Laertes Books

Laertes is an independent press committed to literary translation — to the furthering of that particular art. Our aim is also to relay works from far and wide, in any genre, that render the full human weight.

Jane Assimakopoulos

Jane Assimakopoulos is an American writer and translator living in Ioannina, Greece. Her translations from the Greek and French include novels by award-winning writers as well as poems and stories in literary journals and anthologies in the U.S. and in England. Between 1999 and 2018 she was employed by a Greek publisher as translation editor in charge of a series of books by Philip Roth.