La Segona Perifèria
Catalan independent publishing house founded in 2022, releasing about ten books a year of contemporary fiction and non-fiction in Catalan.
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Overview
La Segona Perifèria is an independent Catalan publishing house founded in 2022 by the editor and writer Miquel Adam. It publishes around ten books a year of narrative and non-fiction in Catalan, focusing on current and contemporary titles, both by Catalan and foreign authors who are little known or rarely translated. The publisher's first two titles were the novels Tot demana salvació by Daniele Mencarelli, translated by Pau Vidal, and Divorci i aventura by Leticia Asenjo. Since then it has published Catalan authors such as Antoni Veciana (Nicolau, 2022), Miquel Bonet (Periodisme de contacte, 2022 and El dia de l'escórpora, 2024), Anna Pazos (Matar el nervi, 2023) and Damià Bardera (S'obre el teló, 2023). In foreign fiction it has published authors including Etgar Keret, Bernardine Evaristo, Magda Szabó and Hal Bennett. In non-fiction it has published authors such as Carlo Maria Cipolla and Stefan Zweig, among others. The publisher's website presents its catalogue with endorsements from writers such as Aixa de la Cruz, Víctor Pérez i Flores, Max Porter, Quim Monzó, Sergi Pàmies, Stephen King, Núria Cadenes, Herman Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Irene Solà and Colson Whitehead, and highlights new releases such as Els quatre van passar el dia junts by Chris Kraus, translated by Ferran Ràfols Gesa.
History
La Segona Perifèria was founded in 2022 by the editor and writer Miquel Adam. It is an independent Catalan publishing house that publishes around ten books a year of narrative and non-fiction in Catalan, focusing on current and contemporary titles, both by Catalan and foreign authors who are little known or rarely translated. The first two titles it presented were the novels Tot demana salvació by Daniele Mencarelli, translated by Pau Vidal, and Divorci i aventura by Leticia Asenjo. Since then, it has published Catalan authors such as Antoni Veciana (Nicolau, 2022), Miquel Bonet (Periodisme de contacte, 2022 and El dia de l'escórpora, 2024), Anna Pazos (Matar el nervi, 2023) and Damià Bardera (S'obre el teló, 2023). In the field of foreign fiction, it has published authors such as Etgar Keret, Bernardine Evaristo, Magda Szabó and Hal Bennett. As for non-fiction, it has published authors such as Carlo Maria Cipolla and Stefan Zweig, among others. The publisher's website features endorsements from various writers and highlights new releases, including Els quatre van passar el dia junts by Chris Kraus, translated by Ferran Ràfols Gesa.
- 2024
Publishes El dia de l'escórpora by Miquel Bonet.
- 2023
Publishes Matar el nervi by Anna Pazos and S'obre el teló by Damià Bardera.
- 2022
La Segona Perifèria is founded by Miquel Adam.
- 2022
Publishes first two titles: Tot demana salvació by Daniele Mencarelli and Divorci i aventura by Leticia Asenjo.
- 2022
Publishes Nicolau by Antoni Veciana and Periodisme de contacte by Miquel Bonet.
Products and positioning
Independent Catalan publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on little-known or rarely translated authors.
2022
Tot demana salvació
2022
Divorci i aventura
2022
Nicolau
2022
Periodisme de contacte
2023
Matar el nervi
2023
S'obre el teló
2024
El dia de l'escórpora
Els quatre van passar el dia junts
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