Gazebo Books is announcing an exciting new partnership with international publisher Seagull Books to bring an impressive list of literary translations to the Australian and New Zealand market.
Seagull Books is widely considered one of the world’s most respected publishers of literature in English translation. Based in Kolkata, with offices in London and New York, it publishes over 50 books a year, almost 80 per cent of which are translations from various languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Bengali, among others.
Titles destined for our shores include Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan’s comic masterpiece POW!, Palestinian poet and novelist Ghassan Zaqtan’s lyrical novel Where the Bird Disappeared and Marguerite Duras’s secret confession Suspended Passion. New books by Pascal Quignard and Israel’s Rachel Shihor are other standouts.
Gazebo’s co-founder and publisher Xavier Hennekinne says: “Since the 1980s, Seagull Books has commissioned and published the translation of literary treasures from around the world. This is a perfect partnership to further Gazebo’s mission of bringing literature that spans different cultures and languages to readers in Australia and New Zealand.”
Seagull’s founder and publisher Naveen Kishore says: “Now more than ever it has become imperative to understand each other — through exchanges across languages, cultures, ways of being — and what better way of doing this than translated literature, which allows words to travel and be read and understood. We look forward to this new initiative with Gazebo, helping to bring the best of world literature to Australia and New Zealand.”
Full list of titles coming in 2021 and 2022
Oct 2021
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard
The Great Fall by Peter Handke
The Roving Shadows by Pascal Quignard
Yankinton by Rachel Shihor
Days of Peace by Rachel Shihor
Describing the Past by Ghassan Zaqtan
Where the Bird Disappeared by Ghassan Zaqtan
Nov 2021
Pow! by Mo Yan
Feb 2022
Drilling Through Hard Boards by Alexander Kluge
Correspondence – Bachmann & Celan by Paul Celan & Ingeborg Bachmann
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99 by Anselm Kiefer
August by Christa Wolf
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
Night Music by Theodor W Adorno
Suspended Passion by Marguerite Duras
Mar 2022
Selected Essays by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
On Tarrying by Joseph Vogl
A Season in the Congo by Aime Cesaire
Tomb(e) by Helene Cixous
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer by Maryse Conde
The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy
Change by Mo Yan
Apr 2022
An Answer from the Silence by Max Frisch
Mr Adamson by Urs Widmer
The Jew Car by Fuhmann Franz
What Was Before by Martin Mosebach
Apostoloff by Sibylle Lewitscharoff
May 2022
Fire Doesn’t Burn by Ralf Rothmann
The Village Indian by Abbas Khider
The King of China by Tilman Rammstedt
Collected Poems by Georg Trakl
Rubble Flora by Volker Braun
Three Plays by Elfriede Jelinek
Holderlin by Peter Weiss
Three Plays by Heiner Müller
Herbert by Nabarun Bhattacharya
Mirror of Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi
Jun 2022
The Silences of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
I by Wolfgang Hilbig
Only a Lodger… And Hardly That by Vesna Main
Little Grey Lies by Hedi Daddour
All titles will be available in bookstores across Australia and New Zealand or buy them online here.
