Peirene Press

Peirene Press

Status	Active
Founded	2008
Founder	Meike Ziervogel
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London, England
Publication types	Books
Fiction genres	Literature in translation, Contemporary fiction, Novella
Official website	http://www.peirenepress.com

Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in London.^[1] 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.^[2] 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..^[3]

List of books

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)

Awards

• Independent Publishers Guild Newcomer Award 2011.^[4]
• Highly commended at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011^[5] and 2013.^[6]
• Peirene titles have been long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011,^[7] 2012,^[8] 2013,^[9] 2014^[10] and 2015.^[11]

References

1. Peirene Press: About us
2. "Peirene Press: Events".
3. "Peirene Press: Counterpoint Arts".
4. Graeme Neill, "Continuum crowned indie publisher of the year", The Bookseller, 11 March 2011.
5. "British Book Design and Production Awards 2011".
6. "British Book Design and Production Awards 2013".
7. Boyd Tonkin, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Latin America is back with a boom", The Independent, 11 March 2011.
8. Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list spans a planet of stories", The Independent, 9 March 2012.
9. Boyd Tonkin, "Boyd Tonkin: From Syria to Colombia, and Albanian to Afrikaans, enjoy a global feast", The Independent, 1 March 2013.
10. Boyd Tonkin, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014: Our long-list reveals a fictional eco-system of staggering diversity", The Independent, 7 March 2014.
11. Ian Johnston, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: 'Delightful discoveries' in foreign fiction prize", The Independent, 12 March 2015.