Untitled - Uitgeverij Cossee

Cossee Publishers is an independent publishing house located at the Amstelveld, the most beautiful square inAmsterdam. The publishing house was founded in autumn 2001 and the first books were published in the spring of2002. Cossee publishes Dutch and translated fiction and non-fiction. With their selected list, the carefully edited andbeautifully designed editions, Cossee wants to give their authors the best possible platform and a growingreadership.Eva Cossée (1954) studied Dutch Language and Literature, Scandinavian Languages and LiteratureScience. She started working as Manager Pocketbooks at publishing house Bruna and as acquiringeditor at publishing house Veen where she started a translated fiction list.She became chief editor and later publisher at publishing house Contact and Publishing Director atpublishing house Ambo|Anthos.In 2001 she decided to start her own publishing house and called it Cossee Publishers. As publishershe introduced authors like Salman Rushdie, Richard Powers, Michael Ignatieff, Milan Kundera, J.M.Coetzee, Bernhard Schlink and David Grossman to the Dutch readers. As editor she introduced Dutchauthors like Geert Mak, Margriet de Moor, Midas Dekkers, Renate Dorrestein and Gerbrand Bakkerto readers outside the Netherlands.Besides running a publishing house she wrote for the Dutch opinion magazine Vrij Nederland,lectured at the School for Publishing and wrote various courses for the publishing industry.Christoph Buchwald (1951) studied History of Art, Literature and Experimental Composition in Berlin.He started his career in publishing as an editor at Claassen Verlag and worked thirteen years as anacquiring editor at Hanser Verlag.Here he published authors like Primo Levi, Milan Kundera, Lars Gustafsson, David Grossman, Per OlofEnquist, Harry Mulisch, Margriet de Moor and Michael Ondaatje. Then he became the publishingdirector of Luchterhand Verlag and later the publishing director of Suhrkamp Verlag. In 2001 hemoved to the Netherlands to joined Eva Cossée at the start of Cossee Publishers.Since 1979 he is the editor of the yearbook of German poetry called Jahrbuch der Lyrik. Every year adifferent poet has the privilege to be his co-editor at this annual project. Other projects he has beeninvolved in include the collected works of poet Walter Mehring (he edited and annotated the tenvolumes) and the ultimate anthology of the seventies called Lesebuch der siebziger Jahre on which heco-operated with publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag and Fischer Verlag) and good friend Klaus Wagenbach.Furthermore he selected hundred poems from former East Germany in 100 gedichte der DDR and hisinterviews with Harry Mulisch have been edited to a book called The Dog and the German Soul, HarryMulisch in conversation with Christoph Buchwald. He is also a composer of film music and songs andhe wrote the libretto for the opera Goldwasser which is composed by Jaap Hamburger.