New York Review Books is now distributing titles by Archipelago Books to the trade. Archipelago books appear in the NYRB catalog and are available through NYRB's distributor, Penguin Random House Publisher Services.
Jill Schoolman founded Archipelago in 2003 with the mission of bringing vital works from around the world to English-language readers in translation. In Archipelago's first 21 years, it has published 250 works from more than 45 languages. Authors include Scholastique Mukasonga, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hebe Uhart, Mahmoud Darwish, Sara Gallardo, Paulina Chiziane, Manuel Rivas, and Antonio Tabucchi. Archipelago includes the imprint Elsewhere Editions, which is devoted to translated picture books.
Archipelago publishes about 16 books a year. This year's list includes Indonesian writer Felix Nesi's People from Oetimu, translated by Lara Norgaard, which illuminates the revolutionary movements of 20th-century Timor; Cécé, a novel investigating life in the slums of Port-au-Prince by the Haitian writer Emmelie Prophète, translated by Aidan Rooney; and works by Hanne Ørstavik and Cesare Pavese, among others.
NYRB Classics editorial director Edwin Frank said: "Archipelago has built a beautiful, mythic, wild, welcoming, and unsettling space, a space like no other space, a space full of new and old things that reveals things we have never known and renews the things that we have always known. Archipelago is, in other words, something else, even as--and this is also important to the press's achievement--even as it is part of, and has helped to create, a larger scene. Their list feels like a natural fit alongside ours."