When Jacques Testard started his own publishing company in 2014, he wanted a name that suggested a crazy endeavour. Testard called the imprint Fitzcarraldo..
Fitzcarraldo Editions is not yet 10 years old and has only six full-time staff members. Already, three of its authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
LONDON: A book that explores Muslim civilization in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans has been shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award on the centenary of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. “Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe” by Tharik Hussain tells the story of a road trip taken by the Bangladeshi-born British-Muslim