Modernista Presentation 2014 (English)

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in 2002, Modernista has in a little more than a decade established itself as one of Sweden’s leading general interest trade publishing houses, releasing about 100 titles a year and with a backlist now comprising more than 600 titles. The focus is on the best in fic­tion, non-fiction, modern crime and teen books.

We take pride in successfully seeking out new innovators of the crime genre, such as Gillian Flynn, Belinda Bauer, Sharon Bolton, Peter May, Alex Marwood and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, as well as translating and publishing the best in young adult fiction: Veronica Roth, Samantha Shannon, Karen Bao, Marie Lu, Sarah Rees Brennan, Ann Aguirre and Victoria Aveyard.

We also have a strong market presence in trans­ lating the classic European and American literary canon. Our catalogue includes authors such as Marguerite Duras, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Genet, Henry James, Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Hélène Cixous, Margaret Drabble, Witold Gombrowicz, Don DeLillo, Judith Butler, Inger Christen­sen, Cormac McCarthy, Simone de Beauvoir and William H. Gass.

Our new editions of the Swedish translations of classic world fiction, poetry and drama always include a newly written preface by a leading Swedish author, critic or scholar, and we have a recurring cooperation with members of The Swedish Academy, such as Horace Engdahl, Katarina Frostenson and Anders Olsson.

Our list of world fiction includes works by Ian Rankin, Samuel Beckett, James Ellroy, Gertrude Stein, Cees Nooteboom, George Pelecanos, Denise Mina, Julio Cortázar, Charlotte & Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Koestler, OUNDED

The Modernista founders: Lars Sundh (creative director) and Pietro Maglio ( publisher). Photo by Hans Gedda.

William S. Burroughs, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Susan Hill, Malcolm Lowry, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, António Lobo Antunes, Ismail Kadare and many others.

Naturally, we also publish new Swedish fiction and poetry. Our commitment to seeking out the talents of an emergent generation of Swedish ­authors was perhaps our strongest early trait, and it has resulted in no less than 7 winners of Bo­rås Tidnings Debutantpris and Katapultpriset; the lea­ ding awards for Swedish debut authors.

Our output includes all the digital formats, and most titles are printed in both hard cover and paperback, to maximize dissemination.

Modernista is fully independent, and is owned by its founders Pietro Maglio, publisher, and Lars Sundh, award-winning creative director. • modernista | 3

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M O D E R N I S TA G R O U P A B

Kvarngatan 10, se- 1 18 4 7 Stockholm, Sweden phone: +46 -8-702 0 4 1 1

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e-mail: pietro@modernista.se

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e-mail: par@modernista.se

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