Transit Books
Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities.
Transit Books publishes a carefully curated list (6-8 titles per year) of award-winning literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and prose that falls somewhere in between. Transit authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Booker Prize, the National Translation Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and more.
How Transit Books Helped Jon Fosse Win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Washington Post
How a Tiny Bay Area Publisher Helped Make Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse a U.S. Sensation, Los Angeles Times
Big Commercial Publishers Have Often Shied Away from Books in Translation. Small Publishers Swooped In, New York Times
Transit Books Grows a Picture Book Imprint, Publishers Weekly
Interview with an Indie Press, Lit Hub
Bay Area and beyond: Oakland publisher Transit Books brings foreign voices to U.S., San Francisco Chronicle
The Limitlessness of International Literature, Guernica magazine
A Publisher Specializing in Translations Grows in Oakland, Publishers Weekly
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Transit Books, The Rumpus
Take the Leap, Brazos Bookstore