Guest editor Jane HirshfieldSeries edited by Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten & Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Publication Date: April 9th, 2024 Paperback ISBN: 9781646053353eBook ISBN: 9781646053391 Description Best Literary Translations 2024 features…
By Valérie MréjenTranslated from the French by Katie Shireen Assef A book of mourning told through a coolly evocative series of life (and death) vignettes, from a lauded French writer, now in English for the first time; Six Feet Under meets George Perec. Publication Date: October 15, 2019 Paperback: 9781944700904eBook: 9781646050215 Description A man decides he…
By Claudia Salazar JiménezTranslated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer An award-winning debut novel of politics, desire and pain by Peruvian author Claudia Salazar Jiménez. The lives of three women intertwine and are ripped apart during what s known as the time of fear in Peruvian history, when the Shining Path rebel insurgency was at…
By Kim YideumTranslated by Jiyoon Lee A woman in 1980s Korea struggles to understand her identity and live an authentic life in the face of injustice. Publication Date: June 11, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920770ebook: 9781941920787 Description Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980’s, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan’s violent…
By Alan Govenar In this deeply satirical homage to The Decameron, ten asymptomatic pandemic survivors shelter together in an Italianate mansion and form unexpected bonds as they tell each other stories to cope with the bizarre conditions of the modern world. Publication Date: January 18, 2022 Hardback: 9781646051601eBook: 9781646051618 Description Inspired by The Decameron and its dark and satirical novellas,…
By Alan Govenar In this deeply satirical homage to The Decameron, ten asymptomatic pandemic survivors shelter together in an Italianate mansion and form unexpected bonds as they tell each other stories to cope with the bizarre conditions of the modern world. Publication Date: January 18, 2022 Hardback: 9781646051601eBook: 9781646051618 Description Inspired by The Decameron and its dark and satirical novellas,…
By Alisa GanievaTranslated from the Russian by Dr. Carol Apollonio Runner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness. Publication Date: March 27, 2018 Paperback: 9781941920596Ebook: 9781941920602 Description From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva,…
By Julie Poole Publication Date: June 1, 2021 A poetic botanical index, Julie Poole’s debut collection explores the history and science of human interaction with the natural world. Listen to an interview with Julie Poole on Brad Listi s Otherppl Paperback: 9781646050574 eBook: 9781646050581 Description With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole…
By Julie Poole Publication Date: June 1, 2021 A poetic botanical index, Julie Poole’s debut collection explores the history and science of human interaction with the natural world. Listen to an interview with Julie Poole on Brad Listi s Otherppl Paperback: 9781646050574 eBook: 9781646050581 Description With the loving eye of an amateur botanist, poet Julie Poole…
By Mikhail ShishkinTranslated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Sylvia Maizell, and Mariya Bashkatova The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia s greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia s most prestigious literary awards. Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920039eBook: 9781941920022 Description Calligraphy Lesson is the first English-language…
By Mikhail ShishkinTranslated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Sylvia Maizell, and Mariya Bashkatova The first English-language collection of short stories by Russia s greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia s most prestigious literary awards. Publication Date: May 12, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920039eBook: 9781941920022 Description Calligraphy Lesson is the first English-language…
By Emilian Galaicu-PăunTranslated by Adam J. Sorkin, with Diana Manole, Lidia Vianu, Claudia Serea, Rareșa Galaicu, Cristina Cîrstea Danilov & Stefania HirtopanuIntroduction by Ilya Kaminsky Publication Date: January 9, 2024 Paperback: 9781646052745eBook: 9781646052950 Description One of Moldova’s most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms,…
By Emilian Galaicu-PăunTranslated by Adam J. Sorkin, with Diana Manole, Lidia Vianu, Claudia Serea, Rareșa Galaicu, Cristina Cîrstea Danilov & Stefania HirtopanuIntroduction by Ilya Kaminsky Publication Date: January 9, 2024 Paperback: 9781646052745eBook: 9781646052950 Description One of Moldova’s most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms,…
By Natalia ToledoTranslated by Clare Sullivan In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015). Publication Date: January 21st, 2025 Paperback ISBN: 9781646053551eBook ISBN: 9781646053674 Description Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and…
By Leah Tieger One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum s Central Track Writers Project. Leah Tieger lives in a house with more windows than walls. She’s worked as a teaching artist for the Writer’s Garret and poetry contest editor for American Literary Review. A recipient of support from the Vermont…
By Leah Tieger One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum s Central Track Writers Project. Leah Tieger lives in a house with more windows than walls. She’s worked as a teaching artist for the Writer’s Garret and poetry contest editor for American Literary Review. A recipient of support from the Vermont…