The Alliance

Presentation & objectives

The “Fair Trade Book”

The label “Fair Trade Book” is attributed by the International Alliance of independent publishers to works published in the context of international publishing agreements that respect each other’s particularities : fair co- publishing. These fair copublishings enable the sharing of costs linked to intellectual and physical production of books and therefore ensure an economy of scale ; an exchange of professional know-how and a common experience, while respecting the publishers’ cultural contexts and identities ; and a distribution of works on a broader scale by adjusting prices for each geographic zone.

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Fair speech

The notion of fair speech expands the idea of ‘free speech’ to incorporate the concept of justice. Indeed, in a context of media concentration, dominant powers (whether political, economic, religious, ideological, etc.) are the most represented and heard (because they are powerful or loud). Fair speech fosters speech equity for other voices that are often marginalised and/or censored to be heard. Fair speech therefore promotes an equitable access to expression (for example for women, historically marginalised groups, etc.), enabling an authentic diversity of voices. This concept was created by Betty McLellan in Unspeakable (Spinifex Press, 2010, Australia) and promoted by Susan Hawthorne in Bibliodiversity : A Manifesto for Independent Publishing (Spinifex Press, 2014, Australia).

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The Declarations of 2003, 2005 and 2007

The Dakar Declaration (December 2003) is the foundational text of the Alliance and birth certificate of the association. The Guadalajara Declaration (October 2005) is the outcome of a meeting held in Mexico between independent publishers from the Latin world.
The International Declaration of independent publishers for the protection and promotion of bibliodiversity (July 2007) was drafted and signed by the 70 publishers participating to the International Assembly of independent publishers held in Paris in 2007.
These three texts, as well as the 2014 International Declaration of independent publishers, are milestones in the history of the Alliance – they are a reminder, and bear witness to the present bearing testimony to the commitment of independent publishers, and serve as their policy guidelines.

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Introduction

The International Alliance of independent publishers is a professional collective that brings together more than 800 independent publishing houses in 60 countries around the world. Created as an association in 2002, it is composed of 6 language networks (English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Persian) and thematic groups. Members of the Alliance are publishing houses and publisher collectives.
The Alliance’s activities promote and strengthen bibliodiversity (cultural diversity applied to the world of the book).

In alignment with its mission, the Alliance created a Bibliodiversity Observatory that gathers studies, analysis and tools produced by the Alliance, aimed at professionals and public authorities. The Observatory’s objectives include assessing and strengthening bibliodiversity in the world.

The Alliance also hosts and facilitates international meetings and thematic workshops (for example on children’s book publishing, digital publishing, etc.), enabling independent publishers from various continents to exchange ideas and initiate collaborations. These meetings support increasing capacity through peer sharing, an aspect developed in particular around the issue of digital publishing in the context of the Digital Lab.
The Alliance supports international publishing projects (co-publishing, translation, copyright transfers, etc.), for greater circulation of texts and fair access to books for readers.

In 2022, the Alliance launched a first-of-its-kind initiative : the first edition of Babelica, an international online Book Fair of Independent Publishing, which takes place once a year, on 21 September (International Bibliodiversity Day).

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Key Dates of the Alliance

• Gijón meeting (Spain), 2000 (an initiative led by four Spanish-speaking publishers in reaction to the emergence of Spanish multinationals in Latin America)
• Creation of the Alliance project by a group of publishers and Etienne Galliand – who would become the first director of the association
• Paris meeting (France), 2001 (some few days away from the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity)
• Foundation of the “Alliance of Independent Publishers Association, for Another Globalisation”, as per Law 1901 (head office in Paris) 2002
• Dakar meeting (Senegal), 2003 (Declaration of Solidarity amongst Independent Publishers)
• Guadalajara meeting (Mexico), 2005 (Declaration of independent publishers of the Latin world)
• International Assembly of Independent Publishers in Paris (France), 2007 (International Declaration of Independent Publishers to promote and strenghten bibliodiversity together)
• Name change of the association to International Alliance of independent publishers, 2008
• Creation of the International Committee of Independent Publishers (ICIP), 2009
• International Assembly of independent publishers – preparatory meetings and closing meeting in Cape Town (South Africa), 2012-2014 (International Declaration of independent publishers, to promote and strengthen bibliodiversity together, and 80 recommendations and tools in support of bibliodiversity)
• Creation of the Bibliodiversity Observatory, 2016
Mapping public book policies in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020
• International Conference of Independent publishing in Pamplona-Iruñea, 2021 (Declaration ’for independent, decolonial, ecological, feminist, free, social and solidarity-based publishing’)
Guide to good practice, 2022
• First edition of Babelica, 2022

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Activities

André Schiffrin, the Alliance has lost a fellow traveller

André Schiffrin, great independent publishing figure, passed away on this Sunday 1st December 2013 in Paris. His work and his analysis (“L’édition sans éditeurs”, “Le contrôle de la parole”…) took an essential part in the creation of the Alliance, back in the 2000s.
After running Pantheon Books (United States) during a long time, André Schiffrin left the Random House group to create in the early 90s the not-for-profit publishing house The New Press, member of the Alliance.
André Schiffrin wrote several fundamental books on independent publishing stakes, translated into many languages –as “Words and money”, the last one, copublished in the Alliance Arabic-language network by Al Intishar (Lebanon), Med Ali (Tunisia) and Atlas Publishing (Syria).

In the current context of the International Assembly of independent publishers, and remembering André Schiffrin had taken part in the Paris Assembly in 2007, the Alliance has lost a fellow traveller –his memory and his reflections will keep on being with us. Independent publishers from all over the world are paying him a tribute here.

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Les nouveautés du fonds « Lectures d’Afrique(s) » à découvrir d’urgence !

Le fonds Lectures d’Afrique(s) rassemble aujourd’hui la production de six maisons d’édition indépendantes d’Afrique (Afrique du Sud, Bénin, Madagascar, Mali, Rwanda, Togo) et du Brésil.

Découvrez les nouveautés des éditions Bakamé (Rwanda), Donniya (Mali), Jeunes Malgaches (Madagascar), Graines de Pensées (Togo), Pallas (Brésil) et Ruisseaux d’Afrique (Bénin). Si vous souhaitez diversifier votre fonds, lire en malgache, en portugais, en kinyarwanda, en français, si vous désirez tout simplement découvrir des auteurs et illustrateurs africains et brésiliens... la solution est ici... téléchargez le catalogue !

Télécharger le catalogue ici :

Téléchargez les nouveautés du fonds Lectures d’Afrique(s) !

Retrouvez l’intégralité du catalogue ici.

Contactez l’Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépendants pour passer commande ou pour tout renseignement supplémentaire.

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Walaandé, l’art de partager un mari

Auteur(s) : Djaïli Amadou AMAL
Pays de parution : Liban, Tunisie
Langue(s) : arabe

Une coédition des éditions Al Intishar / Centre de publication arabe (Liban), Dar Al Farabi (Liban) et Med Ali Éditions (Tunisie), soutenue par la Fondation Prince Claus, récompensant un flux de traduction rare et favorisant la diffusion des œuvres d’un continent à un autre.

Walaandé, l’art de partager un mari met en exergue les réalités que vivent au quotidien les femmes dans un ménage polygamique. Les principaux thèmes évoqués sont la polygamie, l’éducation de la femme, la discrimination, la violence à l’encontre des femmes, le mariage précoce et forcé, la répudiation.

Ce roman est un vibrant témoignage de la vie des femmes éplorées par des années de musèlement affectif. Un roman qui, autant que possible, balaie les promesses des lendemains chantants qui noient les réalités du quotidien maussade, conflictuel, stressant voire dramatique d’un foyer polygamique riche de sa variété de la gent féminine, des signes extérieurs d’aisance mais achalandés de problèmes.

C’est l’histoire d’une famille musulmane aisée de Maroua comme il y en a tant, où le père de famille, homme d’affaires roule-carrosse, aligne une progéniture nombreuse, s’entoure d’une cour infinie de serviteurs, renouvelle son cheptel féminin au gré de ses humeurs et des rencontres fortuites.

Quatre épouses, une ribambelle d’enfants et un nombreux personnel domestique animent la vie quotidienne d’une maisonnée qui dispose du confort nécessaire pour mener une vie fastueuse. Mais non. Walaandé décrit plutôt une existence fastidieuse pour tous.

Derrière les lambris dorés ornant les remparts servant de clôture à cette concession immense où parfum, couleurs et fleurs annoncent en principe les saveurs du bien-être des gens riches, il n’y aurait finalement qu’ennui, solitude, attente, angoisse, complots et jalousies. Mais surtout, cette dictature masculine, cette condescendance du « répudiateur suprême », cet époux au verbe naguère mielleux qui, du temps où il sollicitait les faveurs de sa cible, lui avait décrit la beauté du mirage où il allait hélas, l’enchaîner. C’est à peine si dans la déclamation de son amour, il ne lui avait fait visualiser les battements de son cœur. La même mélodie du bonheur à Aïssatou, Djaïli, Nafissa, Sakina. Les mêmes déceptions pour toutes.

Ce roman est, comme toute œuvre de l’esprit, inspiré du réel, où vies et envies, charmes et larmes, incertitudes et frustrations ankylosent les énergies féminines, flétrissent les beautés naguère envoutantes. Les travers de la polygamie telle que décrite ici en font un écho au long soupir étouffé de ces milliers de femmes, qui dans leur jeunesse avaient rêvé de l’homme amoureux ; et non seulement de cette limousine parfumée qui d’ailleurs pour luxueuse qu’elle soit, se révèle finalement, la version extérieure d’une prison où s’enterrent les rêves.

Djaïli Amadou AMAL est la première écrivaine du Nord Cameroun. C’est une jeune métisse Peuhle et Égyptienne par sa mère. Cette mixité de ses origines a sans doute favorisé sa liberté d’écrire, écrire seulement, et plus encore sur un sujet jusque là tabou dans sa société, le mariage polygamique, qui on le sait est étroitement lié au mariage précoce des jeunes filles.
Djaïli Amadou AMAL fait sans doute partie de la fine fleur de la nouvelle mouvance des écrivains camerounais du terroir. Son roman a déjà connu une réimpression en moins de six mois. Elle a fait une tournée très remarquée au Cameroun et au Tchad dans les réseaux des Alliances françaises sur le thème de la polygamie.

Date de publication de la traduction en arabe : 2013, 144 pages, 16,5 X 21,5 cm, ISBN : 978-614-404-419-3
Édition originale : 2010, éditions Ifrikiya, Cameroun

Quatrième de couverture de Walaandé, l'art de partager un mari

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The International Committee of independent publishers in Paris, 17-19 October 2013

Pays de parution : France

The International Committee of independent publishers (ICIP) will gather in Paris from the 17th to the 19th October, at the BULAC (University Library of the languages and the civilizations), for its annual meeting. What’s on for these days : publishers presentations and analysis of the first conclusions (tools and recommendations) of the workshops of the International Assembly of the independent publishers ; preparation of the general meeting which will close the Assembly in Cape Town in September 2014.

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Diffusion of human and social sciences books : What innovative strategies to succeed ?, 13 - 15 October 2013, Frankfurt (Germany)

After Guadalajara in November 2012, Paris and Bologna in March 2013 and Ouagadougou in June 2013, the sixth workshop of the International Assembly of Independent Publishers will be held in Frankfurt, from 13 to 15 October 2013, on the issue of “Diffusion of human and social sciences books : what innovative strategies ?”.

15 publishers from Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa will share experiences and knowledge in order to question the solutions offered by digital possibilities for the diffusion of their books, to share some tools, and to develop translation and co-publishing projects.

This workshop is organized in partnership with the Frankfurt Book Fair, and with the support of the Fondation de France, the Centre national du livre and the Goethe-Institut in South Africa.

You can follow the International Assembly of Independent Publishers here !

Publishers will also be present throughout the Frankfurt Book Fair (from 9 to 13 October) on their respective stand and / or the stand of the International Alliance of independent publishers (hall 5.0 D111)

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Loin de mon père

Auteur(s) : Véronique TADJO ; préface d'Emmanuel DONGALA
Pays de parution : Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Maroc, Rwanda, Togo
Langue(s) : français
Prix : 2 500 FCFA ; 45 DM ; 3 300 RWF

Nina, jeune métisse franco-ivoirienne, doit regagner sa terre d’enfance pour les funérailles de son père, le célèbre docteur Kouadio. L’occasion des retrouvailles dans la grande famille lui révèle le personnage de son père, ses zones d’ombre, son héritage inattendu et les secrets de famille. Elle est alors prise dans l’engrenage des désillusions et de la solitude, dans un pays en proie à la montée de la guerre civile.

Loin de mon père nous invite d’une manière subtile à une plongée dans la famille et la société ivoirienne en crise. De cette œuvre dense, émanent authenticité, générosité, tolérance, espoir et poésie.

Née à Paris d’un père ivoirien et d’une mère française, Véronique TADJO est poète, romancière et auteur de livres pour la jeunesse qu’elle illustre le plus souvent elle-même. Elle a passé toute son enfance et fait l’essentiel de ses études à Abidjan, puis s’est spécialisée dans le domaine anglo-américain à la Sorbonne Paris IV. Elle a enseigné à l’Université Nationale de Côte d’Ivoire pendant plusieurs années. Après avoir beaucoup voyagé, elle réside actuellement à Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud) où elle est Professeur à l’Université du Witwatersrand.

Date de publication de la version panafricaine : 2013, 262 pages, 11,5 X 19 cm
Édition première en France : Actes Sud (2010)

Une coédition solidaire « Le livre équitable ».

Collection Terres solidaires

Créée en 2007, la collection « Terres solidaires » est une expérience collective. Elle propose des textes littéraires d’autrices et auteurs africain.e.s, édités par un collectif de maisons d’édition en Afrique francophone. Grâce au principe de la coédition solidaire, les textes circulent, sont disponibles et accessibles pour les lecteurs africains ; l’écosystème du livre local est préservé et renforcé.
La collection « Terres solidaires » est soutenue par l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).

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La civilisation, ma mère !...

Auteur(s) : Driss CHRAÏBI ; préface Abdelkader DJEMAÏ
Pays de parution : Algérie, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Togo
Langue(s) : français
Prix : 2 500 FCFA ; 400 DA

La Civilisation, ma mère !... est le portrait vif et plein d’humour d’une mère aimée et aimante qui se heurte avec entrain aux multiples progrès de la modernité. Née orpheline, pauvre et mariée très tôt à un homme plus âgé qu’elle, condamnée à remplir son rôle d’épouse au foyer, l’héroïne va apprendre à lire et à écrire dans une société marocaine traditionnelle et conservatrice. Elle participera avec enthousiasme aux luttes pour l’indépendance du Maroc et pour la libération de la femme arabe.
Parue en 1972, cette œuvre du patrimoine littéraire africain, habilement servie par une prose poétique, mérite, par la confrontation de deux mondes qu’elle met en scène, d’être l’un des points de passage des espaces littéraires maghrébins et subsahariens aux nombreux référents communs. Roman de la libération de la femme et du refus de la fatalité, La Civilisation, ma mère !... est aussi l’aventure d’une nouvelle naissance africaine qui demeure une préoccupation actuelle.

Né en 1926 au Maroc, Driss CHRAÏBI s’installe en France à partir de 1945 pour ses études. Révélé par son roman Le Passé simple en 1954, il est l’auteur d’une œuvre importante, tour à tour féroce et ironique, abordant des thèmes comme le colonialisme, l’immigration ou encore la place de la femme dans la société traditionnelle marocaine.
Décédé en 2007, Driss CHRAÏBI est l’un des grands écrivains marocains de langue française.

Date de publication de la version panafricaine : 2013, 214 pages, 11,5 X 19 cm
Édition première : Denoël, 1972

Une coédition solidaire « Le livre équitable ».

Collection Terres solidaires

Créée en 2007, la collection « Terres solidaires » est une expérience collective. Elle propose des textes littéraires d’autrices et auteurs africain.e.s, édités par un collectif de maisons d’édition en Afrique francophone. Grâce au principe de la coédition solidaire, les textes circulent, sont disponibles et accessibles pour les lecteurs africains ; l’écosystème du livre local est préservé et renforcé.
La collection « Terres solidaires » est soutenue par l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).

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The Alliance at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 9-13 October 2013

Pays de parution : Allemagne

The Alliance team is inviting you at the stand hall 5.0, number D111 – a collective stand shared with the Alliance members – to learn about the association, meet independent publishers and familiarise yourself with their outputs.

Please do not hesitate to contact us to book an appointment with the Alliance team and/or a publisher member of the Alliance.

The presence of the Alliance in Frankfurt does not end there : from October 13 to 15, and in partnership with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Fondation de France and the Centre national du livre, the Alliance will facilitate the 6th workshop of the International Assembly of Independent Publishers, under the theme “Diffusion of human and social sciences works : What innovative strategies to get what you want ?”. This workshop will convene 15 independent publishers from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. For more information on the 2013-2014 Assembly, click here.

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What are you doing on September 21st, International Day of Bibliodiversity ?

Independent publishers are inviting you to celebrate the 4th edition of the B Day, International Day of Bibliodiversity !
In Argentina, Cameroon, Chile, Guiney Conakry, Madagascar, Peru… and elsewhere, independent publishers, booksellers, and readers, will bring publishing diversity alive.

Follow the activities of the 2013 B Day here and find out here the 2013 B Day video !

Do not forget to send us information regarding the initiatives that will be taking place in your country on B Day, so we can diffuse it !

The video of the B Day 2013 !

Download and diffuse B Day logo

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Diez lecciones sobre estudios culturales

Auteur(s) : Maria Elisa CEVASCO ; trad. René PALACIOS MORE
Pays de parution : Argentine, Chili, Uruguay
Langue(s) : espagnol
Prix : 290 pesos Uruguay

Une coédition « Le livre équitable » entre les éditions Trilce (Uruguay), la marca editora (Argentine) et les éditions Lom (Chili). Le texte original a été publié en portugais en 2012, par les éditions Boitempo (Brésil), membre de l’Alliance. La traduction et la coédition de ce titre ont bénéficié du soutien de la Fondation Prince Claus.

Date de parution : 2013, 136 pages, 16 X 23 cm
ISBN (Uruguay) : 978-9974-32-613-2
ISBN (Argentine) : 978-950-889-226-3

Diez lecciones sobre estudios culturales
Version Argentine (la marca editora)

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Governance

Georges LORY, member of the General Assembly

Georges Lory was cultural advisor in South Africa from 1990 to 1994, and participated to the country’s democratic transition. Between 1998 and 2008, as Director of International Affairs of Radio France Internationale, he increased the number of its FM relays in the world from 76 to 169. From 2009 to 2013, he led the general delegation of the Alliance Française in Southern Africa.
He has written three volumes of poetry (including one in Afrikaans), edited a book published by Autrement on South Africa, translated poets including Breyten Breytenbach, Antjie Krog and Lebo Mashile, novels and short stories by Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Laureate, texts by JM Coetzee, André Brink and Kopano Matlwa, as well as the Dutch writer Adriaan van Dis. He is the author of four books, mainly on South Africa.

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Hélène KLOECKNER, member of the General Assembly

Hélène Kloeckner is the founder of Beau travail, which helps organisations improve their working conditions. She is the author of a survey on textbooks in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa, published in the Africultures journal in 2003. She has worked for more than twelve years in publishing, and collaborated with Nouvelles éditions africaines in Senegal, Dakar. As a volunteer at the Alliance since 2004, she has been particularly interested in the pan-African collection “Terres Solidaires” . She was the president of the Alliance between 2013 and 2020.

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Annie GOGAT, member of the General Assembly

Treasurer of the Alliance, Annie Gogat works for the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation as Accounting Manager. Passionnate about integration issues and involved in her neighborhood’s school life, she finds herself naturally acting as a mediator in many situations. After spending years in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, she now lives in Bouffémont (Paris region). She was the treasurer of the Alliance between 2002 and 2020.

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Gérard AIMÉ, member of the General Assembly

Born in 1946, after obtaining a degree from the Centre de Formation des Journalistes and a postgraduate qualification in political sociology, Gérard Aimé started his career as a journalist and photo-reporter in Canada. The co-founder of Alternatives publishing and co-author of its first publications, he ran the publishing house for 35 years until its takeover by Gallimard. Today he works as a consultant for various publishing houses. Gérard Aimé was a member of the Board of the Alliance between 2011 and 2016.

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Marie HATET, member of the General Assembly

Marie Hatet has been working in the field of education and culture for the past fifteen years. Currently heading an artistic and cultural education project in Paris’ La Villette Park, she is also a member of the reading committee of the Tatoulu Association (youth literature), and founding member of Les Fondeurs de Roue Association. She joined the Board of the International Alliance of independent publishers in 2014. She served on the Board of the Alliance between 2014 and 2016 and is currently a member of the Alliance’s General Assembly.

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But also…

From 2002 to 2009, Étienne GALLIAND (founder of the Alliance) managed the association. He then created Double Ponctuation, with which the Alliance regularly collaborates. Double Ponctuation is, among other things, copublisher of the Bibliodiversity journal.

Alexandre TIPHAGNE joined the Alliance from 2002 to 2007, as manager of co-editions and the Portuguese and Spanish languages networks. From December 2012 to April 2014, Alexandre was vice-chair of Cabinet in the Ministry of Culture and Communication and technical councillor responsible of the book, and later chair of Cabinet. Formerly a parliamentary collaborator of Aurélie Filippetti at the National Assembly, he is currently in charge of Culture at Paris City Council.

Thomas WEISS worked for the Alliance between 2003 and 2006 as a logistician, administrator and Webmaster. He also coordinated co-publishing projects of the English and Arabic languages networks. In 2007, he became an independent consultant and web developer, and worked principally for the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation, Exemole Sarl, and the Research Institute, and contributed to discussions on governance. In 2013, he joined the French IT group, Netapsys Conseil, as central director. He is currently a consultant at OCTO Technology.

Between 2008 and 2010, Nathalie CARRÉ contributed her expertise to “Terres solidaires” and “Terres d’écritures”, both solidary copublishings collections. Nathalie continued facilitating the reading committee of the “Terres solidaires” collection. She is currently a Swahili teacher at Inalco.

Sonbol REGNAULT-BAHMANYAR contributed to the Alliance between 2010 to 2012, by developing the Persian language publishers group. Sonbol is currently in Iran, where she runs a French pastry shop.

Matthieu JOULIN joined the Alliance’s team in 2011, after a master’s degree in Hispano-American Language, Literature and Civilisation at Bordeaux University and a master’s degree in Book Commercialisation at University of Paris 13-Villetaneuse. Between 2011 and 2019, Matthieu was especially in charge of the Digital Lab of the Alliance ; and maintaining and supporting the Spanish and Portuguese language networks.

Clémence HEDDE worked for 10 years at the Alliance, between 2010 and 2020. After a double degree in Geography/ Book Trade in France and the United Kingdom, and experiences in different publishing houses (Autrement, La Découverte, Phaidon), Clémence Hedde was Programme Manager at the International Alliance of independent publishers, more specifically responsible for overseeing the Alliance’s French-language network and the children’s books/youth literature thematic group, coordinating international co-publishings, organisation of meetings and workshops, as well as monitoring the research initiatives of the Bibliodiversity Observatory. She is now Literary Coordinator at Ciclic, the regional Agency of the Center Val de Loire for books, images and digital culture.

Mariam PELLICER is a graduate from Sciences Politiques in Toulouse (specialising on the fight against discrimination and the struggle for equality), after an academic exchange at the University in Chile, stuying among other things, sociology of gender. Mariam’s early professional experiences were with the International Alliance of Women in Athens and then with the Fondation des Femmes in Paris.
Between 2020 and 2024, Mariam coordinated the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking networks, the Bibliodiversity Observatory and the Alliance’s advocacy unit.

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Translators

Nathalie COOREN (French-Spanish)
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Nathalie Cooren has a background in law (Master of Laws with a specialisation in European and international law) and in social sciences (Master in sociology of conflicts). After working several years in the field of international relations, where translation was an integral part of her daily life, she decided to make it her full-time job.
Several years spent abroad, particularly in Latin America, also made her aware of the importance of languages and the diversity of cultures. She translates from Spanish and English into French, for documents in the legal, institutional, political, environmental, tourism, marketing, and publishing fields, as well as books (see in particular "Guide du municipalisme : pour une ville citoyenne apaisée, ouverte”).

Danielle CHARONNET (French-Spanish)
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Rachel MATTEAU MATSHA (French-English)
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Rachel Matteau Matsha is senior lecturer at the Durban University of Technology (South Africa). Her research interests include book history, sociology of literature, Indian Ocean studies, and postcolonial studies. Born in Québec (Canada), she holds a BA in Literary Studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a MA and PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa). She is the author of Real and Imagined Readers. Reading, publishing and censorship under apartheid (UKZN Press, forthcoming 2018). She is collaborating with the International Alliance of independent publishers since 2013.

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Volunteers

Volunteers come from time to time to support the permanent team of the Alliance for the implementation of the action plan of the association : we thank them very much for their involvement and their commitment !

Céline ANFOSSI
Céline Anfossi is specialised in project management and consultancy. She has worked in the book sector, mainly in coaching professionals (International Alliance of independent publishers, Fill-Interregional Federation of Books and Reading). She explores these issues through different projects and audiences (women seeking employment, students) and is particularly interested in the topic of professional integration.

Djamilatou DIALLO
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Born in Tahiti, of Franco-Guinean parents, Djamilatou continued her studies in Paris in Lettres et Histoire (MA dissertation on Ancient History : “Patrons of cities in Roman Africa from the third to the fifth century : an epigraphic study”).
In the long term, Jamilatou would like to specialise in the protection and enhancement of heritage by working with different cultural organisations here or elsewhere.
Following a five-month internship at the Alliance (development of the 2018 WomenList and the HotList presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the study on the textbook market in French-speaking Africa), Djamilatou is now a volunteer of the Association.

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International Committee of Independent Publishers (ICIP)

The ICIP includes the coordinators and vice-coordinators of the Alliance’s language networks ; the coordinators and vice-coordinators are nominated by the members of the networks. Since 2011, the ICIP has been an essential part of governing the Alliance, representing the voice of the publishers. The ICIP meets once a year in the presence of the Board and the team of the Alliance. The agenda is based on the aspirations and objectives of the Alliance, considering above all the needs and expectations of the members.

Composition of the ICIP :

  • Coordinator of the Arabic-speaking network : Samar Haddad, Syria (Atlas Publishing)
  • Coordinator of the English-speaking network : Colleen Higgs, South Africa (Modjaji Books)
  • Vice-coordinator of the English-speaking network : Ronny Agustinus, Indonesia (Marjin Kiri)
  • Coordinator of the French-speaking network : Élisabeth Daldoul, Tunisia (elyzad)
  • Vice-coordinators of the French-speaking network : Paulin Assem, Togo (AGO Média) and Jean-Claude Naba, Burkina Faso (Sankofa & Gurli)
  • Coordinators of the Persian-speaking network : Azadeh Parsapour, UK/Iran (Nogaam) and Anahita Mehdipour, Germany/Iran (Forough Verlag)
  • Coordinators of the Portuguese-speaking network : Mariana Warth, Brazil (Pallas Editora) and Carla Oliveira, Portugal (Orfeu Negro)

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