This is not a name with which I was familiar until a couple of weeks ago. Since then I have read about it in several publications. Fitzcarraldo is the name of a small, independent publishing house that is creating a lot of surprise in the industry. Jacques Testard is the one with the vision and the one who has had four of his authors awarded Nobel prizes within the 10 years that the company has existed.
Testard specialises in writing in translation, fiction and non fiction. He comments that the Anglophone world: America and the UK, still has an arrogance about the need to venture outside the English language. This situation showed that there was a niche here just waiting to be filled.
Unsurprisingly, the books are very thoughtfully branded: fiction has cream lettering on blue and non fiction has plain paper covers with blue lettering on cream.
The authors written about are not within my experience but I really like the fact that the demographic that are followers of Fitzcarraldo are those in their twenties and thirties. I find everything about this little publishing house to be exciting and affirmative. Bravo Jacques Testard.