Review: Thomas Meaney on Karl Ove Knausgaard
"Intellect Is Everything" by Thomas Meaney Karl Ove Knausgaard BOYHOOD ISLAND My struggle: 3 496pp. Harvill Secker. £17.99. Translated by Don Bartlett 978 1 8465 5722 4 There was a time when artists concealed themselves behind their work. The idea of revealing the trifling incidents of their lives
Evan Hughes Profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard for The New Republic
Photograph By Felix Odell Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian author of the My Struggle series, received a large profile by Evan Hughes in The New Republic. Most exciting to our ears are the hints of a new book in the works: Before I left, Knausgaard told
New York Observer Profiles Publisher Jill Schoolman
The New York Observer spotlights our wonderful publisher Jill Schoolman as a "Brooklyn Influencer
Peter Wortsman wins an Independent Publisher Book Award!
Writer and translator, Peter Wortsman won the Silver IPPY award for his travel essay Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray. For other 2014 IPPY winners, check here. Archipelago Books is proud to publish some of Wortsman's translation work.
Elias Khoury interviewed by Haaretz
Elias Khoury interviewed by Hareetz. Translated from Hebrew by Yehuda Shenhav The novelist Elias Khoury does not believe in the peace process. Religious frenzy dominates the country, peace is still far away, and the Israelis need to experience defeat. In an interview toward the
Sinan Antoon interviewed in The Irish Times
Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary life Literature touches the lives of fellow humans in a very visceral way Sinan Antoon is author of The Corpse Washer (Yale University Press), translated from Arabic by the author and recently longlisted for the Independent Foreign
Josep Pla in the Sunday Book Review
Alan Riding considers the life and work of Josep Pla: "
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding featured in the Kenyon Review
Scott Esposito of the Kenyon Review calls Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding "truly audacious" and, at times, "disgusting". Read the full review here.
Don Bartlett among winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2014 awards
Congratulations to Archipelago Books translator, Don Bartlett, whose name was announced last week as one of the recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2014 awards. Don Bartlett is the translator extraordinaire of the infamous My Struggle series The Arts