New Island
New Iceland is an Irish publisher of contemporary literature, 1992 under the name New Iceland Books , now, however, was established only under New Iceland operates. The publishing house is in Dublin .
New Island Books came into being after the end of the Raven Arts Press, founded in 1977 by Dermot Bolger (* 1959), as a publishing house for poetry and dramatic literature, especially for young or as yet unknown Irish authors; “Founding editor” was Bolger too. New Island has now become the leading Irish publisher of fiction and non-fiction by contemporary Irish authors. Bolger is no longer represented in the management team; however, most of its work is relocated from New Island . Today's New Island publisher is Edwin Higel (as of early 2009).
Among the of New Iceland laid authors include: Cecelia Ahern , Sebastian Barry , Maeve Binchy , Dermot Bolger , Maeve Brennan , Anthony Cronin , Roddy Doyle , Nick Hornby , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill , Gemma O'Connor , Joseph O'Connor , Nuala O ' Faolain , Kate Thompson .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Delaware Library (accessed February 5, 2009)
- ↑ About Us on the publisher's website ( memento of the original dated February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 5, 2009)
- ↑ Welcome to New Island Online (accessed February 5, 2009)
