Hot News This Week
March 16, 2023
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The nominees for the 2023 International Booker Prize were announced this week, and we’re delighted that six of the thirteen books longlisted are from Consortium publishers:
Major congrats to these wonderful authors, translators, and presses! We’ll be cheering them on when the shortlist is announced on April 18 and the winner is crowned on May 23.
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| | Two Sherpas
by Sebastián Martínez Daniell, trans. Jennifer Croft
Charco Press • February 2023 • 9781913867416
“Float[s] brilliantly between the minds of both characters and far beyond—into Nepalese and British history, Shakespeare, and across many of the deepest questions of human nature that are the signature of great literature. A deceptively simple but staggering book.” — Bryan, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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| Three Cheers for the Lammy Finalists!
More than ten titles from Consortium publishers are nominated for the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards: congratulations to Lammy finalists from Alice James Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, Bywater Books, Coffee House Press, Nightboat Books, Saqi Books, Sarabande Books, Street Noise Books, Theatre Communications Group/Playwrights Canada Press, and the many authors, editors, illustrators, and translators honored. Browse the Consortium finalists, and stay tuned for the winners announcement on June 9.
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| NBCC Finalists, Reviewed
Plus, check out the Los Angeles Times’ interview with Jennifer Croft and Boris Dralyuk, literary translation power couple and competing NBCC nominees. Dralyuk’s translation of Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov (Deep Vellum Publishing) is a finalist for the Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, March 21.
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★ “Walsh impresses in this series launch featuring an unlikely pair of investigators in 1876 London. . . . Imogen Robertson readers will be eager for a sequel to this un-put-downable mystery.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Tell the Rest
by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Akashic Books • March 2023 • 9781636140797
“Decades after they escape from a church-supported conversion therapy program, two old friends reunite as adults and come to terms with their shared trauma.” — New York Times Book Review
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“A major treat, full of major scares. Due excels at twist endings but also brilliantly creates an atmosphere of creeping dread in which you know something terrible is coming.” — Washington Post
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| | The Fifth Wound
by Aurora Mattia
Nightboat Books • March 2023 • 9781643621487
“Aurora, a trans writer trying to get her work published, narrates this dreamlike novel in which she reflects on past memories of love and violence and yearns for her love, Ezekiel.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Bucks County places Gabriel firmly within a late-modernist genealogy of queer poets and writers. . . . [These poems] have the raunchy vividness and buoyancy of an ancient Greek epigram.” — New York Review of Books
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“An exciting start for what might be a stellar career. I’m Always so Serious reveals no shortage of injustice, and no lack of inspiration from African American literary and artistic forebears.” — New York Times Book Review
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“When it comes to keeping you guessing, Sarah Pinsker is no slouch. . . . Pinsker’s characters always make the best of tricky situations, which only makes their struggles in her topsy-turvy worlds more heartbreaking.” — Washington Post
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Return to Latvia
by Marina Jarre, trans. Ann Goldstein
New Vessel Press • February 2023 • 9781954404106
“Pioneering, in many ways close to Annie Ernaux’s inquiry in The Years. Both authors’ narratives focus on the relationship between personal history and History, and on how identity is an unstable feature.” — European Review of Books
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