Parent company | Armida Publications Ltd |
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Founded | 1997 |
Country of origin | Cyprus |
Headquarters location | 36A Valesta Road, Agios Dhometios, Nicosia, Cyprus |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Publication types | Books, Ebooks |
Fiction genres | Fiction, non-fiction |
Official website | www |
Armida Publications is an independent publishing house based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Founded in 1997 by Panos Ioannides, their primary goal is to promote high-level English-language publications from Cyprus and from Cypriot authors based abroad, or authors connected to Cyprus; they carry titles from authors based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Greece, Serbia, Sweden and from all over the EU. Over the course of their history, they have won and have been nominated for awards for literature from the European Union and also the International Rubery Book Award. Their title To Peirama (The Experiment) by Myrto Azina Chronides won the European Union Prize for Literature for Cyprus in 2011. They have translated works from the likes of Roger Willemsen and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, and have published titles by, among others, Rory Maclean, Nick Danziger, Kevin Sullivan, Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Paul Stewart, Andreas Karayan, Nora Nadjarian, Elmos Konis, Lina Ellina, Klitos Ioannides, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Eve Meleagrou, Richard Romanus, Colette Ni Reammon Ioannidou, Jenny Benjamin, Yiangos P. Kleopas, Stefanos Evangelides, Mona Savvidou Theodoulou, Panos Ioannides, and Baret Yacoubian.
Armida is a founding member of the Cyprus Association of Book Publishers, itself a part of the Federation of European Publishers (FEP). Armida is also a member of the Independent Publishers Guild (UK) and the Independent Book Publishers Association (USA). Armida works in collaboration with the Cyprus PEN Centre, and publishes the quarterly magazine 'In Focus'.