Gazebo Books was co-founded by writer
Xavier Hennekinne and has been publishing literary works of international and Australian fiction and non-fiction since 2018. Authors published include
Catherine Rey, Sanaz Fotouhi, Sreedhevi Iyer, Katia Ariel, artist Patrick Hartigan,
Lydie Salvayre,
Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ, comic artist
Mandy Ord and
Nobel Prize winner
Elfriede Jelinek. In 2020, Gazebo Books launched its poetry imprint Life Before Man, edited by artist
Phil Day, and releasing collections by S. K. Kelen,
Cassandra Atherton,
Paul Hetherington, Subhash Jaireth,
Anthony Lawrence, Alex Selenitsch, Naveen Kishore, Kimberly Williams and Natalie Cooke, and the international anthology
Alcatraz. In June 2025, Alan Fyfe's poetry collection
G-d, Sleep, and Chaos was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards in the Poetry Book of the Year category. Gazebo Books commissions translations into English. Notably, in December 2022, it released
Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers, by French philosopher
Michel Serres, translated by Gila Walker, and in August 2023,
The Mud of a Century by
Yuka Ishii, translated by Haydn Trowell. Trowell also translated
Schoolgirl by
Rie Qudan, which was released in March 2025. In March 2024, Katia Ariel's memoir
The Swift Dark Tide was shortlisted for the
Stella Prize. Gazebo Books publications are distributed by New South Books through Alliance Distribution Services. ==References==