For the entirety of Frankfurt
@Book_Fair
, we've made the eBook of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, tr. Elisabeth Jaquette, free to download:
Amazon:
Apple:
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022
#NobelPrize
in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”
We stand in full solidarity with Adania Shibli, whose novel MINOR DETAIL (tr. into English by Elisabeth Jaquette) was due to receive the LiBeraturpreis at Frankfurt Book Fair this week, and her German publisher Berenberg Verlag:
💫💫Fitzcarraldo Editions turns seven this week! To celebrate we’re running a sale, with 40 per cent off everything on our website. Use the discount code ‘FITZCARRALDO2021’ at checkout.💫💫
We're excited to announce the publication of THE EMPUSIUM: A HEALTH RESORT HORROR STORY by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this September, with three other novels to follow. More info here:
The foreign rights manager for radical French publisher La Fabrique, Ernest Moret, was arrested by antiterrorism police on arrival at St Pancras yesterday. He was on his way to
@LondonBookFair
. He is still in custody. Press release from
@Ed_Lafabrique
&
@VersoBooks
:
💫We are excited to announce that we are launching a poetry list in 2025, edited by Rachael Allen &
@joely_day
. 💫
We're delighted to be welcoming
@itsamule
, Diane Seuss,
@RebTamas
, Matthew Rice &
@sashadm
to Fitzcarraldo Editions.
More details here:
Some news! We are launching a classics list next spring, with the first title to be 1928 Brazilian epic MACUNAÍMA: THE HERO WITH NO CHARACTER by Mário de Andrade, translated by Katrina Dodson.
.
@FitzcarraldoEds
is launching a classics list next spring, with the first title to be 1928 Brazilian epic "modernist masterpiece" Macunaíma: The Hero With No Character by Mário de Andrade, translated by Katrina Dodson.
Read more:
We are very happy to announce the reissue of Janet Frame’s THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET & Edward Said’s THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE in our classics list this autumn, with further books by both Frame and Said to follow. More details here:
Many congratulations Jessica Au! COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW has won both the Fiction prize *and* the Book of the Year prize at the Victorian Premier Literary Awards.
🚨🚨🚨 We're running a sale until 30 August to celebrate six years since the publication of our first book, ZONE by Mathias Enard, tr.
@avecsesdoigts
. Use the discount code 'FITZCARRALDO2020' to get 40 per cent off any purchase on our website. 🚨🚨🚨
📚Monday, 29 May📚We are delighted that Annie Ernaux will be appearing
@CharlestonTrust
, in conversation with Sally Rooney! Find out more and book your tickets here:
It's all happening today.
@alaa
's YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, translated by an anonymous collective, and with a foreword by
@naomiaklein
, is here. Publishes 20 October:
We are pleased to announce The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for book-length literary fiction written in English. The winner receives $10,000 & will be simultaneously published by us,
@GiramondoBooks
&
@NewDirections
. More details here: .
💫💫 Fitzcarraldo Editions turns five years old today. To celebrate we're running a flash sale today and tomorrow, with 40 per cent off everything on our website. Use the discount code 'FITZCARRALDOEDITIONS2019' at check-out 💫💫 -
🔵⚪️ANNOUNCING THE FIRST DECADE COLLECTION 🔵⚪️
Ten titles celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions’ publishing over its first ten years. The First Decade Collection is published on 24 October. More info here:
In half an hour, from 7-8 PM GMT,
@fffmelchor
will be here, on twitter, to answer readers' questions about her novel, HURRICANE SEASON. Please send your queries directly to her. To whet your appetite, here she is reading from the first chapter, in Spanish:
💫 We are thrilled to have THREE books on
@TheBookerPrizes
International longlist!💫
A NEW NAME by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls
PARADAIS by
@falsaliebre
, tr. Sophie Hughes
THE BOOKS OF JACOB by Olga Tokarczuk, tr.
@jenniferlcroft
We are extremely excited that THE YEARS by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer & DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, are on the International
@ManBookerPrize
#mbi2019
shortlist! …
Since he's trending, it may be time to share this.
In 1982 Werner Herzog made a film called FITZCARRALDO.
32 years later, we named a publishing house after it.
😲
The Novel Prize opens for submissions from 1 April–1 June. The winner receives $10,000 & simultaneous publication with us in the UK,
@NewDirections
in the US &
@GiramondoBooks
in Australia. More details here:
We are extremely excited to have THE YEARS by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) and DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) on the
#MBI2019
longlist!
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF TREES by Alejandro Zambra, tr. by
@meganalimcd
publishes today! Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter to sleep...
YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED by Alaa Abd el-Fattah, translated by a collective, publishes today. From theories on technology and history to profound reflections on the meaning of prison, this is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost.
We are looking to hire a Publishing Assistant to join our growing team in Deptford, south-east London. Deadline: 4 March.
More details in
@thebookseller
:
'Years later, online, she looks up the man who treated her badly and finds a triumphant, mic-drop kind of peace: “I do not envy him: I am the one who is writing.”'
@sineadgleeson
on where to start on Annie Ernaux for
@guardian
:
💫💫💫 Happy birthday to Annie Ernaux! Here she is photographed for an interview published in
@FTLifeArts
last weekend. We're so excited to publish our fifth Ernaux title, A MAN'S PLACE, tr. Tanya Leslie, in October. 💫💫💫
Great to see 3 letters to
@nytimesbooks
eds in support of Kate Briggs, inc. 1 co-signed by Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis, Katrina Dodson, Karen Emmerich, John Keene, Duncan Large, Karen Van Dyck, Lawrence Venuti & Emily Wilson, following Ben Moser’s review:
🚨 Annie Ernaux alert 🚨
GETTING LOST, the diary kept by Ernaux during the year and a half she had an affair with a younger, married man in the late 1980s, is out in September, tr.
@StrayerLee
, w/us &
@7StoriesPress
:
Going to press this week, Annie Ernaux’s I REMAIN IN DARKNESS, tr. Tanya Leslie, ‘an unforgettable exploration of love, memory and the journey to loss’ (Eimear McBride). Hit us up for review copies – it’s out on 18 September 2019.
We are pleased to announce that the Novel Prize is open for submissions until 1 June. The winner receives $10,000 & simultaneous publication with us in the UK,
@newdirections
in the US &
@GiramondoBooks
in Australia. More details here:
The 2024 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize opens today! The submission window closes at midnight on the 17 March. More information here:
15 Nobel laureates – inc. Svetlana Alexievich, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro & Olga Tokarczuk – sign unprecedented letter calling for release of British-Egyptian hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah ahead of COP27
#freealaa
#savealaa
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Our distributors can no longer fulfil website orders. We're pleased to be partnering w/
@BurleyFisher
to keep our online shop open. Postage will be slightly more expensive, mailings may take longer, but orders will be fulfilled as long as stock lasts. Thanks for your support.
📔ALPHABETICAL DIARIES by Sheila Heti publishes today!📔 ‘Exhilarating: both intimate and withholding, repetitive and generative, undeniably self-centred and yet moving beyond the self.’ —
@annaleszkie
. Read an excerpt on our website:
✨We are delighted that MINOR DETAIL by Adania Shibli, tr
@lissiejaquette
and IN MEMORY OF MEMORY by Maria Stepanova, tr.
@SashaDugdale
are on the 2021 International Booker longlist!✨
We are thrilled to partner with
@voldotco
for a special edition of THE BOOKS OF JACOB by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by
@jenniferlcroft
. Limited to 1000 copies, each book will be signed by the author. Pre-order the collector’s edition exclusive to Volume here:
🥂🥂🥂We are delighted to announce that
@thea_lenarduzzi
has won the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize with her proposal for DANDELIONS. 🥂🥂🥂
Full announcement here: