By Edyka Chilomé One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum s Central Track Writers Project. Publication Date: August 30, 2019 Biographical Note Edyka Chilomé is a literary arts activist, performer, and cultural worker currently based in Dallas. She is a queer child of Salvadorean and Mexican migrant activists, and was raised…
By Ananda DeviTranslated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 2024Winner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction A harrowing account of the hidden violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature. Publication Date: September 13, 2016 Paperback: 9781941920404eBook: 9781941920411 Description…
By Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum s Central Track Writers Project. Publication Date: August 30, 2019 Biographical Note Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is the founder of Dark Moon Poetry & Arts, a monthly series spotlighting the creative feminine and non-binary POC energies of North Texas. She can…
By David AvidanTranslated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keller Futureman brings Avidan s groundbreaking oeuvre to American readers for the first time. His poetry explores registers, colloquialisms, and the trajectory of Hebrew as a contemporary language deserving of a place in poetry. Publication Date: August 29, 2017 Paperback: 9781944700140 Description David Avidan was himself a…
By Maria Gabriela Llansol Translated from the Portuguese by Audrey Young English debut with three linked novellas by influential cult Portuguese writer interweaving history, poetry, and philosophy into transcendent literary vision. Publication Date: September 25, 2018 Paperback: 9781941920633 eBook: 9781941920640 Description The Geography of Rebels Trilogy, containing The Book of Communities, The…
By Jessica SchiefauerTranslated by Saskia Vogel 2021 PEN Translation Prize Finalist An award-winning, magical contemporary novel of three adolescent girls friendship, exploring the transformation of bodies as a battlefield in the construction of self. Publication Date: March 11, 2020 Paperback: 9781941920954eBook: 9781941920961 Description Winner of Sweden s most prestigious literary prize for young readers, Girls Lost is a…
By Carmen Boullosa Translated from the Spanish by Shelby Vincent Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa s Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history and asserts literature and language s power…
By Dorota Masłowska Translated by Benjamin Paloff An incomparably hilarious satire of modern consumer culture, with everything from personality to religion commodified, like Virginie Despentes meets Blade Runner. Publication Date: September 10, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920824 eBook: 9781941920848 Description From bestselling, internationally acclaimed author Dorota Masłowska comes a hilarious and devastating satire of consumer culture. Set…
By Zvonko KaranovicTranslated from the Serbian by Ana Božicevic It Was Easy to Set the Snow On Fire collects poems from the entire oeuvre of Zvonko Karanovic, a countercultural cult icon and seminal influence on a generation of younger poets. Publication Date: May 17, 2016 Paperback: 9781939419279eBook: 9781939419361 Description It Was Easy to Set the…
By Mario BellatinTranslated from the Spanish by Jacob Steinberg Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Mario Bellatin’s Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation from one of Mexico s most notorious and celebrated writers. Publication Date: April 28, 2015 Paperback: 9781939419101eBook: 9781939419378…
By Jón Gnarr The childhood memoir trilogy from world-renowned Icelandic comedian, former mayor of Reyjkavík, and talented writer Jón Gnarr. Book Information: The IndianPublication Date: May 5, 2015Paperback: 9781941920121eBook: 9781941920138 The PiratePublication Date: January 12, 2016Paperback: 9781941920206eBook: 9781941920213 The OutlawPublication Date: March 14, 2017Paperback: 9781941920527eBook: 9781941920534 Description The Indian The Indian is a highly entertaining piece of bittersweet autobiographical fiction…
By Oleh Sentsov Translated by Uilleam Blacker This timely collection of stories is by a Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director, whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause célèbre. Publication Date: October 15, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920879eBook: 9781941920886 Description “Through his courage and determination, by putting his life in danger, the filmmaker…
Edited by Víctor Terán & David ShookTranslated by Adam Coon, Jonathan Harrington, Jerome Rothenberg, David Shook, Clare Sullivan, and Eliot Weinberger A groundbreaking anthology featuring three women and three men, each writing in a different language, Like A New Sun showcases the vibrant contemporary poetry being written in indigenous Mexican languages. Publication Date: August 11, 2015 Paperback: 9781939419262eBook:…
By Katie Chase From Twilight Zone suburbia to cities on fire to post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, these award-winning stories range over unexpected landscapes—and land squarely in the wildness of the human heart. Publication Date: May 10, 2016 Paperback: 9780989275989eBook: 9781646050000 Description This bracing, intelligent debut tackles the strangeness of growing up, the joys and difficulties of breaking…
By Sergio Pitol Translated from the Spanish by George Henson Pitol gained legendary status first as a short story writer. This, his first collection in English, showcases his greatest stories. Publication Date: January 22, 2019 Paperback: 9781941920831eBook: 9781941920817 Description One of Mexico s most culturally complex and composite writers. —Publishers Weekly From the renowned Mexican literary master and…
By Nicholas Grider Misadventure is a bracing debut collection that maps what happens when desire and control between men goes awry. In Misadventure, men search for themselves, for each other, for the sources of sanity and sickness, power and grief. Grider challenges the conventional gay narrative and asks the reader to reimagine the kind of…