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Archipelago Books is an American not-for-profit literary publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation. Located Brooklyn, New York, it publishes small to mid-size runs of international fiction, poetry, and literary essays. The press was founded in 2003 by Jill Schoolman out of an urgent need to make world literature available to American readers. Archipelago has since published over fifty books, translated from more than twenty languages into English. It is distributed in the United States and Canada by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.

Archipelago is the 2008 winner of the Miriam Bass award for excellence in independent publishing.

Publications
Archipelago Books focuses on publishing books of exceptional literary merit and social importance, particularly works of literature that represent voices and demographics that may not otherwise be available in English. Archipelago publishes both contemporary and classic works and strives to introduce authors that larger, for-profit presses have passed on because of low commercial viability. Archipelago publishes between ten and twelve books per year.

Archipelago's best known authors include Elias Khoury, Julio Cortázar, Mahmoud Darwish, Nobel Prize laureate Halldór Laxness, Breyten Breytenbach, Louis Couperus, Heinrich Heine, Novalis, Hugo Claus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Heinrich von Kleist.