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6e arrondissement, quartier Nzeng-Ayong (Cité des ambassadeurs)
B.P 16032
Libreville
Gabon
Tél: (+241) 07 75 21 46
www.leseditionsntsame.com
Ntsame publishing was founded in 2010 by Sylvie Ntsame, writer and former president of the Union of Gabonese Writers (UDEG).
The publishing house is located in the Nzeng-Ayong district, in a complex consisting of a secretariat, a bookstore, three machine rooms, a boardroom and five offices. A priority is to make books whose copyrights are paid to published authors. Sylvie Ntsame explains that their mission is to “to produce books of all kinds, and to disseminate them on the national level and outside the country”, and adds “I wanted to cast my little stone in the building, for a stream of local productions to be published”.
She aims to make the national writers’ books more visible on the national territory in order to raise the public awareness about the literary works produced by Gabonese writers but also to inspire the pen of the latter.
Ntsame publishing aims to master the entire process of book making so that the books they publish are entirely made in Gabon. That is why this structure has a digital printing facility.
Contact : Sylvie NTSAME
Braterska 19/6
53-015 Wrocław
Poland
Tél: (+48) 71 339 71 68
www.editionsformat.com
FORMAT is an independent publishing house that focuses on education, illustration quality and creation. Books are understood as beautiful objects and as reading spaces, as they position the reader in the story, sharpening their eyes, awakening their curiosity and graphic sensitivity.
Their ambition: expressing emotions, circulating ideas of diversity and difference, tolerance, going against the grain to break with prejudices and stereotypes, working particularly on typography, paper and format.
FORMAT publishing’s books must appeal to both children and adults. The condition is that everyone finds a place in this illustrated book adventure. FORMAT publishing mixes genres and authors: well-known contemporary authors, sometimes even internationally renowned, and more classical, but always with a view of reinterpreting!
Their first title in French (Un prince à la pâtisserie by Joanna Concejo and Marek Bienczyk) was released in September 2015. Their list already includes some 50 titles in Polish, of which 40% are adapted from French books. FORMATs’ books have been awarded many times by IBBY International Board of Books for Young People, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Polish Association of publishers, to name but a few...
Read here the interview with Dorota Hartwich, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (October 25, 2017).
Uri ORLEV ; Marta IGNERSKA (ill.)
Une petite grand-mère seule au monde arrive un soir au village ; elle a pour tout bagage des aiguilles à tricoter. Mais les portes ne s’ouvrent guère pour l’accueillir. Alors, sans se laisser abattre, maille à l’endroit, maille à l’envers, elle se crée tout un univers : des pantoufles, une bouilloire, un lit, une maison, une fille, un garçon... Les petits sont heureux auprès d’elle jusqu’à la rentrée scolaire : les enfants tricotés ne sont pas acceptés à l’école. Grand-mère Tricot, rebelle, s’en va défendre ses protégés devant les hommes de pouvoir. Hélas, rien n’y fait, au contraire : voilà qu’on cherche à l’exploiter ! Alors tant pis. Infatigable, elle se remet en chemin et s’en va tricoter ses rêves ailleurs.
Un proverbe yiddish dit : « Les rêves de beignets ne sont pas des beignets ». Mais Grand-Mère Tricot conteste cette sagesse supposée. Au contraire, nous pouvons réaliser, matérialiser, fabriquer nos rêves... Ce texte classique d’Uri Orlev (prix Hans Christian Andersen), aussi triste que gai, semble écrit sur mesure pour notre temps. D’un côté l’exclusion, le racisme, la bêtise politique ; de l’autre, la fantaisie, l’imagination, l’idéalisme. Un livre pour l’éternité, pour les enfants de tous âges. »
Suzie MORGENSTERN
Octobre 2016 - 30,4 X 21,6 cm - 16,90 € - ISBN : 978-83-614880-2-6
Marek BIENCZYK ; Joanna CONCEJO (ill.)
« Un délice graphique et littéraire, avec une ambiance unique » a déclaré le jury IBBY qui a accordé au livre le Grand Prix 2013. Le duo des auteurs – Marek Bienczyk (lauréat du prix Niké, équivalent polonais du Goncourt) et Joanna Concejo (le grand prix IBBY) – nous offrent un petit conte philosophique à l’humour léger, qui, dans sa forme avec le dialogue multicouche qui se joue entre le texte et les images, indépendantes, touche les questions fondamentales pour nous tous. Qu’on soit écolier ou retraité !
C’est surtout la question du bonheur et de sa fragilité qui est au centre de ce livre-accordéon qui s’étend sur plus de six mètres. Au recto de ce ruban plissé on retrouve le texte et les illustrations, au verso : un espace blanc, marqué avec les trèfles à quatre feuilles, qui laisse une place au flou, à l’inédit, à une nouvelle histoire. Livre-merveille. Livre-oeuvre d’art... Livre du bonheur.
Septembre 2015 - 18 X 14,7 cm - 24 € - ISBN : 978-83-614887-7-4
Wojciech WIDLAK ; Paweł PAWLAK (ill.)
If sometimes:
you are fed up with everyday life
you feel that you are missing something
you wish you could escape
you doubt the existence of love and friendship… and dwarfs
…this book is just for you.
An intriguing and rich story for young and old, in which fairy tale subtly intertwines with reality. The book consists of a small gallery of dwarfs’ portraits, drawn by the author with great craft and humour. However, the story runs far deeper, as the portraits reveal the secrets and characteristics of the dwarfs. A book that might have been taken from an old treasure chest, this is a gem that sparkles with gold.
A beautiful story in which the fairy tale world interweaves with the world hidden inside every one of us. It is a story for younger readers who will listen to it with wonder, dreaming of magical encounters, and those grown-up ones who can still picture the different colours of life – both sad and joyful.
2008 - 14 X 20,6 cm - 24 PLN - ISBN : 978-83-921483-9-5
Contact : Dorota HARTWICH
133 Cité Assemblée Ouakam
BP 5637 Dakar-Fann
Dakar, CP 10700
Senegal
Tél: (+221) 33 86 01 904
www.amalion.net
Since 2009 Amalion Publishing has established itself as a publisher of high quality and critically acclaimed non-fiction and literary works on Africa. As an independent academic publishing initiative based in Dakar, Senegal, we are driven by the mission to publish and disseminate innovative knowledge on Africa to strengthen the understanding of humanity. Our works strive to promote a broader understanding of Africa and its people by providing a platform for authors to express new, alternative and daring perspectives and views on people, places, events, and issues shaping our world.
Amalion Publishing targets a wider readership of scholars, academics, students, and other readers seeking to know more about their lives and societies through monographs, textbooks, and literary writing. It publishes primarily in English and in French, and is willing to consider initiatives and ideas to disseminate in Portuguese and other African languages with a potential for wider distribution.
Léonce NDIKUMANA, James K. BOYCE
Dans La dette odieuse de l’Afrique, Boyce et Ndikumana révèlent le fait choquant que, contrairement à la perception populaire comme quoi l’Afrique ponctionne les ressources financières de l’Occident, le continent est en fait un créancier net du reste du monde. Au cours des quatre dernières décennies, plus de $700 milliards ont fui les pays d’Afrique sub-saharienne. Toutefois, les actifs de l’Afrique détenus à l’étranger sont privés et cachés, tandis que ses dettes extérieures sont publiques, dus par les peuples africains à travers leurs gouvernements.
Ndikumana et Boyce montrent les liens intimes entre les prêts étrangers et la fuite des capitaux. Plus de la moitié de l’argent emprunté par les gouvernements africains dans les dernières décennies a fui dans la même année, une partie importante étant déposée dans des comptes privés dans les mêmes banques qui ont fourni les prêts. Entre temps, le service de la dette continue à drainer les ressources rares de l’Afrique, réduisant ainsi les fonds disponibles pour la santé publique et d’autres besoins de base. De façon provocatrice, les auteurs proposent que les gouvernements africains devraient répudier ces «dettes odieuses» dont leur peuple n’a tiré aucun avantage, et que la communauté internationale devrait aider dans cet effort. Un livre indispensable pour quiconque s’intéresse à l’Afrique, son avenir et ses relations avec l’Occident.
Léonce NDIKUMANA est professeur d’économie à l’Université du Massachusetts, Amherst, où il est Directeur du programme sur la politique de développement en Afrique.
James K. BOYCE est professeur d’économie à l’Université du Massachusetts, Amherst, aux Etats-Unis, où il dirige le programme sur le développement, la paix et l’environnement au Political Economy Research Institute.
2013 - 208 pages - 20,3 X 12,7 cm - $19.95 - £16.95 - €20 - CFA 12 500
ISBN : 978-2-35926-022-9 (PB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-023-6 (Ebook)
Fatou Kandé SENGHOR
Wala Bok: une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal se souvient et narre les mémoires des générations de pratiquants du hip hop, des derniers précurseurs aux derniers arrivés, promoteurs, et des rares critiques sociaux intéressés par ce mouvement aux multiples facettes. Une ballade à travers l’histoire et la vie contemporaine dans la jungle urbaine et la vie dans les quartiers populaires. Les portraits artistiques et témoignages de ce courant motivé par la reconnaissance de la diversité culturelle et la quête d’un monde meilleur dévoilent une société hétéroclite qui tire les ficelles entre promotion artistique personnelle et engagement politique.
En interrogeant l’histoire du hip hop au Sénégal, on voit clairement que ses acteurs dès le départ se démarquent des politiques officielles et se mêlent de la gestion des affaires de la cité. Ils adhèrent à plusieurs agitations citoyennes, « Set Setal » des années 1980 et 1990, avec le combat hautement médiatisé du mouvement «en Marre» qui sera reconnu comme étant l’une des sentinelles essentielles ayant servi à écourter le projet monarchique d’un président octogénaire et contribué à installer la deuxième alternance politique au Sénégal en 2012. C’est un livre qui se veut témoin de son temps, telle une anthologie, mais en même temps un journal intime qui converse hip hop, religion, politique et avenir pour comprendre les enjeux de l’existence même de la culture hip hop, seul garde fou de nos sociétés.
Fatou Kandé SENGHOR a fondé une plateforme de recherche artistique nommée Waru Studio à Dakar qui fonctionne comme un laboratoire d’expérimentation, d’art, de science, d’écologie et de politique du changement ; un incubateur qui allie toutes ces sciences en utilisant les nouvelles technologies.
2015 - 304 pages - 23,4 X 15,6 cm - $35 - £25 - €30 - CFA 15 000
ISBN : 978-2-35926-015-1 (PB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-049-6 (Ebook)
Stephen Adebanji AKINTOYE
A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the Yoruba to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses on Yoruba studies for a wider group of readership than ever before. Very few attempts have tried to grapple fully with the historical foundations and development of a group that has contributed to shaping the way African communities are analysed from prehistoric to modern times.
Professor S. Adebanji Akintoye has been in the front line of African and Yoruba history studies for four decades and was formerly Director of the Institute of African Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Akintoye has taught in universities in Nigeria and the United States and written three books, chapters in many joint books, and several articles in scholarly journals.
“A wondrous achievement, a profound pioneering breakthrough, a reminder to New World historians of what ‘proper history’ is all about – a recount which draws the full landed and spiritual portrait of a people from its roots up – A History of the Yoruba People is yet another superlative work of brilliant chronicling and persuasive interpretation by an outstanding scholar and historiographer of Africa." Prof. Michael Vickers, author of Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America (2005).
2010 - 512 pages - 23,4 X 15,6 cm - $65 - £40 - €48 - CFA 25 000
ISBN : 978-2-35926-005-2 (HB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-027-4 (Ebook)
Contact : Sulaiman ADEBOWALE
210 Founders College, York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
Tél: (+416) 736-5356
www.inanna.ca
Inanna Publications and Education Inc. is one of only a very few independent feminist presses in Canada committed to publishing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by and about women, and complementing this with relevant non-fiction. Inanna’s list fosters new, innovative and diverse perspectives with the potential to change and enhance women’s lives everywhere. Our aim is to conserve a publishing space dedicated to feminist voices that provoke discussion, advance feminist thought, and speak to diverse lives of women.
Founded in 1978, and housed at York University since 1984, Inanna is the proud publisher of one of Canada’s oldest feminist journals, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme.
Our priority is to publish literary books, particularly by fresh, new voices, that are intellectually rigorous, speak to women’s hearts, and tell truths about the lives of the broad diversity of women—smart books for people who want to read and think about real women’s lives.
Contact : Renée KNAPP
Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes, 514 1º 7ª
08015 Barcelona
Spain
Tél: (+34) 93 52 78 338
www.llegirencatala.cat
Contact : Laura HUERGA
Remera
B.P. 4281
Kigali
Rwanda
Tél: (+250) 788 422 660
https://www.instagram.com/bakameeditions/
Bakame Editions is an independent non-profit publishing house specialising in the production of quality literature for children and youth. The texts relate to Rwandan culture and are written in Kinyarwanda, the country’s language. Since 2011, some selected titles have been translated into French and English.
From its creation in 1995 to 2016, Bakame Editions published 170 books, including 12 textbooks, representing a total of more than one million copies.
Agnès UKUNDAMALIYA ; Roberta MILANESI ;
Titre original : Akajangwe Buroho
Traduction : Agnès Gyr et Agnès Girard
Dans la ferme de Nyiramana, le petit chat Bouroho trouve qu’être chat est ennuyeux et veut changer de vie.
2016 - 28 pages - 21 x 21 cm - 7 € - ISBN : 978-99977-701-5-8
Livre existant en français, kinyarwanda et anglais.
Denyse UMUHUZA ; Capucine MAZILLE ; Agnès GYR (trad.)
Titre original : Uruhimbi rwa Nyanka
Le lièvre Bakame raconte à tous les animaux de la forêt que le zèbre est parti chercher la magie de la puissance chez la belle Nyanka. Cela inquiète le lion qui décide d’aller tout de suite chez Nyanka. Son ami l’hippopotame l’accompagne dans son voyage. Surpris de ce qu’ils ont vu et entendu le lion et son ami l’hippopotame reviennent sans tarder raconter le secret révélé par la magicienne Nyanka.
2016 - 28 pages - 30 x 23 cm - 18 € - ISBN : 978-99977-701-8-9
Livre existant en français, kinyarwanda et anglais
Roberta Milanesi ; équipe Bakame (texte et traduction)
Titre original : Uruhimbi rwa Nyanka
Kaneza aime observer la nature, il y découvre beaucoup de choses.
2014 - 16 pages - 21 x 21 cm - 7 euros (prix Europe)
Livre existant également en kinyarwanda et en anglais
Contact : Éric DUSABIMANA
Lot VZ37 Andafiavaratra
Antananarivo 101
Madagascar
www.dodovole.blogspot.com
Created by an association of artists, Dodovole publishing has the avowed mission of defending the endangered cultures and marginalised minorities of the southwest of the Indian Ocean. In order to promote regional languages, we have from the onset published in French and Reunionese Creole, and shortly after in Malagasy and regional Malagasy. By imagining beautiful printed objects, we want to give visibility to visual artists in the area: a writer is asked to create a children’s book based on the work of a fine artist or photographer. This is the cardboard collection, which aims to bring art in the hands of the youth.
The richness of the corpus of regional folktales gave birth to the collection “Dodo bonimenteur” (“peddler”): Madagascan and French tales are bilingual and illustrated by schoolchildren as part of educational exchange programmes. A collection of French-language novels for adults completes the list under the editorial line: Madagascar seen from the inside.
Si le dodo avait eu des ailes, il n’aurait pas disparu. Dodo vole donne des ailes aux enfants : des livres pour leur permettre de grandir et de s’évader.
Read here the interview with Sophie Bazin and Johary Ravaloson, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (September 15, 2017).
Read here the interview with Sophie Bazin, published by Perluète, the literary review of Normandie Livre et Lecture (November 2021).
Laurent BABITY ; Johary RAVALOSON
Mary-des-ailes (dir. ; illustrations)
Un conte traditionnel de Madagascar très répandu sur les côtes, où l’on doit respecter le tabou, sous peine de voir s’envoler les richesses.
Décembre 2016 - 32 pages - 21 X 30 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 979-1090103337
Album à l’italienne, couverture cartonnée
Bilingue français et malgache betsimisaraka
Johary RAVALOSON ; Sophie BAZIN (illustration couverture)
Johary Ravaloson repart en brousse, sur les traces des Dahalos, les voleurs de zébus qui défraient la chronique à Madagascar. Entre fatalité heureuse et tragique liberté, cette fantaisie nous transporte au-delà de La porte du Sud (Prix de l’océan Indien 1999). Les graines du sikid racontent. Le milan vole. Tibaar court sur le sol rouge et nu. Les graines du sikid racontent. Papang meurt. Tibaar court vers son destin défendu. Un roman tranchant comme l’irruption de la modernité sur les terres ancestrales.
Mars 2016 - 192 pages - 22 X 11 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 979-1090103283
Roman pour adolescents-adultes
Anny GRONDIN ; Griotte (illustrations)
Un conte écrit en créole réunionnais par la conteuse Anny Grondin, à partir de figures de la mythologie malgache, les Zavavirano, les filles des eaux. Griotte est porteuse elle aussi de cette double culture. Ses peintures débordent de motifs et de portraits féminins, elles sont à l’origine de la création de cet album.
Décembre 2016 - 16 pages - 22 x 22 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 979-1090103290
Album jeunesse, conte
Contact : Sophie BAZIN
Proximité publishing has been founded in 2002 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with the aim of bringing the book and publishing to local populations. Two things motivated the creation of this initiative: the difficulty for young authors to be locally published on the one hand, and the desire to promote the circulation of local and foreign publications at an affordable price on the other hand. In its early years, Proximité published many young authors, most of them working on their first manuscript, at the same time as they worked towards better visibility for foreign literatures through co-publishing projects. In 2006, Proximité joined forces with other structures by becoming a collection publishing novels and short stories under the umbrella Ifrikiya publishing. Between 2006 and 2015, the collection has then published a dozen of young authors annually. Since 2015, Proximité has regained its autonomy, and is reinventing itself as a publishing house, working in different genres: novel and short stories, essays and biographies, children’s books and comics.
Read here the interview with François Nkémé, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (April 4, 2017).
Read the interview with François Nkémé published by Jeune Afrique on April, 26, 2021.
Badiadji HORRÉTOWDO
C’est l’ère de la révolution industrielle. La république de Bibérossa a besoin de matières premières et de nouveaux débouchés au moment où elle sort affaiblie d’une guerre qui la voit perdre l’essentiel de son empire colonial outre-eaux. Le continent noir devient soudain un enjeu. L’immense territoire de Walinga sera la toute nouvelle cible.
Malgré sa supériorité technique, la grande armée de Bibérossa se heurtera contre toute attente à la farouche résistance des indigènes de Djenkana affûtés dans l’art guerrier.
Le Prince de Djenkana revisite l’épopée coloniale de l’Afrique subsaharienne et engage la responsabilité de toutes les parties impliquées dans la destinée d’un continent encore en quête de repères.
2010 - 340 pages - 6000 FCFA / 12 euros - ISBN : 9956 429 000316
Djaïli AMADOU AMAL
Livre traduit en arabe et coédité par les éditeurs du réseau arabophone de l’Alliance, avec le soutien de la fondation Prince Claus, récompensant un flux de traduction rare et favorisant la diffusion des œuvres d’un continent à un autre.
« Nous passons notre vie à souffrir ! Souffrir pour faire plaisir à nos pères, puis à nos maris, puis à nos enfants. Nous passons notre vie à penser aux autres quand personne ne pense jamais à nous. Nous passons notre vie pour les autres car en réalité nous n’avons même pas de vie.
Oui c’est pathétique. Un seul mot pour lui à prononcer : Je te répudie, et l’on se rend soudain compte que l’on n’a même pas un chez-soi. On a beau construire ensemble, tout est à lui. Nous ne sommes rien, nous ne valons rien, nous n’avons rien… »
2010 - 140 pages - 13 x 20 cm - 4000 FCFA - ISBN : 9956 429 000231
Ebenezer NJOH MOUELLE
Le lecteur tient entre ses mains l’essentiel des échanges que le philosophe Njoh Mouelle a entretenus avec les visiteurs de son site sur son engagement en politique, la question de la philosophie africaine, sur la mondialisation et les rapports Nord-Sud, la religion, les croyances , Dieu, sans oublier évidemment les nombreux éclaircissements qu’il a eu à donner pour la compréhension de son essai sur la signification humaine du développement intitulé De la médiocrité à l’excellence. A propos de messages qui pouvaient fâcher, Njoh Mouelle écrit dans son avant-propos: « J’en ai intégré deux ou trois que Félix Tatla Mbetbo avait cru bon laisser de côté, peut-être à cause de ce qu’il considérait comme leur irrévérence ; je les ai intégrés car les réponses données sont tout aussi importantes que les questions posées».
2015 - 340 pages - 5000 FCFA/ 10 euros - ISBN : 9956 429 000224
Contact : François NKÉMÉ
Rua Silva Carvalho, n.º 152 - 2.º
1250 - 257 Lisboa
Portugal
Tél: (+351) 21 3244170
www.orfeunegro.org
Orfeu Negro is a Lisbon-based independent publishing house. Its catalog focuses on contemporary art essays and picture books.
Founded in 2007, Orfeu Negro is now a main reference concerning books on performance, dance, cinema and arts in general, promoting the works of Jacques Rancière, RoseLee Goldberg, Laurence Louppe, François Truffaut and Gilles Deleuze, among others.
Its children’s books series, “Orfeu Mini”, offers excellence in illustrated content and detail design. Featuring award-winning artists such as Oliver Jeffers, Peter Brown, Catarina Sobral and Benjamin Chaud, “Orfeu Mini” brings the best of storytelling and illustrating to its readers around the world.
“Casimiro”, its most recent series of illustrated books for adults, is a collection of provocative works aiming at mature and extravagant people. It features authors such as Brazilian Hilda Hilst and Portuguese illustrator André da Loba, the perfect match for satire and obscenity.
Text: Hilda HILST
Illustrations: André DA LOBA
OBSCÉNICA is an anthology of erotic and satirical writings by Hilda Hilst, luxuriously illustrated by the talented and internationally acclaimed André da Loba.
Inspired by the metaphysical pornography of one of the most praised Brazilian writers of the 20th century, André da Loba has created a set of ravishing images. A feast for all senses.
96 pages - 23 x 33 cm - Paperback - 21€
ISBN: 978-989-8327-38-3
CASIMIRO COLLECTION – Illustrated Books for Exquisite & Flamboyant People
RoseLee GOLDBERG
Translation: Jefferson Luiz CAMARGO & Rui LOPES
RoseLee Goldberg explores contemporary artists’ approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and the art world itself, while evaluating the changing status of performance and its ever-increasing relevance to artists and audiences. Featuring recent work by leading performance artists such as Marina Abramovic, Walid Raad, Francis Alys, Pierre Huyghe, Tino Sehgal, and Sharon Hayes, the book covers a century of the medium.
This pioneering book has now been expanded with a new chapter that brings it into the second decade of the twenty-first century, mapping the global rise of performance to the present day.
336 pages - 17 x 21 cm - Paperback - 23€
ISBN: 978-989-95565-0-8
Catarina SOBRAL
My grandad used to have a clock shop. Now he has a lot of free time. Mr. Wright is not a watchmaker (though he always has one eye on the time) and he never wastes a minute.
A small format book on modern times, sprinkled generously with artistic references from Jacques Tati, the French director, to Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese poet.
40 pages - 19 x 19 cm - Hardcover - 12€
ISBN: 978-989-8327-32-1
ORFEU MINI COLLECTION – Illustrated Children’s Books
Contact : Carla OLIVEIRA
11, Slaveykov Sq,
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
Tél: +359 898566238
www.kx-publishing.org
For more than 20 years now, we have been publishing books in the humanities and social sciences, and lately some titles in literature that are connected to the humanities.
We are a small-sized independent publishing company, and our renown is based on the more than 220 titles we have published – some of them exemplary pieces, others among the most provocative titles in the humanities (most of them translations). Our close working relationship with professors from four of the leading Bulgarian universities ensures the high quality of our products.
We have become recognised as a “publisher with a philosophy”. Supporting a pluralist and local cultural ambiance has always been our publishing ideal. We also experiment – via joint projects with other institutions or individuals – on the borders between cultural fields (e.g. publishing and theater, publishing and digital arts).
We are also the initiator and founder of a small organization: Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities (BSPH).
Read here the interview with Antoinette Koleva, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (January 2, 2017).
Hartmut ROSA
Translation: Svetla MARINOVA
Hartmut Rosa (born 1955) is one of the most promising nowadays sociologists and social philosophers, and most of the academics agree his theories are just the “next step” in the brilliant tradition of the German Frankfurt School. The book has been announced to be a new stage of the critical social theory. In this new version it is based on the changing temporal structures of society and their ‘promise’ to solve the crises of the contemporary society toward a newly conceived “good life”.
2015 - 590 pages - 20 cm X 14 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 194 8
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”
Georg SIMMEL
Translation: Theodora KARAMELSKA
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a notorious German philosopher and sociologist of culture, has prodigiously influenced establishing the subjects of sociology as an university discipline. Our original collection of texts consists in essays in sociology of culture. This is namely in these “small sociological forms” that Simmel reaches to a brilliant (incl. in its literary style) representation of some aspects of his diagnosis of modernity. Simmel is presenting here a sort of „snapshots sub specie aeternitatis“ in order to manifest that the „sociological objective” is able to catch out social phenomena as “lie”, “fashion”, “gratitude”, “faithfulness”, etc. – ones that construct the life of the society in its dimensions of intelligibility and mysteriousness.
2014 - 268 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 185 6
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”
Robert WALSER; Giorgio AGAMBEN
Translation: Maria DOBREVSKA
This is the chef-d-oeuvre of the prose of Robert Walser (1878-1956) – a very sophisticated and incredibly fine, even fragile piece of text of an author who appeared to be the favourite one of genius like W. Benjamin, F. Kafka, H. Hesse. Our edition is unique because of including also a brilliant piece of text by one of the most famous nowadays philosophers, Giorgio Agamben.
2014 - 126 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 179 5
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Transversalia”
Contact : Antoinette KOLEVA
Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford, OX4 1JE
United Kingdom
Tél: +44 (0)1865 403156 / +44 (0)1865 403345
www.newint.org
An independent, not-for-profit media co-operative, New Internationalist is a voice that empowers. We tell the stories that the mainstream media sidestep and offer a platform for the people living those stories. Our award-winning magazine, books and website set the agenda for a radically fairer future, promote global justice and campaign for the disadvantaged all over the world.
New Internationalist books span activism, current affairs, children’s and adult fiction, education, ethical living, photography and world food.
We used to be called the Internationalist. We became the New Internationalist in 1973! New perspectives on what it means to be a global citizen are needed now as much as ever. Internationalism guides everything we do as we believe in the interdependency of all people and all things. Now with our recent merger with Myriad our mission is to explore new ways of seeing.
Ruth WALTON
An educational resource to help children explore the issue of fair trade by allowing them to see through the eyes of the children of banana farmers in the Windward Islands. The author spent time with the farmers’ families and she uses the real-life narratives of two young children going about their daily activities to show how bananas grow, problems such as hurricanes which can affect the crop, how they are picked and transported and how they end up in our stores.
The main story is illustrated with colorful collages made from painted textures and photographs from the Islands. Interspersed in the story are boxes with maps, facts and photos giving more detail on the places and methods and challenges. Its ends with banana recipes and ’bigger picture’ descriptions, maps and photos of where bananas come from and examples of social premium funded projects.
With plenty of points for discussion Juliana’s Bananas will give girls and boys an insight into the lives of children like them in the Caribbean and how fair trade premiums help communities all over the world build better living conditions.
Ruth WALTON is skilled in many areas of book design, including illustration, layout and typography. She produces educational books using a combination of letterpress, illustration, collage and photography. She illustrated the “Let’s Find Out series” for Franklin WATTS.
September 2014 - pages: 32 - 212 x 178 mm (landscape) - price: £8.99 / £9.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-1-805 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-181-2)
Richard SWIFT
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. people are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist.
Richard SWIFT proves this to be wrong with style and assurance. With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer - including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth.
Combining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left – it is an urgent planetary necessity.
Richard SWIFT is a former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of the “No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy”. In 2011 he won the Daniel Singer Millenium Prize for an original essay which helps further socialist ideas.
April 2014 - pages: 208 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 9781780261706 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-171-3)
Peter HUDSON
The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there – an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human.
The Sahel – the ‘shore’ of the Sahara – is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, with whom he now runs agricultural projects, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised and but also quietly inspiring corners of the world.
Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superbly written piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world. The author gets under the surface and gives a sensitive account of what life is like. He understands not just the culture and complex social dealings but also how economics and geo-political forces that can profoundly affect the lives of individuals in a remote community.
Illustrated with maps and line drawings “Under An African Sky” is a unique journey – for the armchair traveller and those interested in development, climate change and global politics and economics.
Peter HUDSON runs an international development charity based in Mauritania in West Africa. He has travelled widely in the region and has written several books including “Leaf in the Wind”, “Travels in Mauritania” and “Two Rivers”.
September 2014 - pages: 240 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-178-2 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-179-9)
Calle 2 número 21
San Pedro de los Pinos
03800 México, D.F.
Mexico
Tél: +(52 55) 5515 1657
www.edicionesdelermitano.com
Ediciones del Ermitaño, Editorial Division of Solar Servicios Editoriales, is backed by the experience and prestige of over 29 years in the market and a growing collection of poetry, short stories, novels, and other genres. When the possibility of using digital technology emerged in the editorial world, Ediciones del Ermitaño was the first to create a collection that fully takes advantage of that technology. And so “Minimalia”, our main collection, was born, in which we have published over 250 titles and which has sold thousands of copies. We never run out of any title, since we have the capacity to reprint according to the needs and demand; this has allowed us to open the doors to many young writers who have been able to publish their first, and very promising, works, side by side with the accomplished writers that also are part of our catalog. Thus, the “Minimalia” collection has been a pioneer and a platform for experimentation that established the example and marked new guidelines. It is a collection that explores and explodes the new digital technologies surrounding composition and production, in order to create new paradigms that carry the word from the authors to ultimately thousands of readers.
Contact : Alejandro ZENKER
4 rue Imilchil – CIL
Casablanca 20200
Morocco
Tél: +21 25 22 36 68 43
www.editionsdusirocco.wixsite.com/accueil
Sirocco publishing was created in 2007 in Casablanca to support, unearth, and amplify Moroccan voices of yesterday or today. Their editorial choices are essentially guided by a passion for Morocco, its history, its heritage, its culture in its various expressions, without excluding other perspectives from the southern Mediterranean. Their list, including some co-publishing projects, is francophone and generalist. It is unique in that it reflects the enthusiasm of discoveries and encounters, built at their own pace. Recipient in 2013 of the Grand Atlas Prize (category Francophone essays) awarded to one of their publications, Sirocco Publishing now also publishes literature.
Sirocco parce que comme le vent (plutôt appelé « chergui » au Maroc mais la consonance du mot Sirocco me plaisait mieux), nos titres viennent « du sud » (de la Méditerranée, leurs auteurs ou leurs thèmes), et j’espère qu’ils soufflent chaud.
Read here the interview with Karine Joseph, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (February 10, 2017)
Kenza SEFRIOUI
« Une étude pionnière consacrée à une revue maghrébine » [Salim Jay] qui questionne une période essentielle de l’histoire du Maroc.
Créée à Rabat en mars 1966 par un petit groupe de jeunes poètes d’expression française, Souffles a été, tout au long de ses sept années d’existence, une tribune singulière dans le paysage de la presse marocaine, en évoluant du laboratoire d’écriture, où les lecteurs découvrirent notamment Tahar Ben Jelloun ou Mohammed Khaïr- Eddine, à l’engagement culturel et politique.
Avec son projet de restructuration de la culture nationale, elle a porté un véritable mouvement littéraire et intellectuel, avant de devenir la tribune du mouvement marxiste-léniniste. Disparue en 1972, après l’arrestation d’Abdellatif Laâbi et d’Abraham Serfati, son histoire, retracée au travers des textes et des témoignages de ses contributeurs, montre que sa vision moderniste et progressiste invitait à des questionnements toujours d’actualité.
4è de couverture (extrait)
… cette revue, qui aurait pu vivre la vie tranquille d’un cénacle de poètes et d’artistes… a réussi, elle, en une série d’avancées de la conscience, à opérer deux ruptures essentielles : l’une dans le champ culturel et esthétique, l’autre dans le champ politique… »
Abdellatif Laâbi (Extrait de la préface)
Kenza SEFRIOUI, née à Paris en 1979, est journaliste et critique littéraire. Responsable pendant cinq ans de la rubrique littéraire du magazine marocain Le Journal hebdomadaire, elle collabore aujourd’hui notamment au site des cultures méditerranéennes Babelmed, et milite pour le développement culturel au Maroc.
De sa thèse de doctorat en littérature comparée consacrée à Souffles, elle donne aujourd’hui une étude rigoureuse en même temps qu’un récit passionnant qui plonge le lecteur au cœur de la revue et de ses engagements « ardents ».
Mars 2013 - 458 pages - 15 x 22 cm - broché - 90 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-9187-0-8
Essai
Textes recueillis à Marrakech et traduits par Doctoresse LÉGEY
« J’ai recueilli tous ces contes à Marrakech. Plus heureuse que nombre de folkloristes qui ont dû s’adresser à des intermédiaires, j’ai fait ma récolte directement dans les principaux harems de Marrakech, sur la place de Jâma ‘el-Fna ‘, auprès des conteurs publics ou dans mon cabinet, où venaient s’asseoir et causer Si El-Hasan ou Lalla ‘Abbouch.
Je transcrivais ces contes en français, au fur et à mesure qu’ils m’étaient
contés et, ensuite, pour être bien sûre de n’avoir fait aucune erreur d’interprétation, oublié aucune expression particulière, je les redisais à mon tour en arabe à mes conteurs. Je puis donc affirmer que la version que je donne est aussi près que possible du conte entendu. »
D. LÉGEY (extrait de la 4e de couverture)
Mme LÉGEY, médecin au Maroc à partir de 1910 et pendant plus de 25 ans, y a soigné des milliers de personnes et contribué à installer des dispensaires et maternités dans plusieurs villes du pays. Par sa collecte de contes et légendes, aux sources les plus authentiques, leur traduction et leur publication, elle permet aux francophones d’accéder à l’imaginaire d’un peuple.
« Apprentie folkloriste », comme elle se définissait elle-même, Mme Légey participe aussi à la préservation d’un riche patrimoine. (En 2001, l’espace culturel de la place Jemaa el-Fna de Marrakech a été proclamé par l’UNESCO : chef-d’œuvre du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l’humanité.)
Parution Maroc : novembre 2007 ; 2è tirage : janvier 2010 - réédition, édition originale 1926 - 368 pages - 13,5 x 21 cm - 18 € - ISBN : 978-9954-8851-0-2
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI (texte et illustrations)
À vous de voter les enfants !
À Fanidi, petit village du Maroc, une élection est organisée pour choisir le maire junior. Pour qui voteras-tu ?
Collection “p’tit citoyen (… deviendra grand !)”
Une collection qui propose aux enfants de réfléchir à la vie ensemble, de se préparer à devenir un citoyen responsable : se préoccuper, se comporter et agir selon l’intérêt commun.
Des messages essentiels, la notion de citoyenneté, ses enjeux, au travers d’histoires et d’activités qui font, doucement et joliment, grandir.
Des livres gaiement illustrés pour que lire et réfléchir riment aussi avec plaisir !
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI est une jeune auteur et illustratrice franco-marocaine, née en Normandie après que ses parents aient quitté le Maroc dans les années 1970 pour commencer une nouvelle vie en France. Après des études artistiques en Grande-Bretagne, Hanane décide de s’installer à Casablanca. Elle y travaille comme journaliste et crée les personnages des Mounikettes, exposés dans plusieurs villes du Maroc ainsi qu’en France, et également publiés dans la presse marocaine. En 2011, elle a remporté le 1er prix du concours littéraire « Une mer de mots ».
32 pages - 17 illustrations, dont une à colorier - 60 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-494-12-7
Disponible en français et en arabe - à partir de 7 ans
Contact : Karine JOSEPH
Box 121, Rondebosch, 7701
Cape Town
South Africa
Tél: +27 72 77435 46
www.modjajibooks.co.za
Modjaji Books is an independent feminist press that publishes southern African women writers. Modjaji Books fills a gap by providing a platform for serious and ground-breaking writing by new and established women writers with brave voices. We publish short stories, novels, memoir, biography, poetry, essays, narrative non-fiction, reference books and relevant non-fiction.
The history of publishing in South Africa is enmeshed with the culture of resistance that flourished under apartheid. Struggle literature may have emerged from the underground, but women’s voices and particularly black women’s voices – are still marginalized. Modjaji Books addressed this inequality by publishing books that are true to the spirit of Modjaji, the rain queen: a powerful female force for good, new life and regeneration.
In a few short years, Modjaji titles have won a number of prizes or been short-listed for prizes. The prizes include the Ingrid Jonker prizes for debut poetry, short-listings for the Sunday Times fiction prize, several SALA prizes as well as a short-listing for the Caine Prize.
Modjaji is the name of the Rain Queen in the northern part of South Africa. As South Africa is mostly a dry country - rain is very important!
Read here an interview of Colleen HIGGS, Read African Books (African Books Collective).
Karen LAZAR
“Home is as old as one’s skin but as elusive as an object seen through the wrong end of a telescope.” It is this sense of a view, skewed, intangible, which echoes throughout Karen Lazar’s Hemispheres. Waking in hospital after a post-operative stroke, she finds one side of her body paralysed and her world knocked out of kilter. Spatial, perceptual and subjective changes force her to view her new life in facets. The fragmented view is made apparent by means of a triptych of clusters which charts Karen’s experience from Metamorphosis, through Rehabilitation and Adaptation. Quietly reflective, deeply lyrical, Hemispheres is concerned with returning separated parts into a whole and coming home to the self.
Praise from Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature, Wits University:
“ ‘A stroke on one hemisphere of the brain crosses over to manifest … on the opposite side of the body’.
What does it mean to find oneself suddenly living at this lethal crossing? This exquisite book illuminates how to live with and beyond loss. A superb filigree of acute and finely-crafted pieces, Hemispheres narrates the journey of re-composing life, joy and love from the ‘foreign citadel’ of a body made alien through stroke.
Wry, ironic, comic, joyous, desolate, celebratory, surreal, this mosaic of feeling reconfigures love from loss; each subtle fragment a tessera against time.
As the pieces delve deep into the self, they reach beyond it. The rehabilitation hospital reeks of personal loss even as it becomes a microcosm of contemporary South Africa. Broken bodies deformed by carnage and violence accumulate in the ward. The medical hierarchy enacts deep-seated forms of South African authoritarianism, the losses of the past inflicted and self-inflicted in petty and cruel ways.
The book becomes a quiet odyssey of affirming life in the face of death. The pieces themselves, weightless and profound, light and dark, half and whole, mirror the contradictions of wrenching life from loss.”
Praise from Joanne Fedler:
“A collection of rare/nuanced and tender insights. Lazar takes us into the gyre of re-orientation post-stroke, sharing what is lost and what is claimed when what you’ve always been and known, changes. A book that pulses with quiet courage and celebrates it in others.”
Karen LAZAR is an English educator at the Wits School of Education. Her MA and Phd, both from Wits, are in South African gender studies. This is Karen’s first volume of (first person) creative nonfiction. Karen had a stroke in 2001, from which she has partially recovered. She lives in Johannesburg.
Publication date: May 2011 - 88 pages - format:136 x 210 mm - price: R145 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-24-1
Jennifer THORPE (author and editor) - the contributors include: Jen THORPE, Karabo KGOLENG (well known radio and media personality), Sarah BRITTEN, and Dorothy BLACK, as well as many other women.
Do you remember your first time?
As women, we all have a story within us about a sexual experience that was unforgettable. Perhaps it was incredible, earth shattering, life-changing, and wonderful. Perhaps it wasn’t romantic or pleasurable, but awkward, painful or forced upon us. Many of us have kept our experiences secret because, by exposing our stories, we expose ourselves and our feelings around sex.
In My First Time, Southern African women have shared their stories about their significant first time experiences of sex and sexuality. This is a collection of honest, powerful, and brave accounts. Some joyful, others funny and some heartbreaking, but all of them important for women, and hopefully men, to read.
This is the perfect book for you to read to reflect on your own first times. This is the perfect book to share with your mother, siblings, and friends.
Jennifer THORPE is a feminist writer. She’s passionate about sharing women’s stories and women’s writing. She is the creator and curator of stories for the My First Time project and the editor of FeministsSA.com. Jennifer has an MA in Politics from Rhodes University and is studying towards an MA in Creative Writing at UCT. She lives in Cape Town with her boyfriend Mike and her two cats.
Publication date: September 2012 - 174 pages - format: 136 X 210 mm - price: R160 - ISBN: 978-1-920590048
Yewande OMOTOSO
Praise for Bom Boy from Nuruddin Farah, author of Links, Knots & Crossbones:
"This is a novel bursting with elegance, written by a young author
brimming with genuine promise. Yewande Omotoso is a stylist with a
literary vision."
Praise for Bom Boy from Joanne Hichens, author of Divine Justice:
’Bom Boy surprises and delights, sings at turns, as it straddles the past and the present, bringing into focus cultural beliefs while examining the intimacies and complexities of bonds of family and friendship. What strikes me most is the originality. This fine debut, firmly rooted in contemporary consciousness, is story-telling of note which whets the appetite for more.’
Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met, Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy is a well-crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.
Yewande OMOTOSO was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria with her Nigerian father, West Indian mother and two older brothers. She and her family moved to South Africa in 1992 and have lived there ever since. She is an architect; space and buildings being a passion of hers second only to words and literature. She currently lives in Cape Town working as a designer, freelance writer and novelist.
Publication date: September 2011 - 272 pages - format: 135 X 210 mm - price: R180 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-35-7
Contact : Colleen HIGGS
Graines de Pensées publishing aims to contribute to the cultural expression of Africa, to the development of critical thinking and of a democratic and pluralistic society through the book.
They are concerned with offering accessible books to African children, adapted to their realities and aspirations and of impeccable editorial quality. In addition, for a better dissemination of the book, they participate in co-publishing projects with partners from the South and the North. They also work for synergies with institutions and companies for a better promotion of the book in French and African languages.
Graines de Pensées publishing started their activities in 2005 with a solid editorial experience and broad network of contacts in the French and English editorial sectors through the International Organization of the Francophonie, the African Training Centre for Publishing and Dissemination (CAFED), the Network of African Publishers (APNET) and the Afrilivres Association.
Contact : Yasmin ISSAKA-COUBAGEAT
Box 45095
SE - 104 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Tél: (+46-08) 32 30 80
www.ferdosi.com
Based in Stockholm and founded in 1984, Ferdosi has, in addition to being a publisher, been a key distributor and supplier of books and periodicals.
We cooperate with publishers and distributors throughout the world in order to provide individual and organizational clients with their requests and demands, through our contact services and multilingual website. Ferdosi has a broad list of Persian books published throughout the past 30 years by a range of publishers outside Iran. The list is available on Ferdosi´s website and can be searched by the title, name of the writer, etc.
Ferdosi works with libraries worldwide as a main supplier for minority languages published outside the country of origin. Individual customers equally benefit from our service through Ferdosi´s website.
As a publisher, Ferdosi has published valuable books in Persian and Swedish, mostly dealing with Persian literature, or informative texts about Iran and the Middle East.
Ferdosi publishes a Persian-Swedish magazine under the title of Norrsken (Northern Light), which is intended to be a step toward preserving Persian literature and culture among Farsi speaking and non-Iranians interested in Persian language and culture.
Ferdosi is the name of Iranian national poet who wrote the famous book for Shahnameh to rescue Persian language from Arabic influence.
89 rue du Ruisseau
75018 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 42 64 44 21
www.naakojaa.com
Naakojaa is a digital publisher based in France that launched in February 2012 with the aim of creating greater access for the audience of Persian literature.
Based on our readers’ embrace of world literature on digital platforms, we, too, decided to keep up with technology to help Persian speakers around the world.
Audiences now can legally and easily purchase Persian literature from iTunes and Amazon.
Statistics show that these digital platforms are becoming more popular because of accessibility and the ability to publish easily, which makes it possible to be sold for a reasonable price while protecting authors’ rights under copyright law.
Contact : Tinouche NAZMJOU
El Retiro 4853
7630227 Vitacura
Santiago
Chile
Tél: (+56) 2 3253148 / (+56) 2 3260104
www.jcsaezeditor.blogspot.fr
At the time of its foundation in 1920, JC Sáez Editor (formerly Dolmen Ediciones) was a publishing house specialising in textbooks and extracurricular books. It is now specialised in the dissemination of ideas in key areas of modernity, such as humanities, biology, pedagogy, economics and management. JC Sáez Editor’s catalogue also includes emerging voices and renowned authors from Chile’s national body of literature (poetry, essays), and comic strips, general trade literature, which enables it to go beyond continental borders with a rich and varied offer. To secure its diffusion, JC Sáez Editor relies on a distribution and collaboration network at local level in the main Latino-American capital cities.
Rafael Echeverría
Marx sostuvo que, a diferencia del socialismo utópico del pasado y de varias propuestas socialistas y anarquistas de su época, su contribución se caracterizaba por ser científica. Su aporte teórico cruzaba del pantanoso terreno doctrinario al territorio firme de la ciencia. El pensamiento marxiano, proclamaba el mismo Marx, tenía estatus científico. Ese era, según él, su rasgo distintivo fundamental. Ese mismo rasgo fue posteriormente uno de los grandes atractivos que para muchos teóricos parecía ofrecer el marxismo. Sin embargo, en aras del rigor, cabe preguntarse: ¿Cuáles son los criterios de cientificidad en los que se sustenta esta afirmación? ¿Cuál es el concepto de ciencia que propone Marx? ¿Se ciñe su contribución a dicho concepto?
Los ensayos reunidos en este libro, que pretenden dar respuesta a estos interrogantes cruciales, forman parte de la investigación que Echeverría realizara a fines de la década de los setenta y que sirvió de base para su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Londres. Hoy, por primera vez, son presentados en un mismo volumen. Las conclusiones a las que arriba el autor no dejarán de sorprendernos y difícilmente nos dejarán indiferentes. Esperamos que sean capaces de suscitar reacciones y debates, de manera de avanzar en una evaluación que permita situar la obra del gran pensador que fue Marx en un lugar apropiado, más allá de la idolatría o de la demonización.
310 páginas - 22,50 dólares - ISBN: 9789563060843
Francisco Varela
“Lo que he querido desarrollar en estos ensayos es una comprensión del fenómeno de la vida en toda su gloria y majestad. Esto quiere decir evitar caer en la tentación dominante de partir del universo impersonal y muerto de la física para luego verse forzado, casi a contrapelo, a rescatar de ahí lo vivo, cuya especificidad es lo individual creador de significado. Gran parte de la ideas que aquí presento son precisamente el esfuerzo por romper ese sueño newtoniano, y por recentrar el fenómeno de la vida sobre sus propias bases, es decir, no como evento improbable que escapa a la muerte física, sino como ocurrencia central de la naturaleza que funda todo conocer y, en particular, el conocimiento del mundo físico. La conclusión a la que estos ensayos apuntan es que lo central es una circularidad inalienable entre el acto de conocer y vivir, entre el universo de lo vivo y el conocer como objeto de estudio. Dicho de otra manera, el fenómeno de la vida, como un todo, quiere decir, precisamente, que el acto de vivir precede a la explicación del origen de la vida sobre la Tierra. Que el conocer precede a la comprensión del conocer visto como mecanismo biológico y neuronal. Que la experiencia vivida es la base misma de la exploración científica de la conciencia.”
474 páginas - 31,75 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060812
Cristián Reyes
El proyecto denominado “Herramientas para la Formación de Profesores de Matemáticas”, tiene como objetivo contribuir al mejoramiento de la calidad de la formación pedagógica y disciplinaria de los estudiantes de pedagogía en matemática, a través de la incorporación de una Metodología de Estudio de Casos y el desarrollo de una colección de Monografías de contenidos matemáticos.
243 páginas - 25,02 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060782
Contact : Juan Carlos SÁEZ
Jahn Str. 24
50676 Cologne
Germany
Tél: (+49-221) 923 57 07
www.forough-book.com
Forough Publications and bookshop were founded in 1998 by the Mehdipour family in Cologne, Germany, with the aim to publish books that were banned in Iran.
Murder of Kasravi was the first book published by Forough in 1998. The intention was to publicize the truth about the death of Ahmad Kasravi, the Iranian famous critic of Islam. They continued their work by publishing memoirs of ex-prisoners of the Iranian Islamic regime.
Forough Publications now follows three orientations: literature, humanities and social sciences, and information. The publishing house wishes to call attention to Persian-language literature, but it also translates, publishes, and distributes works by German authors like The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink and The Fall of the Islamic World by Hamed Abdel-Samad.
Forough Publications has published more than 150 titles in different genres such as poetry, novels, children’s books, biography, and nonfiction books.
In addition, Forough supports the Persian educational programs outside of Iran by publishing and internationally distributing Persian textbooks.
Samad BEHRANGI - Translated to German by B. BINIAZ
Asad SEIF
Asaf SEIF (born in 1957 in Bandar Anzali) is an Iranian writer and researcher. He has been living in Europe since 1984 and is engaged in literary and cultural activities. He is a member of Iranian writers in exile association and was a member of its board of editors for one term. He has published numerous articles and studies in the field of social analysis and literary criticism. His latest study on “Love in fiction by Iranian writers in exile” is published by Forough Publications.
14 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-10-0
Aramesh DOSTDAR
Aramesh DOSTDAR (born in 1932 in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar and a former philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. He moved to Germany in 1958 to study philosophy in University of Bonn. From 1973 to 1980 he taught philosophy in the University of Tehran, until his dissmision during closure of universities by the Islamic government in the so called Cultural Revolution. Aramesh Dustdar who is currently living in Germany, is probably one of the few Iranian philosophers in the western meaning of the word. He is known for both complexity of the language but clarity and precision of ideas expressed. .
Four of his books have been published in Persian, 2 of them “Dark Luminosities” and “The Hidden Kinship” by Forough Publications.
He is uncompromising on controversial and sensitive issues such as incompatibility between Islam and democracy or the situation of intellectuals in the Muslim world, as, in his view, a real, Western type intellectual can not be tolerated in any Muslim society.
The murders of political and intellectual dissidents and opponents in the Islamic Republic of Iran are a “brilliant” example of that antagonism between Islam and democracy, he points out.
443 pages - 22 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-09-4
Contact : Anahita MEHDIPOUR
Responsable : Hamid MEHDIPOUR
Atlas Publishing was established in the late 1950s by Samar Haddad’s father, the present director of the publishing house. Atlas was one of the first bookshops in Damascus. In 1963, academic books were among the first works on its publishing list, followed shortly by many other titles. In 2002 Samar Haddad became the editor of Atlas and gradually took over as the head of the company. She remained true to her father’s motto: the book is the premier tool of knowledge and should therefore be within everyone’s reach. Atlas Publishing set up a translation division and a distribution division, while continuing to publish titles of relevance to readers, in keeping with an editorial policy promoting quality and the highest standards of technical production.
Atlas in Greek Mythology is the Titan who is condemned to hold the earth for eternity, and our logo shows him holding the Globe in one hand and a book in the other hand. This is the idea of my late father the founder of Atlas Publishers back in the fifties.
Read here the interview with Samar Haddad, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (November 3, 2016).
Michael SOMMER
Translated from German by Dr. Nabil Al Haffar
In this brief research, ancient civilization scholar Michel Sommer provides an exemplary model of a study in the science of history, which assimilated Assmann’s ideas about the theoretical field productively. Concerning the civilizational history of the region extending between the Mediterranean and the Tigris River, in the late Greek and Greek times, it is a sensitive and controversial research in fact, not because it explores the historical roots of the civilization region, which the Romans called Syria - and it is today implicitly and brutally involved in gang and proxy wars, in a form of “third world war”, according to the diagnosis of many observers - but because in his analysis of social models and religious systems in the late Greek and Greek era, he paints a new, humanistic picture of the different cultures of the empire and their intellectual status.
Michael Sommer has succeeded, by being realistic and exciting at the same time, in shedding lights on the past that shows every concrete detail as part of a tangled relationship, as it opens up horizons, that questions and doubts current “clichés”!
2020 - 224 pages - ISBN: 978- 9953 -583 -93-8
Boutros AL MAARI
This book offers pleasure to the eye as well as to the mind of the reader. Neither the texts are the basis for it nor the drawings, but rather they complement each other to produce an art book that we rarely find in our libraries. Al-Maari tries to be as simple as his paintings, simple in his texts and ideas that he calls stories and that are not without a poetic whiff or literary value. Damascus also is strongly present in his texts and he is not apologetic in showing his longing to his mother-city, so he celebrates it from a distance as if he is still walking in its streets and alleys like any young lover.
Through this book, Al-Maari tries to attract the ordinary audience - as he calls it – and lead them through the door of reading and savoring art from his simple yet sophisticated way of drawing and writing.
We hope that this experience will be a motivation for similar works by our writers and young artists, enriching our Arabic library.
2018 - 88 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-6-3
Arabic
DOSTOEVKY
Translated from Russian by Adnan Jamous
Sheikh Hamad award for translation and international understanding for the achievement in Russian – Arabic translation
Doha – Qatar - 2018
This book includes a summary of rich experience, acquired by a creative person during his lifetime, with all the harsh tribulations and violent clashes, shameful slips, noble stances, and impressive creative achievements.
The writer monitored all the subtle aspects of the development of the “living life” and followed very carefully the reflection of its manifestations in the Russian and foreign press. Eyewitnesses state: that the writer used to review newspapers and magazines daily “until the last column of them”, and was keen to capture through the great diversity of important and secondary facts, its internal unity, its socio-psychological foundations, its spiritual-moral essence, and its philosophical-historical significance. It is interesting that some contemporary Russian intellectuals of Dostoyevsky considered that his genius was more evident in his “diaries” than in his “creative works”.
What gives this volume its added value, is that it is the first time that Dostoevsky is translated directly from Russian to Arabic.
2017 - 688 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-1-8
Arabic
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