Ediciones de la Ura

Ediciones de la Ura is a Paraguayan collective publisher focused primarily on literature, but also in other forms of art.

History

The publisher was born in 1997, when several independent artists from Asunción gathered in the bar Circo Bizarro, Sajonia, to talk about their art. It was officially created in 2000 with the name Ediciones de la Ura. The publisher would be called Nhanderuvuçu, the main God from Guarani mythology, but it was named over Dermatobia hominis, a parasitic fly that is easily mistaken with moths. It inicially received help from the publisher Arandura.

Content

Ediciones de la Ura focuses primarily on literature, but also produces music, videos photographs, and others. One of their most important publications was Xirú, from Damián Cabrera.