Bitter Lemon Press is a small London-based

independent publisher A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is general ...

, set up by Francois von Hurter in 2003 which specialises in translated literary crime novels and romans noirs from abroad. They currently publish novels by authors such as

Gianrico Carofiglio Gianrico Carofiglio (born 30 May 1961) is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, ''Involuntary Witness'', published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bi ...

, the famous Swiss crime-writer

Friedrich Glauser Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896 in Vienna – 8 December 1938 in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel ''Gourrama'', written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his o ...

Saskia Noort Saskia Noort (born 13 April 1967 in Bergen, North Holland) is a Dutch crime-writer and freelance journalist. She has written articles for the Dutch editions of Marie Claire and Playboy as well as publishing three novels, '' The Dinner Club'' pu ...

, and the award-winning Cuban writer

Leonardo Padura Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often refe ...

. Several of the novels published have gone on to win or be shortlisted for awards such as the

Crime Writers' Association The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. T ...

Gold Dagger The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year. From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From ...

and the Dublin IMPAC Awardbr>
More recently Bitter Lemon has also been publishing books originally in English from such authors as

Iain Levison Iain Levison is a Scottish American, Scottish-American writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. Biography Levison graduated from Villanova University, where he received an English degree that became part of the premise for his first commercia ...

, Elwood Reid and Garry Disher.

References

External links

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