New Vessel Press


New Vessel Press is an independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.
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. 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.
The Remembered Soldier'', a Dutch novel about a World War I soldier who has lost his memory, by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay, was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

History

Origins

New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise in 2012, 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.
"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.

Artwork

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

List of works

Fall 2013/Winter 2014
Fall 2014/Winter 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014/Winter 2015
  • Alexandrian Summer by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
  • Killing Auntie by Andrzej Bursa
Fall 2015/Winter 2016
Fall 2016/Winter 2017
2017/2018
  • The Madeleine Project by Clara Beaudoux
  • A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time
  • The Animal Gazer by Edgardo Franzosini
  • Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese
  • Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter
  • The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art by Philippe Costamagna
2018/2019
  • What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos
  • A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time
  • Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter
  • The Goose Fritz by
  • Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor
  • Exposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel
2019/2020
  • The Bishop's Bedroom by Piero Chiara
  • And the Bride Closed the Door by Ronit Matalon
  • A Very Scandinavian Christmas: The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time
  • The Drive by Yair Assulin
  • Villa of Delirium by Adrien Goetz
  • I Belong to Vienna by Anna Goldenberg
2020/2021
  • The Piano Student by Lea Singer
  • A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time
  • Untraceable by
  • Roundabout of Death by Faysal Khartash
  • Distant Fathers by Marina Jarre
2021/2022
2022/2023
  • A Very Mexican Christmas: The Greatest Mexican Holiday Stories of All Time
  • The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel
  • Return to Latvia by Marina Jarre
  • A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles by Sergei Lebedev
  • Professor Schiff's Guilt by Agur Schiff
  • Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur
  • Café Unfiltered by Jean-Philippe Blondel
  • One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
2024/2025
  • The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
  • A Very Indian Christmas: The Greatest Indian Holiday Stories of All Time
  • The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies
  • The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev
  • Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal
  • The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
2025/2026
  • Happy New Years by Maya Arad
  • A Very Brazilian Christmas: The Greatest Brazilian Holiday Stories of All Time
  • A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudice
  • There's No Point in Dying by Francisco Maciel
  • My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova
  • Botany of Madness by Leon Engler