Draft:Hermits United

Hermits United is an independent British book publisher specialising in literary translation of authors ancient, modern, and contemporary.^[1] Founded by Mingyuan Hu in London in 2014, it publishes poetry, prose, fiction, and biography. ^[2]

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A champion of polyglot translations, Hermits United runs two bilingual collections: Erstwhile Series (English | ancient Chinese) and Luminary Collection (English | French). Languages from or into which the books tend to be translated are French, English, Chinese (ancient and modern), and German.^[3] Poetry by Mu Xin and Yves Nedonsel, prose by Han Fei, George Sand, Hippolyte Taine and Stefan Zweig, and fiction by Eileen Chang, Jean Frémon, Chi Li and Jiang Yun, have been published in bilingual editions.

Hermits United concomitantly releases original works and their (multilingual) translations. In 2023, it published Les Assassins de Confucius by Jean Levi in French, English, and Chinese.^[4] All three volumes were brought out in new editions in 2025. The English and Chinese translations of La Réforme de l'opéra de Pékin, Maël Renouard's award-winning novel, were published on the same day in 2023. A French translation of Jiang Yun's novel, Le Détachement féminin rouge, was released in 2024, following the 2023 English translation of the same work: The Red Detachment of Women, likewise released by Hermits United. In 2026, Hermits publishes Karol Beffa's Arvo Pärt in both French and English.

A double commitment to the literary and the scholarly, characteristic of men and women of letters, runs through Hermits' catalogue, replete with internal dialogues across genres.

Hermits' authors include Pascal Quignard, William Marx, Karol Beffa, Cédric Villani, Jacques Dupin, Guillaume Decourt, Maël Renouard, Jean Frémon, Eileen Chang, Chi Li, Jiang Yun, Hu Shih, Xunzi, Qu Yuan, and Mu Xin. Hermits' translators include Isabelle Rabut, Maël Renouard, Romain Graziani, Song Gang, Annelise Finegan, Liyine Levi-Wong, Nicholas Elliott, Alex Andriesse, Jacob Bromberg, Georges Hume, Chris Turner, and Cory Stockwell.^[5]

The imprint's logo is a donkey. The name "Hermits United" is inspired by an episode of Doctor Who.