INDIE PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR

Founded in 2005, Europa Editions has devoted a decade and a half to bringing the best of the world’s literature to English-reading audiences. Their triumphs are trade superstars, from the modern young adult classic The

Elegance of the Hedgehog to Elena Ferrante’s conversation-consuming

Neapolitan novels. In 2019, Europa continued its tradition of stunning audiences with its breathtaking, perspective-shifting titles. Its releases included Philippe Lançon’s

Disturbance, an account of surviving the Charlie Hebdo shootings that our Editor-in-chief, Matt Sutherland, called “Unrelenting, mesmerizing, and … transformative,” and Adélaïde Bon’s heartrending novelization The Little Girl on the Ice Floe, about living past sexual assault. Among their irresistible fiction releases were Christelle Dabos’s mindbending, meaty fantasy The Missing of

Clairdelune, the second book of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, and Abbigail N. Rosewood’s If I Had Two Lives, about a young girl navigating the political machinations of modern Vietnam and wrestling with her memories into adulthood.

The 2019 news cycle was dense with reminders that now, more than ever, what happens in one nation reverberates through others. In these times of increasing connectivity, during which our interconnectedness is emphasized on repeat, publishers like Europa help to lift up what’s great about being part of a global community—namely, all of the voices and perspectives that flood in when boundaries are reconsidered, voices that stand to enrich our lives when we welcome and engage them. Europa’s 2019 titles helped to make the world feel like a wider place, and that’s a gift that readers were happy to receive, thirty-six titles over.