New Vessel Press Explained

Founded:2012
Keypeople:Ross Ufberg
Michael Z. Wise
Country:United States
Headquarters:New York, New York
Distribution:Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US)
Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1]
Publications:Books
Genre:Literary translation

New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.[2]

New Vessel Press books have been widely reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and O, The Oprah Magazine. They have also garnered numerous awards. What's Left of the Night, a novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy by Ersi Sotiropoulou and translated from the Modern Greek by Karen Emmerich, won the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose.[3] The Words That Remain, a Brazilian novel about the scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, by Stênio Gardel and translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.[4]

History

Origins

New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise[5] in 2012,[6] with the intention of bringing foreign literature to English-speaking audiences. Its first books were published in 2013.

New Vessel Press books are distributed to bookstores and online vendors throughout the United States by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution; they are distributed in Canada by Publishers Group Canada and in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Turnaround Publisher Services. All NVP titles are also available as ebooks and many as audiobooks.[7]

"Ross and Michael have really spun gold out of nothing; they've really made an instant classic out of New Vessel," John Oakes, director of the New School Publishing Institute and co-founder of OR Books, told Crain's New York Business in May 2017.[8]

Artwork

Book covers for New Vessel Press translations have been created by graphic artist Liana Finck[9] and Beth Steidle.[10]

List of works

Fall 2013/Winter 2014

Fall 2014/Winter 2015

Spring 2015Fall 2014/Winter 2015

Fall 2015/Winter 2016

Fall 2016/Winter 2017

2017/2018

2018/2019

2019/2020

2020/2021

2021/2022

2022/2023

2024/2025

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Publishers Representatives Publishers Distributors . Turnaround Publisher Services . 2018-01-12 .
  2. Web site: About. New Vessel Press.
  3. Web site: Announcing the Winner of the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose: What's Left of the Night. November 8, 2019.
  4. Web site: The Words That Remain .
  5. Web site: Department of Slavic Languages.
  6. Web site: New Vessel Press Brings International Literature to the US. June 8, 2013.
  7. Web site: 5 Questions with New Vessel Press | Publishing the World . https://web.archive.org/web/20130422075126/http://publishingtheworld.com/2013/04/12/5-questions-with-new-vessel-press/ . dead . April 22, 2013 .
  8. Web site: How a small publishing company 'spun gold out of nothing'. May 3, 2017. Crain's New York Business.
  9. Web site: New Vessel Press! (New publisher of wonderful books in translation. I did their covers). Liana Finck . www.lianafinck.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140524083814/http://www.lianafinck.com/1506/new-vessel-press-new-publisher-of-wonderful-books-in-translation-i-did-their-covers/ . 2014-05-24.
  10. Web site: Book Covers - Beth Steidle . www.bethsteidle.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180428180645/http://www.bethsteidle.com/book-covers-2/ . 2018-04-28.

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