Zeroville Shortlisted for Believer Book Award

Steve Erickson's novel Zeroville has been shortlisted for the Believer Magazine Book Award. Each year the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels they thought were the strongest and, in their opinion, the most undervalued of the year. The 2007 list appears below, along with several writers’ citations. Read more >>

Reading the World 2008

Brought to brilliant life way back in 2005 by Karl Pohrt (Shaman Drum), Chad Post (Open Letter/3%), and Jeff Seroy (FSG) this ingenious initiative, sublime in its simplicity and notable for its effectiveness, is a collaborative effort between publishers and bookstores to bring international literature to the attention of readers. This year Europa Editions joins the fifteen other press* that together with participating bookstores will promote i...

Alison Anderson's translation of The Palestinian Lover shortlisted

Alison Anderson's translation of The Palestinian Lover by Sélim Nassib has been nominated for the 2007 Northern California Book Award in the category of translation. The 27th Annual Northern California Book Awards will be on Sunday, April 13, in the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library. The Northern California Book Awards were established by NCBR (formerly the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, or BABRA) in 1981 to honor the ...

Numbers!

Europa Editions will bring out more titles of international fiction in original translations than any other U.S. or U.K. publisher in 2008, more than Simon & Schuster, Pantheon, Random House, and Norton PUT TOGETHER! This, according to a survey conducted by the folks at 3%, a resource for international literature based at the University of Rochester. The news was extremely gratifying for everyone at Europa Editions. The big picture for transla...