Post-Apollo Press |
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Simone Fattal founded Post-Apollo Press in Sausalito in 1982 in order to publish the English translation of "Sitt Marie-Rose", a feminist novel on the Lebanese Civil War by Etel Adnan, a prominent poet, painter, and essayist who was born in Beirut and briefly studied at UC Berkeley in the 1950s. The book was a best seller in Europe and is now considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature. Simone, a painter, sculptor and translator who was born in Syria and lived in Lebanon until the Civil War, recalls that the idea of publishing "came very naturally, very spontaneously to me. Was it the freedom of the times? The exciting idea that one could do just anything?" She also wanted to introduce major foreign poets and writers to the US. The name of the press refers to the Apollo space program that sent men to the moon and opened a new age and a "new dimension to our imagination." Post-Apollo publishes literary fiction, poetry and plays and includes among its authors internationally known poets Etel Adnan and Anne-Marie Albiach and novelists Marguerite Duras and Ulla Berkewicz. The press archives are located in the Bancroft Library. http://www.postapollopress.com/ |