Peirene Press
Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in Bath. Established by the novelist and journalist Meike Ziervogel, Peirene publishes literary fiction in translation from all over the world. Their books are regularly listed for significant UK literary and translation prizes, including the International Booker Prize, and in 2023 they won the International Dublin Literary Award with Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, translated from German by Jo Heinrich.
The Stevns Translation Prize is jointly run by Peirene Press and Two Lines Press. It is an annual prize for emerging translators.
List of books
2010 – Female Voice
Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius2011 – Male Dilemma
Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki Tomorrow Pamplona by Jan van Mersbergen Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig2012 – Small Epic
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe2013 – Turning Point
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke Mr Darwin's Gardener by Kristina Carlson Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall2014 – Coming of Age
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik Under the Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda2015 – Chance Encounter
White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen Reader for Hire by Raymond Jean The Looking-Glass Sisters by Gøhril Gabrielsen2016 – Fairy Tale
The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst Her Father's Daughter by Marie Sizun The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift2017 – East and West
The Last Summer by Ricarda Huch The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay Dance by the Canal by Kerstin Hensel2018 – Home in Exile
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė And the Wind Sees All by Guðmundur Andri Thorsson and Andrew Cauthery2019 – There Be Monsters
Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano2020 – Closed Universe
Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini Ankomst by Gøhril Gabrielsen The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili2021 – Metamorphoses
- Peirene #34 – Nordic Fauna by Andrea Lundgren
- Peirene #35 – Yesterday by Juan Emar
- Peirene #36 – Winter Flowers by Angélique Villeneuve
2022
Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić2023
History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer As the Eagle Flies by Nolwenn Le Blevennec Venom by Saneh Sangsuk The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk2024
About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis Un Amor by Sara Mesa Glória by Victor Heringer Half Swimmer by Katja Oskamp A Simple Intervention by Yael Inokai Djinns by Fatma Aydemir2025
On the Greenwich Line by Shady Lewis Iron Lung by Kirstine Reffstrup Friends and Lovers by Nolwenn Le Blevennec Supporting Act by Agnes Lidbeck Four by Four by Sara Mesa Sea Now by Eva Meijer Imagine Breaking Everything by Lina Munar GuevaraOther titles
breach by Olúmìdé Pópóọlá and Annie HolmesThe Cut by Anthony Cartwright- ''Shatila Stories''
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.