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And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign language reading groups to choose the books that it publishes. The company originally operated from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but is now based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In 2012, it was nominated for the Newcomer of the Year award by the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG).
History
And Other Stories was founded in 2009 by Stefan Tobler.
And Other Stories first came to the public's attention when its first book, Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (translated by Rosalind Harvey), was chosen by the public to be one of the 10 titles longlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award. It went on to make the shortlist and has also been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Deborah Levy's Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, as well as UK Author of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2012. and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013.
And Other Stories was nominated for and subsequently won Publisher of the Year in the 2011 3:AM Magazine Awards.
List of books
All the Lights by Clemens Meyer
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Open Door by Iosi Havilio
Happiness is Possible by Oleg Zaionchkovsky
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro
Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Black Vodka by Deborah Levy
Captain of the Steppe by Oleg Pavlov
All Dogs are Blue by Rodrigo de Souza Leão
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Paradises by Iosi Havilio
Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavić
References
External links
Official website
Peet, Lisa (18 February 2010). "And Other Stories: Publishing by Forum". Open Letters Monthly: Like Fire. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
Evers, Stuart (1 October 2010). "Reasons to be cheerful about literature in translation". theguardian.com. London. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
Levy, Deborah (16 March 2012). "Thérèse and Isabelle, By Violette Leduc, trans. Sophie Lewis". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
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