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Announcing our Fall 2026-Winter 2027 titles! Featuring work translated from Dutch, Icelandic, and Spanish. openletterbooks.org/collecti…
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Time and Water has received a glowing review from the Financial Times!
Sara Dosa’s adaptation of On Time & Water by Andri Snær Magnason will be streaming on Disney .
Get the book here: openletterbooks.org/products…
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Tobias Carroll has written a brilliant piece on THE MURMURATION by Carlos Labbé for Lithub.
lithub.com/is-this-the-stran…
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We’re pleased to share the news that this year’s Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation has been awarded to Rohan Chhetri’s translation of Parijat’s Flowers of the Siris Tree!
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Excerpts of all finalists will be published in Words Without Borders. Flowers of the Siris Tree will be published by Open Letter in 2028.
See the official Armory Square prize announcement for further details: armorysquareprize.com/2026-w…
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Words Without Borders has published excerpts from two of the five finalists for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.
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If you can't read Énard in French (yet!), you can thank translators @avecsesdoigts and Frank Wynne for their titanic efforts. These translators take their time producing sonically enthralling works.
Both @open_letter and @NewDirections support these translators, and so can you!
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Wherein publisher Chad W. Post reads from Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's translation of Can Xue’s MOTHER RIVER (@Open_Letter Books), a Finalist for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Award for Translation!
youtu.be/35JArYZiiQU
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Open Letter Books retweeted
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Wherein publisher Chad W. Post reads from Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's translation of Can Xue’s MOTHER RIVER (@Open_Letter Books), a Finalist for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Award for Translation!
youtu.be/35JArYZiiQU
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Inc. THE CITY by @lara_morenom, @Alice_Banks_, Katie Whittemore 😍
New books are out this month from @Sinister_Wisdom, @bookhugpress, @thirtywestph, @open_letter, @redrookpress, @BainbridgePress, and other excellent indie presses! Find them in our May roundup: clmp.org/news/books-launchin…
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This is an excellent overview of Mathias Énard’s work, including our editions of Zone and Street of Thieves!
Christopher Byrd (@Chris_Byrd) on Mathias Énard’s dizzyingly beautiful novels go.nybooks.com/4uBSyNA
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Open Letter Books retweeted
Christopher Byrd (@Chris_Byrd) on Mathias Énard’s dizzyingly beautiful novels go.nybooks.com/4uBSyNA
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We’re proud to announce that The City by Lara Moreno, translated from the Spanish by Alice Banks & Katie Whittemore, officially comes out today! openletterbooks.org/products…
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For season 31 of the Two Month Review we’ll be reading through The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos by Irmtraud Morgner. More info here: open.substack.com/pub/threep…
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Listen to Rusana Bardarska discuss To Essay on Beyond the Zero!
This week on BTZ the extraordinary Rusana Bardarska discussing her brilliant novel To Essay. Listen here and get the book from the great @open_letter open.spotify.com/episode/7n2…
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MOTHER RIVER by Can Xue is a finalist for the <i>Big Other</i> Book Award for Translation! @open_letter bigother.com/2026/05/06/anno… via @BigOtherMag
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