Born in Venice in 1946 and now based between Milan and Vicenza, Neri Pozza takes the name from its founder. Throughout its illustrious history as an independent publisher, it has published major writers of late 20th-century Italian literature, including Eugenio Montale, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Dino Buzzati, Goffredo Parise, and, more recently, Giuseppe Berto, as well as renowned international authors (among others, Romain Gary, Hermann Koch, Barbara Kingsolver, Tracy Chevalier, David Gregory Roberts, and David Nicholls). Faithful to its tradition of high literary quality, Neri Pozza publishes Italian and foreign fiction, historical and current non-fiction in the series “Il Tempo Storico”, and philosophical essays in “La Quarta Prosa”.
Newton Compton is a publishing house founded in Rome in 1969 by Vittorio Avanzini, who is still at the helm alongside his son Raffaello. In 2019, it entered the Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol. The publishing house is renowned for its reissued classics and one of the strongest catalogs in Italy for genre fiction, as well as numerous handbooks and non-fiction titles. With a rich and diverse catalog, the publisher combines entertainment and culture, offering classics and contemporary works at affordable prices. Newton Compton has published numerous bestsellers, including Matteo Strukul and Marcello Simoni's historical novels, as well as the books by Felicia Kingsley, the queen of Italian romance, with over 2 million copies sold and translations into 20 languages.
NNEditore is an independent publishing house founded in Milan in 2015. One of its first published authors, the American writer Kent Haruf, achieved extraordinary success, immediately positioning NN as one of the most dynamic project-driven publishers in Italy. Alongside its carefully selected international authors - among others, Deborah Levy, Jesmyn Ward, Robbie Arnott, and Liz Moore -, NN also publishes Italian authors, chosen with the same gaze on quality and willingness to explore new paths. In 2021, NN launched a new series, “Le Fuggitive”, stories of women breaking free from traditional rules, in pursuit of freedom and a refoundation of their own lives.
Groenlandia is a production company born from the collaboration between the directors Matteo Rovere and Sydney Sibilia. The company has produced many successful films, including: Il Primo Re, the two sequels to Sydney Sibilia's Smetto quando voglio saga (Masterclass and Ad Honorem), Moglie e marito and Croce e delizia by Simone Godano, Il campione by Leonardo d’Agostini and L’incredibile storia dell’Isola delle Rose, the fourth feature length film by Sydney Sibilia and the first European production for Netflix Originals.
Storielibere.fm is an on-demand platform for narrative podcasts. Founded in Milan in 2018 by Gian Andrea Cerone and Rossana De Michele, it now has over 10 million listens and downloads. Storielibere.fm has an archive of over 60 titles, which include over 500 original episodes available for listening or download. Storielibere.fm podcasts are original works “written for voice” (conceived and produced exclusively as audio content), which last 30 – 60 minutes and can be accessed from any device.
Iperborea is an independent publisher founded by Emilia Lodigiani in 1987, specialized in Northern European literature. In 2018, Iperborea launched The Passenger, a book-magazine that collects reportages, long-form journalism, and narrative essays, aiming to tell the story of the contemporary life of a place and its inhabitants. In the magazine, the culture, economy, politics, customs, and curiosities of the narrated places are seen through the testimony of local and international writers, journalists and experts. The Passenger is also available in English, published and distributed worldwide in a coedition with Europa Editions, and also translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Korean.
HarperCollins Italia is a wide-audience publishing house, adept at capturing the spirit of times through a highly varied production of quality works, ranging from literature to genre fiction, from non-fiction to children's and young adult books, authored by renowned Italian and international writers, as well as emerging talents capable of meeting the expectations of an increasingly demanding audience. In just a few years, HarperCollins Italia has established itself among the top 30 Italian publishing brands, thanks to its outstanding authors. In March 2024, it has published Pope Francis's memoir LIFE. My Story through History, which, thanks to the group's network, was released simultaneously worldwide in Europe, the United States, and South America.
ACCĒNTO Edizioni is an independent publishing house founded in Milan in 2022 by Alessandro Cattelan and directed by Matteo B.Bianchi. The main goal of its catalog is to bring fresh and original voices of contemporary Italian fiction to light. ACCĒNTO also aims to bring back to bookstores significant Italian and foreign works that have long disappeared from the shelves and to seek out texts that recount an era and our world in new and surprising ways.