Peirene Press
# Peirene Press

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.

## 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 Grinkevičiutė (translated from the Lithuanian: Delija Valiukenas)
* And the Wind Sees All by Guđmundur 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

## 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.
