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Publishing Group
Al Karma Publishers دار الكرمة
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Year Founded
2013
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Country
EGYPT Cairo
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Language
Arabic(اللغة العربية)
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Description
Al Karma Publishers is an independent, young and dynamic publisher based in Cairo and distributing all over the Arab world. Founded in 2013 by publishing professionals with years of experience in the Arab market, Al Karma publishes original and translated quality fiction and non-fiction books that impact the reader's life. Al Karma Publishers won the Best Young Egyptian Publisher Award in 2020 and the Encouragement Award from the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding in 2022.
Creating a fine balance between commercial bestsellers, award-winning titles, engaging novels and important biographies and non-fiction, Al Karma's books have a continuous presence on the bestseller lists and are respected all across the Arab world for their quality of content, beautiful translations and high production values.
In addition to being the home of some of Egypt's bestselling and award-winning authors, Al Karma is also known for its contemporary classics fiction series, which focuses on highly sought-after and long out-of-print contemporary Arabic novels. A series which has received exceptional critical acclaim and reader appreciation.
Al Karma's international publishing program is avidly followed by readers, and focuses on high-quality fiction in excellent translations and includes such exquisite authors as Neil Gaiman, Celeste Ng, Thomas Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, Freida McFadden , Jennifer Hillier, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, Anthony Horowitz, Rumaan Alam, Riley Sager, Richard Bach, Robert James Waller, Stephanie Butland, Jon Fosse, Vigdis Hjorth, Christa Wolf, Jenny Erpenbeck, Stephan Zweig, Hans Fallada, Herman Hesse, Anne Weber, Simone Lappert, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Schnitzler, Claire Keegan, Gerald Murnane, Natalia Ginzburg, Umberto Eco, Andrea Camilleri, Domenico Starnone, Sacha Naspini, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stanisław Lem, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Gaito Gazdanov, Juan José Saer, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Pedro Mairal, Yasushi Inoue, Ogai Mori, Keiichirō Hirano, Harry Mulisch, Hella Haasse, Stefan Hertmans, Arthur Japin, Graham Greene, Daphne du Maurier, E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Christopher Morley, Herbert Clyde Lewis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Our non-fiction list includes Bessel van der Kolk, Lindsay C. Gibson, William Styron, Gretchen Rubin, Richard Carlson, Cal Newport, Blake Snyder, Julie Menanno, Ali Fenwick, Francine Jay, Robin Norwood, Laura Markham, Eugene Thacker, Eve Ensler, Leander Kahney, Ian Morgan Cron, Lucy Maddox, Emily Heyward, Megan Lara Negendank, David Bayles and Ted Orland, Andrew Sobel, Jerold Panas, and Mark Joyner.
Al Karma's books have especially strong presence in the main Arab markets, ie Egypt, KSA, and UAE, in addition to covering most other Arab countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Tunisia and Morocco.
We distribute our titles in bookstores and through online retailers in print, ebook and audiobook formats.
Our titles usually receive very good press coverage and positive word of mouth among Arab readers. Our social media pages are followed by a large number of users and our website, which also sells our titles, is also a popular destination.
Person in Charge
- Seif Salmawy
- Al Karma editorial
Areas of Interest
Categories Literary Fiction ,
Authors Kim Yang-shik , Jeong Bi-seok , Yoo Juhyun , Shin Bong-seung , Jo Gicheon , Kim Songhan , Kim Dongin , Ko, Un , Kim Sowol , Cho Sehee
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