David Colmer wins the 2021 James Brockway Prize
We are thrilled to share that David Colmer—translator of Dutch literature across the genres of literary fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and poetry—has been awarded the James Brockway Prize for 2021! The prize, which is run by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, recognizes
José Eduardo Agualusa wins Angolan National Prize for Culture and Arts
We are delighted to announce that José Eduardo Agualusa has been awarded the Angolan National Prize for Culture and Arts in the category of literature! The jury calls Agualusa’s career “extensive and vital”: according to the jury-members, Agualusa "approaches the fundamental
The Barefoot Woman Shortlisted for the National Book Award
We are so pleased to announce that The Barefoot Woman is a finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature! We are so proud of Scholastique Mukasonga and Jordan Stump, who translated the book from the original French. The National
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
Tristano Dies: A Life Longlisted for National Translation Award
Antonio Tabucchi's novel, Tristano Dies: A Life, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris, was recently longlisted for the 2016 National Translation Award in Prose. Hailed by Necessary Fiction as "mesmerizing," Tristano Dies is the story of Tristano, a hero
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.
Alyson Waters awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric Times
Alyson Waters has won the 26th annual French-American Translation Prize for the best French to English translation of fiction. The French-American Foundation received 64 submissions to the Translation Prize this year from more than 35 American publishers. The jury, which includes Linda
Wheel With a Single Spoke and Other Poems wins The Best Translated Book Award
Sean Cotter's translation of Nichita Stanescu's Wheel With a Single Spoke and Other Poems has won this year's Best Translated Book Award! Click through for the full announcement.
Prehistoric Times and Wheel With a Single Spoke named Best Translated Book Award finalists
Congratulations to Sean Cotter and Alyson Waters! Cotter's translation from the Romanian of Nichita Stanescu's Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems has been named a Best Translated Book Award finalist in poetry. In the category of fiction, Waters's translation from the French of Eric
Three titles on the Best Translated Book Awards longlist!
Archipelago Books has three titles on Three Percent's Best Translated Books Award longlist: Eric Chevillard's Prehistoric Times, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, Miljenko Jergovic's Mama Leone, translated from the Croatian by David Williams, and Karl Ove Knausgaard's My