September 2014
Launch Party for Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
On Tuesday, September 23, please join us to celebrate the release of Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga's award-winning debut novel, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner and published in English for the first time by Archipelago Books. Co-hosted by the French Publishers' Agency, the evening will feature a conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga and Bhakti Shringarpure. This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence…
Find out more »Launch Party for Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
On Tuesday, September 23, please join us to celebrate the release of Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga's award-winning debut novel, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner and published in English for the first time by Archipelago Books. Co-hosted by the French Publishers' Agency, the evening will feature a conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga and Bhakti Shringarpure. This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence…
Find out more »May 2015
Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Daniel Handler in San Francisco
San Francisco's City Arts & Lectures presents: Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Daniel Handler! Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. For My Struggle: Book One, Knausgaard received the Brage Award in 2009, the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners’ Prize. My Struggle: Book One was a New Yorker Book of the Year, Book Two was…
Find out more »Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Daniel Handler in San Francisco
San Francisco's City Arts & Lectures presents: Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Daniel Handler! Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. For My Struggle: Book One, Knausgaard received the Brage Award in 2009, the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners’ Prize. My Struggle: Book One was a New Yorker Book of the Year, Book Two was…
Find out more »June 2016
A Celebration of Dulce María Loynaz, with James O’Connor & Pablo Medina
Absolute Solitude is the first major English-language translation of the prose-poetry of Dulce María Loynaz, one of Cuba’s most popular poets, who Juan Ramón Jiménez described as “archaic and new, a phosphorescent reality of her own incredibly human poetry, her fresh language, tender, weightless, rich in abandon.” Elevating solitude to ecstatic heights, Loynaz creates a picture of landscapes and private emotion, where the physical, spiritual, and visionary realms of poetry meet. Translator James O'Connor and Cuban writer Pablo Medina join…
Find out more »September 2016
7th Annual Brooklyn Indie Party for the Brooklyn Book Festival
Friday, September 16, 7:30 PM The Seventh Annual Brooklyn Indie Party! Co-hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Featuring A Public Space, Akashic Books, Archipelago Books, Armchair/Shotgun, Belladonna, BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Arts Press, Enchanted Lion, Ig Publishing, Kicks Books, Melville House, One Story, powerHouse Books, Sarabande Books, Song Cave, Stonecutter, Tin House Books, and Ugly Duckling Presse Refreshments, music, giveaways and more! The Brooklyn Book Festival has become one of the premier literary festivals in the country,…
Find out more »November 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga at Festival Albertine 2016
Scholastique Mukasonga, author of the award-winning Our Lady of the Nile and the freshly released memoir Cockroaches, will join Laurent Dubois, Maboula Soumahoro, Darryl Pinckney, and Chris Jackson for a panel discussion titled "Europe and America in the Black Literary Imagination" as part of the Festival Albertine 2016 taking place at the French Embassy of New York City at 5 PM Saturday, November 5th. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. From the event's website... "This panel…
Find out more »December 2016
Konundrum: An Evening with Peter Wortsman and Tess Lewis at Deustches Haus
Peter Wortsman, translator of Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka, will be joined by Tess Lewis, translator most recently of Angel of Oblivion, at the NYU Deustches Haus for a reading and evening of conversation about Konundrum, the art of translation, and all things Kafkaesque. If you missed our recent event at Community Bookstore to celebrate the publication of Konundrum, this is your second chance to be a part of a wide ranging and stimulating conversation. Copies of the book will be available for…
Find out more »October 2020
Virtual Event: Ivan Vladislavić at the Brooklyn Book Festival
On October 4th at 2pm EST, Ivan Vladislavić will be featured on the Brooklyn Book Festival's virtual webinar "Coming of Age in Challenging Times." Register here. Childhood can seem to exist in a bubble, defined by the rituals of family and home. But outside pressures are never far off. In Romesh Gunesekera’s Suncatcher, a young boy in 1960s Sri Lanka revels in the thrill of the make-believe, while gradually becoming aware…
Find out more »March 2023
Jessica Moore and Anne Michaels at TYPE Books
Jessica Moore will be in conversation with the poet and writer Anne Michaels in Toronto on March 7th at TYPE Books. They will discuss Jessica Moore's translation of Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal. The event starts at 6:30pm, and their conversation will begin at 7pm. JESSICA MOORE is an award-winning literary translator and the author of two books, Everything, now and The Whole Singing Ocean. She has translated three previous books by Maylis de Kerangal: Mend the Living, Birth of a Bridge and Painting Time. A former Lannan…
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