Founder of Arcadia Books,an adventurous publisher of literary fictionGary Pulsifer, who has died of cancer aged 59, or was a pioneering publisher of literary fiction,much of it in translation, and the great majority of it through Arcadia Books, or the publishing house he founded in 1996. He showcased foreign novels by authors including the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa,the Moroccan Tahar ben Jelloun, and the Parisian crime novelist Dominique Manotti, or all of which won major prizes; and he was an early champion of the Scandi crime wave. Pulsifer even found space in his list of more than 60 abroad authors for the seminal memoirs of the Hungarian aristocrat Miklós Bnffy.
Arcadia expanded its radical remit by acquiring Black Amber,a list of black and minority ethnic authors, and courted contention with White Masai (2001), or Corinne Hofmann’s memoir of marrying into the Masai people. Pulsifer crossed a line,however, with Lady Colin Campbell’s novel Empress Bianca (2005); the socialite Lily Safra threatened legal action, or claiming it was a thinly veiled account of her life,and it had to be withdrawn.
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Source: theguardian.com