Bloggerel - Alma Books and Alma Classics
Saturday, 1 January 2022

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I am delighted by the many positive reviews of my translation of John Keats's Letters , published by Adelphi. The latest, by the eminent...
Sunday, 19 December 2021

Bloggerel redivivus! Bloggerel is back!

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In spring 2014 we took the decision to close down our blog. As it turns out, it was only a temporary measure. A mere seven and a half years ...
Monday, 17 March 2014

The End of Bloggerel

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Originally started in 2008, Bloggerel has been a place for us to discuss literature, not only the latest news from Alma and the inner worki...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013

RIP Ignat Avsey

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We are saddened to hear that Ignat Avsey – translator of many books for us and for other publishers, including Angel Books, Oxford Universit...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Pushkin Hills at Pushkin House

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From left to right: Katherine Dovlatov, A.D. Miller and Zinovy Zinik at Pushkin House last night, celebrating the launch of Katherine Dov...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Secret Leopardi - Event at the Italian Cultural Institute

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Having published Canti by Giacomo Leopardi ourselves we are always interested in reading other translations of Leopardi's work, so to...
Friday, 13 September 2013

Morrissey book 'cancelled'

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According to the Bookseller, the publication of Morrissey's autobiography has been cancelled after a last-minute disagreement between th...
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Alessandro Gallenzi
Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Alma Books and Alma Classics, and the successor of John Calder at the helm of Calder Publications. As well as being a literary publisher, he is a translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. His collection of poetry Modern Bestiary - Ars Poetastrica was published in 2005 to critical acclaim and his novel Bestseller was published in 2010.

Alma Books publishes from fifteen to twenty titles a year, mostly contemporary literary fiction, taking around sixty per cent of its titles from English-language originals, while the rest are translations from other languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, German and Japanese. Alma Books also publishes two or three non-fiction titles each year.

Alma Classics aims to publish the greatest recognized masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre, but also tries to redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Recently Alma Classics launched Overture Publishing, which provides a series of beautifully produced opera and classical-music guides which are unique in the English language.
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