“Celebrating Tarjei Vesaas”: Introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard, reading of The Birds (Archipelago) by Hari Kunzru. (to see full festival program, click here) Saturday 5/21, 3:00 PM Santos Party House 96 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10013
Knausgaard will discuss his work with Esopus Magazine editor Tod Lippy. Books purchased at the store may be signed at the event! RSVP on Facebook here. Saturday 5/21, 7:00 PM BookCourt 163 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
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 […]
Please join New Directions, NYRB Classics, and Archipelago Books for a French Poetry Party on Bastille Day. You’ll find us rejoicing in great, lusty, and revelatory French verse in the courtyard on what we hope will be a hot summer’s […]
The European Division of the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Embassy of Slovenia, presents Michael Biggins discussing his most recent translation, Lojze Kovačič's Newcomers. Newcomers (Prišleki, in Slovenian) is often regarded as one of the most important Slovenian […]
Newcomers, the first volume of Lojze Kovacic’s three-part autobiography, opens in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their Swiss home and their eventual resettlement in Slovenia. Kovacic, writing as a 10-year-old, describes his family’s journey with uncanny […]
Come join us and the Austrian Cultural Forum for a meet & greet with Maja Haderlap and Tess Lewis, author and translator of the award-winning Angel of Oblivion. The event will take place on Wednesday September 14th at 8:00pm on the rooftop […]
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, […]
Slovenian-Austrian author Maja Haderlap, whose Angel of Oblivion was just published by Archipelago Books, will join Egyptian journalist Yasmine El Rashidi, author of the debut novel Chronicle of a Last Summer, and Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, author of the prize-winning Eve out of […]
"Archipelago Books has earned the respect and support of every serious reader. I'm one of these readers and I have a special shelf reserved for books that Archipelago publishes. These are handsomely designed volumes containing the work of important writers […]
