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Tomas Tranströmer Awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tomas Tranströmer. Tranströmer’s most recent book of poetry, The Sorrow Gondola, was published by Green Integer as a bilingual edition in 2010, translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl. Completed after Tranströmer suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990, The Sorrow Gondola is considered one of his very best works. Tranströmer has been a frontrunner for the Nobel Prize for many years, and we are thrilled to congratulate him on a long-deserved win! "The Owls," a poem from The Sorrow Gondola, is available here.

The Sorrow Gondola
Tomas Tranströmer; Translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl | Green Integer | October 2010 | 978-1-933382-44-9 | $11.95 | Trade Paper

The Sojourn Nominated for National Book Award

The Sojourn, a first novel by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press) has been named a finalist for the National Book Award, joining such esteemed company as The Tiger's Wife, The Buddha in the Attic, and Salvage the Bones. Inspired by Andrew Krivak's own family history, The Sojourn is the first novel published by Bellevue since Tinkers, another debut, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The winners will be announced on November 16, at the 62nd National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony, hosted by John Lithgow.

On May 29, the Los Angeles Times noted: "[The Sojourn] is an ever-hopeful series of fresh starts and dashed hopes, a beautiful tale of persistence and dogged survival, set in the mountains, villages and battlefields of a Europe that exists only in memories and stories."

The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak | Bellevue Literary Press | April 2011 | 9781934137345 | $14.95 | Trade Paper
The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak | Bellevue Literary Press | April 2011| 9781934137413 | $14.95 | eBook

Go The Fuck to Sleep is a Nationwide Runaway Best Seller!

Since debuting at number one in the advice/how-to category on The New York Times bestseller list ahead of its first week of sale, Go the Fuck to Sleep has maintained one of the top two spots for twelve weeks. The book has also hit top spots on the best sellers lists for Indiebound, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Author Adam Mansbach has been interviewed on The Today Show, Nightline, Fox TV, and The Howard Stern Show, among others, and the book has been featured or mentioned on NPR and MSNBC, in Time magazine, In Touch Weekly, Star Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, TechDirt.com, Gawker.com, Entertainment Weekly, Salon.com, The Atlantic, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, and Time Out New York. Adam will be on tour this fall—click here to see the events list.

Go the Fuck to Sleep
Adam Mansbach; Illustrations by Ricardo Cortés | Akashic Books | June 2011 | 9781617750250 | $14.95 | Trade Cloth