St. Paul’s 33-year-old Graywolf Press, a literary nonprofit publisher, has been enjoying a particularly brilliant year in the limelight. Having completed a three-year, million-dollar fundraising campaign—in part, so it could offer high-profile authors competitive advance money—Graywolf purchased the U.S. rights to Out Stealing Horses by Norwegian author Per Petterson.
The novel received a literary prize in Dublin soon after Graywolf launched it in the U.S., giving it even greater cachet and prominence than Petterson’s reputation already brought to the title. The book has been praised in The New Yorker, the Star Tribune, and on All Things Considered, but the pièce de résistance was front-page coverage in the June 24 New York Times Book Review. “They can’t publish more than 52 front pages in a year,” Graywolf Publicist Mary Matze says. “So this was quite a coup for us.”
