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- ULTRAMARINE needs little introduction at this point. Mariette Navarro’s surreal and cosmic novel won the Albertine Translation Prize earlier this year!
- Sphinx is now our highest-ranked title ever on @amazon's sales rankings at 11,000. Let's get this book to break 10k! smile.amazon.com/Sphinx-Anne-Ga…
- And so we have arrived at the finish line. The English translation of Schattenfroh has been sent to print.
- With just two weeks left until the official publication day, we are thrilled to present a list of materials to be read / watched / and listened to, in order to help prepare or enhance your experience with Michael Lentz’s SCHATTENFROH (translated by Max Lawton) A thread:
- hot take: central park should be paved over and turned into an airport
- A collection of wondrous and strange post-Soviet fairytales, Alla Gorbunova’s (TH)INGS AND (TH)OUGHTS will take readers to meet sentient dandelions, a man with a dog’s head, a couple celebrating their hundredth wedding anniversary, among dozens of other unforgettable vignettes.
- An astonishing portrait of Haiti from Yanick Lahens, SWEET UNDOINGS (translated by Kaiama L. Glover) is an electric novel that leaps up from the darker corners of Port-au-Prince.
- Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS, will be published in English translation by Sean Cotter on October 27, 2026. Originally published in 2022, Theodoros is the latest novel from one of Romania’s most celebrated writers and a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- With tomorrow (9/9) marking the official publication of SCHATTENFROH, we present to you now the introductory letter that review-writers received alongside their advance copies of the book. We hope that it will prepare you, as well.
- Ultramarine packs a cold-sweat existential nightmare into 160 gorgeous pages and we would love to send it to more reviewers before it officially hits shelves next weekYou know what I'd love? An article about the daring novels in translation from Deep Vellum, And Other Stories, Two Lines, Sublunary, Lolli, Chaco and more that are very much NOT "bro lit"-- often they're women pushing the boundaries of spec fic and form. Preordered this:
- One of the most celebrated European novels of the 21st century finally arrives in English. Announcement later this week.




















