Verso Fiction offers uncompromisingly intelligent and beautiful books from international and revolutionary voices. These books experiment with style and form, telling stories that are not often heard. 

The Masterful Itamar Vieira Junior

“A leading voice among the Black authors who have jolted Brazil’s literary establishment in recent years with imaginative and searing works that have found commercial success and critical acclaim.” –  New York Times

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Eka Kurniawan: A Powerful Literary Voice

“It’s easy to see why he is being compared to Gabriel García Márquez and hailed as one of the leading lights of contemporary Indonesian fiction.” –  Financial Times

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The strange and tortured mind of Richard Dadd

This is a poetic and consid­ered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.

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A slyly subversive bildungsroman about misplaced love

Other Women is a timeless and all-too-relatable tale of unwise decisions and unfortunate fixations.

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Stephanie LaCava: Interested in What is Never Obvious

“Reading her, I never know what to expect. She investigates unique undergrounds, interested in what is never obvious. She takes chances, risks, and never chooses the safe way.” —  Lynne Tillman, author of Thrilled to Death

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Ghassan Kanafani: The Great Palestinian Writer

“One of Palestine’s foremost intellectuals and leaders. Kanafani’s universalism and commitment to Palestine will eternally serve as a model.” — Ilan Pappe

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Tariq Mehmood: Award-Winning Novelist & Documentary Filmmaker

“The author’s and the characters’ acute self-awareness of the familiarity of the plot make for a compelling read.” —  Kohl Journal

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Georges Perec: An unrivalled mastery of language

“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.” — Italo Calvino

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Vigdis Hjorth: A Literary Sensation

“Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.” — Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?

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The Surreal, The Magical, The Intoxicating 

The first English translations from the Japanese countercultural icon Izumi Suzuki, cult classics from artist and musician Jenny Hval, and a contemporary Brazilian masterpiece from Itamar Vieira Junior.

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Histories, Archives and Resistance

Meditations on those who might not find a place in history books but without whom history could not be written.

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