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An award-winning independent publisher of new voices and great books from around the world. TLS

"Two-hour books to be devoured in a single sitting:literary cinema for those fatigued by film."

29/12/2024

Is your New Year’s resolution is to read more? To read more international fiction in translation? To read more from independent publishers? To order less from Amazon? To read more international translated fiction ordered directly from independent publishers? The Peirene Subscription has you covered then! 💌

2025 subscribers will begin their journey with ON THE GREENWICH Line by Shady Lewis, translated from Arabic by Katherine Halls - a witty, moving and sometimes surreal journey, following a local government employee as he attempts to arrange a funeral for a young man he’s never met.

We offer 3 and 6 book subscriptions and all our titles are sent to subscribers 6-8 weeks before publication. Subscribers receive subsidised UK shipping and 15% off all further purchases.

We rely on our subscribers to sustain our work: their commitment empowers us to make bold editorial choices and plan for the future. Thank you!

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19/12/2024

We are the delighted recipients of a grant from Arts Council England for a 2025 UK-wide events programme. The first of our international guests is none other than Fatma Aydemir , the author of the bestselling German sensation, Djinns.

Djinns is a propulsive family saga about a Turkish-Kurdish family, forced to reckon with a web of secrets and buried trauma in the wake of their father’s death in Istanbul. Fatma Aydemir is the author of two novels, and writes a column for the Guardian.

Fatma will be joined in London by Jessica Moor , author of Hold Back the Night, with a further guest to be announced for Cheltenham.

Click the link in our bio to book! 🎟️

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18/12/2024

There’s still time to get your Christmas gifts from Peirene 🎁

Any gifts ordered by midday Friday 20th December will be sent out in time for Christmas. Browse our shop for gift subscriptions, collections and individual titles.

Top of our Christmas list… The Oskamp Collection

Two novels from the bestselling German author Katja Oskamp: the Dublin Literary Award-winning Marzahn, Mon Amour, the chiropodist memoir you didn’t know you needed in your life; and Half Swimmer, which follows a young woman as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.

13/12/2024

A Peirene Gift Subscription is a gift that keeps on giving throughout the year 💝 Be sure to get your orders in before the 18th of December for guaranteed Christmas delivery.

We offer 6 book subscriptions (£68) and 3 book subscriptions (£38). Gift subscriptions last one year and you can include a personalised gift note at check out. Christmas gifts will be stamped ‘open on the 25th’. Existing subscribers get 15% off gift subscriptions with their subscriber code.

11/12/2024

Another bright idea for Santa’s personal shopper: The Heringer collection. Two elegant and innovative novels from one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the century so far. 💫

“When you read something genuinely new it’s hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel. It’s ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone. He left this beautiful book behind.”- Zadie Smith

08/12/2024

A SIMPLE INTERVENTION in the Guardian’s ‘best books to give as gifts this Christmas’ 🎁

Thank you Irenosen Okojie for picking Yael Inokai’s A SIMPLE INTERVENTION for your Christmas stocking

“If Santa’s listening, Yael Inokai’s A Simple Intervention (Peirene Press) will be in my stocking. It’s a fascinating mix of social commentary and personal repercussions from an exciting talent.”

01/12/2024

We’ve just added our 2024 collections to the website, featuring all seven titles published by Peirene in the last twelve months. Currently 10% off in our annual Subscriber Sale!

Get your hands on literary bestsellers from Spain and Germany; a prizewinner from Brazil; an apocalyptic tour de force from one of Europe’s most exciting cult authors; two brilliant young novelists from Switzerland, writing in French and German respectively; and the latest publication in English from the winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2023. All in one package.

Available collections:
⭐️The 2024 novella series, featuring ABOUT UNCLE by Rebecca Gisler, UN AMOR by Sara Mesa and A SIMPLE INTERVENTION by Yael Inokai.
⭐️The 2024 novel collection, featuring four novels published in 2024 ANOMALY by Andrej Nikolaidis, GLÓRIA by Victor Heringer, HALF SWIMMER by Katja Oskamp and DJINNS by Fatma Aydemir.
⭐️The complete 2024 collection, featuring all seven books published by Peirene in 2024, taking you from Brazil to Germany via Montengro, Spain and Switzerland.

30/11/2024

Why subscribe? 👉

Subscribers receive our books before anyone else, and at the best price, all while directly supporting us to keep discovering the best international fiction out there. And even better… All our subscriptions are 25% off during our annual subscriber sale, the only time of the year that we offer a discount on subscriptions 🚀

Our books are sent out to subscribers before they hit the bookshops. Even better, subscribers get discounted shipping and 15% off ALL further purchases! New subscribers receive our latest release, followed by the next two or five books to be published, depending on their subscription.

We select the best writers and stories from around the world and publish them in English translation for curious readers. In the last year, we’ve published books from Thailand, Montenegro, Brazil, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. We know a great novel when we see it.

As an independent publisher, we rely on our subscribers to sustain our work. Their commitment and enthusiasm empowers us to make bold choices and ambitious plans for the future. Subscribe today to help us search for new, exciting authors and translators.

29/11/2024

Introducing our annual Subscriber Sale: the one time in the year that we welcome new subscribers to join our community of readers at a discounted price! 🎁

With Christmas just a month away, this is also the perfect opportunity for existing subscribers and readers to get a head start on present-buying with 25% off gift subscriptions and 10% off collections and new titles.

For four days only, you can get a year’s worth of excellent translated literature for just £51 for six books or £28.50 for three books. Gift subscriptions last one year and you can include a gift note at check out. Christmas gifts will be stamped ‘open on the 25th’. Standard subscriptions renew each year at full price.

27/11/2024

Introducing ON THE GREENWICH LINE by Shady Lewis, translated from Arabic by Katharine Halls.

A witty, surreal novel about memory, migration, London, and its many lost souls.

Published Feb 2025, sent to our subscribers in December 2024 💌

‘I was riveted and charmed by this funny, humane and poignant novel. It’s written in a voice that is as ardent as it is sensitive, one marked by history and yet managing to remain beautifully unruly and independent.’ – Hisham Matar, author of My Friends and The Return

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22/11/2024

And the Jabuti Prize for ‘Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad’ goes to THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN 🐢🏆

“In this short, delicate and irresistible novel, the young Victor Heringer establishes himself as one of the rarest and most interesting authors in our literature.”

Congratulations to the translator James Young and to Thank you for having us. We love you São Paulo ❤️

08/11/2024

Peirene is hiring! 💼

Peirene Press is seeking a part-time Marketing & Administration Assistant to support our co-publishers. The primary responsibilities include ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of our office, collaborating with the co-publishers to devise and deliver marketing and publicity campaigns for our titles, organizing and promoting author and translator events, and helping to manage our e-commerce and website.

Click the link in our bio for more info & how to apply ✨

21/10/2024

OUT TOMORROW A German-Turkish family reckons with a web of secrets in the wake of their father’s death in Istanbul.

DJINNS is a fast-paced family saga about identity, suppressed memory and the demons that hover just out of sight.

Fatma Aydemir has been described as ‘the voice of a generation’ by Der Speigel and is a Guardian Europe columnist in the UK. DJINNS is translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi.

Available now via our website and through bookshops. ✨

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27/09/2024

Londoners, join us on Tuesday to celebrate the launch of A SIMPLE INTERVENTION.

Author Yael Inokai and translator Marielle Sutherland will be in conversation with author Nataliya Deleva . Topics will include Yael’s ambition to write a utopian q***r love story, her drive to write nursing and care work back into literature, and both authors’ interest in ideas of ‘normalcy’ and institutional settings.

See you there at 18.30 💙

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25/09/2024

Calling Bristolians, Bathonians, So’westers ☎️

Join us at Bookhaus in Bristol on October 2 to celebrate the UK publication of Yael Inokai’s A SIMPLE INTERVENTION, translated by Marielle Sutherland. Author & translator will be in conversation—there will be drinks.

Book tickets via Bookhaus (link in bio) 🎟️

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17/09/2024

We’re celebrating the launch of Katja Oskamp’s HALF SWIMMER with a giveaway 🏊‍♀️

This is a chance to win a copy of Oskamp’s latest novel, HALF SWIMMER, and the Dublin Literary Award winning MARZAHN, MON AMOUR for yourself and a friend. Both books are translated from German by Jo Heinrich, and are brimming with Oskamp’s trademark warm, irreverent humour.

To enter –
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Step 2. Share this post 🫴
Step 3. Tag a fellow book lover in the comments 🤝

The winner will be picked at random on Friday (12pm). Best of luck to you! 🤞

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Happy publication day to GLÓRIA by Victor Heringer, translated by Sophie Lewis (@sophietimes) & James Young (@seeadarkness)!!! We’re so proud to be the UK publisher of V.H., a remarkable & unique writer. Thank you to everyone who was a part of bringing this book into English. This is a video that Heringer, a properly restless artist, created to mark the publication of GLÓRIA in Brazil twelve years ago. He was twenty-four years old when the book came out. Thanks to James Young for the subtitling. https://www.peirenepress.com/shop/books-2/gloria/

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"Two-hour books to be devoured in a single sitting: literary cinema for those fatigued by film." TLS