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Parthian has been announced as the recipient of a PEN Translates Award for Brazilian author Nara Vidal's short story collection, Maps to Nowhere (Mapas para desaparecer). Maps to Nowhere was published in Brazil to great acclaim, winning the 2021 Luiz Gondim Book of the Year Prize. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Jabuti Prize the same year. Focusing on women’s experiences in Brazil, the stories tackle a number of timely issues including gender discrimination and femicide, disappearance, class inequality, and race relations, revealing the prejudice and danger beneath the veneer of modern society across the socioeconomic spectrum. The UK...

Team Parthian are thrilled to have made the list of finalists for Wales for Small Press of the Year once again!  In the words of Richard Davies, our Publishing Director: "We love being part of this annual celebration of publishing and bookselling – it’s also a great opportunity to see what all the other publishers have been up to without being called nosy." Parthian was set up in the 90s to develop work by new and emerging writers – thirty years or so later we remain true to the same ethos. In 2024 we were able to rescue the New...