Hot News This Week
January 16, 2025
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| Several titles from Consortium publishers are longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious international award honoring a work of fiction published in English. Longlisted titles are nominated by libraries around the world.
- The Future by Catherine Leroux, trans. Susan Ouriou (Biblioasis)
- Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, trans. Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books)
- Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
- Un amor by Sara Mesa, trans. Katie Whittemore (Open Letter)
- Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin, trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Open Letter)
- We Are Light by Gerda Blees, trans. Michele Hutchison (World Editions)
Congrats, all! Finalists will named in March, and the winner, crowned in May, will take home €100,000 (about $103,032 USD).
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| In other literary longlist news, six of the ten novels longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada) are from Consortium publishers. The prize, in its third year, celebrates the commitment of small presses to exceptional literary merit, and the longlist is selected by a jury of independent booksellers and small press enthusiasts.
- To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen (Bellevue Literary Press)
- Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter)
- Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber (Coffee House Press)
- Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, trans. Philip Roughton (Biblioasis)
- Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki, trans. Allison Markin Powell (Transit Books)
- Lublin by Manya Wilkinson (And Other Stories)
Three cheers for indie publishing excellence! Finalists will be named next month and the winner announced in March, and the winning press and authors will split a $35,000 purse.
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| | Bread and Milk
by Karolina Ramqvist, trans. Saskia Vogel
Coach House Books • February 2025 • 9781552454893
“If Annie Ernaux and Marcel Proust had a love child it would be Bread and Milk by Karolina Ramqvist. A visceral and poignant exploration of the author’s memories of her mother and grandmother through the lens of food and eating.” — Laurel Kane, White Whale Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA)
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“How do we become who we are is an old question, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone punch it as hard as Blaxell does.” — Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
“An electric, surprising, and revelatory use of the memoiristic essay form. Blaxell’s passion for Life lifts off every page: by which I mean Life Itself, not just her own.” — Elisabeth Plumlee-Watson, Loganberry Books (Shaker Heights, OH)
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| | Ugliness
by Moshtari Hilal, trans. Elisabeth Lauffer
New Vessel Press • February 2025 • 9781954404281
“Incredible! I absolutely loved this book. I genuinely believe it should be required reading for everyone (and their mothers). . . . [Hilal] offers a serious and clear examination of ugliness. This book is a flashlight that leads to a way out.” — Maggie Shaw, Honest Dog Books (Bayfield, WI)
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| | After Image
by Jenny George
Copper Canyon Press • October 2024 • 9781556596957
★ “This is a monumental work on death and grieving in a deceptively slim package. . . . George examines in her stunning third collection the space left by the death of a loved one.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Ultramarine
by Mariette Navarro, trans. Eve Hill-Agnus
Deep Vellum Publishing • March 2025 • 9781646053575
★ “This captivating saga lures and disturbs in equal measure. . . . In Navarro’s gripping English-language debut, a French freighter captain’s journey takes a perilous turn when a mysterious stranger joins her crew of 20 men.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Blue Sky Morning
by Jihyun Kim, trans. Polly Lawson
Floris Books • May 2025 • 9781782509080
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| | Astro
by Manuel Marsol, trans. Lizzie Davis
Transit Children's Editions • March 2025 • 9798893389043
★ “This Spanish import mixes meditations on mortality with an outer-space setting. . . . [This] will also challenge children’s very perceptions of what it means to be alive. An achingly beautiful testament to life, love, and death among the stars.” — Kirkus Reviews
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