A New Name longlisted for 2022 National Book Award

September 16 2022

We’re delighted to share that A New Name by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten books being considered for the award were originally published in nine different languages. The shortlist will be announced on October 4.

A New Name, which was also a finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, is the final installment in Fosse’s three-volume Septology, receiving reviews in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and elsewhere.

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April 17 2024

French success and more for Aslak Nore

The Heirs of the Arctic was published in France by Le bruit du monde last week (Les héritiers de l’Arctique, tr. Loup-Maëlle Besançon), and the first reviews are outstanding.

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March 4 2024

Come meet us in Bologna!

We’re excited to be attending the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April to discuss our children’s authors, which include Jon Fosse, Ruth Lillegraven, and Ole Kristian Løyning.

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