As part of its program, JILF looks to accommodate encounters of global publishers where they can hold an exchange of knowledge as well as embarking on a cooperation in form of trading of rights. Through Book Rights Fair, publishers may introduce the best works of Global South literature to the world, and to each other.
Participants
International
Giramondo Publishing
Name: Mrs. Emily Stewart
Company Name: Giramondo Publishing
Country: Australia
Website: www.giramondopublishing.com
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Giramondo Publishing is an award-winning literary publisher of fiction, nonfiction and poetry based at Western Sydney University. We specialise in poetry, essays, creative non-fiction, and novels which push the limits of what fiction can achieve. Our books also often work across genres. Many have been published overseas and in translation. In return, we have published authors from China, India, France, Germany, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico and Argentina. Because of our geographical location, we have a special interest in literature of the Asian region, and have recently inaugurated a series called Southern Latitudes, devoted to writing from the southern hemisphere. Norman Erikson Pasaribu is the first Indonesian author we have included in this growing list. Another of our series, called Giramondo Shorts, promotes the shorter forms of literature, particularly the essay and the novella. As an independent literary publisher which enjoys support from the Australia Council and Western Sydney University, Giramondo is able to take risks, and to concentrate on literary quality. We are driven by ideas and by a cultural mission based on recognition and reciprocity, as much as by the imperatives of the marketplace.
Instance
Name: Mr. Junhua Feng
Company Name: Instance
Country: China
Genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Instance (副本制作) is the earliest independent publishing house in mainland China, founded in 2009 by Junhua Feng. It is distinctive from state-owned publishing houses, self-printing publication for a specific community and individual self-printing practice. Instance remains a “one-person publishing house” for the past 10 years. There is only Junhua Feng doing all the planning, publishing and sustaining. By 2019, Instance has collaborated with 85 authors, translators, editors and artists, published 125 books or pamphlets, ranging from novels, poetry, oral history, art, politics and social thoughts. The main idea of Instance is to make publication the bridge for different interest groups to connect.
The Ishmael Tree
Name: Mrs. Gigi Ishmael
Company Name: The Ishmael Tree
Country: USA
Website: www.ishmaeltreebooks.com
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
The Ishmael Tree is a boutique publishing house rooted in the literary capital of the world. We bring you the world’s best diverse books in popular culture.
Kalem Agency
Name: Mrs. Nermin Mollaoglu
Company Name: Kalem Agency
Country: Turkey
Website: www.kalemagency.com
Genre: Children Book, Fiction
Mayurpankhi Publishing
Name: Mrs. Mitia Osman Tisma
Company Name: Mayurpankhi Publishing
Country: Bangladesh
Website: www.mayurpankhi.com
Genre: Children Book
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Mayurpankhi ( Children Book Publisher) Mayurpankhi is a Dhaka, Bangladesh based publishing house specializing in children books. It began publishing child-focused, parent –friendly children books in 2014 with the aim of creating books that encourage children to read for pleasure. It publishes high quality illustrated books for children aged from 0-14 by well-known authors and illustrators and by new talent. Founded in 2014, it has already achieved the prestigious award in publishing for publication of most qualitative and standard books for children by Bangla Academy. Myurpankhi publishes high-quality books for children with a goal of creating a lifelong learner. Our books encourage children for reading and discovery in the classroom, library and home. We believe that books for children should offer accurate information, promote a positive worldview and embrace a child’s sense of wonder and fun. To this end, we continually strive to seek new voices, new visions and new directions in children literature.
Publishing House Prozart Media
Name: Mr. Dejan Trajkoski
Company Name: Publishing House Prozart Media
Country: Macedonia
Website: www.prozart.mk and www.prozabalkan.mk
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Publishing house Prozart media is established by Macedonian writer, editor and literature festival director, Mr. Dejan Trajkoski. We are organizers of the renowned International literature festival “PRO-ZA Balkan” and organizers of “Skopje fellowship program” held within the frame of the festival. Our aim is to publish quality translated books, to promote them using innovative approaches, but also to help towards transnational circulation and mobility of works, ideas, authors and publishers. Prozart media catalog includes one of the best contemporary writers from Balkan – Iskender Pala from Turkey, legendary Serbian writer Svetislav Basara, one of best Bulgarian writers – Alek Popov, iconic Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic, as well as Macedonian writers and lot of translated fiction and YA titles from Europe, Americas, Arabic countries… We are collaborating with almost all book stores, publishing houses and libraries in our country. We are selling the books via online bookstores too. Prozart media also serve as Literature agency, promoting several of best Macedonian authors.
Synopsis:
The novel “Homunkulus: The fairy tales from the left pocket” is winner of the prestigious Balkan literature award “Balkanika” in 2012. It is published by: UK, “Istros books” Italia, “Besa” Serbia, “Geopoetika” Poland, “Toczka” Bulgaria, “Ciela Norma” Croatia, “Fraktura” Turkey, “Pinhan Egypt, “Al Arabi”
Sefsafa Publishing
Name: Mr. Mohamed ELBAALY
Company Name: Sefsafa Publishing
Country: Egypt
Website: http://www.sefsafa.net/ar/
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Sefsafa Publishing is a young independent Publishing House established 2011, since then Sefsafa has published more than 200 titles and organized many activities proved to be one of the most active small cultural entities in Egypt. Sefsafa Publishing translated more than 80 titles (fiction & non-fiction) from 20 languages including: Irish, Slovak, German, English and Indonesian. We like to describe our-self as a progressive publishers, support the freedeom of publishing and ideas of Enlightenment. One of our non-fiction titles: “Temptation of Absolute Power” won a prize (the Ahmed Bhaa El-Din prize) in 2010, and one of our novels “Al-Hareem” won the Cairo International Book Fair award for best novel in 2015. Sefsafa distributes through the independent bookstores in Egypt and Arab countries, also through Arab and international book fairs.
Speaking Tiger Publishing
Name: Mrs. Renuka Chatterjee
Company Name: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd
Country: India
Website: www.speakingtigerbooks.com
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Renuka Chatterjee started out as a journalist with the Times of India in the late ‘80s, and helped launch The Saturday Times, the country’s first colour weekend supplement. She switched tracks to enter publishing in 1992 as Associate Editor with Penguin Books, and publishing has been her home ever since. After Penguin, she has been editor-in-chief of HarperCollins India and subsequently, Roli Books and Westland Ltd. She is currently Vice-President, Publishing, with Speaking Tiger Publishing, an independent publishing house with a focus on quality fiction and non-fiction.
Verso
Name: Mr. Cian Mc Court
Company Name: Verso
Country: UK
Website: www.versobooks.com
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year. Verso publishes widely in politics, history, philosophy and feminism. Verso also has a growing list of fiction, much of which is in translation.
Indonesia
Penerbit Baca
Banana Press
Name: Mr. Risdianto
Company Name: Banana Press
Genre: Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Banana started as a publishing house focused on translated works, but for the last five years shift to bring most prominent contemporary voice in Indonesian literature. The fiction titles we released such as Raden Mandasia Si Pencuri Daging Sapi, Kiat Sukses Hancur Lebur, and Kura-kura Berjanggut won numerous national awards.
Bookslife
Name: Mrs. Dewi fita Suryani
Company Name: Bookslife
Website: www.bookslife.co
Genre: Children Book, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
We are the first digital publisher in Indonesia. We are the platform that provide good and affordable e-book for readers.
Buku Mojok
Name: Mr. Sunody Arizona
Company Name: Buku Mojok
Website: www.bukumojok.com
Genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Buku Mojok (Bumo) has established on 2016 at Yogyakarta, with the purpose to be involved in providing critical, entertaining, and healthy reading material. We want to present as a publisher that could contribute the improvement of Indonesia Literacy. Until now, Buku Mojok has published fiction and nonfiction books.
Gramedia Publishers
Name: Mrs. Wedha Stratesti Yudha
Company Name: Gramedia Publishers
Website: www.gpu.id
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Established in 1974, Gramedia Pustaka Utama has since become one of the leading publisher in Indonesia; home to many award-winning books and authors for more than 40 years. Our core-business focusing on the publication of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and cookbook. We publish more than 1,500 titles in a year, many of them are national bestsellers and have been awarded with national and international prizes, including the ones from the Association of Indonesian Publisher’s Award, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Prince Claus Awards, Liberaturpreis Germany, World Reader’s Award, and the Man Booker International Prize’s nomination. Today, with approximately 30,000 titles published, and through cooperation with more than 200 leading foreign publishers around the world, Gramedia Pustaka Utama has solidified its position as one of the best publishers in Indonesia.
Kesaint Blanc
Name: Mrs. Adeline Bangun
Company Name: Kesaint Blanc
Website: www.kesaintblanc.co.id
Genre: Children Book, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Kesaint Blanc Publishing is the leading foreign language-learning publisher in Indonesia. We have been providing Indonesian materials to learn foreign languages since 1988 and we are also the number one provider for materials that help expatriates learn Bahasa Indonesia for business and travel purpose. Kesaint Blanc publishing has published other book genres as well, including children books and has developed an extensive distribution network with distribution centers in major cities across Indonesia.
Marjin Kiri
Name: Mrs. Pradewi Tri Chatami
Company Name: Marjin Kiri
Website: www.marjinkiri.com
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Founded in 2005, Marjin Kiri (which literally means “left margin”) is an independent publisher dedicated to fostering critical/leftist thinking within the academia and general readers. In the midst of increasingly commercial publishing world, Marjin Kiri was known for publishing titles or themes that were overlooked by mainstream publishers, and it has gained considerable reviews from the Indonesian press and readers for the quality of its books. Marjin Kiri mostly publishes on humanities and social theory, political-economy, history, cultural studies, ecology, and literature.
Mizan Group
Name: Mrs. Shera Diva Sihbudi
Company Name: Mizan Group
Website: www.mizan.com
Genre: Children Book, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Mizan Group is one of the most prominent publishing groups in Indonesia. It was established in 1983 and has been growing ever since with more than 20 imprints, and currently could be regarded as a trade publishers group which publishes books in many genres. We have published the works of many bestselling Indonesian authors, both fiction and nonfiction, such as Andrea Hirata, Dee Lestari, Seno Gumira Ajidarma and Sujiwo Tejo. Furthermore, Mizan Group has translated many books written by renowned bestselling authors such as Michelle Obama, Harper Lee, Kazuo Ishiguro, JK. Rowling, Jostein Gaarder, Karen Armstrong, Malala Yousafzai, Walter Isaacson and many more.
POST Press
Name: Mr. Teddy W Kusuma
Company Name: POST Press
Website: https://www.postbookshop.com/
Genre: Children Book, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
POST Press was founded in 2016. We strive to bring books that we truly love to the right readers. We choose to do things in a small yet passionate way; only publish two or three tittles per year, utilize independent sales and distribution means, and promote the books and authors in the long run. We are partial to fiction, narrative non fiction, and at times, poetry. The only requirement is that we absolutely love the book.
Republika Penerbit
Name: Mrs. Indriani Grantika
Company Name: Republika Penerbit
Website: https://bukurepublika.id/
Genre: Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
We had started out as a division of national newspaper, Harian Umum Republika, and expanded our business to a book publishing company, Republika Penerbit. We are committed to formulate the best way to guide authors in transforming their ideas into high quality reading materials and publish books with genres ranging from religious, nonfiction, biography, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, fantasy, picture books, to comics. We now have four imprints with missions to entertain and inspire our readers, and to make a positive impact on readers of all ages with our books.
Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Name: Mrs. Dian Andiani
Company Name: Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Website: www.obor.or.id
Genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction
Publisher/Agent Profile:
Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, a modestly sized philanthropy active in the field of cultural and intellectual development through scholarly publishing. It’s initial focus to publish books from various languages into the Indonesian language. Among its main interest is books on human and democratic rights of the people. Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia was set up as an Indonesian legal entity in 1978. The Obor Indonesia office coordinates the careful work of translation and revision. An editorial Board is in charge of program selection. Books are published locally and placed on the market at a low subsidized price within reach of students and the general reader. Obor also plays a service role, helping specialized organizations bring out their research in book form. It is the Purpose of Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, to widen and develop the perspective of Indonesia’s growing intellectual community, by publishing in Bahasa Indonesia — and other appropriate languages — literate and socially significant works.
