EME

EME Editorial is a Spanish publishing house focused on essays and contemporary fiction, with a special emphasis on Latin American voices. Our books explore the possibilities of thinking through text in dialogue with the artistic practices of photography and design.
We never forget that a book is a body, and that language, as a mythical Argentine band from the ’80s once sang, is also a “surface of pleasure.”

"Madriguera" collection focuses on literary essays. It brings together powerful voices such as Clara Obligado, Diego Tatián, Paloma Vidal, I. Acevedo, and Corina Gepner, each offering a unique path through the landscape of contemporary reflection.
El archivo del Este. Desplazamientos en los imaginarios de la literatura cubana contemporánea, by Irina Garbatzky, is the most recent book from the collection. This essay explores an idea through fictional images—traveling across the East Berlin imagined in Cuban literature, passing through Moscow and Beijing, before circling back to Havana.

“Fin de lo mismo” collection showcases contemporary fiction. Recent titles include “El demonio en la colina de los lobos” by Dimitri Rouchon Borie (translated from French), “El mar avanza hacia sí mismo” by Pilar Cimadevilla, and “La dirección del fuego” by Juan Fernández Marauda.

We publish in Spanish and also translate works from Portuguese and French.

Irina Garbatzky, El archivo del Este, EME Editorial, 2024 © Irina Garbatzky

Cover of El archivo del Este: Displacements in the Imaginaries of Contemporary Cuban Literature

By Irina Garbatzsky

Cover art and collection art direction: Leticia Barbeito

Photo Credit: Leticia Barbeito

The interior of the essay is punctuated by perforations in the covers, which extend inward as small holes—resembling a kind of tropical snow.

Literary essay on contemporary cuban narrative. Images from East Berlin to Havana in the '90s.

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Corina Gepner, Traducir o Perder Pie, EME Editorial, 2023 © Corina Gepner

Cover of Traducir o Perder Pie — an essayistic and poetic work of self-fiction that explores translation as an experience of encountering radical otherness, of loss, and of History.

Cover art and collection art direction: Leticia Barbeito

Photo Credit: Leticia Barbeito

The interior of the book features black, folded pages that mirror the folds and layers of meaning in Gepner's writing: her personal history as the granddaughter of Holocaust victims, her work as a translator from German into French, and her own experiences translating certain poems.

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Dimitri Rouchon Borie, El demonio en la Colina de los Lobos, EME Editorial, 2024 © Dimitri Rouchon Borie

Cover of El demonio en la colina de los lobos.

First novel by Dimitri Rouchon Borie, translated from French by Ariel Dilon. Winner of the Inrockuptibles Prize and finalist for the 2021 Goncourt First Novel Award.

Cover Artwork: Roberta Valente

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Una casa lejos de casa is a poetic essay about living in a foreign language—even your own. To be a woman, a writer, a migrant, an exile, and from there, rethink what “home” means. A powerful re-reading of the tradition of writing between languages.

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