Best Translated Book Award べすとほんやくほんしょう
Edition 3 (2010)
Translation awardFictionPoetry
Winners
2 people
Gail Hareven
Winner
Set in Israel, this is a love story about a woman who turns inward and confronts a lifelong obsession as she examines her own life.
It quietly reconsiders desire and asks what love really becomes over time.
331 pages
loveobsessionself-examinationIsraelfamily
Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova
Winner
A poetry collection that layers political sharpness over private pain to portray the fractured reality of post-Soviet Russia.
It lets an individual voice keep sounding through the noise of society.
192 pages
poetrypost-Soviet Russiapolitical lyricismsocial critiqueprivate pain