Bringing stories from different parts of the world, Gazebo has an exciting new list of literary and poetry releases

2022 is set to be Gazebo’s biggest year yet, with more than a dozen new international literary titles to be released from an exciting line-up of award-winning and emerging authors.

Notable titles include the highly lyrical debut novel Letter to Petya Dubarova from South African poet Abigail George, the enchanting Seasons in Hippoland by Kenya’s Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ, and first-time English translations of The Mud of a Century by prize-winning Japanese author Yūka Ishii (trans. Haydn Trowell) and Écrivains, savants et philosophes font le tour du monde by French philosopher Michel Serres (trans. Gila Walker).

Also from Gazebo’s poetry imprint Life Before Man comes Alcatraz, an international anthology of prose poetry edited by Australia’s Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington and Phil Day, and Knotted Grief, the debut poetry collection of renowned Indian publisher Naveen Kishore.

Other books coming in 2022 include:

    –  Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s latest work Fury (trans. Gitta Honegger)

    –  Twilight of Torment: Melancholy, the first of a two-volume novel of unparalleled power and sensuality by prize-winning Cameroonian author Léonora Miano (trans. Gila Walker)

    –  Blind Spot, a searing memoir by French-Ethiopian author Myriam Tadessé (trans. Gila Walker)

    –  A book of graphic short stories by Australian cartoonist Mandy Ord, following her Stella Prize long-listed When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over in 2020

    –  Catherine Rey’s memoir, Contemplations on Love

    –  Xavier Hennekinne’s new novel, Unequal Loves

All titles will be available in bookstores across Australia and New Zealand or buy them online here.