Interesting insights, new perspectives
Atena – Books with a View
Atena was established in 1986 and is situated in central Finland in the university city of Jyväskylä. We publish general literature, literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Above all, we focus on thought-provoking books on history, popular science, current affairs, psychology and health. We publish around 50 titles a year and our turnover is around 2 million euros. Atena has a staff of seven people. Many of our books have won important literature prizes. In Finland, we are known as an intellectually energetic publisher that guarantees quality in its books.
Contact and foreign rights
Atena Kustannus Oy
P.O. Box 436
40101 Jyväskylä
Finland
e-mail: atena@atena.fi
VAT-number: FI15645960
Foreign rights:
Atena
mr. Ville Rauvola
ville.rauvola@atena.fi
Recently acquired translation rights:
- Maria Broberg: Bakvatten
- Ben McIntyre: Agent Sonya
- Peter Frankopan: Silk Roads
- Toby Muse: Kilo
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Strongmen
- Viv Groskop: Au revoir, tristesse!
- Andreas Slätt & Karlsson-Dahlén’s family: Berättelsen om Kevinfallet
- Thomas Erikson: Omgiven av narsisist
- Jeannette Hyde: 10 Hour Diet
- Florence Given: Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
- Wendy Lower: The Ravine
- Heidi Blake: From Russia with Blood
- Mikael Bergstrand: Ingemar Modigs uppvaknande
- Eugen Ruge: Metropol
- Viv Groskop: How to Own the Room
- Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
- John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker: The Killer Across the Table
- Philippa Perry: The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
- Wyllie James: Nazi Wives
- Vince Houghton: Nuking the Moon
- Emilie Pine: Notes to Self
- Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
- Kayo Mpoyi: Maj betyder vatten
- Ben McIntyre: The Spy and The Traitor
- Hallie Rubenhold: Five
- Katrina Wilk: Perimenopower
- Viv Groskop: The Anna Karenina Fix
- Tiffany Watt Smith: Schadenfreude
- Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Everythin is F*cked,
- Michelle McNamara: I´ll Be Gone in the Dark
- Mariette Lindstein: Sekten-series
- Rutger Bregman: Gratis geld voor iedereen
- Tim Marshall: Prisoners of Geography
- Niclas Hermansson & Peter Ryberg: Okända fakta om andra världskriget
- Rolf Dobelli: Die Kunst des guten Lebens
- Anders Hansen: Fördel adhd
- Jacon Nielsen & Mikael Zetterberg: Köksbryggning
- Esther Thorpe: Paper Home
- Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Anna Larsdotter: Kvinnor i strid
- David Eagleman: The Brain – The Story of You
- Kelli Brogan: The Mind of Your Own
- Ayòbámi Adébáyò: Stay with Me
- Thomas Erikson: Omgiven av psykopater
- Anders Hansen: Hjärnstark
- Daniel Rydén: 101 historiska möter
- Hilary Grant: Knitting from the North
- Christine Bailey: Energy Bite Bliss
- Federico Varese: Mafia Life
- Alexander von Schönburg: Weltgeschichte to-go
- Jennifer Ackerman: The Genius of Birds
- Sabrina Fauda-Rôle: Pastamagigues
- Martina Haag: Det är något som inte stämmer
- Diana Ducret: Femmes de dictateur
- Rachel Brathen: Yoga Girl
- Emeran Mayer: The Mind–Gut Connection
- Thomas Erikson: Omigiven av idioter
- Ursula Poznanski: Stimmen
- Andreas Tjernshaugen: Meisenes hemmelige liv
- Hugleikur Dagsson: Hva∂ me∂ börnin?
- Chigozie Obioma: The Fishermen
- Frank McDonough: The Gestapo
- Giles Milton: Fascinating Footnotes from History
- Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt: The Time Travel Handbook
- Niklas Ekstedt & Henrik Ennart: Den blå maten
- Darragh McKeon: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
- Ralf Rothmann: Im Frühling sterben
- Joris Luyendijk: Dit kan niet waar zijn
- Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction
- Florian Huber: Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt
- Jo Marchant: Cure
- Wing Mun Devenney: The Complete Guide to Wire Jewellery
- Audrey Magee: The Undertaking
- James Church: Corpse in Koryo
- Helen Garner: Tha Spare Room
- Linus Jonkman: Intorvert
- Richard Wiseman: Night School
- David Gillespie & Mark Warren: How to Be Interesting
- Hugleikur Dagsson: Popular Hits vol. I–III
- Milton Crawfor: Drunken Cookbook
- Anna Lihammer: Medan mörkret faller
- Paul Fischer: The Kim Jong-Il Production
- Juan Reinaldo Sanchez: La Vie cachée de Fidel Castro
- Helga Isager: Finstickat
- Matt Sewell: Owls
- Thomas Harding: Hanns & Rudolf
- Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate: Hitler’s Forgotten Children
- Åke Persson & Thomas Oldrup: 101 historiska myter
- Jon Rönström & Anders Ekman: Stalins makaroner
- Thomas Rode Andersen: Functional Training
- Ferdinand von Schirach: Schuld
- Philip Kerr: A German Requiem
- Wendy Lower: Hitler’s Furies. German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- Alan Weisman: Countdown. Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth
- Daniel Rydén: 101 Historiska misstag
- Richard Wiseman: Rip It Up!
- Nadifa Mohamed: The Orchard of Lost Souls
- Henrik Fexeus: Maktspelet
- Lirio Abbate: Fimmine ribelli
- Ferdinand von Schirach: Der Fall Collini
- Göran Rosenberg: Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz
- Gretchen Reynolds: The First 20 Minutes
- William Davis: Wheat Belly
- Heidi Boyd: Exploring Resin Jewelry
- Wolfgang Ruge & Eugen Ruge: Gelobtes Land
- Ursula Poznanski: Blinde Vögel
- Ursula Poznanski: Fünf
- Fredrik Backman: Man som heter Ove
- Daniel Glattauer: Ewig Dein
- M. Krogerus & R. Tschäppeler: Die Welt erklärt in 3 Strichen
- Xinran: Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
- Graham Moore: The Holmes Affair
- Alex Capus: Léon und Louise
- Robert Penn: It’s All About the Bike
- Anders Fager: Svenska kulter (Swedish cults)
- Eugen Ruge: In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
- Paul Torday: The Girl on the Landing
- Philip Kerr: The March Violets
- Micael Dahlén: Monster
- Emily Hogarth: Cut up this book!
- Linda Permann: Little Crochet
- Jeffrey Brown: Darth Vader and Son
- Wolfgang Herrndorf: Tschick
- Daniel Glattauer: Alle sieben Wellen
- Carolly Erickson: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
- Richard Wiseman: Paranormality
- Joshua Foer: Moonwalking with Einstein
- Paul Parsons: 30-second Theories
- M. Krogerus & R. Tschäppeler: 50 Erfolgsmodelle
- Karin Johannisson: Melankoliska rum (The rooms of melancholy)
- Jennifel Paganelli: Girl’s World
- Anne Taintor: It’s Five o´Clock Somewhere
- Pia Juul: Mordet på Halland
- Marianne Cederwall: Svinhugg
- Ferndinand von Schirach: Verbrechen
- Matt Haig: The Radleys
- Ann Heberlein: En liten bok om ondska
- Francesco Forgione: Mafia Export
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney: The Wavewatcher’s Companion
- Markus Bennemann: Die Evolution im Liebrausch
- Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy
- Douwe Draaisma: Waarom het leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt (Why Life Speeds up as You Get Older)
- Jason Thompson: Playing with Books
- Mia Bengtsson: Virka glada amigurumis
- Milton Crawford: The Hungover Cookbook
- Hugleikur Dagsson: Jar∂i∂ okkur and Ultima Thule
- Álex Rovira and Francesc Miralles: La última respuesta
- Ali Shaw: The Girl With Glass Feet
- Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson: REWORK
- Ann Heberlein: Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva
- Thomas Glavinic: Das Leben der Wünche
- Sylvain Tesson: Éloge de l’énergie vagabonde
- Niocolas Jacquemot: Vad optimester vet – och du kan lära dig
- Gu∂rún Eva Mínervudóttir: Skaparinn
- María Cecilia Barbetta: Ändrungsschneiderei los Milagros
- Ann Heberlein: Det var inte mitt fel! – Om konsten att ta ansvar
- Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals
- Daniel Glattauer: Gut gegen Norwind
- Derren Brown: Tricks of the Mind
- Markus Bennemann: Im Fadenkreuz des Schützenfischs
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney: The Cloud Collector´s Handbook
- Alan Weisman: World Without Us
- Christoph Giesen, Philipp Josef Grull, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer: Die Jagd auf das chinesische Phantom.
- Israel Van Dorsten: Wij waren, ik ben
- Sture Lindholm, Cecilia Toivanen: Ekenäs Universitet. Där inbordeskriget inte slutade 1918
- Becky Kennedy: Good Inside. Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent
- You Want to Be
- Ayòbámi Adébayò: A Spell of Good things
- Claire Powell: At the Table
- Holly Smale: Cassandra Complex
- Katja Hoyer: Beyond the Wall
- Ben MacIntyre: Colditz. Prisoners of the Castle
- William MacAskill: What We Owe the Future
- Sara Griberg: Historiska kärlekspar
- René Dahl Andersen: Helhjertet. Betjente, banditter, ludere og legender
- Lea Ypi: Free
- Melissa Febos: Girlhood
- Clara Törnvall: Autisterna
- Florian Illies: Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses
- Thomas Erikson: Omgiven av energitjuvar
- Andres Hansen: Depphjärnan
- Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Workbook.
- Elin Cullhed: Eufori
- Eugen Ruge: Metropol
- Ben Macintyre: Double Cross
- Brian Klaas: Corruptible
- Barbara Demick: Eat the Buddha
- Peter Frankopan: New Silk Roads
- David Eagleman: Livewired
- René Dahl Andersen, Casper Fauerholdt: Haerdet
- Daniel Rydén: Potemkin & kulisserna
- Harriet De Winton: New Botanical Painting
- Maaza Mengiste: Shadow King
- Geoffrey Cain: The Perferct Police State
- Johan Eklöf: Mörkermanifestet
- Alex Perry: The Good Mothers
- Gordon Corera: Russians among us
- Jennifer Ackerman: The Bird Way
- Rick Pastoor: Grip
- Chika Miyata: How to Draw almost Everything