Atena - Books with a View

Atena was established in 1986 and is situated in central Finland in the university city of Jyväskylä. We mainly publish general literature, both fiction and non-fiction. Above all we focus on cultural history, popular science, current affairs and biographies, from a less obvious perspective. We also publish books on cookery, crafts and humour. We publish around 45 titles a year and our turnover in 2007 was over 1.3 million euros. Atena has a staff of six people. Some of our books have won important prizes in Finland. In Finland, we are known as an interesting publisher that guarantees quality in its books.

Recently acquired translation rights:

Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals

Daniel Glattauer: Gut gegen Norwind

Derren Brown: Tricks of the Mind

Markus Bennemann: Im Fadenkreuz des Schützenfiscs

Gavin Pretor-Pinney: The Cloud Collector´s Handbook

Peter Ackroyd: E.A. Poe - Life Cut Short
Rajaa lsanea: Banat al-Riyad (Girls of Riadh)
Pierre Bayard: Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus? (How to talk about books you haven't read)
Jeremy Clarkson: I Know You Got a Soul
Tom Cutler: 211 Things a Bright Boy Should Know; 211 Things a Bright Girl Should Know
Hugleikur Dagsson: Should You be Laughing at This?; Is This Supposed to be Funny?
Xiaolu Guo: Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Hadley Freeman: The Meaning of Sunglasses
Sue Hasser: Magical Metal Clay Jewellery
Jens Linder: Långkok (The slow cookery)
John Naish: Enough!
Michael Pollan: In Defence of Food
Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudspotter's Guide
Alexander von Schönburg: Alles, was Sie schon immer über Könige wissen wollten (Everything you have always wanted to know about royals)
Alan Weisman: World Without Us

Atena Kustannus Oy

P.O. Box 436
40101 Jyväskylä
Finland
phone: +358 10 4214 200
e-mail: atena[at]atena[dot]fi

VAT-number: FI06354053

Foreign rights:
Atena ¦ mr. Ville Rauvola ¦ ville[dot]rauvola[at]atena[dot]fi