Lenos Publishing House
The Lenos Verlag is a publishing company established in 1970 in Basel .
program
The focus of the book program includes Swiss and Arabic literature as well as current non-fiction books on politics and society. Well-known Swiss authors of Lenos Verlag are: Guido Bachmann , Nicolas Bouvier , Blaise Cendrars , Jacques Chessex , Christoph Geiser , Florianne Koechlin , Ella Maillart , Alice Rivaz , Hans Saner , Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Gerold Späth and Yvette Z'Graggen . Important Arab authors at Lenos include: Alaa al-Aswani ( The Jakubijân Building ), Muhammad al-Bissati , Emil Habibi , Ghassan Kanafani , Ibrahim al-Koni , Abdalrachman Munif , Emily Nasrallah , Tajjib Salich and Habib Selmi as well as those Peace mediator Sumaya Farhat-Naser .
history
In the first years of its existence, the focus of the publishing program was on German-language fiction from Switzerland. In addition, selected non-fiction books on sociopolitical topics and the Middle East conflict were published. In 1979 a gas explosion devastated the publishing house and destroyed infrastructure and book storage. The first literary title from the Arab world was Ghassan Kanafani's The Land of Sad Oranges in 1983 . The series “Arabian Literature in Lenos Verlag” now comprises over one hundred titles from eleven countries, making it the most extensive library of modern Arabic fiction in German. In 1993 the publisher received the Basel Literature Prize . In 2012 the publisher was voted “Publisher of the Year” by the Swiss book trade.
Web links
Individual evidence
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