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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to Egana Djabbarova and translator @lizoksbooks.bsky.social on MY DREADFUL BODY becoming a finalist for the Cercador Prize recognizing works of literature in translation selected by independent booksellers across the United States. www.cercadorprize.com

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Russian author Sergei Lebedev appears on Vaclav Havel Center podcast recorded live in NYC, Sunday, Oct. 4, 11 a.m. at Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street. "Each episode features a modern-day Havel, who has personally resisted authoritarians." RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sergei Lebedev, celebrated author of THE LADY OF THE MINE and five other books translated into English, discusses the suppression of Russia's authoritarian past and the current state censorship machine. Monday, Oct. 5 @huntercollege.bsky.social in NYC. tamizdatproject.org/events/a-rea...

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A Reading and Conversation with Sergei Lebedev and Antonina Bouis — Tamizdat Project

October 5, 7 pmHunter College CUNY Chanin Language Center (B126 Hunter West Building) East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue (6 train)Free and open to the publicRSVP  Joined by his ...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Egana Djabbarova's novel MY DREADFUL BODY in @nytimes.com Style Magazine Middle East North Africa edition. "'My Dreadful Body' is organised around individual body parts, moving through eyebrows, hair, hands, breasts and other fragments . . . " www.arabianbusiness.com/t-magazine/c...

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The Book Review: “My Dreadful Body” by Egana Djabbarova - Arabian Business: Latest News on the Middle East, Real Estate, Finance, and More

Azerbaijani-Russian writer Egana Djabbarova discusses “My Dreadful Body”, disability, cultural inheritance and freedom from expectation.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Discover #SmallPress #books: Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed, @igpublishing.bsky.social & My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden, @newvesselpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by Lisa C. Hayden, New Vessel Press: A dazzling debut novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim patriarchal norms and a debilitating neurological condition. The mysterious affliction leaves her unable to control her muscles, plagued by pain and speech disorders, defying diagnosis. Addressing each body part with the scrupulousness of a medical researcher, the narrator explores memories, traditions, and taboos related to her physical self. https://newvesselpress.com/books/my-dreadful-body/
Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed, Ig Publishing: An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience, and self-discovery are passed down through generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family. Celeste Mohammed’s second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small, is a family saga that spans from the days of the British Raj in India to multicultural modern Trinidad. Written in a blend of Standard English and several flavors of Trinidad Kriol, the book follows the bloodline of a young woman, Jayanti, after her decision to become a girmitiya, an indentured laborer in the Caribbean. https://www.igpub.com/ever-since-we-small/

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MY DREADFUL BODY, by Egana Djabbarova and translated by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social, longlisted for National Book Award. @nationalbook.bsky.social newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely brilliant read! Thank you so much for your translation, @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. It's way up there with Three Apples Fell From the Sky for me. #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses—like books—never betrayed me. They always waited for me to return to their world when I opened up another book or took them off my nightstand; they waited for me to open my eyes again. Egana Djabbaraova, My Dreadful Body

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join Egana Djabbarova, author of National Book Award Longlisted novel MY DREADFUL BODY, at an online discussion at 2 p.m. EDT TODAY of international authors sponsored by @bkbookfest.bsky.social. Free registration here: brooklynbookfestival.org/event/who-ne...

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another 5*/5 read: @newvesselpress.bsky.social's National Book Award for Translated Literature-nominated novella translated from Russian: MY DREADFUL BODY by Azeri writer EGANA DJABBAROVA and translated by Lisa C. Hayden. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-d...

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MY DREADFUL BODY, five-star novella debunking misogyny's lies

MY DREADFUL BODY EGANA DJABBAROVA (tr. Lisa C. Hayden) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $17.95 all editions, avai...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Freud would have a field day with this talky, gossipy, and prescient dark comedy of high-level corruption and warped family ties," says @publisherswkly.bsky.social of Noa Yedlin's "engrossing" novel HOUSE ARREST. "This is a wry tonic with a delicious final twist." publishersweekly.com/9781954404434

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MY DREADFUL BODY named to 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist! Congratulations Egana Djabbarova + @lizoksbooks.bsky.social for this dazzling novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. www.nationalbook.org/books/my-dre...

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Jewish Book Council @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wishing you a sweet, healthy, & happy start to 5787! We're turning to a #JewishBook that delves into cycles & transitions during all of life's seasons. Maya Arad’s HAPPY NEW YEARS is the perfect novel to read during this period of renewal. bit.ly/4xYKNmD @newvesselpress.bsky.social

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Bergstrom Press and Books @bergstrompressbooks.com · 12/09/2026

It's a gray day. Turn off the TV - there's nothing good to see there. Take a stroll, hit the cafe, walk on over to the bookstore, and discover some new literature - maybe these two translations from our friends @newvesselpress.bsky.social

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

⭐️STARRED⭐️ review for BOTANY OF MADNESS @shelf-awareness.com: "A daring debut novel from a promising new literary voice, Germany's Leon Engler . . . Quirky and bittersweet . . . phenomenal, darkly comic." Translated by @roesch6-alex.bsky.social www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Russian author Sergei Lebedev will be interviewed on the Vaclav Havel Center podcast on Oct. 4 featuring "a modern day Havel," the Czech playwright, essayist, and dissident renowned for his courageous opposition to communist rule. havelcenter.org/2026/09/10/l...

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Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just finished My Dreadful Body by EganaEgana Djabbarova, translated from Russian (with some Azerbaijani preserved) by Lisa C. Hayden and published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social. This is an extraordinary book--piercing, poetic, necessary. I highly recommend it! #literatureintranslation #womenwriters

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"New Vessel Press, the acclaimed independent publishing house of fiction and narrative nonfiction in translation, has done it again ... given us the arresting (pun intended) HOUSE ARREST, a satire by Israeli writer and journalist Noa Yedlin." @momentmagazine.bsky.social

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Screenwriter Olivia Newman, who did Remarkably Bright Creatures and Where the Crawdads Sing, tells @deadline.com about how excited she is to be working on the film adaptation of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje translated by David McKay.

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Illuminating . . . moves at a roving pace . . . BOTANY OF MADNESS is a riveting novel in which a man weighs mental illness with prismatic precision, his work involving scientific classifications, autofiction, and memory."—Foreword Reviews newvesselpress.com/books/botany...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Maya Arad's HAPPY NEW YEARS is featured by the New York Public Library in a roster of "fantastic epistolary novels" for readers who enjoyed The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, a bestselling work in that same format. Translated @jesscohen.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/happy-... .

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Anjet Daanje, author of THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, is "a formidable present-day contender" for the Nobel Prize in literature, @wsj.com proclaims. Journal critic @ssacks.bsky.social made the assessment in a glowing review of Daanje's novel The Song of Stork and Dromedary. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Djabbarova holds deep sympathy for her closed-tongued mother’s fate.” Candice Louisa Daquin reviews the translation of a novel that “interrogates the ways we become estranged from ourselves physically and emotionally.” worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Excellent review of MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova in @worldlittoday.bsky.social by Candice Louisa Daquin: "Interrogates the ways we become estranged from ourselves physically and emotionally . . . Intensely lyrical, evidencing beauty in language." worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

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Bearer of Inherited Stigmas: Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body, by Candice Louisa Daquin

Candice Louisa Daquin reviews Russian Azerbaijani writer Egana Djabbarova’s English-language debut.

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

MY DREADFUL BODY "renders you speechless, demanding recognition for its searing vulnerability and astute cultural criticism," writes @brittastromeyer.bsky.social in @commonmag.bsky.social of the novel by Egana Djabbarova. www.thecommononline.org/tag/Egana-Dj...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Celebrate Women in Translation month with New Vessel Press. #WomenInTranslationMonth

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Read an excerpt from MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova in Global Europe. The novel addresses each body part with the scrupulousness of a medical researcher, unveiling a hidden world in which illness unexpectedly facilitates the protagonist's liberation. globaleuropejournal.org/2026/04/my-d...

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My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova

Translated by LISA C. HAYDEN | Even a little girl from a world where everyone else has brown eyes wanted blue eyes. Blue ones like some of the sultans’ wives or Turkish actresses had, probably afte…

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Bergstrom Press and Books @bergstrompressbooks.com · 06/08/2026

Today we are highlighting The Remembered Soldier, published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social A novel about a soldier with amnesia, discovered by a wife he had forgotten. Together they try to piece together his life, their life. Then things get complicated. bergstrompressbooks.com/en/fiction/1...

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The Remembered Soldier [De herinnerde soldaat]

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Author Sergei Lebedev argues @eurozine.bsky.social that even in the fifth year of Russia's war in Ukraine a deep-rooted moral paralysis prevents the Russian opposition from demanding accountabilty for perpetrators of state crimes. www.eurozine.com/impunity-cre...

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Impunity creates impunity

Even in the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, a deep-rooted moral paralysis prevents the Russian opposition from demanding justice for the crimes committed by the state both during Sov...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

THE 6:41 TO PARIS by Jean-Philippe Blondel and other New Vessel Press books are available at Atlanta's Virginia Highland Books and an independent bookstore near you. newvesselpress.com/books/the-64...

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@newvesselpress.bsky.social why u wanna hurt me so? I give u 5* but u keep hurtin' my heart: THE PIANO STUDENT, fictionalized gay love story from the scariest part of the 1930s by LEA SINGER (translated from German by Elisabeth Lauffer): #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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THE PIANO STUDENT, fictionalized gay love story from the scariest part of the 1930s

THE PIANO STUDENT LEA SINGER (tr. Elisabeth Lauffer) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $10.99 ebook, available now...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Searing character study of an upper middle class family whose members crave respect, but also often cut corners . . . a biting satirical novel."—Foreword Reviews on HOUSE ARREST by Noa Yedlin. newvesselpress.com/books/house-...

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"The narrator grapples with her language and identity, exposing the painful betrayal of belonging for those who exist on the fringes of two cultural worlds." Britta Stromeyer reviews Egana Djabbarova’s "My Dreadful Body," exploring themes of identity and belonging. Check it out below!

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Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body: Exploring the Wounded Self and Belonging in Azerbaijani Diaspora Literature

Review by BRITTA STROMEYER <br> Divided into eleven chapters named after body parts, the novel’s structure claims the female body as a battleground for cultural and personal struggles, using…

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

HOUSE ARREST by Noa Yedlin is on Zibby Owens' Most Anticipated List of books for Fall 2026. This prize-winning satirical novel chronicles a scandal that envelops a prominent Jerusalem family and leads to its downfall. bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev selected by Boston's @wbznewsradio.bsky.social Book Club. This psychological thriller examines Russia’s use of lethal poisons against its critics. "A work of historical fiction scary enough to be true." www.iheart.com/podcast/1248...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice discusses the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, legendary Italian publishing figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's top publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social. vimeo.com/506207913

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"One of the reasons I love My Dreadful Body so much is that I identify very closely with how Egana writes about the limitations that society, traditions, and family members inflict on women." @olgaz.bsky.social's Q&A with @lizoksbooks.bsky.social puncturedlines.com/2026/07/15/c...

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Creating a Vivid World: A Q&A with Lisa C. Hayden, the translator of Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body

The publication of Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body by New Vessel Press earlier this year is an important contribution to feminist russophone literature available to readers in English translati…

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The publication of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body by @newvesselpress.bsky.social is an important contribution to feminist russophone literature in English translation. We’re diving deeper into the context of this remarkable book in our interview w its translator, @lizoksbooks.bsky.social.

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Huge thanks to @olgaz.bsky.social and @yelenafurman.bsky.social for the opportunity to Q&A about my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body, published by @newvesselpress.bsky.social in the US & Linden Editions in the UK!

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Beautifully written in a strong poetic voice . . . a powerful feminist tract, illuminating the subtext that drives modern conservatism." @bookblast.org on MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova, translated from the Russian by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. bookblast.org/about-bookbl...

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