Black Apollo Press
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Black Apollo Press is an independent publisher based in Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1995 by American writer Bob Biderman
and British Baudelarian scholar, David Kelley. As well as publishing original translations of important European authors, including the French existentialist playwright Jean Tardieu
and Armenian dissident Gurgen Mahari
, the press has brought back into print a group of late Victorian writers such as Margaret Harkness, Amy Levy
and Israel Zangwill
. Black Apollo has also helped develop a series of art books jointly sponsored by Trinity College, Cambridge
, and the French Cultural service. Their backlist includes works of contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles in media studies, social history and politics. An imprint of the press is Black Apollo Mysteries which publishes socially engaged thrillers including the Joseph Radkin Investigations series.
Bob Biderman
Bob Biderman is a British-American novelist and publisher known for his coming-of-age novels, Red Dreams – an obverse view of 50s America - and Letters to Nanette, about a young man drafted into the army at the start of the Vietnam War...
and British Baudelarian scholar, David Kelley. As well as publishing original translations of important European authors, including the French existentialist playwright Jean Tardieu
Jean Tardieu
Jean Tardieu was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house. He published several poetry collections in the 1930s before starting to write for the stage...
and Armenian dissident Gurgen Mahari
Gurgen Mahari
Gurgen Mahari was an Armenian writer and poet.- Biography :In 1915 during the Armenian genocide Gurgen's family emigrated to Russia. His first book, Titanic was published in 1924...
, the press has brought back into print a group of late Victorian writers such as Margaret Harkness, Amy Levy
Amy Levy
- Biography :Levy was born in Clapham, London, the second daughter of Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin. Her Jewish family was mildly observant, but as an adult Levy no longer practised Judaism; she continued to identify with the Jews as a people....
and Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...
. Black Apollo has also helped develop a series of art books jointly sponsored by Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, and the French Cultural service. Their backlist includes works of contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles in media studies, social history and politics. An imprint of the press is Black Apollo Mysteries which publishes socially engaged thrillers including the Joseph Radkin Investigations series.