LOVE Wins at PEN Literary Awards
We are delighted to announce that Martin Aitken's translation of Hanne Ørstavik's Love won the 2019 PEN Translation Prize last night! We’re enormously grateful to PEN America and the Translation Prize judges, Ezra Fitz, Barbara Harshav, Vincent Kling, Marian Schwartz, and
Archipelago received a 2019 NEA grant!
We’re proud to share the news that Archipelago Books has been awarded a generous Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This critical funding will support the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature, including titles from
Lojze Kovačič, the Greatest Undiscovered Cosmopolitan Writer of the South Slavs
"Lojze Kovačič, the Greatest Undiscovered Cosmopolitan Writer of the South Slavs" – Miljenko Jergović First published in Croatian in Jutarnji list (Zagreb), February 9, 2019 Translated from Croatian by Michael Biggins (draft 27 Feb 2019) Sometimes, even in a completely illiterate society