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.
Richard Sieburth on Georg Büchner’s 200th Birthday
GUEST POST: In honor of German author Georg Büchner’s 200th birthday, Lenz translator Richard Sieburth celebrates this historic day: Oct. 17 is the bicentenary of Georg Büchner's birth--a date he shares with his distant American doppelgänger, Nathaniel West. According to Paul Celan (in