Europa Editions UK is an independent British publishing house. It was founded in 2011 by Sandro Ferri and Sandra Ozzola Ferri, the owners and publishers of the Italian press company Edizioni E/O. In a 2013 interview, Sandro Ferri said the company was "born with the intention to create bridges between cultures." Europa is directed by Eva Ferri and

Christopher Potter Christopher Potter (1591 – 3 March 1646) was an English academic and clergyman, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, controversialist and prominent supporter of William Laud. Life He was born in Westmoreland, the nephew of Barnaby Potter. ...

while Daniela Petracco manages publicity, marketing and sales.

Notable publications

Europa published Elena Ferrante's

Neapolitan Novels The Neapolitan Novels, also known as the Neapolitan Quartet, are a four-part series of fiction by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, published originally by Edizioni e/o, translated into English by Ann Goldstein, and published by Eu ...

from 2012 to 2015. The series was adapted into a two-part play by

April De Angelis April De Angelis (born April 1960) is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School. De Angelis began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the Monstrous Regimen ...

at the

Rose Theatre, Kingston The Rose Theatre Kingston is a theatre on Kingston High Street in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The theatre seats 822 around a wide, thrust stage. It officially opened on 16 January 2008 with ''Uncle Vanya'' by Anton Chekhov, with ...

in March 2017. The first book in the series has also been adapted into an HBO television series entitled '' My Brilliant Friend''. Writers published by Europa include

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, b ...

Négar Djavadi Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an Iranian- French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel '' Disoriental (Désorientale)''.Dalia Sofer"A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile" ''The New ...

Deborah Eisenberg Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University. Early life Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family is Jewish. She grew up in su ...

Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. I ...

Saleem Haddad Saleem Haddad (born 1983) is an author, filmmaker and aid worker of Iraqi-German and Palestinian-Lebanese descent, whose debut novel ''Guapa'' was published in 2016. Early life Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City in 1983 to a Lebanese-Palest ...

Jean-Claude Izzo Jean-Claude Izzo (Marseille 20 June 1945 – Marseille 26 January 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels ''Total Chaos'', ...

, Amelie Nothomb,

Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...

, and

Eric Emmanuel Schmitt The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

. Europa entered the YA landscape with the publication of ''A Winter's Promise'' by Christelle Dabos, translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.

Imprints

Tonga books was an innovative editorial enterprise undertaken by Europa Editions in collaboration with American author

Alice Sebold Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American author. She is known for her novels ''The Lovely Bones'' and '' The Almost Moon'', and a memoir, '' Lucky''. ''The Lovely Bones'' was on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list and was adapte ...

, who acquired and edited four works of fiction published by Europa under the series name Tonga Books. In 2013, Europa launched its series of international crime fiction, Europa World Noir. ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote that the series signaled Europa's "reaffirmed enthusiasm for noir."^{7/sup> Notable titles in the series include Gene Kerrigan's Gold Dagger Award-winning ''The Rage'', Jean-Claude Izzo

Jean-Claude Izzo (Marseille 20 June 1945 – Marseille 26 January 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels ''Total Chaos'', ...
’s ''Total Chaos'', which launched the Mediterranean Noir movement, and the reissue of groundbreaking Scottish crime writer William McIlvanney

William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. McIlvanney was a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works ''Laidlaw'', ' ...
’s ''Laidlaw'' books. Karin Brynard's ''Weeping Waters'' was published by Europa's imprint World Noir in 2018. It has been shortlisted for 2019 prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) International Dagger.

Europa launched Europa Compass, a new nonfiction imprint featuring titles on travel, contemporary culture, popular science, history, philosophy, and politics.

Distribution

In 2019 the company moved its sales operation to become part of the Alliance, a global group of 15 publishers and their international partners who share a common vision of editorial excellence and original, diverse publishing alongside innovation in marketing and commercial success. The sales service and administrative backup to the Alliance is provided by Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
.

Europa UK titles are distributed in the UK and Ireland by Grantham Book Services

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
(GBS).

References

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