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Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world.
New York, NY
Joined July 2008
If you didn't know, we are also on Bluesky and Instagram Threads!.Find us (@)ndbooks on Bluesky and (@)ndpublishing on Instagram. We'll be posting there more and more.
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It is not true, as Litprom stated and @nytimes .reported, that our author Adania Shibli agreed to decline the 2023 LiBeraturpreis for her remarkable novel A MINOR DETAIL.
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Selfie of Patti Smith & Laszlo Krasznahorkai having coffee in Venice yesterday. You're welcome. 💔
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Congratulations to Fernando Vallejo & Yvette Siegert, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Willis, and Solvej Balle & Barbara Haveland, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Awards for Poetry and Translated Literature!
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BEHOLD! Fall '24, featuring: László Krasznahorkai, Dunya Mikhail, Ágota Kristóf, Elizabeth Willis, Günter Grass, Yoko Tawada, Clarice Lispector, Forrest Gander, Solvej Balle, Marcel Proust, and Osamu Dazai.
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Out this month: Krasznahorkai, Willis, and Stepanova
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"I’m really obsessed by this writer from Brazil, Clarice Lispector. I love her because she writes whole novels where not one thing happens—she describes the air. I think she’s such a great, great novelist." —John Waters.
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Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022) .We are so sorry to share the news that Bernadette Mayer passed away last night. She was a giant of American poetry. ND is honored to have published her for thirty years. Our deepest condolences to her family and all who knew and loved her as we did.
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To whoever put all the songs mentioned in Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor on Spotify in a playlist, thank you.
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The brilliant Kairos—“a bracing philosophical inquiry into time, choice, and the forces of history”—has won the 2024 International Booker Prize. Congratulations to Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann! @TheBookerPrizes
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With the unbelievable heartbreak that is now being suffered on all sides, it serves no one to put forward falsehoods, especially about the author of a novel about the Nakba that is so historically true. We ask @nytimes run a correction immediately.
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BEHOLD! Winter ’24, featuring: Anne Carson, Alexis Wright, Osamu Dazai, Liliana Colanzi, Jonathan Buckley, Anne de Marcken, José Donoso, Evelio Rosero, László Krasznahorkai, Sylvia Legris, and Eliot Weinberger!
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A letter signed by over 600 publishers, editors, translators, and writers in support of Adania Shibli. This letter was originally published by @arablit.
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BEHOLD! Our Winter 2022 catalog. Featuring: Olga Ravn, Jessica Au, Stevie Smith, Yoko Tawada, Phoebe Giannisi, Fernanda Melchor, Yevgenia Belorusets, Juan Emar, Peter Weiss, Jean Cocteau, and Forough Farrokhzad!
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BEHOLD! Winter ’25, featuring: Osamu Dazai, Eça de Queirós, Mai Ishizawa, Evelio Rosero, José Donoso, Claire Baglin, Essex Hemphill, César Vallejo, Marcia Douglas, Hasib Hourani, Aharon Shabtai, and Ingeborg Bachmann.
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László Krasznahorkai wins the 2024 Prix Formentor! Congratulations to the greatest wizard of them all.
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Latest arrivals!. "A total explosion; Solvej Balle has blown through to a new dimension of literary exploration."—Nicole Krauss
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Read an excerpt of László Krasznahorkai’s HERSCHT 07769:
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BEHOLD! Spring/summer ’25, featuring: Mathias Énard, Inger Christensen, Bernadette Mayer, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, László Krasznahorkai, Naguib Mahfouz, Hélène Bessette, Yoko Tawada, Harald Voetmann, Marlen Haushofer, and C. F. Ramuz.
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BEHOLD! The Fall 2022 catalog featuring new books by Lispector, Evelio Roserio, Kathryn Scanlan, Rosemary Tonks, Hiroko Oyamada, H. D., Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Hilton Als, Romain Gary, Osamu Dazai, Bernadette Mayer and László Krasznahorkai!.
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KAIROS has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize! Huge congratulations to Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann.
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"A dazzling novel and the English-language debut of one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices."—@GuardianBooks. HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor (@fffmelchor) translated by @hughes_sophie is out next March!
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BEHOLD! Spring/summer ’24, featuring: Elias Canetti, Bei Dao, Robert Plunket, Maria Stepanova, Jenny Erpenbeck, Fernando Vallejo, Céline, César Aira, Clarice Lispector, Juan Emar, Yoko Tawada, Phoebe Giannisi, and Thuân!
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Happy November 18th! ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is here 💚💛
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of the incomparable Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions has been a publisher and friend of Ferlinghetti for over 60 years. We will miss him terribly. May we all live so long and so well.
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BEHOLD! Fall 2020 featuring LOST WRITINGS OF KAFKA (never ever ever translated stories), Jenny Erpenbeck, Doon Arbus, Adam Mars-Jones, Eliot Weinberger, Hiroko Oyamada, Thalia Field, Wolfgang Koeppen, Beatriz Bracher, Bohumil Hrabal, Perec, and Lispector!
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CONGRATULATIONS to Yoko Tawada & translator Margaret Mitsutani! . Scattered All Over the Earth is a finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Fiction. Keep your fingers crossed for their win on November 16th 🍣 @nationalbook
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We are sad to share the news that Rachel Ingalls, passed away yesterday. ND reissued her wonderful novels: MRS. CALIBAN and BINSTEAD'S SAFARI. An "immensely skillful" writer (Ursula K. Le Guin) who until recently was "unjustly neglected" (New Yorker), she will be greatly missed.
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A two-hour conversation with Mathias Énard on anthropology, Buddhism, modern Arabic, French lit over on Between the Covers w/ @DavidNaimon—what could be better
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Out next month! KAPPA, an "enchanting and sometimes terrifying" (Jorge Luis Borges) novel by the great Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell. Available June 6th at your local bookstore!
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New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Novel Prize, a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.
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Congratulations @PoetKimHyesoon & @DonMeeChoi 🎉🎉🎉.
The NBCC Award for Poetry goes to “Phantom Pain Wings” by Kim Hyesoon (@PoetKimHyesoon), translated by Don Mee Choi (@DonMeeChoi)! @NewDirections #NBCCAwards
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BEHOLD! Our Winter 2020 catalog featuring: Anne Carson, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, César Aira, Mary Oppen, Siegfried Lenz, Paul Auster, Tu Fu, Kleist, Cortázar. And introducing Kaouther Adimi (Algeria/France) and Fernanda Melchor (Mexico)!
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Congratulations 💙🩷💛 to Polly Barton and Margaret Mitsutani, winners of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for recent translations of Mieko Kanai and Yoko Tawada and for Margaret’s career achievement in Japanese translation
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"A new form of suicide: To disappear into space. The most expensive form of suicide, only for billionaires.".—Elias Canetti (1969) . From THE BOOK AGAINST DEATH, translated by Peter Filkins, forthcoming from ND and @FitzcarraldoEds May 2024
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Jacob Brogan writes for @washingtonpost, "The best new novel I have read this year is written in a single sentence that sprawls over 400 pages." . Read the whole review here:.
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai by Patti Smith, featuring Laszlo's phone open to the selfie he just took with Patti. Wizard. 🧙♂️
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BEHOLD! Our Fall 2021 catalog: Fleur Jaeggy, Rosmarie Waldrop, Evelio Rosero, Patti Smith, A. L. Snijders, Anne Carson, Wislawa Szymborska, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Will Alexander, Sylvia Legris, Rafael Bernal, Rafael Chirbes, & introducing Harald Voetmann!
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Our reissue of Mary Oppen's AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Meaning a Life, is now available for purchase at your favorite bookstore's online shop :).
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Next week we are celebrating Susan Bernofsky's recent translation of Yoko Tawada's PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL. Join us at Book Culture on 112th at 7 pm!.You can register here:.
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HAPPY 99TH BIRTHDAY, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI! "I was conceived in the summer of Nineteen Eighteen / when some kind of war was going on / but it didn’t stop two people / from making love in Ossining that year" .
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Happy belated 100th birthday to the late, great Denise Levertov—poet, educator, and dear friend.
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Congratulations, Forrest Gander! @PulitzerPrizes 2019 for BE WITH. We are so happy. Love, New Directions x
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Not much longer now. STORYBOOK ND will at long last be available at your local bookshop September 27th!. Featuring delightful stories, all 80 pages or less, by Clarice Lispector, Helen Dewitt, Cesar Aira, Yoko Tawada, Osamu Dazai, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai ✨
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BEHOLD! Our W23 Catalog! Featuring: Fernanda Melchor, Mário de Andrade, Alison Mills Newman, Ágota Kristóf, Homero Aridjis, César Aira, Daša Drndić, Yevgenia Belorusets, Tennesse Williams, Osamu Dazai, Doon Arbus, Ana Luísa Amaral, and Olga Ravn.
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An excerpt from the forthcoming THE LOST WRITINGS OF FRANZ KAFKA is in this week's issue of the New Yorker. The Lost Writings (Sept) is a trove of stories only now in English, edited by Kafka biographer Reiner Stach, and translated by Michael Hofmann.
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LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI IS THE WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE!!!!!!! CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE! @ManBookerPrize @krasznahorkai.
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Thank you to all the booksellers who have supported László Krasznahorkai's books over the years. And especially his most recent novel, BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING, which is a hefty handsell (pre-NBA) if there ever was one. We are so grateful! .LOVE, New Directions XXXXXXXOOXOX
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A shimmering rainbow pallet of jackets for László Krasznahorkai's forthcoming story collection WORLD GOES ON!
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"There are no small fascisms, there are no small, benign Nazisms." Daša Drndić in @parisreview
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THE CHANDELIER, Clarice Lispector's second novel, will be published in English for the first time next February. Fortunately you can read an excerpt now in Harper's.
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You can now read the breathless opening of HERSCHT 07769—featuring neo-Nazis, particle physics, and Johann Sebastian Bach—on the ND blog!.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Don Mee Choi, poet, translator, all around visionary, for being named a MacArthur Fellow!!! @DonMeeChoi . We are so proud to have published one of Don Mee Choi's brilliant translations of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEATH.
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Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini hanging out by the fireplace
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Out in June!.
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BEHOLD! Winter 2019. Featuring Dasa Drndic, Rachel Ingalls, Robert Lax, @edouard_louis, Rivka Galchen, Jean Fremon, Qurratulain Hyder, César Aira, Christine Wunnicke, Ana Luisa Amaral, Adonis, Vila-Matas, Mishima, and Lispector!
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ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME is briefly noted in this week’s @NewYorker:. A meditation on climate change and an experiment with fictional form, Balle’s novel is also a startling exploration of profound questions about language, human connection, and time.
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Congratulations to Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Michael Hofmann, longlisted for THIS IS NOT MIAMI and KAIROS—we are so excited⚡️🎆
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“A work of quietly detonative imagination.” IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT’S OVER is the winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Huge congratulations to @annedemarcken🐦��
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Many many congratulations to Alexis Wright, who has just won the Stella Prize for the second time. We are very proud to publish the “fierce and gloriously funny, genre-defiant” PRAISEWORTHY in North America 🫏❤️ You can read the judges’ full comments here:
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Happy pub day to MY WORK, @OlgaRavn, and co-translators Sophia Hersi Smith and @jennifer_etc❣️
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🤠. 📚📚📚. 📚 📚 📚. 📚 📚 📚. 👇 📚📚 👇. 👢 👢. howdy. im the sheriff of ND books.
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"The terrible revolution that was always going to happen in modern societies has in fact happened. Not that mass culture has won, but money."—László Krasznahorkai interviewed by Adam Thirlwell in @parisreview
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of a remarkable work: Rosmarie Waldrop's A KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA! You can now read the opening chapters of this one-of-a-kind book on the ND blog.
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"We don’t have any idea what the universe is. Wise people have always told us that this is proof you shouldn’t think, because thinking leads you nowhere. You just build over this huge construction of misunderstanding, which is culture."-LÁSZLÓ @parisreview
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Huge congratulations to Charlotte Mandell for winning the 2018 National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of COMPASS by Mathias Énard! .
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I know no pleasure like that of books. Books act as introductions to dreams. ".Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)
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BEHOLD! FALL23 featuring: Olga Ravn, Ida Vitale, Victor Heringer, Anne Serre, Mathias Énard, Rosemary Tonks, Catullus, Clarice Lispector, Dylan Thomas, Tatsuhiko Ishii, Denise Levertov!.
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The Novel Prize is now open for submissions through June 1st, 2024. Winners, chosen biannually, are published simultaneously by New Directions, @GiramondoBooks, and @FitzcarraldoEds. Entrants residing in the Americas should submit via our portal:
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Happy Birthday, César Aira! The "Duchamp of Latin American literature" (NYT) turns 70 tomorrow! Read an excerpt from his new book, BIRTHDAY, in @parisreview
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Praiseworthy—“startlingly original, fiercely political, uncompromising in every respect”—is a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. Congratulations to its brilliant, singular author Alexis Wright 🎉🎊
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HURRICANE SEASON by @fffmelchor translated by .@hughes_sophie is one of @strandbookstore's Most Anticipated Books of 2020!
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BEHOLD! ND SS2021 featuring Rosanna Bruno & Anne Carson, Thalia Field, Forrest Gander, Natalia Ginzburg, Michael Palmer, César Aira, José Emilio Pacheco, Dag Solstad, Osip Mandelstam, Anne Serre, KEITH RIDGWAY (@rid9way), and introducing Emilio Fraia:
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In a small Hungarian town, an eccentric and isolated genius known only as the Professor occupies a specially designed hut, ravaged by uncontrollable thoughts and trying to rid himself of “human imbecility”. @PublishersWkly .COMING IN SEPTEMBER! .
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A peek behind the curtain of our Novel Prize deliberations! And a full-throated endorsement of Coppelia.
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"He is a god of beginnings: when you first start to fall in love or get drunk or have an idea—that is the intoxication called Dionysos, new every time.".—Anne Carson on her new translation of BAKKHAI.
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We're throwing a birthday party for Clarice Lispector. A Hora de Clarice on December 10th, 6pm, at Picture Room. Toasts, books, & readings!
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"As a translator, Carson is well aware that her work must issue from the ever-changing afterlife of the original, an approach that requires cultural and textual fluidity. In short, Carson, like Euripides, is unafraid to take risks.".
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For no reason: a photo of @helendewitt using her chainsaw. Caption from New York Magazine, "Knows a dozen languages and cuts her own wood." (READ HER BOOKS.)
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"On hearing of Paul Celan’s death, Ingeborg Bachmann had added a new section to the already finished manuscript for her only novel, MALINA: 'My life is over, for he drowned in the river during deportation…He was my life. I loved him more than my life.'"
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The @parisreview has unlocked their profile W.G. Sebald, author of THE EMIGRANTS, RINGS OF SATURN, and VERTIGO, among others. Written by James Atlas, it was published in 1999, just two years before Sebald died.
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