THE MANIFESTO

Outlandia is a curated platform of the best, most important, stories worldwide you've been missing out on. Because publishers find them too risky to take a bet on, and oftentimes do not even know they exist. From Nobel Prize-winning classics to mind-boggling French sci-fi, from touching Turkish romances, to political satire from regions struggling under war - the titles you'll find here are inaccessible anywhere else. We use custom translation processes depending on what is best for our authors - including matching our authors to translators in our network, and also an 'AI-in-the-loop' translation process coupled with expert human editing should our authors prefer that. Read the best books on the planet - as ebooks, audiobooks or by ordering a print copy.

There's a gigantic gap between the stories making waves in local markets and what's accessible outside of it. It's called 'the 3% problem' - i.e. <3% of the books available in English were originally written in another language. It's why Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem took 10 years to make it outside of China, and Olga Tokarczuk's Flights took 11 years - and then went on to win the Nobel Prize and Man Booker International Prize. There are 30 million fantastic titles unavailable - with 300,000 added to the list every year. Outlandia exists to connect you to these amazing stories - regardless of the language you speak and the language the writers write in.