For nearly a year after Jennifer Croft, a translator, sent a submission to Jacques Testard, a publisher in London, in the summer of 2015, the manuscript languished unread. Testard had launched ...

Matthew is a features writer for Collider currently based in Manchester. In his spare time he likes to read, write, obsess over Batman and complain about his Wordle score. There are few films more ...

With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off It was several hours after the Nobel prize for ...

To say Fitzcarraldo Editions is a one-off would be putting things mildly. It’s a publishing house that looks – and sometimes acts – like an indie record label. It’s a for-profit business that ...

Fitzcarraldo Editions is not yet 10 years old and has only six full-time staff members. Since its founding, three of its authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. By Alex Marshall ...

“You want to know the story of Fitzcarraldo? It's a strange story, a little bit Sisyphus-like. A story of the challenge of the impossible.” – Werner Herzog German director Werner Herzog spent several ...

Werner Herzog’s 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo” is the story of a driven, arguably delusional man hacking his way through the jungle in pursuit of a quixotic aspiration: to build an opera house in the Amazon ...

MANILA, Philippines - You must have heard of Fitzcarraldo, the 1982 film of German filmmaker Werner Herzog who won the Cannes Best Director trophy for the said film. It is about an opera-obsessed man ...