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Peirene No. 30Available soonFaces on the Tip of My Tongue
Emmanuelle PaganoWill be published in September 2019. Available August 2019 through our subscription service. Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France…
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Peirene No. 29Available soonYou Would Have Missed Me
Birgit VanderbekeWill be published in June 2019. Available April 2019 through our subscription service. ‘I can’t remember what it was like being…
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Peirene No. 28Add to basketChildren of The Cave
£12.00 Virve Sammalkorpi‘It’s dangerous to be different where everyone else is alike. Have you noticed?’ 1819. Iax Agolasky, a young assistant to…
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Shatila Stories Arabic Edition now available!
The arabic edition of Shatila Stories is now available on our website and has reached our writers in Shatila.
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Peirene’s new Subscriber Book Club
This is an online platform for our subscribers, providing them with access to regularly updated content, including prize draws, opportunities to ask questions directly to our authors, and unpublished extracts of our upcoming books.
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Peirene Stevns Translation Prize Winner announced!
We are delighted to announce that the 2019 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize has been awarded to Jessica Ockenden! Jessica studied French and Italian Literature, graduating in 2018. This will be her first full length literary translation.
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