From the jury statement: “Reading or listening to Fiston Mwanza Mujila perform leads to the fundamental questions of our existence and our coexistence in all our constructedness from hope, dream, love, hubris, violence and history.”

Fiston Mwanza Mujila—author Deep Vellum titles TRAM 83, THE VILLAIN’S DANCE, THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF DREAMS, and THE RIVER IN THE BELLY—has received the 2026 Erich Fried Prize, one of Austria’s most prestigious literary awards. Read about it here: thebritishblacklist.co.uk/out-of-afric...

Unbelievable recognition for this remarkable author & novel!

Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are thrilled to announce that “North Sun; Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther” by Ethan Rutherford has won the 2026 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters!

Durham, NC tomorrow back at dear old Duke!!

I wrote about Tatiana Tibuleac’s “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,” an absolutely astounding little novel that’s finally been translated into English after selling out in 17 other languages, for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...

Fingering His Wounds: On Tatiana Tibuleac’s "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" - Cleveland Review of Books

Thus the three dominant justifications of art in our time, as a strategy of self-knowledge, as means of therapy, as a road to empathy, are thrown out with the soiled bathwater.

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North Sun is @deepvellum.bsky.social’s first ever longlisted PEN/Hemingway title!! Congratulations to all the nominated writers & publishers supporting debut authors!

Join me for 3 events in Bucharest this week: THU w/ Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu & Lidia Bodea of Humanitas @ Cişmigiu; FRI Frame10 series w/Monica Cure & Vlad Niculescu @ Rezidența9; SAT l book launch for Tatiana Țîbuleac’s The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes w/ Monica Cure & Paula Erizanu @ Cartureşti Verona

Highly recommend my old friend @jacobsilverman.com reading his own GILDED RAGE for some real stomach-churning rage-inducing fun for those of us actively interested in making the world a better place, counter to the anti-heroes of this book libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Gilded Rage Audiobook on Libro.fm

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and ...

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Obama includes NORTH SUN as one of his favorite books of 2025! Huge honor for Ethan Rutherford, editor extraordinaire Jill Meyers, & for Deep Vellum, the only small publisher on this list, the only nonprofit publisher on this list!! @deepvellum.bsky.social

The Ruins! Congratulations to Ye Hui & his remarkable translator, Dong Li! We published this remarkable book in a beautiful bilingual edition. Chinese metaphysical poetry forever!! @deepvellum.bsky.social

National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Schattenfroh is a Washington Post cover model!! @maxlawton.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @theuntranslated.bsky.social

Dan Sinykin does Dallas!! I teach & always recommend his books Big Fiction & Close Reading in the 21st Century, teach & am inspired the unique work of the Post45 Data Collective, & stoked he’s Director of Graduate Studies at my beloved alma mater Emory’s English Dept!! @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

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There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.

You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.

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*Filth Eaters* listed on *Publishers Weekly* Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Literary Fiction. Super happy. Thanks for preordering. If you’d like to: link in comments or wherever you buy your books! Gracias, @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social

You've been waiting. The news is here. Deep Vellum is honored to announce the publication of Antonio Moresco's seminal trilogy, GAMES OF ETERNITY, translated by Max Lawton. THE BEGINNINGS will be published on March 24, 2026 and all three books are available for preorder on our website now.

What a stack, what a reading journey!

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today I wanted to share my pleasure reading pile (as opposed to research reading). I've made a decision to read or reread only big, long books for awhile to rewire my brain to combat the fragmentation of recent months. This corresponds to rethinking how I approach these books. 1/2

This list of the best bookstores in Dallas is so beautiful, our city has grown so much in the past decade into a city with bookstores to match our incredibly diverse & engaged reading citizenry! So grateful our own little @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social is included! #LiteraryDallas forever!

D Magazine@dmagazine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Where to find art books, zines, cookbooks, manga, and romance novels, or just a cozy corner in the city.

Felicidades to my dear friend Ito Romo on his forthcoming novel FILTH EATERS—a decade in the making. A sweeping, haunting reimagining of the vampire lineage. So proud! PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil... @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social

Deep Vellum & Wild Detectives annual anniversary party is back April 19-20 ft. Carmen Boullosa & Eileen Myles talking about (among other things!) the 10th anniversary ed. of TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT, the US debut of Eduardo Rabasa’s band El Gran Otro, tattoos, dancing, fun, & so much more

CALLING ALL BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS, INFLUENCERS, ETC. We are launching a brand new newsletter to collect all the news you can use about Deep Vellum, Dalkey Archive, and Open Letter books in one easy place. Sign up for it in the post below:

Stoked to talk translated lit in Iowa with @willevans.bsky.social & Bela Shayevich!

Everyone knows I owe Chad Post everything & teaming up on @openletterbooks.bsky.social & @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social brings his vision into a publishing house centered on international literature & to connect these books with readers who, like me, are starving for that elusive something MORE

Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome @openletterbooks.bsky.social as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Every day of my life I am grateful for readers like @theuntranslated.bsky.social who build a reading community through literature, & to madmen like @maxlawton.bsky.social & @nordicnovellas.bsky.social who bring books, foreign to me, into a language I can understand, & in turn share with the world

Fernando A. Flores presents his new BROTHER BRONTË out from FSG/MCD tonight at Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

SCHATTENFROH A Requiem August, 2025

The winner is Eve Hill-Agnus' translation of Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro. Coming from @deepvellum.bsky.social This is an award that specifically funds a translation, the book is coming in March and it looks extremely up my alley as a sea-themed spooky SFF novel.

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last yr.

Hill-Agnus Wins 2024 Albertine Translation Prize locusmag.com/2025/02...

On the road again We just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is discussing literature with our friends And we can't wait to get on the road again (we just made that up) DEEP VELLUM ON TOUR THIS SPRING:

I wrote a letter that will accompany the English translation of SCHATTENFROH, coming this summer from @deepvellum.bsky.social

No surprise for those who’ve read Drew for years that this interview was so good, such a great reader, interviewer, & writer, talking about one of the great novels of our time, one I’m forever so lucky & so honored to publish

The Barbed Wire@thebarbedwire.com · 2y ago

"The way 'Texas: The Great Theft' examines history is a necessary counter to a propagandistic Americanized lens," writes @hdrewblackburn.bsky.social. H. Drew Blackburn digs into the novel and interviews @willevans.bsky.social, the founder of Dallas publishing house Deep Vellum, here:

Upcoming lit event alert: join WWB founding editor Samantha Schnee, Carmen Boullosa, and Merve Emre on 1/30 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Boullosa's "Texas: The Great Theft" (translated by Schnee). Learn more about the NYC event here! macaulay.cuny.edu/calendar-of-...