{{Short description|Media House}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox publisher | image = NewVesselPressLogo.jpg | parent = | status = | founded = 2012 | keypeople = Ross Ufberg <br /> Michael Z. Wise | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = New York, New York | distribution = Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US)<br /> Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)<ref>{{Cite web |title= Publishers Representatives {{!}} Publishers Distributors |publisher= Turnaround Publisher Services |access-date= 2018-01-12 |url= https://www.turnaround-uk.com/publisher.html |archive-date= July 1, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170701134132/https://www.turnaround-uk.com/publisher.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> | publications = Books | topics = | genre = Literary translation | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://www.newvesselpress.com/}} }}
'''New Vessel Press''' is an American independent publishing house specializing in the translation of foreign literature and narrative nonfiction into English.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newvesselpress.com/about/|title=About|website=New Vessel Press}}</ref>
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''.{{cn|date=March 2026}} ''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2019-national-translation-award-in-prose-whats-left-of-the-night/|title=Announcing the Winner of the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose: What's Left of the Night|date=November 8, 2019}}</ref> ''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-words-that-remain/ |title=The Words That Remain }}</ref>
''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-remembered-soldier/|title=The Remembered Soldier }}</ref>
== History == New Vessel Press was co-founded by writer/translator Ross Ufberg and author/journalist Michael Z. Wise<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/ance/13-06-03newvessel.html|title = Department of Slavic Languages}}</ref> in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://themillions.com/2013/06/new-vessel-press-brings-international-literature-to-the-us.html|title=New Vessel Press Brings International Literature to the US|date=June 8, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://publishingtheworld.com/2013/04/12/5-questions-with-new-vessel-press/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422075126/http://publishingtheworld.com/2013/04/12/5-questions-with-new-vessel-press/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 22, 2013 | title=5 Questions with New Vessel Press | Publishing the World }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170503/SMALLBIZ/170509963/how-a-small-publishing-company-spun-gold-out-of-nothing|title=How a small publishing company 'spun gold out of nothing'|date=May 3, 2017|website=Crain's New York Business}}</ref>
== Artwork == Book covers for New Vessel Press translations have been created by graphic artist Liana Finck<ref name="lianafinck">{{cite web |url=http://www.lianafinck.com/1506/new-vessel-press-new-publisher-of-wonderful-books-in-translation-i-did-their-covers/ |title=New Vessel Press! (New publisher of wonderful books in translation. I did their covers). {{!}} Liana Finck |website=www.lianafinck.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524083814/http://www.lianafinck.com/1506/new-vessel-press-new-publisher-of-wonderful-books-in-translation-i-did-their-covers/ |archive-date=2014-05-24}}</ref> and Beth Steidle.<ref name="bethsteidle">{{cite web |url=http://www.bethsteidle.com/book-covers-2/ |title=Book Covers - Beth Steidle |website=www.bethsteidle.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428180645/http://www.bethsteidle.com/book-covers-2/ |archive-date=2018-04-28}}</ref>
== List of works == Fall 2013/Winter 2014 * ''The Good Life Elsewhere'' by Vladimir Lorchenkov * ''Cocaine'' by Pitigrilli * ''Killing the Second Dog'' by Marek Hlasko * ''Fanny von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment'' by Hilde Spiel * ''Some Day'' by Shemi Zarhin * ''The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra'' by Pedro Mairal
Fall 2014/Winter 2015 * ''I Called Him Necktie'' by Milena Michiko Flašar * ''Who is Martha?'' by Marjana Gaponenko * ''Guys Like Me'' by Dominique Fabre * ''All Backs Were Turned'' by Marek Hlasko
Spring 2015 Fall 2014/Winter 2015 * ''Alexandrian Summer'' by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren * ''Killing Auntie'' by Andrzej Bursa
Fall 2015/Winter 2016 * ''Oblivion'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''The 6:41 to Paris'' by Jean-Philippe Blondel *''On the Run with Mary'' by Jonathan Barrow * ''The Last Weynfeldt'' by Martin Suter *''Animal Internet'' by Alexander Pschera *''The Last Supper'' by Klaus Wivel
Fall 2016/Winter 2017 * ''If Venice Dies'' by Salvatore Settis * ''Year of the Comet'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''Moving the Palace'' by Charif Majdalani * ''The Madonna of Notre Dame'' by Alexis Ragougneau * ''A Very Russian Christmas: The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''Adua'' by Igiaba Scego
2017/2018
* ''The Madeleine Project'' by Clara Beaudoux * ''A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''The Animal Gazer'' by Edgardo Franzosini * ''Neapolitan Chronicles'' by Anna Maria Ortese * ''Allmen and the Dragonflies'' by Martin Suter * ''The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art'' by Philippe Costamagna
2018/2019 * ''What's Left of the Night'' by Ersi Sotiropoulos * ''A Very Italian Christmas: The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''Allmen and the Pink Diamond'' by Martin Suter * ''The Goose Fritz'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''Sleepless Night'' by Margriet de Moor * ''Exposed'' by Jean-Philippe Blondel
2019/2020 * ''The Bishop's Bedroom'' by Piero Chiara * ''And the Bride Closed the Door'' by Ronit Matalon * ''A Very Scandinavian Christmas: The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''The Drive'' by Yair Assulin * ''Villa of Delirium'' by Adrien Goetz * ''I Belong to Vienna'' by Anna Goldenberg
2020/2021 * ''The Piano Student'' by Lea Singer * ''A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''Untraceable'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''Roundabout of Death'' by Faysal Khartash * ''Distant Fathers'' by Marina Jarre
2021/2022 * ''The Vanished Collection'' by Pauline Baer de Perignon * ''A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''Pollak's Arm'' by Hans von Trotha * ''Palace of Flies'' by Walter Kappacher * ''A Few Collectors'' by Pierre Le-Tan * ''Of Saints and Miracles'' by Manuel Astur
2022/2023 * ''A Very Mexican Christmas: The Greatest Mexican Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''The Words That Remain'' by Stênio Gardel * ''Return to Latvia'' by Marina Jarre * ''A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''Professor Schiff's Guilt'' by Agur Schiff * ''Where I Am'' by Dana Shem-Ur * ''Café Unfiltered'' by Jean-Philippe Blondel * ''One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time''
2024/2025 * ''The Hebrew Teacher'' by Maya Arad * ''A Very Indian Christmas: The Greatest Indian Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''The Propagandist'' by Cécile Desprairies * ''The Lady of the Mine'' by Sergei Lebedev * ''Ugliness'' by Moshtari Hilal * ''The Remembered Soldier'' by Anjet Daanje
2025/2026 * ''Happy New Years'' by Maya Arad * ''A Very Brazilian Christmas: The Greatest Brazilian Holiday Stories of All Time'' * ''A Fictional Inquiry'' by Daniele Del Giudice * ''There's No Point in Dying'' by Francisco Maciel * ''My Dreadful Body'' by Egana Djabbarova * ''House Arrest'' by Noa Yedlin * ''Botany of Madness'' by Leon Engler
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