Best Translated Book Award べすとほんやくほんしょう
Edition 5 (2012)
Translation awardFictionPoetry
Winners
2 people
Wiesław Myśliwski
Winner
Set in rural Poland, this novel follows Szymek as he traces memories of family, community, war, labor, love, and loss. Private recollection becomes inseparable from the weight of land and history, giving the book its deep, lived-in texture.
Rooted memories quietly excavate a whole life.
500 pages
Polish literaturerural lifememorypostwar historyfamily
Presented in English and Japanese facing pages, this poetry collection layers abrupt associations and fragmented images to explore sex, loss, memory, and the body. Its improvisatory energy and sharp linguistic sense make it a provocative, experimental volume.
A sharply free sequence that turns poetry itself into a stage.
128 pages
contemporary poetryexperimentmemorylossthe body