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PUBLISHERS OF LITERARY FICTION SINCE 1983

Our Authors & Translators

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Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was an English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also...
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Isabella Panfido

Isabella Panfido, who has a degree in Russian Literature and Language, lives and works in Venice and the Veneto. An...
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Kostas Papanikolaou

Kostas Papanikolaou is a painter and book illustrator who lives and works in Athens. Born in 1959 he trained at...
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Robin Patterson

Robin Patterson came late to literary translating, having previously pursued a legal career in various parts of the world. He...
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Rowan Pelling

Rowan Pelling was the Editor of the Erotic Review and one of the Mann Booker Prize judges for 2004. She...
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Antonio Pennacchi

Antonio Pennacchi spent most of his life in Latina outside Rome, where he was born in 1950.He died 3 August...
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Howard Penning

Howard Penning is an artist and sculptor working in Vancouver, Canada. His painting Empty headed was used for the cover...
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Natasha Perova

Natasha Perova, translator, editor, publisher, literary agent. A philology graduate of Moscow University she worked in publishing houses producing Russian...
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Catherine Petit

Belgian born French translator who has translated for Dedalus Alice, the Sausage with her husband Paul Buck.
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Nick Phillips

New Zealand translator and academic who collaborated with Margaret Jull Costa with the translation from Portuguese of The Mystery of...
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Kathryn Phillips-Miles

Kathryn Phillips-Miles has enjoyed a wide-ranging career including teaching, translation, lexicography and finance, and has spent several years living and...
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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973), often referred to simply as Picasso, was a Spanish painter...
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Stephen Pimenoff

Stephen Pimenoff was born in Montreal in 1948 of Russian and Estonian parents. He read English and Mathematics at McGill...
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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)was born in Sicily in a prosperous middle-class family. After studying at Palermo, Rome and Bonn universities he...
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Jan Potocki

Jan Potocki (1761-1815) was a Polish aristocrat and a great traveller. He published several accounts of his journeys to distant...
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Wiesiek Powaga

Wiesiek Powaga was born in Poland in 1958. In 1981 after martial law was declared he settled in London where...
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Abbe Prevost

Abbe Prevost (1697-1763) had a very eventful life, including a spell in an English prison for forgery. At one time...
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Annie A Prime

Annie A Prime is a prize-winning translator of children's fiction from Swedish into English. She is translating the four volume...
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Martin Prinz

Martin Prinz is a young Austrian writer (born 1973), who is also a keen marathon runner, so the theme of...
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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin(1799-1837) is regarded as Russia's greatest poet. From an aristocratic family he was dismissed from government service for his...
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