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 2014The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir LorchenkovCocaine by PitigrilliKilling the Second Dog by Marek HlaskoFanny von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment by Hilde SpielSome Day by Shemi ZarhinThe Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro MairalFall 2014/Winter 2015I Called Him Necktie by Milena Michiko FlašarWho is Martha? by Marjana GaponenkoGuys Like Me by Dominique FabreAll Backs Were Turned by Marek Hlasko
Spring 2015
Fall 2014/Winter 2015Alexandrian Summer by Yitzhak Gormezano GorenKilling Auntie by Andrzej Bursa
Fall 2015/Winter 2016Oblivion by Sergei LebedevThe 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel
- On the Run with Mary by Jonathan BarrowThe Last Weynfeldt by Martin Suter
- Animal Internet by Alexander Pschera
- The Last Supper by Klaus Wivel
2017/2018The Madeleine Project by Clara BeaudouxA Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All TimeThe Animal Gazer by Edgardo FranzosiniNeapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria OrteseAllmen and the Dragonflies by Martin SuterThe Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art by Philippe Costamagna
2018/2019What's Left of the Night by Ersi SotiropoulosA Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All TimeAllmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin SuterThe Goose Fritz by Sleepless Night by Margriet de MoorExposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel
2019/2020The Bishop's Bedroom by Piero ChiaraAnd the Bride Closed the Door by Ronit MatalonA Very Scandinavian Christmas: The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time The Drive by Yair AssulinVilla of Delirium by Adrien GoetzI Belong to Vienna by Anna Goldenberg
2020/2021The Piano Student by Lea SingerA Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All TimeUntraceable by Roundabout of Death by Faysal KhartashDistant Fathers by Marina Jarre
2021/2022The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de PerignonA Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All TimePollak's Arm by Hans von TrothaPalace of Flies by Walter KappacherA Few Collectors by Pierre Le-TanOf Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur
2022/2023A Very Mexican Christmas: The Greatest Mexican Holiday Stories of All TimeThe Words That Remain by Stênio GardelReturn to Latvia by Marina JarreA Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles by Sergei LebedevProfessor Schiff's Guilt by Agur SchiffWhere I Am by Dana Shem-UrCafé Unfiltered by Jean-Philippe BlondelOne for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
2024/2025The Hebrew Teacher by Maya AradA Very Indian Christmas: The Greatest Indian Holiday Stories of All TimeThe Propagandist by Cécile DesprairiesThe Lady of the Mine by Sergei LebedevUgliness by Moshtari HilalThe Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
2025/2026Happy New Years by Maya AradA Very Brazilian Christmas: The Greatest Brazilian Holiday Stories of All TimeA Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del GiudiceThere's No Point in Dying by Francisco MacielMy Dreadful Body by Egana DjabbarovaBotany of Madness by Leon Engler