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Pushkin Press will receive a grant of £25,000 from the National Lottery through Arts Council England to publish three books in translation. The money will fund the publication of Fists, by Italian novelist Petro Grossi, Stefan Zweig’s autobiography The World of Yesterday and historical novel The Queen’s Necklace by Antal Szerb.
The independent publisher, which specialises in translations of European classics and contemporary fiction, has been awarded funding from the Arts Council for the first time in its 11-year history.
Melissa Ulfane, Pushkin's publisher, said: "The support from the Arts Council is most welcome, and could not come at a better time for Pushkin Press. We’ve had a stellar first quarter in 2009. This Arts Council grant will make us even more confident in our ability to turn ambitious and investment-heavy projects into commercial successes."
Pushkin Press applied for the grant in January and credits its successful application partly to a careful choice of projects matching the Arts Council's criteria.
Fists is three stories of young men learning the realities of adult life and will be published in June. The Queen’s Necklace, an evocation of Marie Antoinette’s court, will be published in September and The World of Yesterday—an insight into war-torn Europe—will be published in November.