National Book Award for Translated Literature

Awards

2018

• The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

• Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated from the French by Tina Kover
• Trick by Domenico Starnone, translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
• Love by Hanne Ørstavik, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken

• Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
• The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail, translated from the Arabic by Max D. Weiss
• One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
• Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal
• Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson

  2019

• Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

• Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
• The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder
• Crossing by Pajtim Statovci, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston

• The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections by Elaine Brum, translated from the Portuguese by Diane Grosklaus Whitty
• Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
• Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back by Naja Marie Aidt, translated from the Danish by Denise Newman