Nordic Academic Press was founded in 1997 and became an independent publishing house in January 2018. The press publishes around twenty new titles a year, and do their utmost to ensure their books live up to top standard — the best scholarship, clearly expressed, in an elegant layout and transparent expression. The NAP backlist has a strong focus on the humanities – history, anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, classical studies, literature and linguistics – with additional works in related disciplines such as political studies, sociology, and art and gender studies. They publish works in Swedish and English by Swedish and sometimes Nordic scholars for a Nordic and inter­national circle of readers.