New Vessel Press is an American independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.
New Vessel Press books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and O, The Oprah Magazine. What's Left of the Night, a novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy by Ersi Sotiropoulou and translated from the Modern Greek by Karen Emmerich, won the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose. The Words That Remain, a Brazilian novel about the scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, by Stênio Gardel and translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
The Remembered Soldier, a Dutch novel about a World War I soldier who has lost his memory, by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay, is longlisted for 2026 International Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise in 2012, with the intention of bringing foreign literature to English-speaking audiences. Its first books were published in 2013.
New Vessel Press books are distributed to bookstores and online vendors throughout the United States by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution; they are distributed in Canada by Publishers Group Canada and in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Turnaround Publisher Services. All NVP titles are also available as ebooks and many as audiobooks.
Book covers for New Vessel Press translations have been created by graphic artist Liana Finck and Beth Steidle.
Fall 2013/Winter 2014
Fall 2014/Winter 2015
Spring 2015 Fall 2014/Winter 2015
Fall 2015/Winter 2016
Fall 2016/Winter 2017
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