National_Book_Award_for_Translated_Literature
The National Book Award for Translated Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards recognising outstanding literary works of translation into English administered by the National Book Foundation. This award was previously given from 1967 to 1983 but did not require the author to be living and was for fiction only. It was reintroduced in its new version in 2018 and was open to living translators and authors, for both fiction and non-fiction.[1]
| National Book Award for Translated Literature | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding literary work in translation. |
| Location | New York City |
| First awarded | 1967-1983, 2018 |
| Website | National Book Foundation |
The award recognises one book published by a U.S. publisher located in the United States from December 1 to November 30. The original text need not have been published in the year of the award submission, only the translated work. For the Translated Literature award neither author nor translator are required to be U.S. citizens.
Entries for the National Book Awards are open from March until May. A longlist is announced in September with the shortlist announced in October. The winner is announced in a ceremony in November. The prizes are split equally between the author and the translator.[2]
This list only covers the current version of the National Book Award for Translated Literature from its new inaugural addition in 2018. Winners from 1967 to 1983 are covered in the complete list of winners of the National Book Award.
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2018
The prize was judged by Karen Maeda Allman, Sinan Antoon, Susan Bernofsky, and Álvaro Enrigue and chaired by Harold Augenbraum. The longlist was announced on September 12.[3] The finalists were announced October 10.[4] The winner was announced on November 14.[5]
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Country of Publication | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoko Tawada | The Emissary | Japanese | Margaret Mitsutani | Japan-Germany | New Directions Publishing | Winner |
| Négar Djavadi | Disoriental | French | Tina Kover | Iran-France | Europa Editions | Finalists |
| Domenico Starnone | Trick | Italian | Jhumpa Lahiri | Italy | Europa Editions | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | Flights | Polish | Jennifer Croft | Poland | Riverhead Books | |
| Hanne Ørstavik | Love | Norwegian | Martin Aitken | Norway | Archipelago Books | |
| Roque Larraquy | Comemadre | Spanish | Heather Cleary | Argentina | Coffee House Press | Longlist |
| Dunya Mikhail | The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq | Arabic | Max Weiss | Iraq-US | New Directions Publishing | |
| Perumal Murugan | One Part Woman | Tamil | Aniruddhan Vasudevan | India | Black Cat | |
| Tatyana Tolstaya | Aetherial Worlds | Russian | Anya Migdal | Russia | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| Gunnhild Øyehaug | Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life | Norwegian | Kari Dickson | Norway | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2019
The prize was judged by Keith Gessen, Elisabeth Jaquette, Katie Kitamura, and Shuchi Saraswat and chaired by Idra Novey.[6] The longlist was announced on September 17.[7] Finalists were announced on October 8.[8] The winner was announced on November 20.
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Country of Publication | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| László Krasznahorkai | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming | Hungarian | Ottilie Mulzet | Hungary | New Directions Publishing | Winner |
| Khaled Khalifa | Death is Hard Work | Arabic | Leri Price | Syria | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalists |
| Scholastique Mukasonga | The Barefoot Woman | French | Jordan Stump | Rwanda | Archipelago | |
| Yoko Ogawa | The Memory Police | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | Japan | Pantheon Books | |
| Pajtim Statovci | Crossing | Finnish | David Hackston | Finland | Pantheon Books | |
| Elaine Brum | The Collector of Leftover Souls | Portuguese | Diane Grosklaus Whitty | Brazil | Graywolf Press | Longlist |
| Nona Fernández | Space Invaders | Spanish | Natasha Wimmer | Chile | Graywolf Press | |
| Vigdis Hjorth | Will and Testament | Norwegian | Charlotte Barslund | Norway | Verso Books | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Poland | Riverhead Books | |
| Naja Marie Aidt | When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back | Danish | Denise Newman | Denmark | Coffee House Press |
2020
The prize was judged by Heather Cleary, John Darnielle, Anne Ishii, and Brad Johnson and chaired by Dinaw Mengestu. The longlist was announced on September 16[9] and the shortlist on October 6.[10] The winner was announced on November 18.[11]
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miri Yu | Tokyo Ueno Station | Japanese | Morgan Giles | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Winner |
| Anja Kampmann | High as the Waters Rise | German | Anne Posten | Catapult Press | Finalists |
| Jonas Hassen Khemiri | The Family Clause | Swedish | Alice Menzies | Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | |
| Pilar Quintana | The Bitch | Spanish | Lisa Dillman | World Editions | |
| Adania Shibli | Minor Detail | Arabic | Elisabeth Jaquette | New Directions Publishing | |
| Cho Nam-Joo | Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Korean | Jamie Chang | Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Longlist |
| Perumal Murugan | The Story of a Goat | Tamil | N. Kalyan Raman | Black Cat / Grove Atlantic | |
| Fernanda Melchor | Hurricane Season | Spanish | Sophie Hughes | New Directions Publishing | |
| Linda Boström Knausgård | The Helios Disaster | Swedish | Rachel Willson-Broyles | World Editions | |
| Shokoofeh Azar | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree | Persian | Anonymous | Europa Editions |
2021
The prize was judged by Jessie Chaffee, Sergio de la Pava, Madhu H. Kaza, and Achy Obejas and chaired by Stephen Snyder. The longlist was announced on September 15 and the shortlist was announced on October 5. The winner was announced on November 17.[12]
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisa Shua Dusapin | Winter in Sokcho | French | Aneesa Abbas Higgins | Open Letter Books | Winner |
| Ge Fei | Peach Blossom Paradise | Chinese | Canaan Morse | New York Review Books | Finalists |
| Nona Fernández | The Twilight Zone | Spanish | Natasha Wimmer | Graywolf Press | |
| Benjamín Labatut | When We Cease to Understand the World | Spanish | Adrian Nathan West | New York Review Books | |
| Samar Yazbek | Planet of Clay | Arabic | Leri Price | World Editions | |
| Maryse Condé | Waiting for the Waters to Rise | French | Richard Philcox | World Editions | Longlist |
| Bo-young Kim | On the Origin of Species and Other Stories | Korean | Joungmin Lee Comfort and Sora Kim-Russell | Kaya Press | |
| Elvira Navarro | Rabbit Island | Spanish | Christina MacSweeney | Two Lines Press | |
| Judith Schalansky | An Inventory of Losses | German | Jackie Smith | New Directions Publishing | |
| Maria Stepanova | In Memory of Memory | Russian | Sasha Dugdale | New Directions Publishing |
2022
The prize was judged by Nick Buzanski, Veronica Esposito, Ann Goldstein (Chair), Rohan Kamicheril, and Russell Scott Valentino. The longlist was announced on September 14 and the shortlist was announced on October 4. The winner was announced on November 16.[14]
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samanta Schweblin | Seven Empty Houses | Spanish | Megan McDowell | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Winner |
| Jon Fosse | A New Name: Septology VI-VII | Norwegian | Damion Searls | Transit Books | Finalists |
| Scholastique Mukasonga | Kibogo | French | Mark Polizzotti | Archipelago Books | |
| Mónica Ojeda | Jawbone | Spanish | Sarah Booker | Coffee House Press | |
| Yoko Tawada | Scattered All Over the Earth | Japanese | Margaret Mitsutani | New Directions Publishing | |
| Mohammed Hasan Alwan | Ibn Arabi's Small Death | Arabic | William M | Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin | Longlist |
| Shahriar Mandanipour | Seasons of Purgatory | Persian | Sara Khalili | Bellevue Literary Press | |
| Olga Ravn | The Employees | Danish | Martin Aitken | New Directions Publishing | |
| Saša Stanišić | Where You Come From | German | Damion Searls | Tin House Books | |
| Olga Tokarczuk | The Books of Jacob | Polish | Jennifer Croft | Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
2023
Members of the prize jury are: Geoffrey Brock, Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Cristina Rodriguez, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Jeremy Tiang (Chair). The longlist was announced on September 13. The winner was announced on November 16, 2023.[15]
| Author | Title | Original Language | Translator | Publisher | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stênio Gardel | The Words That Remain | Portuguese | Bruna Dantas Lobato | New Vessel Press | Winner |
| Bora Chung | Cursed Bunny | Korean | Anton Hur | Algonquin Books / Hachette Book Group | Finalists |
| David Diop | Beyond the Door of No Return | French | Sam Taylor | Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | |
| Pilar Quintana | Abyss | Spanish | Lisa Dillman | World Editions | |
| Astrid Roemer | On a Woman's Madness | Dutch | Lucy Scott | Two Lines Press | |
| Juan Cárdenas | The Devil of the Provinces | Spanish | Lizzie Davis | Coffee House Press | Longlist |
| Jenny Erpenbeck | Kairos | German | Michael Hofmann | Coffee House Press | |
| Khaled Khalifa | No One Prayed Over Their Graves | Arabic | Leri Price | Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | |
| Fernanda Melchor | This Is Not Miami | Spanish | Sophie Hughes | New Directions Publishing | |
| Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | The Most Secret Memory of Men | French | Lara Vergnaud | The Other Press |
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- "To be announced". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- "2021 National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- "National Book Awards 2021". National Book Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- "National Book Awards 2022". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- "National Book Awards 2023". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-11-17.