Jaume ENCISO (coord.)

Alerta : greenwashing. El ecoblanqueo en España es una obra coral que va más allá de un primer abc sobre el concepto. Se adentra en el alcance del fenómeno. Da ejemplos concretos de empresas y sectores que lo aplican (en las memorias de sostenibilidad, en los bancos, en el sector energético, la moda o en el del transporte marítimo y aéreo, etc.). Aborda sus límites y concluye con un decálogo de herramientas para combatirlo.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/alerta-greenwashing-el-ecoblanqueo-en-espana/

Joseba SARRIONANDIA

Edición bilingue catalàn/euskara de la antología poética de Joseba Sarrionandia, el gran poeta y escritor vasco que, des de su largo exilio de más de 30 años, siguió creando cultura para su pueblo y para el mundo entero.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/es-morta-la-poesia/

Partos felices es un libro coral que aporta nuevos imaginarios alrededor del parto y el nacimiento. Los relatos traspasan la línea del contexto íntimamente personal y se convierten en un testimonio social, que contribuye a hacer desaparecer el discurso inconsciente del miedo que acumula nuestra cultura en torno al parto. Tanto si has parido, como si no, esta lectura no te dejará indiferente.

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/partos-felices/

Text : Ana Zarco CÂMARA ; Illustrations : Taline SCHUBACH

This bilingual book in Portuguese and eMakwa isn’t about princesses, fairies, witches, monsters, talking animals, superheroes or folklore legends. Nor does the story take place in some faraway kingdom or centuries ago. Cora is a child like any other and lives in the real world just like the rest of us. She goes to school, has friends, a family and loves to play. But Cora is left intrigued by what her friend Miriam said : « You’d better wear a headband. » The thread of this story is as wavy has the child’s hair.

2022 - 32 pages - 21 x 28 cm - MZN 895.25 (US$13.87) - ISBN : 978-989-9022-75-1

Lawrence SCHIMEL

In this fifth volume of the Collection of Stories Translated by the winners of the Literary Translation Competition we present our readers fantastic tales by Lawrence Schimel. Considered by critics to be a contemporary twist on the fairy tales that mark our folklore, these five stories open a window onto the Gay world and culture.

2023 - 112 pages - 18 x 13 cm - MZN 608.98 (US$9.44) - ISBN : 978-989-9139-06-0

Fulvio ERVAS

This novel by Fulvio Ervas tells the adventures of a group of five children and consequences of their visit to the Senior Hotel. A tale about the patience and melancholy of old age and the urgency of youth, made up of hunger and dreams.

2023 - 304 pages - 18 x 13 cm - MZN 895.25 (US$13.87) - ISBN : 978-989-9022-93-5

Text : Banhi BEPARI ; Illustrations : Sabyasachi MISTRY

A Massive Clash in the Sundarbans ! A tiger has attacked a deer. In the trial of the jungle cock and the crocodile, it was revealed that the tiger is not at fault. One by one, many animals including mosquitoes, monkeys, parrots, and tortoises were called. But at the end of the trial, it was seen that the biggest culprit is a foolish creature.

24 pages - 11 X 8,20 cm - ISBN : 978 984 97585 2 5

Reesham SHAHAB TIRTHO

A series of picture book showcased a journey of new parents.
Artist portrayed his new born daughter everyday activities in humorous drawings and illustrations in this book.

64 pages - 7 X 7 cm - ISBN : 978 984 81322 6 5
Language : Bengali

Text : Farzana TANNEE ; Illustrations : Lamia AZAD, Shamim AHMED

Amidst the darkness, countless flickers spark curiosity in Aung. Are they ghosts ? Taking his sister’s hand, he fearlessly sets out to find the friendly ghosts behind the glow. Let’s join their enchanting adventure !

20 pages - 6 X 6 cm - ISBN : 978 984 97861 6 0
Also available in Bengali

Vaso VEKRI

« Back street » is the first book of Vaso Vekri. A crime fiction novel. With heroes like human islands, moving in the transitions of life. The truth is not always what it seems. Or, rather, the truth is before us, but we do not see it. A love story beyond death unfolds in the book.
« They killed him at noon, on the street. They raked him in front of the crowd and nobody knows anything ». A prisoner is murdered during one of his leaves. And his psychiatrist partner starts a journey with the motorbike, so she could see, remember, understand... What can the task assigned to her have to do with the murder ? And how clean is the Professor of Psychiatry ? How much does the infamous - inside and outside of prison - Black know ? In a parallel coming-of-age journey, a young musician, struggling with his personal demons, will come face to face with dangerous secrets.

Chrysoula GEORGOULA

The book « Call me Stratos » is the first novel by Chrysoula Georgoula. Through the actions and memories of the main protagonist, Greece is described during the prosperity of the Olympic Games, but also after the economic crisis. Questions are posed such as : Are violence, discrimination and racism a consequence of the economic crisis or are they components of established social life, who find the opportunity to emerge on the occasion of the situation ? Is a reversal of the tide possible, or will our society sooner or later be forced to relive its history ?
After his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty-two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and his also divorced brother. Humiliated and cut off from family and friends, he drinks uncontrollably and reminisces about the past : his construction work, his marriage to Sotiria and their children, the carefree years of fake wealth and parties, his extramarital affair and the end of it, the post-Olympic years of unemployment and his alcohol addiction, the privately owned Tsunami car wash and financial ruin, and finally his involvement with the « pure-blooded Greeks ».

Georgia TATSI

Georgia Tatsi was born in 1952. She studied directing and worked at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) from 1976 to 2003. She published short stories in collective volumes and literary magazines. Her book Dancing in glasses, in its first release was nominated for the Prize for Literature in the Short Story – Novellete category.
Alexander arrives in Malmo, Sweden. He cleans windows for a living, climbing the city’s towering glass buildings with a cage. A letter from Greece turns his teenage memories into hell and awakens his lust for revenge.
Tasos is a police officer in the Athens Security Services. The two men will meet in a dance of death, dancing in glasses. The first dancer leaves the ground, steps on the glasses to rise and…
The tragedy of History, the tragedy of individuality in its involvement with History.
“Dancing in glasses”, then years after its first edition, is being republished by Vakxikon Publications.

Aleksandar PROKOPIEV

Homunkulus : postmodern fairy tales for grownups
Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen “fairy tales for adults” with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with. Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more “mature” themes too – the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as “Tom Thumb”, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or “The Huntsman”, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.

Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph. D. in comparative literature and literary theory. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is considered to be one of most acclaimed macedonian writers. He is two time nominated for prestigous literature award Balkanika.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of literature award Balkanika in 2012 for his novel Homunkulus. Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of Bulgarian literature award Helikon.
Finished postgraduate education in 1982 in Sorbonne, France. His works are translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and many other languages.

2011 - ISBN : 978-608-223-058-0

Ermis LAFAZANOVSKI

“Hrapeško” : novel about the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love
Hrapeško, an experienced wine-grower, lives somewhere in the region of Tikveš, at the time of the 19th century. Until one day he leaves the epicentre of the Balkans and goes on his travels, to the West and to the East. Far away from home he learns a new profession and becomes famous. Humorous and serious at the same time the author tells of Hrapeško’s fortunes and mishaps, of the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love, of the homeland and foreign countries.

PhD Ermis Lafazanovski is a short-stories writer, literary essays, and anthropology studies writer. In 2001 he received the ‘Stale Popov’ Award of the Macedonian Writers’ Association for the novel “Portrayer”, and in 2003 he received Prose Masters for the novel The Novel About Weapons. His novel Hrapeško was nominated in 2006 as the Macedonian representative for the Balkanika Award. He is a member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. He was president of the Macedonian PEN Center (2014-2017).

2006 - ISBN : 9989-144-82-6

Branislav NIKOLOV (artistic name : Drunken NIGHTINGALE)

Polygraph is the third poetry book by Branislav NIkolov (Drunken Nightingale).
Branislav Nikolov is one of the most original poetry voices in North Macedonia.
As Macedonian writer and critic, Olivera Kjorveziroska says, Branislav Nikolov’s poetry is “…an impressive « erotomaniac » collection of poems that is in figth with the current loveless times, communicating with the most beautiful poetic tradition in our region”.
Several of his poems are texts of the songs performed by the most famous art band in North Macedonia, Foltin, where Nikolov is the singer.

Pijan Slavej (aka Branislav Nikolov) is a renowned musician, performer, songwriter, poet, singer and frontman of the group Foltin. He was born in 1971 in Bitola. As one of the founders and key members of the band, he has nine studio releases, as well as music for over thirty theatrical performances and several documentary and feature films, including the Oscar nominee “Honeyland”, the internationally acclaimed “Secret Ingredient”, “Avec L’Amour”, “Cash & Marry” etc. He has performed in Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Montenegro, England, Lebanon, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Czech Republic. Nikolov has received many recognitions and awards for his creative work. He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and charismatic individuals on Macedonian music scene today, known for his spontaneous, explosive, warm and passionate live performances. Apart from his work with Foltin, he has performed with Macedonian Philharmonic and has two poetry books published. Pijan Slavej is his first solo outing in music and poetry.

2022 - ISBN : 978-608-256-118-9

Emmanuel DERILUS

Ce tout premier roman d’Emmanuel Dérilus a paru en novembre 2021, dans la collection « Fiction EGL », aux Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, raconte l’histoire de la tournée de l’écrivain communiste Jacques Stephen Alexis à Moscou, (à Paris), en Chine et à la Havane, puis sa disparition (à son retour en Haïti) en avril 61, au Môle Saint-Nicolas, dans des circonstances jusqu’ici non élucidées.

• Le roman, dont le récit s’étend sur la fin année 1960 jusqu’à l’été 1961 et s’inspirant des hypothèses avancées sur sa disparition, montre comment les services secrets (américains, français et Haïtiens) traquent Jacques Stephen Alexis et sa délégation depuis Moscou jusqu’au Môle Saint Nicolas où ils disparaissent. Ce grand roman historique nous fait revivre nombre d’événements importants qui ont marqué l’histoire mondiale, tels la Révolte de Budapest en 1956, l’Invasion de la baie des cochons, en Avril 1961, ou les événements en Colombie et au Venezuela entre 1948 et 1961, le Congrès des 81 partis communiste à Moscou auquel a participé Jacques, ou encore la grève des étudiants de L’UNEH de 1960, enfin les décrets répressifs de François Duvalier des années 1960 - 1961.
• La trame tient compte de la conjoncture de l’époque marquée par les rivalités est-ouest pendant la Guerre Froide entre Kennedy et Khrouchtchev ; le jeu des services secrets dans la lutte contre le communisme - la CIA, le SD, les services secrets Français et Dominicains (intrigues, coups bas, intérêts géopolitiques) ; la grève des étudiants du début des années 1960 ; les luttes syndicales en Haïti en 1960 ; les luttes paysannes avec un leader paysan du nom de Sidieuveut sur fond de conflit entre la grande et la petite propriété foncière (deux schémas de développement agricole mis en perspective) et enfin ; la grande répression des années 60 contre toute opposition avec la bénédiction de Washington engagé dans la guerre froide et la lutte contre le communisme.

Emmanuel Dérilus
Né à Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, le 24 décembre 1959, Emmanuel Dérilus est diplômé en Droit à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques de Port-au-Prince. Il a également suivi des cours à l’École Normale Supérieure, en Science de l’Éducation au CEFOSED et en Communication à l’Institut Supérieur de Journalisme et de Communication à Port-au-Prince. Ancien professeur de Littérature haïtienne, d’Histoire et de Géographie, il fut membre du Parti du Congrès National des Mouvements Démocratiques, le CONACOM. Élu député au Parlement haïtien en 1995, Emmanuel Dérilus militait au sein du Bloc parlementaire anti-néolibéral où il œuvrait à l’unité de la gauche démocratique en Haïti.

2021 - 608 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 28 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-2-6

Dom Pedro N. THEONEY

Ce premier roman de Dom Pedro N. THEONEY est un roman philosophique. Un assez vieux problème, qui est le cœur du cœur de la culture (tradition philosophique) occidentale, y est posé : la dualité de l’ÂME et du CORPS. Quelle philosophie, depuis Platon, ne s’y est pas intéressée ? Aucune, naturellement. Car toute philosophie véritable commence forcément avec elle, y trouve pour mieux se déployer un point auquel se fixer, qu’elle ne fera bien entendu que renouveler, certes sous un mode (souvent) tout à fait singulier ou original... Et Dom Pedro N. THEONEY, plus dans la lignée d’un Spinoza ou d’un Nietzsche, entre autres, que d’un Épicure, résout ce problème en démontant ce dualisme philosophique traditionnel, qui projette une image erronée de l’homme, du monde ou de toutes choses. Et propose à la place une espèce de monisme philosophique, qui postule d’entrée de jeu que le principe du monde ou de toutes choses est nécessairement matériel, ceux-ci en eux-mêmes n’étant que MATIÈRE. À étendre davantage cette pensée, l’on ne peut éviter de conclure avec Dom Pedro que l’homme n’est que corps. Aussi, disparaissent, toutes à la fois, les histoires et élucubrations sur l’âme, son immortalité et tout ce qui en découle... L’auteur condense tout cela dans un magnifique récit d’aventures érotiques, où la chair, le corps et les plaisirs qu’ils procurent sont mis en avant, valorisés et traités bien entendu pour ce que, tous ensemble, ils constituent : le principe pouvant aider à découvrir la vérité sur/de l’homme...

(Dom) Pedro Naason Theoney est né le 04 novembre 1986, à Port-au-Prince (Delmas). Au bout de ses études secondaires au lycée Pierre Eustache Daniel Fignolé, il est entré en 2009 à l’École Normale Supérieure de Port-au-Prince où il a eu une importante formation en philosophie. En 2013, il est admis au programme de Master de Philosophie Paris8/ENS. Mais il ne le bouclera pas, en raison de maintes et maintes pressions de la vie (haïtiennes)… Depuis quelques années, il enseigne la philosophie dans certaines écoles à Port-au-Prince. En 2014, il a fondé les Éditions Gouttes-Lettres, une maison d’édition généraliste au service des communautés d’intellectuel.les, de créateurs/trices et de lecteurs.trices, haïtiennes, voire du monde entier. Entre 2018 et 2019, il a publié ses deux premiers livres, « Les délices de la chair », qui est un roman philosophique, et un long poème (pro)féministe, intitulé « Hymne à la femme ». Donc depuis son entrée à l’E.N.S., les livres, l’écriture, l’édition, et bien sur sa famille, constituent ce qu’il appelle sa raison de vivre.

2018 - 178 pages - 12,7 X 19,5 cm - 15 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-482-3-3

Jean-Jacques CADET

Cet essai met en relation l’émergence des marxismes non occidentaux et la publication dans les années 1930 d’un ensemble d’œuvres de Marx qui ont mis au premier plan le thème de la dépossession et de l’aliénation. L’objectif consiste à expliquer la prédominance de la problématisation de l’aliénation dans le monde noir en se référant aux thèses développées dans les Manuscrits de 1844. La publication intégrale de ces Manuscrits axés sur une théorie de l’aliénation permet aux intellectuels du sud de reformuler au prisme d’éléments psychologiques (et culturels) leurs marxismes. Ainsi, cet essai postule que l’appropriation haïtienne des œuvres de Marx et d’Engels est ancrée dans une relecture originale de la catégorie d’aliénation. Le titre Marxisme et aliénation opte pour ce croisement entre les marxismes du sud et la problématique de dépossession. Le couple « marxisme et aliénation » permet de saisir le mode de conceptualisation de ces marxismes non occidentaux, notamment du marxisme haïtien. La pensée de Marx reste un chantier à retravailler au regard des expériences singulières et de « territoires » différents. Faire de l’aliénation l’axe central de l’analyse des marxismes du Sud se justifie par l’importance du colonialisme, de l’esclavage et du racisme dans l’histoire des Caraïbes.

2021 - 264 pages - 13,97 X 27,94 cm - 30 euros - ISBN : 978-99970-970-4-0

Jean Fritz Junior ODNE (Haïti, auteur) ; Francisco SILVA (Haïti, illustrateur)

Sur l’île, les embouteillages sont devenus le lieu où il faut prendre son mal en patience, ou être vu. Chacun s’y trouve coincé sans savoir pourquoi, et finit par s’y précipiter le matin pour s’y donner en spectacle ou rencontrer du monde, dans une ambiance conviviale, joyeuse et bon enfant.
Mais un beau jour, pas d’embouteillage, aucune voiture sur la route… Pour Alice et Jacob, l’enquête commence…

2022 - 56 pages - 16 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-6-6
Album de bandes dessinées en français – à partir de 9 ans

RENATA (autrice) ; Wilfried DEROCHE (illustrateur)

Bébé Nikou a tellement faim qu’il est prêt à dévorer son livre préféré ! Mais son papa va le rassasier avec de bons fruits frais et juteux ! Un joli album quadrilingue, qui favorisera l’éveil linguistique et l’éducation nutritionnelle des plus petits, grâce à la découverte des fruits des Antilles.
Utilisable de la crèche à la fin du cycle 1 en :

• Langue
• Découverte du monde
• Education nutritionnelle
  Également pour les apprenants débutants en langues étrangères ou pour les publics porteurs de déficiences.

2021 - 20 pages - 15 X 15 cm - 10,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-5-9
Album jeunesse tout-carton quadrilingue français, créole de Martinique, espagnol et anglais - à partir de 1 an

RENATA (autrice et illustratrice)

Un animal se cache derrière chaque lettre ! Avec cet abécédaire original, les enfants connaîtront aussi bien l’alphabet que les animaux de la Caraïbe.

Utilisable avec :

• les élèves en difficulté d’apprentissage de la lecture (SEGPA, par exemple), pour aborder l’alphabet sous un angle ludique et en lien avec d’autres matières, SVT et Arts plastiques notamment
• les personnes porteuses de handicap et/ou de troubles cognitifs (personnes âgées notamment), pour entretenir les capacités de mémorisation et l’imagination.

2018 - 64 pages - 17 X 24 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-9563225-0-4 -
à partir de 3 ans

Nicolas DICKNER

Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général – Rights sold in 10 countries

Lisa is a young girl who wants to push the limits of human experience and free herself from the constraints of modern life. Her only problem is that she doesn’t have a dime to her name. Her best friend, a computer hacker trying to manipulate international marine traffic, might just have the solution for her : living and traveling as a stowaway in a shipping container. Demonstrating a wild imagination and sparkling erudition, Nicolas Dickner is in top form here. Considered a unique writer in both Quebec and beyond, he is part of an elaborate family tree whose branches include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Nick Hornby, and Haruki Murakami.

2015 - 344 pages - 16,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-253-4

Dominique FORTIER

Prix Renaudot (Non-fiction) – Rights sold in 14 countries

One of the most important writer of the nineteenth century, a mythical figure of American literature, Emily Dickinson remains an enigma to this day. With Les villes de papier, Governor General’s Literary Award-winner Dominique Fortier explores the quiet existence of “the lady in white” from the inside, through the books she loved, her garden, her ghosts. Inspired by episodes of both Emily’s life and her own, the author gives us a novel as limpid as it is earnest about how the worlds we build within ourselves in turn build us.

2018 - 192 pages - 15,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-469-9

Larry TREMBLAY

Prix des libraires du Québec | Prix littéraire des collégiens + 8 others prizes – Rights sold in 23 countries

Somewhere in the Middle East, twin brothers have lived peacefully under the shade of the orange trees until, one day, an explosive crosses the sky, killing their grandparents. The horrors of war seize hold of their childhood and crush their destiny. Men come to take vengeance for the blood that has been shed. One of the brothers must wear an explosive belt over the mountains and into a military camp. Who will be the chosen one ?

2013 - 152 pages - 14,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-231-2

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.

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