Contra Mundum Press

New York | Berlin

Contra Mundum Press

New York | Berlin

Contra Mundum Press (CMP) is an independent publishing house with a global vision. Our primary interest is in international Modernism and the principles developed by the Modernists, though we also publish challenging and visionary works from other eras. Our preference is for writers whose thinking and aesthetics are in opposition to mainstream currents of thought, value systems, or moralities.

Since our inception in 2012, CMP has published translations from Sumerian, French, Hungarian, Italian, German, Turkish, Farsi, Catalan, world premiere editions, and several bi- & multilingual books in a variety of genres. In 2020, we inaugurated Agrodolce, our series of unorthodox books on food, further broadening our catalog.

In our art journal, Hyperion, which has an international readership, we have featured yet more translations and published special issues on writers. Through these efforts, we have worked to raise the profile of literature in translation.

The Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, amongst others, have championed our publications, and many of our writers have received grants and awards. CMP has also staged events and collaborated with cultural organizations in New York, Budapest, Berlin, and Paris, including participating in international film and literary festivals.

Our vision is informed by a poetics of hospitality. As a purveyor of often forgotten or exiled voices, we serve as a home to world culture, welcoming the voices, and so the lives and experiences, of “foreigners.” From Gilgamesh to Syrian Nobel nominee Adonis, in publishing translations from as many different languages as we have, CMP not only welcomes strangers into its house, but presents them to the English-reading public as its honored guests.

With your participation, we can further develop and expand our vision and continue to be a formidable presence in the world of indie publishing.

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