Europa Editions
| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Sandro Ferri Editorial Director, Sandra Ozzola Ferri President |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Distribution | Penguin Random House |
| Key people | Michael Reynolds Editor-in-Chief |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Literary fiction, general fiction, non-fiction, crime |
| Imprints | Tonga Books, Europa World Noir |
| Official website | www |
Europa Editions is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and high-end crime fiction. The company was founded in 2005 by Sandro Ferri and Sandra Ozzola Ferri, who are also the owners and publishers of the Italian press Edizioni E/O. Michael Reynolds, Editor in chief, directs the company's New York office. Kent Carroll, formerly Editorial Director at Grove Press and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Carroll & Graf Publishers, serves as Publisher-at-large. In 2013, the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association awarded Europa Editions its Paperback Book of the Year award.
In its first ten years, Europa has published books by authors from 26 countries, making it one of the leading US publishers of fiction in translation. In a 2013 interview, Sandro Ferri said the company was "born with the intention to create bridges between cultures." The company publishes about 35 titles per year. Among authors the company has published, Europa counts two ABA IndieBound bestsellers, two New York Times bestsellers, three Booker Prize-shortlisted novels, five New York Times Editors' Picks, two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, two Goncourt Prize winners, one German Book Prize winner, and two winners of The Strega Prize for Fiction.
Europa's first publication, 2005's The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (acquired by Sandra Ozzola and translated by Ann Goldstein), was compared favorably to Anna Karenina in the New York Times and became an Indie Bestseller. Other notable successes at Europa include Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog (translated by Alison Anderson), which spent over a year on the New York Times and IndieBound bestseller lists;Jane Gardam's Old Filth, named a notable book of the year by the New York Times;Alina Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (translated by Tim Mohr), a Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle favorite read of the year in 2011;,Steve Erickson's Zeroville (a best book of the year pick by the National Book Critics Circle and scheduled for release as a motion picture starring James Franco in 2016) and These Dreams of You (recipient of the Lannan Literary Award), and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, which James Wood in The New Yorker described as, "intensely, violently personal."
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