2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature
The National Book Foundation has announced the winner and finalists for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Out of 154 submissions, the 5 books that made the cut were originally published in 5 different languages: French, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish. The winner was announced at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 15.
10 books
Winner
Bruna Dantas Lobato & National Book Foundation
The Words That Remain
Stênio GardelWinner: The National Book Foundation describes this debut novel translated from the Portuguese as "an exploration of queer desire, violence and shame, and the transformative power of the written word."
Bruna Dantas Lobato & National Book FoundationPaperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beyond the Door of No Return
David DiopFinalist: This hotly anticipated novel coming out in translation on September 19 is by the French Senegalese author of the 2021 International Booker Prize winner, At Night All Blood Is Black.
Clay McLeod Chapman & Clémence MichallonHardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cursed Bunny: Stories
Bora ChungFinalist: Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur, this book was described by The New Yorker as a collection of "ten disquieting, bloody tales [which] conjure a pitiless, almost folkloric world."
Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 & Celeste NgPaperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On a Woman's Madness
Astrid RoemerFinalist: This award-winning classic of queer literature originally published in Dutch in 1982 is "plainly a love story, but one that reminds readers that, more often than not, our social conditions matter just as much as the company we keep.” —Lily Meyer, NPR
Alexander Chee & Alina StefanescuHardcover, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Abyss
Pilar QuintanaFinalist: This short novel is by the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner.
National Book Critics Circle & Ruben Quesada 🇨🇷Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Not Miami
Fernanda MelchorLonglist: This unsentimental collection of vignettes highlights the violence of the author's native Veracruz, Mexico, and how people cope with it. "Skillfully translated by Hughes, this is a book that’s as gorgeous as it is dark, and it proves that Melchor is one of the finest writers working today. Absolutely stunning." —Kirkus Reviews
Tom Parker Bowles & Anton HurPaperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar SarrLonglist: This winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt, written by a Senegal-born writer and translated from the French, was inspired by the real-life story of a successful Malian writer who stopped writing after being accused of plagiarism.
MonaBismuthPaperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No One Prayed Over Their Graves
Khaled KhalifaLonglist: This "vast, sprawling saga that depicts, among other things, the birth pangs of modern Syria" (The Guardian) gives an intimate look at the relationship between two Syrian friends amidst the violence and tension of the region.
Marcel Theroux & Merve EmreHardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kairos
Jenny ErpenbeckLonglist: This critical hit translated from the German by Michael Hofmann follows the long and torrid affair between a young woman and an older married man. The New York Times said, "It’s a cathartic leak of a novel, a beautiful bummer, and the floodgates open early."
Los Angeles Review of Books & National Book Critics CircleHardcover, 2023
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Devil of the Provinces
Juan CárdenasLonglist: This mysterious novel by a Colombian art critic, curator, translator and author follows a narrator who returns to Colombia after 15 years abroad and becomes entangled in his brother's unsolved murder.
The Millions & Coffee House PressPaperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book