CULTURAL LITERACY
MVP is one of only a handful of publishers dedicated to connecting the literature of the Americas.
Good Fortune, Next Time
A Personal Excursion by Will Wootton (USA)
María the Monarch
An extraordinary trip to the kingdom of the monarch by Homero Aridjis (MEXICO)
Where We Lived: Essays on Places
A jewel of memories and words by Henry Allen (USA)
News of the Earth
A compendium of activism and writings by Homero Aridjis (MEXICO)
The Book of Norman, A Novel
A comedic tale of sibling rivalry by Allan Appel (USA)
Kill the Ámpaya!: the Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
Edited and Translated from Spanish by Dick Cluster (USA)
13 Stradomska Street
A Memoir of Exile and Return by Andrew Potok (USA)
Max Baer & The Star of David
A Novel by Jay Neugeboren (USA)
Questioning Return
A Novel by Beth Kissileff (USA)
Oedipus In Brooklyn And Other Stories
A Collection of Stories by Blume Lempel (USA)
Isra Isle
A Novel by Nava Semel (ISRAEL)
How Sweet It Is!
by Thane Rosenbaum (USA)
Searching for Wallenberg
A Novel by Alan Lelchuk (USA)
Breaking Ground: How Jackie Robinson Changed Brooklyn
by Alan Lelchuk (USA)
Wicked Weeds
Selected as a 2017 Best Translated Book Award Finalist!
A Zombie Novel by Pedro Cabiya (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Welcome to the Mandel Vilar Press
Advancing Diversity and Conservation in Publishing
Learn MoreRobert. A Mandel
Co-Founder
MVP will be devoted to publishing the numerous great writers overlooked by corporate publishers and with no doubt will live up to Franz Kafka’s mandate that ‘A book must be the axe of the frozen sea within us’."
Irene Vilar
Co-Founder
MVP will help open up our cultural borders and will play a vital role in maintaining a healthy and vibrant democracy and cultural literacy. Less than 1% of US readers read in translation. In contrast, in some European countries such as France and Germany the figure is closer to 30%. There is much to ponder about the health of a nation when its peoples don’t read across cultures. This ignorance breeds bigotry and prejudice. It is clear that publishing translations is one urgent mandate for the making of an empathic, global citizen. This is why the launch of MVPress is so momentous."
Why Choose Us
Advancing Diversity and Conservation in Publishing
DEMOCRACY
MVP brings underrepresented literatures and a much needed diversity to a larger English speaking readership!