Longlist for Best Translated Book Awards 2019
April 22, 2019
Celebrating its 12th year of honoring literature in translation, the Best Translated Book Awards named its 2019 longlists for both fiction this month. We love to see translated book recognized!
Here is a selection of what we have in store.
The Hospital
Ahmed Bouanani
“When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989...
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Pretty Things
Virginie Despentes
Claudine has always been pretty and Pauline has always been ugly. But when Claudine wants to become famous, she enlists gloomy Pauline—with her angelic...
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Bricks and Mortar
Clemens Meyer
Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present...
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so...
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After the Winter
Guadalupe Nettel
Praise for Guadalupe Nettel:"Nettel offers her keen attention and sympathy to any living thing struggling to get by." —The New York Times"Nettel has brilliantly...
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The Governesses
Anne Serre
In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group...
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Oraefi
Ofeigur Sigurosson
"Sigurdsson is without a doubt one of the best writers of his generation." ?Frettabladid DailyAfter a grueling solo expedition on Vatnajökull Glacier, Austrian toponymist...
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Flights
Olga Tokarczuk
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMESA visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of...
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