Interview with Héctor Abad Faciolince
Colombian novelist Héctor Abad Faciolince is interviewed here, in Spanish, about his novel La Oculta, which Archipelago will be publishing in 2017, translated by Anne McLean.
Archipelago’s Jill Schoolman in conversation with fellow independent publishers in Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers new issue has arrived, and includes a great roundtable conversation with independent publishers doing work in translation. Joining Archipelago's Publisher, Jill Schoolman, are editors and publishers from New Directions, Two Lines Press, Open Letter Books, and Europa Editions. The conversation
Ivan Vladislavić on flying, literary death, and Sherwood Anderson at Lit Hub
Archipelago author Ivan Vladislavić has a new essay featured on Lit Hub. Read it here. Vladislavić’s novel The Folly, our first fall book, is out now. The Folly is mysterious, lyrical and wickedly funny - a masterful novel about loving and fearing your neighbor. You can
Scholastique Mukasonga a finalist for FT/OppenheimerFunds’ Emerging Voices Award
We're pleased to announce that Scholastique Mukasonga, author of Our Lady of the Nile, has been named a finalist for FT/OppenheimerFunds' Emerging Voices Award. Read more about the prize and check out the list of other finalists in fiction here. Winners will be announced at
Looking Ahead to My Struggle: Book Six at Los Angeles Review of Books
At Los Angeles Review of Books Archipelago translator Morten Høi Jensen unpacks "The Name and the Number," Karl Ove Knausgaard's essayistic examination of Hitler in the sixth, and final book of the My Struggle series. "One of the most eccentric and fascinating texts
Corsino Fortes (1933-2015), renowned Cape Verdean poet, dies at 82
http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-corsino-fortes-poeta-e-diplomata-de-cabo-verde-1703053