About
Codex Novellus is a collective of writers and editors contributing to the next chapter of Venezuelan publishing.
A two-hundred-year-old nation existing within certain borders, Venezuela was interrupted by a social convulsion that has seen one out of every four people flee to other countries. Many of those eight million are still in dangerous transit.
Along with the crisis of refugees and those displaced, a broader collapse of civil society ended a golden era of Venezuelan culture. Many publishers, galleries, universities, foundations, newspapers, and production companies became ghosts of their former selves or closed down. Several generations of intellectuals and artists are scattered around the world. Most titles from the cultural canon have been unavailable for years.
Codex publishes original work taking the Venezuelan cultural tradition through new, uncharted territory: written around the world in different languages. We also bring back texts that can help bridge the country's cultural tradition onto a new era. Beyond Venezuela's current impasse, we are after new codexes reinventing the medieval book to expand accessibility, availability, and the preservation of texts.
We began this project by publishing the then out-of-print Pin Pan Pun, a cult classic and finalist of the 1999 International Novel Rómulo Gallegos Award.
Please write us hola at codexnovellus dot com and distribution at codexnovellus dot come.