Istros books is a London-based independent publisher of writers from South-East Europe and the Balkans, in English translation. It was set up in 2011 by Susan Curtis.

Publications

Notable publications include: *''Doppelgänger'' by Daša Drndić (Croatia), translated by

Celia Hawkesworth Celia Hawkesworth (born 1942) is an author, lecturer, and translator of Serbo-Croatian. Biography Celia Hawkesworth graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1964 and was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in Belgrade for 10 mo ...

& S.D. Curtis, 2018. Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2019). *''

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent ''Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent'' () is a novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It is based on Eliade's time in high-school and tells the story of a precocious teenager with literary ambitions. The book was written in the 1920s when Eli ...

'' (2016) and '' Gaudeamus'' (2018) by

Mircea Eliade Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religiou ...

(Romania), translated by Christopher Moncrieff and Christopher Bartholomew. *''Exile'' by

Çiler İlhan Çiler İlhan is a Turkish-Dutch writer. She studied International Relations and Political Science at Boğaziçi University and hotel management at the Glion Hotel School in Switzerland. She has variously worked as an hotelier, a writer and an ed ...

(Turkey), translated by Aysegul Tososer Artes, winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''The Son'' by Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro), translated by Will Firth, 2013. The original work was a winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''Life Begins on Friday'' by Ioana Pârvulescu (Romania), translated by Alistair Ian Blythe, with an afterword by Mircea Cărtărescu, winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2013. *''Quiet Flows the Una'' by Faruk Šehić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2016. The original work was a winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2013. *''Fairground Magician'' by

Jelena Lengold Jelena Lengold (born 1959 in Kruševac) is a Serbian poet, novelist and journalist. A longtime cultural reporter for Radio Belgrade, Lengold has published a number of books, including poetry, novels, and short stories. Her short story collection ...

(Serbia), translated by Celia Hawkesworth, 2013. The original work was a winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011.

Other authors

Other authors that Istros Books have published include:

Dušan Šarotar Dušan Šarotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor. He was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He has publ ...

, Robert Perišić, Julio Llamazares, Aleš Šteger, Ognjen Spahić, Goran Vojnović, Srećko Horvat,

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New ...

Alek Popov Alek Popov ( bg, Алек Попов) is a Bulgarian novelist, short story writer, essayist and scriptwriter, author of the novel ''Mission London''. Alek Popov was born in Sofia in 1966.

, Marija Knežević, Octavian Paler, Ayfer Tunç,

Evald Flisar Evald Flisar (born 13 February 1945) is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright, editor and translator. He was president of the Slovene Writers' Association for three consecutive terms between 1995 and 2002 and is editor-in-chief of the literary and ...

and Marinko Koščec.

References

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