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.

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.
 * 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.