its website is now a retail website. It has also begun working with digital books and audio books, which it is developing with the association La Plume du Paon in Strasbourg.
Contact : Habib ZOGHBI
Éditions Gouttes-Lettres
25, Rue Norgues, Christ-Roi
HT 6110 Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Tél: (+509) 32 84 09 03
www.facebook.com/goutteslettres
The Association Éditions Gouttes-Lettres (ASSEGL) is a generalist publisher founded in 2018 by philosopher and writer (Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney. Its mission is to support and promote authors and to contribute to the growth of the cultural and intellectual arena in Haiti through various literary and artistic initiatives with both local and international reach. It already has a rich catalogue of almost thirty titles. In seven collections (“Poésie 4.5●6 EGL”, “Esprits Philosophiques”, “Études Haïtiennes”, “Fiction EGL”, “Théâtre EGL”, “Matrimoine” and “Jeunesse EGL”) it publishes all types of writing, excluding, of course, racist, hateful or antifeminist works or any other writing in which any human group is misrepresented. From children’s books to more literary novels to more specialised texts (philosophical or scientific), it works with the full range of genres. Provided of course the projects are worth it... It edits and provides services for self-publishing authors as well as publishing its own catalogue of titles.
Emmanuel DERILUS
Ce tout premier roman d’Emmanuel Dérilus a paru en novembre 2021, dans la collection « Fiction EGL », aux Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, raconte l’histoire de la tournée de l’écrivain communiste Jacques Stephen Alexis à Moscou, (à Paris), en Chine et à la Havane, puis sa disparition (à son retour en Haïti) en avril 61, au Môle Saint-Nicolas, dans des circonstances jusqu’ici non élucidées.
Emmanuel Dérilus
Né à Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, le 24 décembre 1959, Emmanuel Dérilus est diplômé en Droit à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques de Port-au-Prince. Il a également suivi des cours à l’École Normale Supérieure, en Science de l’Éducation au CEFOSED et en Communication à l’Institut Supérieur de Journalisme et de Communication à Port-au-Prince. Ancien professeur de Littérature haïtienne, d’Histoire et de Géographie, il fut membre du Parti du Congrès National des Mouvements Démocratiques, le CONACOM. Élu député au Parlement haïtien en 1995, Emmanuel Dérilus militait au sein du Bloc parlementaire anti-néolibéral où il œuvrait à l’unité de la gauche démocratique en Haïti.
2021 - 608 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 28 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-2-6
Dom Pedro N. THEONEY
Ce premier roman de Dom Pedro N. THEONEY est un roman philosophique. Un assez vieux problème, qui est le cœur du cœur de la culture (tradition philosophique) occidentale, y est posé : la dualité de l’ÂME et du CORPS. Quelle philosophie, depuis Platon, ne s’y est pas intéressée ? Aucune, naturellement. Car toute philosophie véritable commence forcément avec elle, y trouve pour mieux se déployer un point auquel se fixer, qu’elle ne fera bien entendu que renouveler, certes sous un mode (souvent) tout à fait singulier ou original... Et Dom Pedro N. THEONEY, plus dans la lignée d’un Spinoza ou d’un Nietzsche, entre autres, que d’un Épicure, résout ce problème en démontant ce dualisme philosophique traditionnel, qui projette une image erronée de l’homme, du monde ou de toutes choses. Et propose à la place une espèce de monisme philosophique, qui postule d’entrée de jeu que le principe du monde ou de toutes choses est nécessairement matériel, ceux-ci en eux-mêmes n’étant que MATIÈRE. À étendre davantage cette pensée, l’on ne peut éviter de conclure avec Dom Pedro que l’homme n’est que corps. Aussi, disparaissent, toutes à la fois, les histoires et élucubrations sur l’âme, son immortalité et tout ce qui en découle... L’auteur condense tout cela dans un magnifique récit d’aventures érotiques, où la chair, le corps et les plaisirs qu’ils procurent sont mis en avant, valorisés et traités bien entendu pour ce que, tous ensemble, ils constituent : le principe pouvant aider à découvrir la vérité sur/de l’homme...
(Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney est né le 04 novembre 1986, à Port-au-Prince (Delmas). Au bout de ses études secondaires au lycée Pierre Eustache Daniel Fignolé, il est entré en 2009 à l’École Normale Supérieure de Port-au-Prince où il a eu une importante formation en philosophie. En 2013, il est admis au programme de Master de Philosophie Paris8/ENS. Mais il ne le bouclera pas, en raison de maintes et maintes pressions de la vie (haïtiennes)… Depuis quelques années, il enseigne la philosophie dans certaines écoles à Port-au-Prince. En 2014, il a fondé les Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, une maison d’édition généraliste au service des communautés d’intellectuel.les, de créateurs/trices et de lecteurs.trices, haïtiennes, voire du monde entier. Entre 2018 et 2019, il a publié ses deux premiers livres, “Les délices de la chair”, qui est un roman philosophique, et un long poème (pro)féministe, intitulé “Hymne à la femme”. Donc depuis son entrée à l’E.N.S., les livres, l’écriture, l’édition, et bien sur sa famille, constituent ce qu’il appelle sa raison de vivre.
2018 - 178 pages - 12,7 X 19,5 cm - 15 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-482-3-3
Jean-Jacques CADET
Cet essai met en relation l’émergence des marxismes non occidentaux et la publication dans les années 1930 d’un ensemble d’œuvres de Marx qui ont mis au premier plan le thème de la dépossession et de l’aliénation. L’objectif consiste à expliquer la prédominance de la problématisation de l’aliénation dans le monde noir en se référant aux thèses développées dans les Manuscrits de 1844. La publication intégrale de ces Manuscrits axés sur une théorie de l’aliénation permet aux intellectuels du sud de reformuler au prisme d’éléments psychologiques (et culturels) leurs marxismes. Ainsi, cet essai postule que l’appropriation haïtienne des œuvres de Marx et d’Engels est ancrée dans une relecture originale de la catégorie d’aliénation. Le titre Marxisme et aliénation opte pour ce croisement entre les marxismes du sud et la problématique de dépossession. Le couple « marxisme et aliénation » permet de saisir le mode de conceptualisation de ces marxismes non occidentaux, notamment du marxisme haïtien. La pensée de Marx reste un chantier à retravailler au regard des expériences singulières et de « territoires » différents. Faire de l’aliénation l’axe central de l’analyse des marxismes du Sud se justifie par l’importance du colonialisme, de l’esclavage et du racisme dans l’histoire des Caraïbes.
2021 - 264 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 30 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-4-0
Contact : Pedro NAASON THEONEY
Les Éditions du sucrier 
89 bis rue Jean-Baptiste Rouam Sim
Baie des Tourelles
97200 Fort-de-France
Martinique
Tél: +596 696 932758
www.leseditionsdusucrier.fr
Dream, play, tell the story of the Caribbean
This publishing house was born of the passion of Renée-Laure Zou. This West Indian, Martinican, Guadeloupian – in a word Caribbean – author and illustrator founded her publishing house in 2018 to tell young children the story of the Caribbean.
Her objective is to bring together the talents of Caribbean authors and illustrators in order to offer young people the keys to understanding their environment, culture and heritage, so that Caribbean people can take possession of their own identities from a young age and young people all over the world can discover the diversity of the Caribbean.
Through high-quality books, games and comic books for children aged 1 to 14, this publishing house is a window to the riches and realities of the Caribbean.
Jean Fritz Junior ODNE (Haïti, auteur) ; Francisco SILVA (Haïti, illustrateur)
Sur l’île, les embouteillages sont devenus le lieu où il faut prendre son mal en patience, ou être vu. Chacun s’y trouve coincé sans savoir pourquoi, et finit par s’y précipiter le matin pour s’y donner en spectacle ou rencontrer du monde, dans une ambiance conviviale, joyeuse et bon enfant.
Mais un beau jour, pas d’embouteillage, aucune voiture sur la route… Pour Alice et Jacob, l’enquête commence…
2022 - 56 pages - 16 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-6-6
Album de bandes dessinées en français – à partir de 9 ans
RENATA (autrice) ; Wilfried DEROCHE (illustrateur)
Bébé Nikou a tellement faim qu’il est prêt à dévorer son livre préféré ! Mais son papa va le rassasier avec de bons fruits frais et juteux ! Un joli album quadrilingue, qui favorisera l’éveil linguistique et l’éducation nutritionnelle des plus petits, grâce à la découverte des fruits des Antilles.
Utilisable de la crèche à la fin du cycle 1 en :
2021 - 20 pages - 15 X 15 cm - 10,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-5-9
Album jeunesse tout-carton quadrilingue français, créole de Martinique, espagnol et anglais - à partir de 1 an
RENATA (autrice et illustratrice)
Un animal se cache derrière chaque lettre ! Avec cet abécédaire original, les enfants connaîtront aussi bien l’alphabet que les animaux de la Caraïbe.
Utilisable avec :
2018 - 64 pages - 17 X 24 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-0-4 -
à partir de 3 ans
Contact : Renée-Laure ZOU
Alto
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
Forum Editoria
Via Santa Chiara 30 bis
10122 Turin
Italy
Tél: +39 01 15 21 17 90
www.forumeditoria.it
Forum Editoria was founded by Anita Molino, editor at Il Leone Verde, who after 25 years of working in publishing associations, decided to invest her experience in this new venture in 2022.
Forum Editoria aims to be an association open to all publishing houses, a space of mutual support to share skills, thoughts but also tools (contract templates, etc.) and where editors can benefit from training.
The objective is to fly high and together, like a flock of hummingbirds: so small, but so skillful and capable of unimaginable feats!
Contact : Anita MOLINO
Akoma Mba 
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.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Ed.AkomaMba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ed_AkomaMba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.akomamba/
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
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
La Oveja Roja
c/ Amparo 76
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.laovejaroja.es
It was chance combined with great effort that led to the launch of La Oveja Roja. As chance would have it, someone with no plans to work in the publishing industry found themselves in the possession of several previously unpublished books. He founded La Oveja Roja, located, as its name [the red sheep] might suggest, deep in the countryside, in a meadow at the foot of the Pyrenees. The founder was adamant about ensuring that culture was accessible to all children and not only to the upper classes. This sheep insisted on talking about politics and society even though no one had invited him to the table. Notable figures, of course, did not listen. But he continued anyway. From the Pyrenees he went to Madrid, where he found himself becoming a carpenter in order to open a bookshop. From that moment on, he has lived only for his obsessions, which now include storytelling, poetry, graphic novels, essays and even children’s books. His catalogue contains works of a variety of tones. Éric Hazan, Nathalie Quintane, Vincianne Despret, Brigitte Vasallo, Enrique Falcón and Antonio Orihuela are just some of the names who have become friends along the way. And the sheep, with his books, now finds himself surrounded by wooden bookshelves in a bookshop, and continues to think and dream about meadows and about books.
Contact : Alfonso SERRANO
Prozart media
str. Pushkinova 15, 1/34
1000 Skopje
North Macedonia
Tél: +389 78 32 12 52
www.prozart.mk
Publishing house Prozart media is the organizer of the International Literature Festival PRO-ZA Balkan and of the Skopje Fellowship Program. We were the first festival that organized Fellowship program in Southeast Europe, 10 years ago, in 2013. Using this platform, we have hosted dozens of foreign writers and publishers in capitol city of Skopje. The founder and director of all three entities is Macedonian writer and editor, Dejan Trajkoski.
We also publish a wide range of titles in segments such as fiction, YA, children literature and poetry. We have also translated some high quality titles into Macedonian language such as books by the best writers from Balkan region – Danilo Kis, Slavenka Drakulic, Miljenko Jergovic, Svetislav Basara… We publish around 20-30 titles per year.
Prozart media was presented with own stand at foreign book fairs such as Frankfurt Book Fair (2022), Jakarta Book Fair (2019), Istanbul Book Fair (2019), and visited a number of other Fairs.
Aleksandar PROKOPIEV
Homunkulus: postmodern fairy tales for grownups
Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen “fairy tales for adults” with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with. Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more “mature” themes too – the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as “Tom Thumb”, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or “The Huntsman”, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.
Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph. D. in comparative literature and literary theory. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is considered to be one of most acclaimed macedonian writers. He is two time nominated for prestigous literature award Balkanika.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of literature award Balkanika in 2012 for his novel Homunkulus. Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of Bulgarian literature award Helikon.
Finished postgraduate education in 1982 in Sorbonne, France. His works are translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and many other languages.
2011 - ISBN: 978-608-223-058-0
Ermis LAFAZANOVSKI
“Hrapeško”: novel about the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love
Hrapeško, an experienced wine-grower, lives somewhere in the region of Tikveš, at the time of the 19th century. Until one day he leaves the epicentre of the Balkans and goes on his travels, to the West and to the East. Far away from home he learns a new profession and becomes famous. Humorous and serious at the same time the author tells of Hrapeško’s fortunes and mishaps, of the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love, of the homeland and foreign countries.
PhD Ermis Lafazanovski is a short-stories writer, literary essays, and anthropology studies writer. In 2001 he received the ‘Stale Popov’ Award of the Macedonian Writers’ Association for the novel “Portrayer”, and in 2003 he received Prose Masters for the novel The Novel About Weapons. His novel Hrapeško was nominated in 2006 as the Macedonian representative for the Balkanika Award. He is a member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. He was president of the Macedonian PEN Center (2014-2017).
2006 - ISBN: 9989-144-82-6
Branislav NIKOLOV (artistic name: Drunken NIGHTINGALE)
Polygraph is the third poetry book by Branislav NIkolov (Drunken Nightingale).
Branislav Nikolov is one of the most original poetry voices in North Macedonia.
As Macedonian writer and critic, Olivera Kjorveziroska says, Branislav Nikolov’s poetry is “…an impressive “erotomaniac” collection of poems that is in figth with the current loveless times, communicating with the most beautiful poetic tradition in our region”.
Several of his poems are texts of the songs performed by the most famous art band in North Macedonia, Foltin, where Nikolov is the singer.
Pijan Slavej (aka Branislav Nikolov) is a renowned musician, performer, songwriter, poet, singer and frontman of the group Foltin. He was born in 1971 in Bitola. As one of the founders and key members of the band, he has nine studio releases, as well as music for over thirty theatrical performances and several documentary and feature films, including the Oscar nominee “Honeyland”, the internationally acclaimed “Secret Ingredient”, “Avec L’Amour”, “Cash & Marry” etc. He has performed in Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Montenegro, England, Lebanon, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Czech Republic. Nikolov has received many recognitions and awards for his creative work. He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and charismatic individuals on Macedonian music scene today, known for his spontaneous, explosive, warm and passionate live performances. Apart from his work with Foltin, he has performed with Macedonian Philharmonic and has two poetry books published. Pijan Slavej is his first solo outing in music and poetry.
2022 - ISBN: 978-608-256-118-9
Contact : Dejan TRAJKOSKI
La Maison du livre
2 Boulevard Béji Caeid Essebsi
Imm. Inès Centre Urbain Nord
1082 Tunis
Tunisia
Tél: (+216) 71 947 727 / (+216) 52 947 727
www.maisondulivretn.com
Publishing house La Maison du Livre targets citizen action, based on a strategic vision of the sustainable development of the book sector in its entirety. It wanted to stand out for its very selective editorial line and it strives to support a culture which promotes the development of reading, an act as natural as breathing.
In addition, La Maison du Livre works to establish links between Tunisian writers and their counterparts in the Arab world through co-publishing and exchanges of ideas and experiences. These are facilitated by the publisher’s presence at trade fairs and exhibitions and through exchanges between book professionals.
Its catalogue is continually growing both in terms of quality and of the number of books published each year. Despite the current circumstances and the increased price of paper on the world market it considers that it is continuing to successfully honour its commitments towards the industry.
Its website is now a retail website. It has also begun working with digital books and audio books, which it is developing with the association La Plume du Paon in Strasbourg.
Contact : Habib ZOGHBI
Éditions Gouttes-Lettres
25, Rue Norgues, Christ-Roi
HT 6110 Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Tél: (+509) 32 84 09 03
www.facebook.com/goutteslettres
The Association Éditions Gouttes-Lettres (ASSEGL) is a generalist publisher founded in 2018 by philosopher and writer (Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney. Its mission is to support and promote authors and to contribute to the growth of the cultural and intellectual arena in Haiti through various literary and artistic initiatives with both local and international reach. It already has a rich catalogue of almost thirty titles. In seven collections (“Poésie 4.5●6 EGL”, “Esprits Philosophiques”, “Études Haïtiennes”, “Fiction EGL”, “Théâtre EGL”, “Matrimoine” and “Jeunesse EGL”) it publishes all types of writing, excluding, of course, racist, hateful or antifeminist works or any other writing in which any human group is misrepresented. From children’s books to more literary novels to more specialised texts (philosophical or scientific), it works with the full range of genres. Provided of course the projects are worth it... It edits and provides services for self-publishing authors as well as publishing its own catalogue of titles.
Emmanuel DERILUS
Ce tout premier roman d’Emmanuel Dérilus a paru en novembre 2021, dans la collection « Fiction EGL », aux Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, raconte l’histoire de la tournée de l’écrivain communiste Jacques Stephen Alexis à Moscou, (à Paris), en Chine et à la Havane, puis sa disparition (à son retour en Haïti) en avril 61, au Môle Saint-Nicolas, dans des circonstances jusqu’ici non élucidées.
Emmanuel Dérilus
Né à Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, le 24 décembre 1959, Emmanuel Dérilus est diplômé en Droit à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques de Port-au-Prince. Il a également suivi des cours à l’École Normale Supérieure, en Science de l’Éducation au CEFOSED et en Communication à l’Institut Supérieur de Journalisme et de Communication à Port-au-Prince. Ancien professeur de Littérature haïtienne, d’Histoire et de Géographie, il fut membre du Parti du Congrès National des Mouvements Démocratiques, le CONACOM. Élu député au Parlement haïtien en 1995, Emmanuel Dérilus militait au sein du Bloc parlementaire anti-néolibéral où il œuvrait à l’unité de la gauche démocratique en Haïti.
2021 - 608 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 28 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-2-6
Dom Pedro N. THEONEY
Ce premier roman de Dom Pedro N. THEONEY est un roman philosophique. Un assez vieux problème, qui est le cœur du cœur de la culture (tradition philosophique) occidentale, y est posé : la dualité de l’ÂME et du CORPS. Quelle philosophie, depuis Platon, ne s’y est pas intéressée ? Aucune, naturellement. Car toute philosophie véritable commence forcément avec elle, y trouve pour mieux se déployer un point auquel se fixer, qu’elle ne fera bien entendu que renouveler, certes sous un mode (souvent) tout à fait singulier ou original... Et Dom Pedro N. THEONEY, plus dans la lignée d’un Spinoza ou d’un Nietzsche, entre autres, que d’un Épicure, résout ce problème en démontant ce dualisme philosophique traditionnel, qui projette une image erronée de l’homme, du monde ou de toutes choses. Et propose à la place une espèce de monisme philosophique, qui postule d’entrée de jeu que le principe du monde ou de toutes choses est nécessairement matériel, ceux-ci en eux-mêmes n’étant que MATIÈRE. À étendre davantage cette pensée, l’on ne peut éviter de conclure avec Dom Pedro que l’homme n’est que corps. Aussi, disparaissent, toutes à la fois, les histoires et élucubrations sur l’âme, son immortalité et tout ce qui en découle... L’auteur condense tout cela dans un magnifique récit d’aventures érotiques, où la chair, le corps et les plaisirs qu’ils procurent sont mis en avant, valorisés et traités bien entendu pour ce que, tous ensemble, ils constituent : le principe pouvant aider à découvrir la vérité sur/de l’homme...
(Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney est né le 04 novembre 1986, à Port-au-Prince (Delmas). Au bout de ses études secondaires au lycée Pierre Eustache Daniel Fignolé, il est entré en 2009 à l’École Normale Supérieure de Port-au-Prince où il a eu une importante formation en philosophie. En 2013, il est admis au programme de Master de Philosophie Paris8/ENS. Mais il ne le bouclera pas, en raison de maintes et maintes pressions de la vie (haïtiennes)… Depuis quelques années, il enseigne la philosophie dans certaines écoles à Port-au-Prince. En 2014, il a fondé les Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, une maison d’édition généraliste au service des communautés d’intellectuel.les, de créateurs/trices et de lecteurs.trices, haïtiennes, voire du monde entier. Entre 2018 et 2019, il a publié ses deux premiers livres, “Les délices de la chair”, qui est un roman philosophique, et un long poème (pro)féministe, intitulé “Hymne à la femme”. Donc depuis son entrée à l’E.N.S., les livres, l’écriture, l’édition, et bien sur sa famille, constituent ce qu’il appelle sa raison de vivre.
2018 - 178 pages - 12,7 X 19,5 cm - 15 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-482-3-3
Jean-Jacques CADET
Cet essai met en relation l’émergence des marxismes non occidentaux et la publication dans les années 1930 d’un ensemble d’œuvres de Marx qui ont mis au premier plan le thème de la dépossession et de l’aliénation. L’objectif consiste à expliquer la prédominance de la problématisation de l’aliénation dans le monde noir en se référant aux thèses développées dans les Manuscrits de 1844. La publication intégrale de ces Manuscrits axés sur une théorie de l’aliénation permet aux intellectuels du sud de reformuler au prisme d’éléments psychologiques (et culturels) leurs marxismes. Ainsi, cet essai postule que l’appropriation haïtienne des œuvres de Marx et d’Engels est ancrée dans une relecture originale de la catégorie d’aliénation. Le titre Marxisme et aliénation opte pour ce croisement entre les marxismes du sud et la problématique de dépossession. Le couple « marxisme et aliénation » permet de saisir le mode de conceptualisation de ces marxismes non occidentaux, notamment du marxisme haïtien. La pensée de Marx reste un chantier à retravailler au regard des expériences singulières et de « territoires » différents. Faire de l’aliénation l’axe central de l’analyse des marxismes du Sud se justifie par l’importance du colonialisme, de l’esclavage et du racisme dans l’histoire des Caraïbes.
2021 - 264 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 30 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-4-0
Contact : Pedro NAASON THEONEY
Les Éditions du sucrier
89 bis rue Jean-Baptiste Rouam Sim
Baie des Tourelles
97200 Fort-de-France
Martinique
Tél: +596 696 932758
www.leseditionsdusucrier.fr
Dream, play, tell the story of the Caribbean
This publishing house was born of the passion of Renée-Laure Zou. This West Indian, Martinican, Guadeloupian – in a word Caribbean – author and illustrator founded her publishing house in 2018 to tell young children the story of the Caribbean.
Her objective is to bring together the talents of Caribbean authors and illustrators in order to offer young people the keys to understanding their environment, culture and heritage, so that Caribbean people can take possession of their own identities from a young age and young people all over the world can discover the diversity of the Caribbean.
Through high-quality books, games and comic books for children aged 1 to 14, this publishing house is a window to the riches and realities of the Caribbean.
Jean Fritz Junior ODNE (Haïti, auteur) ; Francisco SILVA (Haïti, illustrateur)
Sur l’île, les embouteillages sont devenus le lieu où il faut prendre son mal en patience, ou être vu. Chacun s’y trouve coincé sans savoir pourquoi, et finit par s’y précipiter le matin pour s’y donner en spectacle ou rencontrer du monde, dans une ambiance conviviale, joyeuse et bon enfant.
Mais un beau jour, pas d’embouteillage, aucune voiture sur la route… Pour Alice et Jacob, l’enquête commence…
2022 - 56 pages - 16 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-6-6
Album de bandes dessinées en français – à partir de 9 ans
RENATA (autrice) ; Wilfried DEROCHE (illustrateur)
Bébé Nikou a tellement faim qu’il est prêt à dévorer son livre préféré ! Mais son papa va le rassasier avec de bons fruits frais et juteux ! Un joli album quadrilingue, qui favorisera l’éveil linguistique et l’éducation nutritionnelle des plus petits, grâce à la découverte des fruits des Antilles.
Utilisable de la crèche à la fin du cycle 1 en :
2021 - 20 pages - 15 X 15 cm - 10,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-5-9
Album jeunesse tout-carton quadrilingue français, créole de Martinique, espagnol et anglais - à partir de 1 an
RENATA (autrice et illustratrice)
Un animal se cache derrière chaque lettre ! Avec cet abécédaire original, les enfants connaîtront aussi bien l’alphabet que les animaux de la Caraïbe.
Utilisable avec :
2018 - 64 pages - 17 X 24 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-0-4 -
à partir de 3 ans
Contact : Renée-Laure ZOU
Alto
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
Akoma Mba
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.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Ed.AkomaMba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ed_AkomaMba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.akomamba/
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
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
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
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