Nonfiction topics Essays Founder Jill Schoolman Country of origin United States of America | Fiction genres Fiction in translation Founded 2003 | |
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Official website www.archipelagobooks.org Headquarters location Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Karl knausgaard reading from a time for everything presented by archipelago books
Archipelago Books is an American "not-for-profit publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation." Located in Brooklyn, New York, it publishes small to mid-size runs of international fiction, poetry, and literary essays. The press was founded in 2003 by Jill Schoolman. On marking its 10th anniversary, Archipelago had published one hundred books, translated from more than twenty-six languages into English. It is distributed by Penguin Random House.
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- Karl knausgaard reading from a time for everything presented by archipelago books
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Archipelago was the 2008 winner of the Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing, given by the Association of American Publishers.
Archipelago's best known authors include Elias Khoury, Julio Cortázar, Mahmoud Darwish, Nobel Prize laureate Halldór Laxness, Breyten Breytenbach, Karl Ove Knausgård, Louis Couperus, Heinrich Heine, Novalis, Hugo Claus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Heinrich von Kleist, and Jacques Poulin.