Gavroche Books is an independent publishing house, created in 2017 by editor and publisher Nika Gavrovska, based in Skopje, North Macedonia and focused primarily on illustrated children’s literature. Gavroche books seeks to publish a carefully chosen range of stories and voices that speak the language of fantasy and originality, all the while encouraging visual literacy. Our picture books library of Macedonian translations of distinguished foreign children’s authors includes JonsMellgren, Nicolai Houm, Rune Markhus, Martin Widmark, Emilia Dziubak, etc.
Gavroche is becoming a home to aspiring local voices of children’s and adult fiction works that include DraganaLukan’s debut novel, Monkey Street, as well as Nika Gavrovska’s and RistoAvramovski’s debut picture book, Bel.
Gavroche also publishes non-fiction works including What is Architecture? And 100 Other Questions and Answers that cover a wide range of issues on the practice and theory of architecture by the Swedish duo Rasmus Waern and Gert Wingardh.
Our projects have been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad, the Embassy of Sweden in North Macedonia, the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia and the City of Skopje.