OUR MISSION
Flup House is a publishing house born from FLUP, Rio de Janeiro’s literary festival. It extends the work of our annual festival by bringing books, writers, and readers into lasting relationships across languages and geographies. Our mission is to broaden our understanding of the Black Atlantic by placing Black Brazilian and Indigenous writing and thought in sustained conversation with authors and readers across the world. This work moves in several directions: bringing seminal texts into Portuguese while supporting the translation and international circulation of works written in Portuguese. Drawing on the strength of FLUP, we seek to create the conditions for these texts to be read, discussed, and brought into new intellectual and literary relationships.
At the heart of this project is an understanding of translation as intellectual and cultural exchange. The works we publish invite readers to engage with histories, concepts, and literary traditions that remain unevenly accessible across languages. They also ask us to reconsider how we understand the Black Atlantic through encounters with Indigenous thought, attending to the distinct histories and experiences from which these conversations emerge. Our ambition is to sustain, beyond the days of the festival, the exchanges that begin there. Through publishing and translation, we give these conversations wider audiences and the time to deepen.
THE FESTIVAL
Founded in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 by Julio Ludemir and Écio Salles, FLUP, the Festa Literária das Periferias, has helped change who participates in Brazilian literary life, as both writers and readers. Its work brings literature from Brazil’s urban peripheries into national and international conversation. In fall 2026, FLUP welcomed 20,000 people over five days. This public gives FLUP Éditions an audience and a place to introduce its books through readings, discussions, and meetings with authors. The publishing house, in turn, allows these exchanges to continue after the festival. Readers can return to the texts, engage more deeply with the ideas, and share them with others. Publishing grows directly from the work we already do: bringing people together around literature.
WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY PUBLISHED
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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are interested in literary works and critical thought that deepen conversations across the Black Atlantic and with Indigenous intellectual traditions. Our focus includes seminal texts awaiting translation into Portuguese, as well as works by Black Brazilian and Indigenous authors whose international circulation remains limited. We welcome conversations with authors, translators, publishers, and cultural institutions who share this commitment. We are particularly interested in projects that remain attentive to the languages, places, and histories from which a work emerges, while opening it to readers elsewhere.
WHO WE ARE
JULIO LUDEMIR is a Brazilian writer and cultural producer, born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Olinda, Pernambuco. He is one of the founders and organizers of FLUP – Festa Literária das Periferias, a literary festival established in 2012. He has published nine books, most of them focusing on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. “Rim por rim,” an investigative report on the international organ trade, was a finalist for the 2009 Jabuti Prize in Journalism. He was one of the screenwriters of “400 x 1,” a film directed by Caco de Souza and based on the biography of the same name by William da Silva Lima, one of the founders of Comando Vermelho. He coordinated Jovem Repórter, a communications project run by the Municipal Department of Culture of Nova Iguaçu, which engaged up to 400 young people from the Baixada Fluminense region. He is one of the creators of Batalha do Passinho and one of the directors of the musical Na Batalha.
MAME-FATOU NIANG is Trustee Professor of French Studies and the Founder-Director of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Identités Françaises (Brill, 2019) and the co-author of Universalisme (Anamosa, 2022). Her recent research examines Black geographies, Blackness in France and the institutionalization of Black Studies. Niang is the international curator of the Rio de Janeiro Literary Festival (FLUP), and an artist-in-residence at Ateliers Médicis in Paris, and a fellow at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici working on a project entitled “Échoïques” (Sounds of Silence). She is a member of the Black|France|Noire collective and the co-founder of G-SAP, the Global Network for the Studies of Africans and People of African Descent. Mame has held prestigious visiting professorships such as the Melodia Jones Distinguished Chair of French Studies at University at Buffalo, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in French Studies at Columbia University. She is currently completing two books: a study of Alice Diop and the first French translation of Beatriz Nascimento’s work.