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We've just made 30 of our ebooks free on our website. Just go to the links in this post and select "ebook" or "epub" and check out and you'll be good to go!
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Welcome to our brand new site: ! To celebrate, you can purchase our titles for 30% off using the code “summersale” at checkout. So much gratitude to our designer Justin Goldberg and to Gracie Zhang whose illustrations we're delighted to feature💌
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In the next months, we are publishing literature from Angola, Hungary, Argentina, Germany, Afghanistan, Poland, and Ukraine. These are strange and magnetic stories, revelatory novels, electric poems, and a picture book that will make you want to live among forest creatures.
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We are mourning the loss of Elias Khoury. His fictions are layered with ideas that shift under foot. Guided by compassion, love, and humor, his novels are catalysts for political reflection. Khoury was a lifelong champion of the Palestinian people.
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"After all, writing poetry is also an act of translation, translating the world and the language of the world."
@parisreview
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We are hiring summer interns! If you want to learn about each step of publishing a work of translation, we welcome your application. Pay is $15/hour, 2 days per week. More details on our site!
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We're thrilled to announce that Hanne Ørstavik’s Ti Amo, translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken, has been longlisted for the prestigious Dublin Literary Award! Our warmest congratulations to Hanne Ørstavik and her translator, Martin Aikten, on this mesmeric book.
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This spring we’ll publish writing from Kashmir, Colombia, France, Denmark, Argentina, & Mozambique. Rumors relayed from window sills about the inhabitants of the alley below, incisive writing from within a psychiatric facility, a poem in which the natural landscape talks back...
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"Improving the writing isn’t my goal, my goal is to make the writing go to new places, to explore things, to search for meaning, to look for the world." Knausgaard interviewed by
@lydiakiesling
, up today on the
@parisreview
site!
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Hello all! We are keen to expand our blogger, bookseller, and reviewer network in the UK, Ireland and Europe, and would love to hear from you all. Please DM us if you're any of the above and love international literature. You can also email me at sarah
@archipelagobooks
.org!
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BACKLIST TIME! Starting tomorrow, get 40% off our entire backlist with coupon code BACKLISTGEMS. Head on over to to stock up on all your favorite titles (and get a head start on that holiday gift scramble), through Friday Nov 11th.
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We are having a major sale on our site: 40% off across the board! Go crazy! Photo to show one possible shelf you could make with this deal.
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Jacob Rogers' translation from Galician of Manuel Rivas' novel is shortlisted for
@LitTranslate
's 2023 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award!
"Rogers’ flowing, lyrical translation, which never compromises Rivas’ contradictions and careful lack of cohesion, is to be celebrated."
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Two books out now:
1. a story collection by E.T.A. Hoffmann, aka "the unrivaled master of the uncanny," according to Freud
2. a novel dealing with the experiences of a teenager undergoing an unwanted pregnancy, first published in 1958, by the Argentine genius Sara Gallardo
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We're hiring fall interns! If you want to work on forthcoming gems from Norway, Iran, France, and elsewhere, apply with your resume and cover letter before August 5. Pay is $15/hour, 2 days per week. Details below!
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Congratulations to Hungarian novelist Attila Bartis and his translator Judith Sollosy who just won the EBRD Literature Prize 2024 for THE END!
More here:
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incredible reading form
Look at this book buff perusing the latest from
@archipelagobks
. I’m told she can even read upside down.
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Last but by no means least (considering its 900+ page size alone) comes KIN, an epic ode to Yugoslavia and family spanning an entire century of war, family and legacy by Miljenko Jergović, translated by Russell Scott Valentino. Publishing 26 May.
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Meet Bibliomotocarro, the 3-wheeled van that brings children's books to remote towns in Italy.
@BBC_Culture
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Yesterday
@parisreview
published a crónica from our forthcoming collection by the inimitable Hebe Uhart. A QUESTION OF BELONGING, translated by Anna Vilner, is due May 2024 — The Paris Review will be publishing a series of crónicas in the months leading up to publication!
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Today we publish the intoxicating stories of Caio Fernando Abreu, trans.
@bdantaslobato
"Abreu’s prose shimmers and always surprises—each story is a small, bright gem. The fearless writing in this beautiful collection deserves a vast English-language readership."
@PublishersWkly
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The days are finally getting longer and our hearts are a little lighter for this – and other – reasons... To celebrate all the possibility that comes with Spring, here are new books we’re bringing out soon. Unless stated otherwise, these are released worldwide simultaneously.
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Beautiful words from
@chadwpost
on Attila Bartis' THE END: “an amazing accomplishment and a testament to the ongoing cultural importance of Archipelago Books. Absolutely love the characterization, the starkness of the scenes, and Judith Sollosy’s translation. Just brilliant!”
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Out now!
@jshyue
's brilliant translation of Augusto Higa Oshiro's THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF KATZUO NAKAMATSU, a transfixing novella that reads like "a fever dream or an exorcism" (May-lee Chai). Read it & find yourself completely absorbed in Higa's world.
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We are so excited to share that Kin has been longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award! Congratulations to author Miljenko Jergović and translator Russell Scott Valentino for their achievement!
#DublinLitAward
@DublinLitAward
#MiljenkoJergovi
ć
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We stand in solidarity with
@BAmazonUnion
, who are fighting to unionize for a more ethical and sustainable work place.
All workers deserve strong labor protections, safe working conditions, and their fair share of the wealth they create.
#BAmazonUnion
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"Original translations introduce us to new ideas and broaden our minds; reinterpretations challenge the ideas already ingrained there."
@PublicBooks
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Wonderful news today—the ever-deserving Scholastique Mukasonga has won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom. We are so proud!
@Mukasonga
@Dauntbooks
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Congratulations and good luck tonight to all the
#NBAwards
Finalists. 🥂 We're honored to have a book featured among so many amazing authors, translators, and publishers!
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DISTANT TRANSIT, SALKA VALKA, and MOLDY STRAWBERRIES in
@nytimesbooks
Globetrotting list of upcoming literature! Many excellent books in translation to look forward to this spring. Happy Friday everyone!
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ALERT: flash sale currently in action! Stock up on your tomes now!
2 books, get 20% off
3 books, get 30% off
4 or more books and get 40% off
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"THE END ... is a devastatingly frank portrait of an artist under pressure in post-communist Hungary and the ravages of a soul in a police state." – Maya Jaggi
Attila Bartis & Judith Sollosy are in great company as finalists for the EBRD Literature Prize. Congratulations to all!
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Karl Ove Knausgaard's IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS is out today! Below is an excerpt from the book in the
@parisreview
, so you can get a taste. The collection includes writing on Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, Anselm Kiefer, Ingmar Bergman, and others.
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Our application period for fall interns is closing this Sunday, August 8th! Pay is $15 / hour, 2 days / week. Interns assist in all aspects of the publication process, from reading submissions to writing copy, and much more. Details below!
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at last! out today: Martin Aitken's translation of WHAT KINGDOM, Fine Gråbøl's debut novel set in a mental institution in Copenhagen.
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It has come to our attention that 2 independent bookshops near and dear to our hearts have stellar Archipelago displays right now. 1 is at Chicago's
@PilsenCommBooks
and the other is at Brooklyn's
@CommunityBkstr
. Can you tell which is which? Extra points if you visit to find out
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thank you for these kind words, Zach 🐈
I wanted to take the time to celebrate one of my favorite presses, Archipelago!
@archipelagobks
is at the forefront of world lit today, because they support incredible translators.
To discover the avant garde in languages like Spanish, Italian, or Turkish, try their books!
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Hitting shelves today—Scholastique
@Mukasonga
's spellbinding KIBOGO (tr. by Mark Polizzotti) &
@HanneOrstavik
's intimate, arresting TI AMO (tr. by Martin Aitken). Grab a copy at your local indie, and stay tuned for forthcoming events (
@BKBF
@booksmithtweets
& more!)
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Exciting news this week:
@mukasonga
's KIBOGO, translated by Mark Polizzotti, is a finalist for the inaugural
@bookcritics
Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! The Prize celebrates the artistic merit of literature in translation. Congratulations to Mark and Scholastique!
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If you're interested in baby moles sipping hot drinks, encountering an egg mid-hatch, discussing what it means to die, going sledding, and otherwise investigating life, you can pre-order the unbelievably sweet WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW? now:
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Fabulous news: Scholastique Mukasonga's KIBOGO translated by Mark Polizzotti is a finalist for the National Book Award! Congratulations to all the finalists & to fellow publishers
@transitbooks
@Coffee_House_
@riverheadbooks
@NewDirections
@Mukasonga
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Happy news! Congratulations
@chadwpost
and congratulations to Jill Schoolman, Archipelago's founder and publisher, for winning the Premi Internacional J .B. Cendrós award! 🎉🎉
Els editors Jill Schoolman i
@chadwpost
han estat els guardonats amb el Premi Internacional JB Cendrós 2020 pel seu compromís amb la internacionalització de la literatura catalana amb la publicació d’obres referents que mai no havien estat traduïdes a l’anglès
#NitDeSantaLl
úcia
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Delighted that 2 of our books have been nominated for
@PENamerica
awards—Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES translated by
@bdantaslobato
for the Translation Prize & Maja Haderlap's DISTANT TRANSIT translated by
@tesslewis94
for the Award for Poetry in Translation!
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"I translate books that say something in a way that strikes me as so perfect I want to try to say it myself—like learning to play a piece of music you particularly love instead of simply listening to it." – Jordan Stump, translator of THE BAREFOOT WOMAN
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Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries is threaded with musical references. Abreu's translator
@bdantaslobato
created a playlist including every mentioned song (from Veloso to Wagner to Holiday). Listen while you wait for the collection's arrival in 4/22
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yes! these translations are by Geoffrey Brock (who joins Ingeborg Bachmann as a translator of Ungaretti's). in Brock's afterword, he writes that Ungaretti wrote these in the trenches on "military postcards, the margins of old newspapers, blank spaces in letters he had received."
very moved by the poems Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote for his dead friends and comrades
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We are sad to share that Kjell Askildsen has died. Askildsen was a force within Norwegian letters and beyond. We were honored to publish
@SeanWKinsella
's translation of Askildsen's stories earlier this year. Love to his family and to his readers. Long live Askildsen's work.
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As Martin Aitken said during his acceptance speech last night, "Here's to Love!"
Martin Aitken wins the 2019 PEN Translation Prize for his translation from the Norwegian of Love by Hanne Ørstavik!
#PENAwards
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Today we publish SALKA VALKA by Halldór Laxness, "a better novel (richer, deeper) than anything else you're likely to meet this year." according to Brad Leithauser in the
@WSJ
. It's a doozy. Congrats to Philip Roughton on his excellent translation!
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We have added to our free ebook library! These 50 titles (including 2 brilliant picture books, The Gothamites and Hīznobyūtī) are all free of charge until May 20th.
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We are currently accepting applications for our fall '22 intern class! You will help us bring into the world works by Scholastique Mukasonga, Hanne Ørstavik, Roger Mello, and many other brilliant writers and artists. $15/hour, 2 days/week. Learn more here:
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We are thrilled that Geoffrey Brock (
@gbrock
) has won the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry for his translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti's Allegria! "This elegant translation preserves Ungaretti’s economy and his pursuit of poetic purity," the jury wrote.
@LitTranslate
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Did you know Archipelago Books is on
@Bookshop_Org
@bookshop_org_UK
? We have pages on both the US and UK websites so you can browse our titles based on what’s new, what’s coming up and more, whichever side of the pond you’re on…
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We hope you'll join us at
@strandbookstore
on July 27 for this exciting virtual event! Details here:
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@danielhahn02
@_catherinelacey
@TheTLS
On 11/14, we will publish Taras and Marjana Prokhasko's unbelievably charming and inquisitive WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW? translated from Ukrainian by
@BorisDralyuk
and
@jenniferlcroft
. Reading it, you will inevitably chuckle every 2-3 minutes.
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Pick up a copy of THE GOLDEN POT to peer into the mind of the man who inspired Poe, Baudelaire, Hawthorne, Gogol, Wilde, Kafka, and even more! [Tchaikovsky and Balanchine, Robert Schumann, Philip K. Dick . . . we could keep going]
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Here's a wonderful list of small press books to look forward to this year—we're grateful to see several of our books in such esteemed company!
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Translators
@BorisDralyuk
and
@jenniferlcroft
are both nominated for NBCC’s Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Read on about the alchemy of their collaboration. (+ see a sneak peek of Taras and Marjana Prokhasko's forthcoming WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW)
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@BorisDralyuk
and
@jenniferlcroft
created an exquisite translation of this book. We love it so much! It will be out on December 5th, just in time for the holidays. (photos of the galley – the final book will have a hardcover)
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More great news! We're thrilled to share that Caio Fernando Abreu's MOLDY STRAWBERRIES, translated by
@bdantaslobato
, has been longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize. Find the full longlist here:
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Out January 5th! Knausgaard analyzes the work of Cindy Sherman, Ingmar Bergman, and Sally Mann as well (and still more). There are images of many of the pieces he discusses inside.
Long essays on Hamsun, Francesca Woodman, Flaubert, Houellebecq, Kierkegaard, more. (Jan ‘21)
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Fellow bibliophiles, we've really missed out on this 16th century invention that's basically a ferris wheel for all the books you're reading.
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"Bosnian writer Jergović pulls off an intricate and innovative narrative encompassing biography, history, travelogue, and fiction." —
@PublishersWkly
, starred review of Miljenko Jergović's KIN, translated by Russell Scott Valentino
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ALSO OUT TODAY: Hermann Burger's BRENNER, what
@BuckleyInfo
calls "an astounding translation of an astounding book" (thanks to the brilliant
@a_nathanwest
), what
@KirkusReviews
calls "Susan Sontag-esque." Get it while it's hot off the presses!
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New Yorkers! join us for a conversation with translators of THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF KATZUO NAKAMATSU; FOR NOW, IT IS NIGHT; and THE LAST DAYS OF TERRANOVA. worth every rain drop. 10 Grand Army Plaza at 7pm.
next Tuesday, April 2nd, please join us with translators Kalpana Raina, Jacob Rogers, and Jennifer Shyue at
@BKLYNlibrary
for a conversation and reading hosted by
@worldpoetrybook
and
@BPL_Presents
! if you're not in NYC, you can tune in w/
@montez_radio
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Please join us in celebrating
#WITMonth
and our incredible translators with a 50% sale on all books translated by women!
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Just arrived...Autonauts of the Cosmoroute!! Back in print just in time for you to gift it.
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We're so grateful for this insightful NY Times review of GOOD WILL COME FROM THE SEA by Christos Ikonomou, "Greece’s most original and perceptive chronicler of his country’s fears and yearnings," and "seamlessly translated by Karen Emmerich."
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We are excited to welcome writer Cheon Myeong-kwan to the States for a tour celebrating his novel Whale, shortlisted for the International Booker. Be our guest at events in Oakland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Dallas, where Cheon will read from the novel & discuss.
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In the last 15 years, we’ve published over 175 books, translated from more than 30 languages, for both adult and young readers, with many more wonders in the pipeline.
If you believe in our work, please support us by donating today.
#GivingTuesday2018
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Our very own Emma Raddatz! Congratulations on this wonderful and well-deserved honor 🌷♥️🌟
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Today is the day! KIN is out in the world!
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What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking hits shelves today! A July Indie Next Pick, Feelings blooms with beautiful details and fills young readers up with warmth 🌿Translated by the amazing
@jenniferlcroft
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Last night, our publisher Jill Schoolman was presented the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature from
@wwborders
!
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First up is Andrea Bajani’s searingly beautiful novel about loss, connection and grief set in Bucharest, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris (
@eidaharris
). Out on March 23rd, we are so fortunate to publish this very special book.
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"Dogs were American, but they barked in Italian. Cats, Italian. The moon, la luna, was Italian, and so were eating and sleeping. Clouds and trees, both Italian . . ." Andrea Bajani in
@eidaharris
's translation on fatherhood far from the motherland
@lithub
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Next Tuesday, we will publish José Eduardo Agualusa's A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LEVITATION, trans. from Portuguese by
@danielhahn02
. The collection is surreal and ironic, haunted by disappearing migrant workers, and Angola's liberation struggle and civil war.
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"I didn’t know what to write when I started it, and I never do, but I do find the biology and the body intriguing, the bodily existence, the flesh, the matter without the spirit, the noncerebral being in the world." Knausgaard in
@LAReviewofBooks
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Atiq Rahimi has adapted
@Mukasonga
's "Our Lady of the Nile" to film. You can watch the powerful results at the
@AfricanFilmFest
through February 14th. We highly recommend. Tickets at the link below.
@FilmLinc
@LincolnCenter
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In preparation for the long and shadowy nights just around the corner, we thought we would share a preview of our fall titles, prepared to keep you company through the cooler months🎃
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We’re so excited to be publishing more from Argentina’s Hebe Uhart this April, and we know many of you are going to love Animals, translated by Robert Croll. By focusing on Earth’s animals, our humanity is put into context and contrast.
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Next Wednesday:
@nandanadevsen
and
@MeghaMaj
discuss Acrobat, a collection of poems that
@GhoshAmitav
called "The poems of an adventurous and indefatigable traveler, observing the world with deep understanding and sympathy." Hosted by
@greenlightbklyn
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Then on 27 April, we publish Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s exquisite poetry collection Acrobat, translated from the Bengali by her daughter
@NandanaDevSen
. Joys and sorrows of womanhood, of birth and age, love and loss, are explored in these gorgeous lines.
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On March 9th,
@wwborders
is hosting a reading to raise funds for victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Please join us, along with brilliant writers and translators including Maureen Freely, Bachtyar Ali, Kareem Abdulrahman, Merve Emre, & more
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"Mukasonga has been writing autobiographical stories about her upbringing and Rwanda’s genocide for years, but 'Igifu' may be her brightest, most eye-opening work yet."
@HillaryKelly
on
@Mukasonga
's IGIFU in the
@latimes
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Introducing our new tote! We had to immortalize our love for Rosie, the star of the forthcoming ROSIE RUNS by Marika Maijala, by putting her big leap across a tote. Order the bag from our site and receive a 25% discount on ROSIE RUNS. Happy spring!
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"The mountains swell
with sips of lilac shadow
and scull with the sky
Up in that weightless vault
the spell breaks
And I plummet inward
And I hide in one of my nests"
@gbrock
's translations of Giuseppe Ungaretti, excerpted in
@TwoLinesPress
today!
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We're delighted to announce that LOVE won
@PENamerican
's 2019 Translation Prize! ❤️📖🥂Congratulations to Martin Aitken and Hanne Ørstavik!
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Scholastique Mukasonga's KIBOGO, translated by Mark Polizzotti, has been longlisted for the National Book Award! We are so proud to be publishing this novel. Congratulations
@Mukasonga
and Mark, and to all the nominees. And thank you
@nationalbook
!
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We're celebrating another year of wonderful translations from around the world! ✨Join us for our annual Fall Fête on September 21 at Vinegar Hill House in BK for a night of drinks, friends & books. Reserve your tickets today—
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Congratulations to Tess Lewis (translator of Christine Angot's INCEST) and Elizabeth Harris (translator of Antonio Tabucchi's FOR ISABEL) for making the
@BTBA_
fiction longlist!
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A beauty to behold: a tower of the complete set of MY STRUGGLE. Copies of Book 6 have landed!
#Knausgaard
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We're pleased to launch new our membership program today. Join now to support our work—and receive great books while you do it!
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Ah, beautiful! We love seeing the Vesaas books together. :,)
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"Hebe Uhart’s characters are made of an almost palpable material. They are alive, and they seem to emerge from the page to tell us, 'This one here is me, that one over there could be you.'" — Alejandra Costamagna,
@parisreview
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We're having another backlist sale, this time on our fabulous children's books. Stock up on picture books from around the world for the little ones in your life! Use the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS starting tomorrow at
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The end of March brings more work from the wonderful Antonio Tabucchi, also translated by Elizabeth Harris. Stories, poems, essays and fragments delve into pictures from his homelands, Italy and Portugal, with magical results.
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