Villa Albertine is a cultural institution formed by a collaborative network between France and the United States. Our partners serve as the backbone of this network. The Villa would like to thank its institutional , corporate , and individual partners. Created in , Albertine Books Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French literature in the United States.
In partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and under Villa Albertine, Albertine Books Foundation promotes collaborative work and exchanges between France in the United States in the fields of literary creation and translation. In addition , the Alb ertine Translation committee chooses from among recipients two Albertine Translation prize winners each year β one in fiction and one in non-fiction.
Fern Books is a small press unhurriedly dedicated to forms of writing, and ideas about publishing, that are thoughtful and generous and expansive. They are interested in literary risk-taking, adventures in form and content and authorship, and the connections and relationships fostered between books and their readers.
They aim to think out loud, as it were, about whose imaginations literary text can stir, what makes text literary in the first place, and what shapes besides bound printed matter it might take. As they work on answering these questions, they plan to publish booksβamong other thingsβthat they believe make the world a more enchanting, welcoming, and sane place. Read more. Farrar, Straus and Company was founded in by Roger W. Straus and John C. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
New Directions Publishing was founded in , when James Laughlin β , then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
