Country of origin United Kingdom Publication types Books Founded 2005 | Headquarters location Richmond, London Official website www.almabooks.com | |
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Founder Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini Imprints Alma Classics, Overture Publishing |
Interview with alessandro gallenzi and elisabetta minervini of alma books
Alma Books is a publishing house based in Richmond, London, founded in 2005 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini, the founders of Hesperus Press. It publishes mainly fiction, both by authors from the English-speaking world and in translation from languages such as French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
Contents
- Interview with alessandro gallenzi and elisabetta minervini of alma books
- Interview with james wilson author of the summer of broken stories alma books
- References
It has published books by authors such as Anthony McCarten, Robert M. Pirsig, William T. Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, Jane Hawking, Tibor Fischer, Tom McCarthy, Carmen Posadas, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Alberto Manguel, Peter Benson, Rosie Alison and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, among others. In 2012 Alma published Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
In 2007, Alma Books, launched Oneworld Classics a joint venture with the Oxford-based publishing house Oneworld Publications, which published newly commissioned classics titles and acquired Calder Publications. In 2012, Alma Books acquired full stakes in Oneworld Classics, which was renamed Alma Classics. In the same year Alma Books received the Premio Nazionale per la Traduzione by the Italian Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali for their contribution to the promotion of Italian culture abroad. Since the award's inauguration in 1989, it had never before been awarded to a British publisher.
In 2013 Alma Books won the Bookseller Independent Publisher of the Year Industry Award.