Open Letter Books

Announcing our Fall 2026-Winter 2027 titles! Featuring work translated from Dutch, Icelandic, and Spanish.

RT @CLMPorg: Find @SundressPub, @catalyst_press, @open_letter, @RegalHouse1, @GnashingTeethPu, and more indie presses in our roundup of the latest books out from CLMP members:

Happy pub day to AUROVILLE! And to celebrate, our annual #WITmonth sale starts NOW ✌️👏✨

RT @writtenbyadit: An introduction to Can Xue.

No TMR this week as we do a summer reset, so instead check out this interview with the inimitable Danny Hahn about his new book, IF THIS BE MAGIC!

Get yours here!

MOTHER RIVER wins 2025 Big Other award for Translation! Delighted for Can Xue, Karen Gernant, and in memory of Chen Zeping ❤️

RT @BigOtherMag: Announced today: the Winners of the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Awards!

RT @DanielGHinds: Congratulations and good luck to all the other finalists at the @BigOtherMag Book Awards today, including: @MarcVincenz1 @jeffpethybridge @mollygaudry @dharlanwilson @ElaineEqui & @JeromeSala! You can watch a playlist of us reading from our books here:

Time and Water has received a glowing review from the Financial Times! Sara Dosa’s adaptation of On Time & Water by Andri Snær Magnason will be streaming on Disney+. Get the book here:

Tobias Carroll has written a brilliant piece on THE MURMURATION by Carlos Labbé for Lithub.

We’re pleased to share the news that this year’s Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation has been awarded to Rohan Chhetri’s translation of Parijat’s Flowers of the Siris Tree!

Excerpts of all finalists will be published in Words Without Borders. Flowers of the Siris Tree will be published by Open Letter in 2028. See the official Armory Square prize announcement for further details:

Words Without Borders has published excerpts from two of the five finalists for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.

RT @ZIssenberg: If you can't read Énard in French (yet!), you can thank translators @avecsesdoigts and Frank Wynne for their titanic efforts. These translators take their time producing sonically enthralling works. Both @open_letter and @NewDirections support these translators, and so can you!

RT @aredamnhoj: Wherein publisher Chad W. Post reads from Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's translation of Can Xue’s MOTHER RIVER (@Open_Letter Books), a Finalist for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Award for Translation!

RT @BigOtherMag: Wherein publisher Chad W. Post reads from Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's translation of Can Xue’s MOTHER RIVER (@Open_Letter Books), a Finalist for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Award for Translation!

Inc. THE CITY by @lara_morenom, @Alice_Banks_, Katie Whittemore 😍

New books are out this month from @Sinister_Wisdom, @bookhugpress, @thirtywestph, @open_letter, @redrookpress, @BainbridgePress, and other excellent indie presses! Find them in our May roundup: