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NN PUBLISHER

NN is an independent publisher based in Milan, Italy, founded by four partners: Eugenia Dubini, Alberto Ibba, Edoardo Caizzi and Gaia Mazzolini.

NN means Name Unknown. In latin is Nescio Nomen, the mark used to identify orphans until 1975 in Italy. Like orphans, today we lost all “others”: ideologies, responsibility, ethic, authenticity. We are publishing literary fiction and non fiction on the theme of the quest for identity of men and women in contemporary times. Each year, we chose a specific path between the books, with a special focus: in 2015 on relationships and roles in contemporary life, in 2016 on the relationship between past (legacy, burden, culture, etc) and future, thus defining our present, in 2017 on attributes that affect to our way of life, thus asking us to redefine our identity.In 2018 the focus will be on allies and enemies in the quest for identity.

NN Publisher is searching strong projects, beautiful writings, responsible ideas, with no pre- conceptions. We strive to publish books by authors who have a unique perspective and an impressive authority. Books that enlighten our culture, our com-munity and our society; that illuminate, inspire, provoke, and enhance. We seek to establish communities of readers.

FOREIGN WRITERS LIST

US: Kent Haruf, Jenny Offill, David J. Poissant, Cristina Henriquez, Brian Turner, Tom Drury, Brian Panowich, Sarah Manguso, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Sherman Alexie, Jane Alison, Jesmine Ward, James Anderson, Jesse Ball

UK: Rupert Thomson, Claire North, Jenny Diski

France: Tristan Garcia, Joseph Incardona, Régis de Sá Moreira

Latin American: Rita Indiana, Vicente Alfonso

LIST OF RECENT ACQUISITIONS Sherman Alexie, War Dances; You don’t have to say I love you

Jesmine Ward, Salvage the Bones; Men we Reaped; Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jane Alison, Nine Islands

Sara Baume, Spill Simmer

Jesse Ball, Census

James Anderson, The Never-open Deseet Diner, Lullaby Road

Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From my Life I Write to You in Your Life

Margaret Malone, People like You

Jenny Offill, American Weather

Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay, Hard to Admit

Salvage the Bones

Men we reaped

Sing, unburied, singJesmyn Ward

out: May 2018

jesmyn ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and was a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Gri-sham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the author of the me-moir, Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. Her last novel Sing, Unburied, Sing is shortlisted for National Book Award. She lives in Mississippi.

War DancesYou Don’t Have to Say You Love MeSherman Alexie

out: Februry 2018

shermn alexie was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Alexie has published 18 books to date. Alexie is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native Ameri-can. Sherman’s best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

The never-open desert dinerLullaby roadJames Anderson

out: October 2018

james anderson is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in the Pacific Northwest and is a graduate of Reed College, where he received his BA in Ameri-can Studies. His undergraduate thesis was the first critical work done on the Beat Poet Lew Welch. Anderson attended Pine Manor College in Boston, Massachusetts where he received his MFA in Creative Writing. The Never-Open Desert Diner is his first novel. Over the years his short fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines, including The Bloomsbury Review, New Letters, Solstice Magazine, Northwest Review, Southern Humanities Review and others.

CensusJesse Ball

out: November 2018

jesse ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino.

kent haruf is the author of six novels (and, with the photo-grapher Peter Brown, West of Last Chance). His honours include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Bo-oksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Benediction was shortlisted for the Folio Prize. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.

Where you Once BelongedKent Haruf

out: November 2018

PacificTom Drury

out: May 2018

tom drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Van- dalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His fiction has appea-red in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Mississippi Review. Dru-ry has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was named one of Granta’s “Best Young American Novelists.”

PacificTom Drury

out: May 2018

Stranger on a trainJenny Diski

out: September 2018

jenny diski was born in 1947 in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in publications including the Mail on Sunday, the Obser-ver and the London Review of Books. She died in 2016.

Like LionsBrian Panowich

out: April 2018

brian panowich was a touring musician for twelve years before sett-ling in East Georgia, where he now works full-time as a firefighter. Bull Mountain is his first novel. In 2018 is scheduled his new novel: Like Lions.

Nine IslandsJane Alison

out: March 2018

jane alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in the Australian and U.S. foreign services. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton Uni-versity. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speechwriter for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Colum-bia University to study creative writing.

Spill Simmer Falter WitherSara Baume

out: June 2018

sara baume (born 1984) is an Irish novelist. Her father is of English descent while her mother is of Irish descent. As her parents travelled around in a caravan, Sara Baume was born “on the road to Wigan Pier”. When she was 4, they moved to County Cork, Ireland. She studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design and cre-ative writing at Trinity College, Dublin from where she was awareded her MPhil. Her books are published by Tramp Press in Ireland and Heinemann in Britain. She win the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Lonely BettyJoseph Incardona

out: March 2018

joseph incardona is the author of highly acclaimed noir novels, including Remington, Lonely Betty, Trash Circus, Misty. With Derrière les panneaux, il y a des hommes (published by NNE as La metà del diavolo) he wins the Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière in 2015.

Derrière les panneaux il y a des hommesJoseph Incardona

LITERARY NOIR

Collection: Season 2

272 pages

Hardcover

Out: June 2016

Translation rights and publisherFinitude, France

Translator: Claudine Turla

Winner of Grand Prix de la Littérature Poli-cière 2015 in France

Pierre left everything apart, and now lives in his car, on the highway. Where his life changed forever, six month earlier. He looks, and waits. Between all the people he met in that closed world, he crosses some-one who could know what he is looking for.And in the weekend of mid August, when hot weather and need of a holiday blows over the flat and reassuring asphalt, everything starts again. A little girl is kidnapped. And then sirens, uniforms, urgency.Under the asphalt the ground is hot, like desires.And Pierre never came so close to what he is look-ing for.

JOSEPH INCARDONA is the author of highly ac-claimed noir novels, including Remington, Lonely Betty, Trash Circus, Misty. With Derrière les panneaux, il y a des hommes he wins the Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière in 2015.

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Racconti postemingueianiAntonio Franchini

out: September 2018

antonio franchini was born in Naples in 1958. His debut was in 1991 with Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi (Leonardo).In 1996 he wrote Quando scriviamo da giovani. A selection of short stories from these collections was published in 2003 by the publisher Avagliano with the same title.With Marsilio he published: Quando vi ucciderete, maestro? (1996), Acqua, sudore, ghiaccio (1998), L’abusivo (2001, paperback in 2009) and Cronacadella fine (2003). In 2005 he published Gladiatori.

antonio franchini was born in Naples in 1958. His debut was in 1991 with Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi (Leonardo). In 1996 he wrote Quando scriviamo da giovani (Sottotraccia). A selection of short stories from these collections was published in 2003 by the publisher Avagliano with the same title. With Marsilio he published: Quando vi ucciderete, maestro? (1996), Acqua, sudore, ghiaccio (1998), L’abusivo (2001, paperback in 2009) and Cronaca della fine (2003). With Mondadori he published Gladiatori (2005).

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Racconti postemingueianiAntonio Franchini

SHORT STORIES

Collection: Season 3

240 pages

Hardcover

Out: March 2017

Translation rights:

Grandi & Associati

antonio franchini was born in Naples in 1958. His debut was in 1991 with Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi (Leonardo). In 1996 he wrote Quando scriviamo da giovani (Sottotraccia). A selection of short stories from these collections was published in 2003 by the publisher Avagliano with the same title. With Marsilio he published: Quando vi ucciderete, maestro? (1996), Acqua, sudore, ghiaccio (1998), L’abusivo (2001, paperback in 2009) and Cronaca della fine (2003). With Mondadori he published Gladiatori (2005).

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Racconti postemingueianiAntonio Franchini

SHORT STORIES

Collection: Season 3

240 pages

Hardcover

Out: March 2017

Translation rights:

Grandi & Associati

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