NYRB NEWS

Lana Lin's "The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam" included in 2025 National Book Award Longlist for Nonfiction
Lana Lin's The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is among the ten contenders for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Vincenzo Latronico's 'Perfection' included in 2025 National Book Award Longlist
The 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist, announced via The New Yorker, includes Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection

'Mafalda' in the press
At long last, Quino’s Mafalda is available to peruse, read, reread, and cherish in English. Published between 1963 and 1972 in Argentina, and translated into some 25 languages since its debut, the comic strip is beloved by readers the world over. Frank Wynne’s nimble translation into English is finally available to readers here through our distributed press, Elsewhere Editions, and she’s already making waves, with features and reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Dial, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, and more!

Haleh Liza Gafori on Tour for WATER
Haleh Liza Gafori, translator of the Rumi collections Gold and Water, will be on tour over the next few months to celebrate the publication of Water. Below you can find a list of events with Gafori in Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts:
Tuesday, April 22, 6:30pm ET
New York Public Library, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
with Maya C. Popa
FREE EVENT
Register here
Thursday, April 24, 7pm ET
Reads & Co., 234 Bridge St., Phoenixville, PA
FREE EVENT
Register here
Friday, April 25, in the evening
and Saturday, April 26, in the afternoon
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Recitations and songs with musicians Shahzad Ismaily
and Warren Trae Crudup
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets for the Friday event here
Get tickets for the Saturday event here
Sunday, April 27
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
FREE EVENT
More info here
Sunday, May 4, 8pm ET
Joe's Pub, Public Theater NYC
with musician Shahzad Ismaily and friends
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets here
Monday, May 5, 8pm
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
with Fanny Howe
FREE EVENT
More info here
Tuesday, May 6, 6pm ET
Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
FREE EVENT
RSVP here
Thursday, May 8, 7pm ET
Riffraff Bookstore, Providence, RI
FREE EVENT
More info here
Friday, May 9, 7pm
Montague Retreat Center, Northampton, MA
with musical guests James Bird and Loudingirra Özdemi
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets here
Thursday, May 15
Pittsburgh Jazz Poetry Festival
City of Asylum Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA
More information to come
May 12, 19, and 26, 2:30pm ET
Online seminar with
The Academy of American Poets
Register here
Photograph credit © Beowulf Sheehan

'Mourning a Breast' shortlisted for 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize
Mourning a Breast is shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language.

'Perfection' Shortlisted for 2025 International Booker Prize
Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection is among the six books on the 2025 International Booker Prize shortlist, announced Tuesday, April 8.

‘Firebird’ Translator Wins 2024 AATSEEL Book Prize
For her translation of Zuzanna Ginczanka’s Firebird (NYRB Poets), Alissa Valles has won the 2024 Book Prize for Best Literary Translation into English from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL).