Founded | 2012 |
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Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York, New York |
Distribution | Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US) Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1] |
Key people | Ross Ufberg Michael Z. Wise |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Literary translation |
Official website | www |
New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.[2]
New Vessel Press books have been widely reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and O, The Oprah Magazine. They have also garnered numerous awards. What's Left of the Night, a novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy by Ersi Sotiropoulou and translated from the Modern Greek by Karen Emmerich, won the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose.[3] The Words That Remain, a Brazilian novel about the scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, by Stênio Gardel and translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.[4]
New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise[5] in 2012,[6] with the intention of bringing foreign literature to English-speaking audiences. Its first books were published in 2013.
New Vessel Press books are distributed to bookstores and online vendors throughout the United States by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution; they are distributed in Canada by Publishers Group Canada and in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Turnaround Publisher Services. All NVP titles are also available as ebooks and many as audiobooks.[7]
"Ross and Michael have really spun gold out of nothing; they've really made an instant classic out of New Vessel," John Oakes, director of the New School Publishing Institute and co-founder of OR Books, told Crain's New York Business in May 2017.[8]
Book covers for New Vessel Press translations have been created by graphic artist Liana Finck[9] and Beth Steidle.[10]
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