New Vessel Press
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An independent publishing house devoted to fiction and narrative nonfiction from around the world.
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Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER chosen as the "best-written" book among finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature, according to Auraist, a Substack newsletter focused on the prose quality of works shortlisted for literary prizes.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER chosen as the "best-written" book among finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature, according to Auraist, a Substack newsletter focused on the prose quality of works shortlisted for literary prizes.
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The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." @nytimes.com suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama."
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November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now." @nytimes.com suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama."
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For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
Happy New Years
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once. www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/hap...
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From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration: mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...
A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS is featured in the Rizzoli Bookstore 2025 Holiday Catalogue. This gorgeous hardcover anthology and other volumes from the New Vessel Press Very Christmas series are available at a bookstore near you.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS is featured in the Rizzoli Bookstore 2025 Holiday Catalogue. This gorgeous hardcover anthology and other volumes from the New Vessel Press Very Christmas series are available at a bookstore near you.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER ANJET DAANJE (tr. David McKay) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $22.95 all editions, avail...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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My thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for the chance to write about Anne Milano Appel’s English-language translation of Daniele Del Giudice’s 1983 debut, A Fictional Inquiry. It’s the first time English-speakers have had a chance to read the late Italian writer’s exploration of the writing life.
on A Fictional Inquiry, a novel by Daniele Del Guidice, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel – On the Seawall
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November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for the chance to write about Anne Milano Appel’s English-language translation of Daniele Del Giudice’s 1983 debut, A Fictional Inquiry. It’s the first time English-speakers have had a chance to read the late Italian writer’s exploration of the writing life.
"Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time." @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in On the Seawall about A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time." @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in On the Seawall about A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice.
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Maya Arad discusses her award-winning THE HEBREW TEACHER on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's Van Leer Institute podcast. Host Renee Garfinkel calls Arad "a singular literary voice whose works have redefined the contours of modern Hebrew literature." Listen here:
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November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Maya Arad discusses her award-winning THE HEBREW TEACHER on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's Van Leer Institute podcast. Host Renee Garfinkel calls Arad "a singular literary voice whose works have redefined the contours of modern Hebrew literature." Listen here:
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"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex."
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November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex."
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"Would I allow myself to be exceptionally ugly?" asks Moshtari Hilal in her intimate and political book UGLINESS, excerpted @shuddhashar.bsky.social. Girlhood author @melissafebos.bsky.social calls UGLINESS, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, "wondrous and important."
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Cartography of My Ugliness - শুদ্ধস্বর
Moshtari Hilal reflects on body, politics, imperialism, and alienation as an Afghan in exile.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Would I allow myself to be exceptionally ugly?" asks Moshtari Hilal in her intimate and political book UGLINESS, excerpted @shuddhashar.bsky.social. Girlhood author @melissafebos.bsky.social calls UGLINESS, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, "wondrous and important."
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atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure.
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“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social.
A Fictional Inquiry
A Fictional Inquiry tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste and London to retrace the footsteps of a fabled literary figure. The novel is inspired by the life of Trieste-born Roberto (“Bobi”)…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social.
Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913
Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time.
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY—"an investigation into the nature of fiction itself and its entanglements with reality"—praised in Reading in Translation. "You must prepare for . . . sudden
epiphanies and equally unexpected silences,for precise, diamond-sharp images."
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epiphanies and equally unexpected silences,for precise, diamond-sharp images."
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An Investigation into the Nature of Fiction and Reality
Loredana Polezzi reviews Daniele Del Giudice's book "A Fictional Journey" (Lo stadio di Wimbledon), translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A FICTIONAL INQUIRY—"an investigation into the nature of fiction itself and its entanglements with reality"—praised in Reading in Translation. "You must prepare for . . . sudden
epiphanies and equally unexpected silences,for precise, diamond-sharp images."
readingintranslation.com/2025/10/27/d...
epiphanies and equally unexpected silences,for precise, diamond-sharp images."
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is named one of the Best Books of 2025 @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Anjet Daanje's novel, translated by David McKay, is a National Book Award finalist. @nationalbook.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is named one of the Best Books of 2025 @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Anjet Daanje's novel, translated by David McKay, is a National Book Award finalist. @nationalbook.bsky.social
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Give your holidays a literary flair with the VERY CHRISTMAS anthology series from New Vessel Press, including the latest in this hardcover collection, A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS. Available from Bas Bleu Bookseller and independent bookstores near you.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Give your holidays a literary flair with the VERY CHRISTMAS anthology series from New Vessel Press, including the latest in this hardcover collection, A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS. Available from Bas Bleu Bookseller and independent bookstores near you.
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“Egana Djabbarova’s wild fever dream of a novel lays bare a world where female utterance is seismic...MY DREADFUL BODY introduces a writer of astounding intelligence and power.”—Honor Moore, author of A Termination, on Lisa C. Hayden's translation. ARCs available.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Egana Djabbarova’s wild fever dream of a novel lays bare a world where female utterance is seismic...MY DREADFUL BODY introduces a writer of astounding intelligence and power.”—Honor Moore, author of A Termination, on Lisa C. Hayden's translation. ARCs available.
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A host of @pelta.bsky.social translators featured in this fabulous collection of Brazilian Christmas stories from @newvesselpress.bsky.social.
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Pleased to be alongside some fine @pelta.bsky.social company in this wonderful anthology from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
Pleased to be alongside some fine @pelta.bsky.social company in this wonderful anthology from @newvesselpress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A host of @pelta.bsky.social translators featured in this fabulous collection of Brazilian Christmas stories from @newvesselpress.bsky.social.
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Anyone else read Maya Arad's HAPPY NEW YEARS (trans. Jessica Cohen) yet? Published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social, it's the first title in the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social's "Nu Reads" subscription series. And I loved it (even if I got teary toward the end).
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Anyone else read Maya Arad's HAPPY NEW YEARS (trans. Jessica Cohen) yet? Published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social, it's the first title in the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social's "Nu Reads" subscription series. And I loved it (even if I got teary toward the end).
"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster." @publisherswkly.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, a novel set in a Rio de Janeiro favela, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster." @publisherswkly.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, a novel set in a Rio de Janeiro favela, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato.
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