Gazebo Books is an

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-based independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Background

Gazebo Books was co-founded by writer

Xavier Hennekinne Xavier Hennekinne (born 1973) is a French Australian writer, publisher and international aid and development professional. Early life and education Born in 1973 in Meulan, France, Hennekinne grew up in the Parisian suburb of Achères and in V ...

and has been publishing literary works of international and Australian fiction and non-fiction since 2018. Authors published include

Catherine Rey Catherine Rey, born in 1956 at Saintes, in Charente-Maritime, is a French writer. Biography After studying literature in Bordeaux and before devoting herself fully to writing, Rey worked for several years as a teacher of French literatur ...

, Sanaz Fotouhi, Sreedhevi Iyer, Katia Ariel, artist Patrick Hartigan,

Lydie Salvayre Lydie Salvayre (born ''Lydie Arjona'' in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist. She ...

, Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ, comic artist

Mandy Ord Mandy Ord (born 1974) is a Melbourne-based comic artist. Her work has appeared in ''The Age'', '' Meanjin'', The '' Australian Rationalist'' magazine, '' Voiceworks'', '' Tango'', '' Going Down Swinging'' and '' Red Leaves / 紅葉''. Since 200 ...

and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. In 2020, Gazebo Books launched its poetry imprint Life Before Man, edited by artist Phil Day, and releasing collections by S. K. Kelen,

Cassandra Atherton Cassandra Atherton is an Australian prose-poet, critic, and scholar. She is an expert on prose poetry, contemporary public intellectuals in academia, and poets as public intellectuals, especially hibakusha poets. She is married to historian Glen ...

Paul Hetherington Paul Hetherington (born 6 March 1958) is an Australian poet and academic, who also worked for 19 years at the National Library of Australia. He is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra where he heads the university's Internationa ...

Subhash Jaireth
Anthony Lawrence, Alex Selenitsch
Naveen Kishore
Kimberly Williams and Natalie Cooke, and the international antholog
''Alcatraz''
Gazebo Books commissions translations into English. Notably, in December 2022, it released
Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers
', by French philosopher

Michel Serres Michel Serres (; 1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose. Life and career The son of a bargeman, Serres entered France's ...

, translated by Gila Walker, and in August 2023,
The Mud of a Century
' by Yuka Ishii. In March 2024, Katia Ariel's memoir
The Swift Dark Tide
' was longlisted for the

Stella Prize The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys W ...

. Gazebo Books publications are distributed by New South Books through Alliance Distribution Services.

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