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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his story to whoever wanted to listen to him on the coffee stall: a love story between Mat Dawuk and Inayatun, an ugly withdrawn youngster and a beautiful flirtatious girl—controversial couple disdained by their own neighborhood, with social life in a remote Javanese village as a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
II PLTX - Sococe - Rue K115 - Villa 109
01 BP 2290 Abidjan 01
Ivory Coast
Tél: +225 22 410 821 / 22 410 857
www.vallesse.ci
Founded in 2005, Vallesse has published nearly fifty books since then, 11 of which are prescribed books in the 1st cycle of the school curriculum, approved extracurricular textbooks and children’s books.
Vallesse is a member of ASSEDI (Association of Publishers of Ivory Coast) and also member of Afrilivres (Association of Francophone Publishers South of the Sahara). Fidèle Diomandé, director of Vallesse, is also the treasurer of these two associations.
Vallesse organized the writing competition called “Golden manuscript”, which provided a space for encounters with new authors. The company plans to relaunch this competition in the coming years.
In 2015, Vallesse won the Afrilivres Award for Best Publisher.
À la création de notre maison d’édition, nous recherchions une dénomination originale, quelque chose qui ait un lien avec notre culture. C’est ainsi que nous avons trouvé Vallesse qui vient du terme valêsseu, qui signifie dans la langue de l’ethnie Dan (peuple de l’ouest montagneux de la Côte d’Ivoire) : « c’est bon d’être grand, d’être ambitieux ». Parce que pour nous, « être grand, être ambitieux », c’est produire des ouvrages de qualité, mais c’est aussi, et peut-être surtout, faire du Livre, un ami pour la vie.
Serge GRAH
« On le sait singulier, le parcours de Madeleine Tchicaya, fait de choix, de responsabilité, de persévérance et de dynamisme intellectuel. C’est un exemple à enseigner dans les écoles. Car Madeleine Tchicaya se décrit comme une personne de valeur, sincère avec les autres et avec elle-même. Madeleine Tchicaya est une icône… Dans ce livre, elle dépasse son cas particulier pour donner sa vision de la vie. En dehors de toutes considérations, elle y réaffirme ses convictions les plus profondes. » (Extrait de la préface de l’ouvrage)
2017 - 128 pages - 13 cm x 21 cm - 3 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-916532-59-2
Attita HINO
Au grand dam de tous, le grand masque déclare Dibahou, le fils aîné, coupable de sorcellerie et le sang des familles des défunts crie vengeance. Ne pouvant supporter cette injustice, il crie au mensonge du grand masque qi le bannit derechef du village. Dibahou part mais avec lui, il entraîne dans son sillage toute sa famille et ses amis prêts à tourner le dos au passé…
2018 - 216 pages - 14 cm x 21 cm - 3 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-916532-85-1
Grâce MINLIBE
Cyrielle est folle. Follement amoureuse du beau Wilfried. Il est l’homme de sa vie. Elle croit en leur amour. Le seul problème, leur différence d’âge. Willy est un adulte de 26 ans. Une situation qui les oblige à vivre en cachette leur idylle. Cyrielle est sincère. Elle est vraie. Elle est heureuse. Heureuse d’aimer…
2017 - 264 pages - 13,5 cm x 21 cm - 4 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-916532-70-7
Contact : Fidèle DIOMANDE
The Association of Independent Publishers of Ecuador is a group of small and medium-sized cultural initiatives, committed to the need to come together to generate policies intrinsic to the book sector.
The goals include:
1. Promote the development of the publishing industry at the national and Latin American levels by developing cooperation and exchanges.
2. Ensure the free circulation of books, nationally and internationally.
3. Promote the culture of books and reading as essential factors for human development, self-actualisation and citizenry.
4. Contribute to the effective democratisation of books and reading in Ecuador as a means of promoting respect for the right of every citizen to participate openly and freely in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts, to contribute to scientific progress and to enjoy its benefits.
5. Promote bibliodiversity, the expression of cultural diversity through the book, as a guarantee of the plurality of literary, artistic and scientific contents and approaches.
6. Channel initiatives of independent and/or independent publishers to preserve the public status of the book and related editorial products.
7. Encourage the recognition of editorial work and literary creativity in Ecuador and Latin America.
8. Represent the interests of partners nationally and internationally and develop initiatives that strengthen the role of the publisher as a vital cultural agent.
9. Promote, encourage, organise, sponsor and contribute to the development of national policies aimed at developing the publishing industry and promoting reading in Ecuador.
10. Promote the defence of the rights of the author, the illustrator, artist and publisher, by promoting a culture of respect for intellectual property and by encouraging the application of the mechanisms provided by law against editorial piracy and unauthorized reprography.
11. Promote and conduct activities towards the consolidation and expansion of the book markets, both in Ecuador and abroad.
12. Promote the circulation of books at the national and international levels.
13. Encourage the expansion of book circulation networks and support the development of independent bookstores.
14. Advocate for the development of a national network of public libraries.
The Association of Independent Publishers of Ecuador is therefore pleased to share the efforts made by its members towards the realisation of the objectives set out in its founding statutes, namely the development of reading in the country. We believe that this humble contribution, conceived for both the reader and the professionals of the book world, will help to foster the links between authors and their readerships.
To listen: an interview from Germán GACIO BAQUIOLA, published by the CERLALC.
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
Kommode Verlag c/o Annette Beger
Dialogweg 7
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Tél: +41 79 246 59 14
www.swips.ch
SWIPS is a collective of independent publishers in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, working together to improve the circulation of books in Switzerland and provide a diverse range of books for readers.
As independent publishing houses, we decide on our editorial policies and choices and are financially independent. We are committed to a living literature and to bibliodiversity.
Through our actions and our solidarity within SWIPS, we work for the recognition of the cultural and political role of publishers; we also act to give better visibility to our catalogues; we exchange and reflect collectively on the challenges facing independent publishers, to innovate, to strengthen our relations with independent bookshops, to uphold the rights of authors, and to improve the quality of our books.
Contact : Annette BEGER
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
Gerichtsweg 28
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Tél: +49 341 9 62 71 87
www.kurt-wolff-stiftung.de
The Kurt Wolff Foundation (KWS) was founded in 2000 by independent publishers and the former German Minister of State for Culture. 130 independent publishing houses are associated with the Foundation.
Each year our board of trustees awards, with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Medi, two independent publishers at the Leipzig Book Fair with the Kurt Wolff Award and the Kurt Wolff Encouragement Award. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, we present each year, with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, a collective catalogue of German independent publishers with a selection of their programs. The Kurt Wolff Foundation represents the interests of independent publishing houses in order to support diversity in culture, literature and in publishing.
Contact : Daniel BESKOS
Responsable : Sarah KASMAYR and Katarina E. MEYER
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
PO Box 105
Mission Beach
Queensland 4852
Australia
Tél: +61 418 506 645
www.spinifexpress.com.au
Spinifex is an independent feminist press publishing innovative and controversial feminist books with an optimistic edge. Spinifex, our namesake, is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together. We publish broadly, with a focus on ecology, development, Indigenous and human rights issues in our non-fiction titles, and world stories in our fiction and poetry. We are also at the forefront of digital publishing, with many of our titles available as eBooks.
Spinifex is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together.
Read here the interview with Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (June 25, 2018).
Merlinda BOBIS
1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father.
How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.
Awards
Winner: 2014 Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language
Winner: 2013 Most Underrated Book Award
Finalist: 2013 Davitt Awards. Best Crime and Mystery Books by Australian Women
“As I was reading my thoughts kept turning to Wide Sargasso Sea. It shares with Jean Rhys’s masterpiece more than just a threat to topple into tragedy, but Fish-Hair Woman takes a wider view. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a story about family and a story about the impact of the kind of self-perpetuating government corruption that so often befalls a country in political turmoil. It’s ambitious and sprawling, and things could quickly go wrong. Fortunately, they don’t. Bobis is a talented, passionate writer who is unafraid of exploring the storytelling potential of the novel.”
–Tristan Foster, Verity LA
Published by Spinifex, co-edition with Anvil Press, Philippines; Translation into Spanish by JC Sáez Editor, Chile (2017).
2011 - 232 x 154 mm - 303 pp - AUD$29.95 - ISBN: 9781876756970
khulud kHAMIS
Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. Frustrated by the apathy of her boyfriend Ziyad and her father Majid—who want her to get on with her life and forget those in the Occupied Territories—she lashes out, only to discover her father isn’t the man she thought he was.
Raised a Christian, in a relationship with a Muslim man and enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.
khulud khamis unpacks the multiple layers of culture, religion, sexuality, politics, feminism and nationalism in the hope of gathering the fragmented pieces of the past and reclaiming the lost contiguity of being Palestinian.
—Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright and commentator
... khulud khamis has the rare gift of speaking directly to a reader’s soul; this radiant novel shows just what can happen when women challenge the limits of their world. —Sharon Olinka, author of The Good City
khulud khamis is a Palestinian feminist writer, born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Haifa and works in the field of social change organizations. She is a member of the feminist organization Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center. She lives in Haifa with her daughter. This is her first novel.
Published by Spinifex Press; co-edition with New Internationalist UK; Italian translation FILA37 (2015); Turkish translation Gulduniya (2017).
2015 - 192 pp - ISBN: 9781742199009
Fiction
Susan HAWTHORNE
In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries.
It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published.
Independent publishers are seeking another way. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world.
Bibliodiversity is a term invented by Chilean publishers in the 1990s as a way of envisioning a different kind of publishing. In this manifesto, Susan Hawthorne provides a scathing critique of the global publishing industry set against a visionary proposal for organic publishing. She looks at free speech and fair speech, at the environmental costs of mainstream publishing and at the promises and challenges of the move to digital.
Susan Hawthorne has worked in the book industry for more than 30 years as a writer, festival organiser, reviewer, editor, publisher and mentor. In 1991, she co-founded Spinifex Press with Renate Klein, after working for Penguin Australia for four years. She has written extensively about the industry, co-organised digital training for small and large publishers, taught Publishing Studies and Creative Writing, and has been an active member of peak bodies for publishers and writers. From 2011 to 2016, she was the English-language Coordinator for the International Alliance of Independent Publishers based in Paris. She is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University and Publisher at Spinifex Press.
Bibliodiversity can be read as a manifesto for the defence and promotion of diversity in all its forms, but also as a master class in ethics.—JUAN CARLOS SÁEZ C., Director Gerente, JC Sáez Editor, Chile
This publication should be mandatory reading for anyone within the publishing industry.—MARY MASTERS, General Manager, Small Press Network, Australia
2014 - 104 pp - ISBN: 9781742199306
Non-Fiction
Rights: World. Published by Spinifex Press; Canadian rights sold to Fernwood Publishing; Translations into Arabic: December 2015, Tunisia, Éditions Med Ali, Arabic; Syria, Atlas Publishing, Arabic; Egypt, Elain Publishing, Arabic; Lebanon, Dar-Alfarabi and Arab Diffusion. French, 2016: France, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer; Switzerland, éditions d’en bas; Benin, Éditions Ruisseaux d’Afrique; Mali, Éditions Jamana; Cameroun, Presses universitaires d’Afrique ; Spanish, 2017: Chile, JC Sáez; Mexico, Trilce Ediciones; Uruguay: Ediciones Trilce; also publishers in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. German, 2017, Verbrecher Verlag.
Contact : Susan HAWTHORNE
Responsable : Renate KLEIN
Rua de Santana, 198 Loja – Centro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ 20 230-261
Brazil
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www.contracapa.com.br
Founded in 1992 in Copacabana, the Contra Capa bookstore initiated its publishing activities in 1996. First based on the areas of interest of the bookstore itself, these activities have diversified and now include fine arts, photography, cinema, psychoanalysis, anthropology, economy, sociology, history, literary criticism and poetry. The main objective is to produce books that combine interdependence between text and pictures, in the light of the continuous technological changes related to producing and disseminating knowledge and information.
Fernando VELOSO, Sergio GUIMARÃES FERREIRA (orgs.)
Este importante livro mostra que é possível alcançar redução expressiva da violência armada, da insegurança e da criminalidade que aterrorizam a população de grandes áreas urbanas do Brasil. Seus autores mostram – com fatos e não vagos discursos – que isso não se trata de uma esperança insensata. Não apenas porque foi alcançado em Nova York, Boston, Bogotá e várias outras cidades do mundo, mas principalmente porque, no Brasil, reduziu-se a violência em lugares em que isso era mais improvável: no Jardim Ângela, bairro da periferia da cidade de São Paulo que chegou a ser considerado o bairro mais violento do mundo, e em Diadema, que deixou de ser em quatro anos a cidade mais violenta de São Paulo, passando a ocupar o 18º posto.
Se você não pretende se deixar levar pelo desencanto, pela frustração, pelo ceticismo e pela desesperança, leia este livro. Entenderá, com base em experiências reais, que é possível, sem ilusões voluntaristas, apelos messiânicos e excessos e abusos no exercício da autoridade do Estado, mostrar aos bandidos armados que essa é uma longa guerra de muitas batalhas, mas que, ao fim e ao cabo, eles não só não podem ganhá-la, como a estão perdendo – e a perderão.
2008 - 208 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 35,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-046-1
Lêdo IVO
Pinturas de Gonçalo IVO
Desenho de Gianguido BONFANTI
O poema narra a visão da infância guardada pela memória. Obra de perda e despedida, seus versos longos se desdobram como as ondas do mar alagoano. Música e imagem se fundem para exprimir uma reflexão sobre o sentido da existência, da qual as pinturas de Gonçalo Ivo não são comentário ou simples ilustração.
2008 - 64 páginas - 16,8 x 24,5 cm - R$ 38,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-040-9
Katia MACIEL (org.)
37 textos de teóricos e artistas que compõem, em suas inter-relações, amplo panorama sobre as novas situações de cinema, em que superfícies híbridas de luz e movimento se conjugam com a participação e a imersão dos espectadores. A introdução da organizadora define o título do livro.
2009 - 432 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 65,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-009-3
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International Alliance
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