Here's an interesting new fiction-in-translation publisher: Frisch & Co. who:
Partnering with venerable German mega-publisher Suhrkamp, one of their first two offerings is ambitious indeed: Uwe Tellkamp's massive, German Book Award-winning novel, Der Turm ('The Tower') (which begs the question: how did Suhrkamp not manage to place this with any traditional US or UK publisher -- even as it has been translated into over a dozen other languages ... (see their foreign rights page).
Sweet timing, however: just as they announce the first two publications the author of the second, Anna Kim, takes one of the dozen 2012 European Union Prizes for Literature (see also my mention above).
will publish contemporary foreign fiction in English-language translation for e-book reading devices.Yes, they're going all-e -- no accompanying print editions. Is that the future ? Will that make fiction in translation more attractive to readers ? (Not this reader, I'm afraid: the more e-books I'm confronted with, the less I'm enjoying them -- but that's a technological hurdle that will at, some point, be overcome. Not for a while, however, I fear .....)
Partnering with venerable German mega-publisher Suhrkamp, one of their first two offerings is ambitious indeed: Uwe Tellkamp's massive, German Book Award-winning novel, Der Turm ('The Tower') (which begs the question: how did Suhrkamp not manage to place this with any traditional US or UK publisher -- even as it has been translated into over a dozen other languages ... (see their foreign rights page).
Sweet timing, however: just as they announce the first two publications the author of the second, Anna Kim, takes one of the dozen 2012 European Union Prizes for Literature (see also my mention above).