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Publishers 2025

Govind Deecee

Govind Deecee is a commissioning editor at DC Books. He is formally trained in Cinematic Arts and Photography and holds a BFA in Economics. He graduated from Syracuse University in…

Francesca Di Berardino

Francesca has studied languages and literature in Iceland, Japan and the United Kingdom. After many years as a literary translator into Italian, she is now based in London and is…

Luka Grigolia is a Georgian publisher representing Sulakauri Publishing and a founder of Polynomial Books. His sole focus today is translated world literature. Icelandic authors on his Sulakauri list are Halldór Laxness (The…

Esther Hendriks

Esther Hendriks works as an acquiring editor at Dutch publishing house De Arbeiderspers, part of the Singel group. With over 20 years’ experience she enjoys the world of publishing every…

Sarah Ivanowski

Sarah Iwanowski has a Master in Literature and Creative Writing. She started her career in publishing in 2012 at Berlin Verlag and then worked for Aufbau Verlag for a couple…

Christina Yhman Karsberg

Christina is the Acquiring Editor for fiction at Gads Forlag in Denmark, an independent publishing house founded in 1855. Over the years, Christina has had the pleasure of working with…

Eva Magelund Kraprup

Eva Magelund Kraprup is an acquiring editor of translated fiction at Gyldendal in Denmark. The main focus is on literary and upmarket fiction and classics. Gyldendal publishes a wide range…

Johanna Laitinen

Johanna Laitinen is a publisher, in charge of non-fiction and translated fiction. At Gummerus, the publishing encompasses a broad spectrum of genres, ranging from commercial to literary works. In fiction,…

Raphaëlle Liebaert

Raphaëlle Liebaert started in publishing at The Harvill Press (London). She then worked for 7 years at Christian Bourgois éditeur (Paris) before joining Editions Autrement as Senior Editor. Since 2017,…

Darja Marinšek

Since 2013, Darja Marinšek has worked at Mladinska knjiga, Slovenia’s largest general publisher, where she is currently the commissioning editor for adult fiction. She oversees two literary series and one…

Hazel Millar

Hazel Millar is the co-owner and co-publisher of Book*hug Press, a Canadian independent literary publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture. Hazel has been working in the publishing…

Jacques Testard

Jacques Testard is a co-founder of The White Review and the founder and publisher of Fitzcarraldo Editions, where he has edited and published authors including Svetlana Alexievich, Polly Barton, Claire-Louise Bennett, Kate Briggs, Joshua Cohen,…

Sune de Souza Schmidt-Madsen

Literary director for fiction at Lindhardt and Ringhof, Denmark. The fiction department at L&R publish around 55 new titles pr year, two thirds of these being translated fiction. Home of…

Regina Kammerer

Regina Kammerer is the publisher of Luchterhand Literaturverlag & btb Verlag (part of Random House Germany). She studied German, Politics and Social Sciences in Heidelberg and Munich and is also…

Wolfang Schiffer

Wolfgang Schiffer, writer and poet, has worked for many years in leading positions in radio broadcasting in the fields of radio drama, radio documentary and literature. As a promoter and…

Dincer Gucyeter

ELIF is a publishing house that is primarily dedicated to poetry. Since 2011, we have been publishing voices that speak from the present into the present. The focus of the…

Sabine Wespieser

SABINE WESPIESER ÉDITEUR is an independent literary structure, publishing French and foreign fiction at the rate of around ten titles a year. Sabine Wespieser is keen to explore the field…

Cathrin Wirtz

Originally from Germany (where she first worked in publishing as an editor), Cathrin moved to New York City almost two decades ago, and has been a literary scout for more…

Caterina Zaccaroni (scout)

Caterina Zaccaroni was born in Forlì. She studied and taught 20th Century German Literature at the Università Cattolica in Milan and continued her studies at Cambridge, the Sorbonne and Münster….

Christiaan van Raaijen

After having finished his publishing degree in Amsterdam, Christiaan van Raaijen worked at Arena publishing. He then moved to London where he spent six years at The Marsh Agency as…

Rosie Goldsmith

Rosie is a journalist, presenter, and the Artistic Director of the European Writers’ Festival. She also serves as the Director of the European Literature Network and is the presenter of…