ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC
EIN 61-1423856 · Printing & Publishing (A33)
What they do
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS is A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRESS DEVOTED to PUBLISHING OUTSTANDING TRANSLATIONS of VITAL WORKS of CLASSIC and CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE. IN OUR TWENTY-ONE YEARS, WE HAVE BROUGHT OUT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE BOOKS FROM MORE THAN FORTY LANGUAGES.ARTISTIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN CULTURES is A CRUCIAL ASPECT of GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING. IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT for VOICES FROM AROUND THE WORLD to BE HEARD IN THIS COUNTRY-OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD DEPENDS UPON IT. SADLY, LESS THAN THREE PERCENT of NEW LITERATURE PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES ORIGINATES OUTSIDE THE ANGLOSPHERE. BY PUBLISHING DIVERSE and INNOVATIVE LITERARY TRANSLATIONS, WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN to CHANGE THIS LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTANCE and to BROADEN THE AMERICAN LITERARY LANDSCAPE.
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2003
- Location
- 232 3RD ST STE A111, BROOKLYN, NY 11215-2726
- County
- Kings
- In care of
- % JILL SCHOOLMAN