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Peirene Press

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Status
  
Active

Publication types
  
Books

Founder
  
Meike Ziervogel

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Headquarters location
  
London, United Kingdom

Founded
  
2008

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Fiction genres
  
Literature in translation, Contemporary fiction, Novella

Official website
  
http://www.peirenepress.com

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Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in London. Established by novelist and publisher Meike Ziervogel, Peirene is primarily focused on bringing out high-quality English translations of contemporary European short novels. Peirene is also known for its regular literary salons, and for its pop-up bookstalls outside supermarkets and at farmers markets. Peirene Press donates 50p from the sale of each book to Counterpoint Arts, a charity that promotes the creative arts by and about refugees and migrants in the UK..

Contents

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2010 - Female Voice

  • Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi (translated from the French by Adriana Hunter)
  • Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (tr from the Catalan: Laura McGloughlin and Paul Mitchell)
  • Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)

    • 2011 - Male Dilemma

  • Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (tr from the German: Anthea Bell)
  • Tomorrow Pamplona by Jan van Mersbergen (tr from the Dutch: Laura Watkinson)
  • Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig (tr from the Austrian German: Tess Lewis)

    • 2012 - Small Epic

  • The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg (tr from the Finnish: Fleur Jeremiah and Emily Jeremiah)
  • The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul (tr from the Danish: Martin Aitken)
  • Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)

    • 2013 - Turning Point

  • The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
  • Mr Darwin's Gardener by Kristina Carlson (tr from the Finnish: Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah)
  • Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (tr from the Polish: Philip Boehm)

    • 2014 - Coming of Age

  • The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov (tr from the Russian: Andrew Bromfield)
  • The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik (tr from the Norwegian: Deborah Dawkin)
  • Under The Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)

    • 2015 - Chance Encounter

  • White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen (tr from the Finnish: Fleur Jeremiah and Emily Jeremiah)
  • Reader for Hire by Raymond Jean (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)
  • The Looking-Glass Sisters by Gøhril Gabrielsen (tr from the Norwegian: John Irons)

    • 2016 - Fairy Tale

  • The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst (tr from the Dutch: by David Colmer)
  • Her Father's Daughter by Marie Sizun (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)
  • The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift (tr from the Austrian German: Jamie Bulloch)

    • 2017 - East and West

  • The Last Summer by Ricarda Huch (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
  • The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay (tr from the French: Sheila Fischman)
  • Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel (tr from the German: Jen Calleja)

    • Awards

  • Independent Publishers Guild Newcomer Award 2011.
  • Highly commended at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011 and 2013.
  • Peirene titles have been long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

    • References

    Peirene Press Wikipedia
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