Recent Happenings

When Elias Khoury was teaching at NYU every spring, his unofficial office hours would take place at La Lanterna di Vittorio café on MacDougal. He would often be at a table with a group of his students, joking with them,

We are sad to share the news that Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky, author of Milongas, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles, died earlier this summer at 85. Cozarinsky remained prolific until the end of his life, producing 27

  Attila Bartis' The End, translated from the Hungarian by the talented Judith Sollosy, won the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's 2024 Literature Prize! Founded in 2018, the prize recognizes literature in translation by authors from countries in which the Bank

The National Book Critics Circle has just announced finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize—we're thrilled to announce that Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate Tree made the shortlist! Warmest congratulations to Bachtyar Ali and translator Kareem Abdulrahman for

We are excited 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 Aitken, on this "poetic, honest

We are overjoyed to have two of our books on the best books of 2023 lists, selected by the New York Times— Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound (translated from French by Jessica Moore) is one of the 10 Best Books of

Cheon Myeong-kwan toured the West Coast in a whirlwind of readings, signings, and conversations about his International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Whale on his visit to the United States earlier this month. In Oakland, he was joined by Transit Books co-founder

We are excited to share that Mark Polizzotti's translation of Kibogo, our latest from the brilliant writer and thinker Scholastique Mukasonga, is a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! The Prize, introduced this year, celebrates