Xenos Books is a publishing company in

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that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.

Titles published

Poetry

*'' Sevastopol: On Photographs of War'', by William Allen. *'' Naked as Water'', by

Mario Azzopardi Mario Philip Azzopardi (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian-Maltese television director, television and film director and writer. Early life and emigration Azzopardi was born in Siggiewi, Malta, and was educated at St Aloysius' College (Malta), S ...

, translated from Maltese, and with an Introduction & Afterword by Grazio Falzon. *''

The Hunts ''The Hunts'', by Amelia Biagioni, is a book of poems written originally in Spanish. Description A bilingual edition of an astonishing poetic cycle that ranges across time and space to recreate the eternal hunt: the unstoppable, restless process ...

'', by

Amelia Biagioni Amelia Biagioni (1916, Gálvez, Santa Fe – 2000, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine poet. She published six books of poetry between 1954 and 1995. Work * ''Sonata de Soledad'' (1954) * ''La Llave'' (1957) * ''El Humo'' (1967) * ''Las Cacerias'' ( ...

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Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

Renata Treitel Renata is an Italian, Polish, Tatarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Germanian, Sweden, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Czech, and Lithuanian feminine given name. See Renatus. In Francophone countries there is a cognate name Renée. The following peopl ...

. *'' Addictive Aversions'', by

Alfredo de Palchi Alfredo Giop de Palchi (born December 13, 1926 Verona, Italy – August 6, 2020) was an Italian poet and translator. Life He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy. He was a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951. From 19 ...

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Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

by Sonia Raiziss, ''et al.'' *'' Anonymous Constellation'', by

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by Sonia Raiziss. *'' The Scorpion’s Dark Dance'', by

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by Sonia Raiziss. *'' Angels of Youth'', by Luigi Fontanella, translated from

by Carol Lettieri & Irena Marchegiani Jones. *'' The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic Cycle'', by

Bogomil Gjuzel Bogomil Gjuzel ( mk, Богомил Ѓузел; bg, Богомил Гюзел ; sr, Богомил Ђузел; 9 February 1939 – 22 April 2021) was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator. Biography Born in 1939 in Čačak, King ...

, translated from Macedonian by P. H. Liotta; Introduction by

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn't ...

. *'' The Poet is a Little God'', by

Vicente Huidobro Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...

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by Jorge García-Gómez. *'' The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories'', by

Lutz Rathenow Lutz Rathenow (born 22 September 1952 in Jena) is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification. From then on, his fortunes changed, and he received several literary honors and awards. ...

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German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

Boria Sax Boria Sax (born 1949) is an American author and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy College. Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyr ...

& Imogen von Tannenberg.

Plays

*'' The Mad Kokoschka: A Play in Three Acts'', by

Gary Kern Gary may refer to: *Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran * Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;Uni ...

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'', by Manlio Santanelli, translated from

by Anthony Molino, with Jane House.

Fiction

*'' Animal World'', by

Antonio di Benedetto Antonio di Benedetto (2 November 1922 – 10 October 1986) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer and journalist. Career Di Benedetto began writing and publishing stories in his adolescence, inspired by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky an ...

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by H. E. Francis. *'' The Supervisor of the Sea'', by

Emil Draitser Emil Draitser (born 1937) is an author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in New York City. Besides twelve books of artistic and scholarly prose, his essays and short stories have been published in the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Partisan Revi ...

*'' The Last Summer'', by

Hugh Fox Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anaïs Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pu ...

*'' Scarecrow & Other Anomalies'', by

Oliverio Girondo Oliverio Girondo (August 17, 1891 – January 24, 1967) was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England. He is perhap ...

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by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. *'' Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy'', by

Edvard Hoem Edvard Hoem (born 10 March 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection ''Som grønne musikantar''. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize f ...

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Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

( New Norwegian) by Frankie Belle Shackelford. *'' When You Became She'', by Imre Oravecz, translated from Hungarian by Bruce Berlind. *''

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'', by Giancarlo Pastore, translated from

and with an Afterword by Jamie Richards. *'' Kisses, Dreams & Other Infidels'', by

Antonio Porta Antonio Alejandro Porta Pernigotti (born 28 October 1983) is a former Argentine-Italian professional basketball player, who lasted played with the Svendborg Rabbits in the Danish Basketball League. He played at both the point guard and shooti ...

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and with an Afterword by Anthony Molino. *'' Moon, Moon, Tell Me More'', by Ellen Tifft *'' Blue Ride'', by Ken Wilkerson

Nonfiction

*'' Fireplaces of Civilization: Literary Portraits of Florence, Paris, Sicily, Seville and Granada'', by Jean-Pierre Barricelli *'' Cemeteries & Spaces of Death'', ed. by Darnetta Bell & Kevin Bongiorni *'' Letters from Dwight'', by

*'' Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy'', ed. by George E. Slusser & Jean-Pierre Barricelli

References

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External links

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