Peirene Press Explained

Status:	Active
Founded:	2008
Founder:	Meike Ziervogel
Country:	United Kingdom
Headquarters:	London,
Publications:	Books
Genre:	Literature in translation, Contemporary fiction, Novella
Url:	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 (translated from the Catalan: Laura McGloughlin and Paul Mitchell)
• Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius (translated from the German: Jamie Bulloch)

2011 – Male Dilemma

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

2012 – Small Epic

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

2013 – Turning Point

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

2014 – Coming of Age

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

2015 – Chance Encounter

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

2016 – Fairy Tale

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

2017 – East and West

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

2018 – Home in Exile

• Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (translated from the Latvian: Margita Gailitis)
• Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (translated from the Lithuanian: Delija Valiukenas)
• And the Wind Sees All by Guðmundur Andri Thorsson (translated from the Icelandic: Bjørg Arnadottir) and Andrew Cauthery

2019 – There Be Monsters

• Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi (translated from the Finnish: Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah)
• You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke (translated from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
• Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano (translated from the French: Jennifer Higgins and Sophie Lewis)

2020 – Closed Universe

• Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini (translated from the Italian by J Ockenden)
• Ankomst by Gøhril Gabrielsen (translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin)
• The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from the Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway)

2021 – Metamorphoses

• Peirene #34 – Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren (translated from the Swedish by John Litell)
• Peirene #35 – Yesterday by Juan Emar (translated by Megan McDowell)
• Peirene #36 – Winter Flowers by Angélique Villeneuve (translated by Adriana Hunter)

2022

• Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp (translated by Jo Heinrich)
• Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur (translated from Spanish by Claire Wadie)
• Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić (translated from Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth)

2023

• History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir (translated by Lytton Smith)
• The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer (translated by James Young)
• As the Eagle Flies by Nolwenn Le Blevennec (translated by Madeleine Rogers)
• Venom by Saneh Sangsuk (translated by Mui Poopoksakul)
• The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk (translated by Mui Poopoksakul)

2024

• About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler (translated by Jordan Stump)

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peirene Press: About us . 2013-07-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130806063953/http://www.peirenepress.com/about_us/about_us . 2013-08-06 . dead .
2. Web site: Peirene Press: Events.
3. Web site: Peirene Press: Counterpoint Arts.
4. Graeme Neill, "Continuum crowned indie publisher of the year", The Bookseller, 11 March 2011.
5. Web site: British Book Design and Production Awards 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130821225450/http://www.britishbookawards.org/2011/shortlist.aspx. 2013-08-21.
6. Web site: British Book Design and Production Awards 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140212232734/http://www.britishbookawards.org/2013/shortlist.aspx. 2014-02-12.
7. [Boyd Tonkin]
8. Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list spans a planet of stories", The Independent, 9 March 2012.
9. 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.