Phoneme Media

Phoneme Media
Parent companyDeep Vellum
Founded2013
FoundersBrian Hewes and David Shook
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationLos Angeles
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresWorks in translation
Official websitewww.phonememedia.org
Los Angeles-based nonprofit publishing house

Phoneme Media is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit publishing house sponsored by PEN Center USA.[1] Phoneme was founded in 2013 by translators Brian Hewes and David Shook.[1] The aim of the company was to increase the availability of books and videos from countries and languages underrepresented in English translation.[1] In 2019, Phoneme was acquired by Deep Vellum Publishing.[2]

Notable authors

Source languages

  • Icelandic[1]
  • Lingala[1]
  • Spanish[1]
  • Tsotsil[4]
  • Yucatec Maya[4]
  • Zapotec[4]
  • Zoque[4]
  • Hebrew[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Small Press Points: Phoneme Media". Poets & Writers Magazine. January/February 2017. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. ^ Evans, Will. "Deep Vellum Welcomes A Strange Object, Phoneme Media, and La Reunion | Deep Vellum Publishing". Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  3. ^ a b Locascio, Lisa (23 December 2014). "5 Indie L.A. Presses You Should Know". Lost Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e Reber, Nichole L. "Mexican Indigenous". Ploughshares Blog. Ploughshares at Emerson College.

External links

  • Phoneme Media in the American Literary Translators Association Publishers Database