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National Book Award for Translated Literature なしょなるぶっくしょう(ほんやくぶんがく)

Edition 4 (2021)

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Winners

10 people
Liu Yong Nominee
Nona Fernández Nominee
Samar Yazbek Nominee
Maryse Condé Longlisted
Kim Bo-young Longlisted

A short-story collection that moves among evolution, bodies, and origins, linking science and fable through a series of interrelated pieces.

A short-story collection that moves among evolution, bodies, and origins.

224 pages
short storiesevolutionthe bodyfablescience
Elvira Navarro Longlisted

An allegorical novel set around an isolated island, using enclosure and distance to blur the line between reality and imagination.

An allegorical novel set around an isolated island.

novelisolationallegorymemoryimagination
Judith Schalansky Longlisted

A work of brief essays and descriptions that gathers lost things and places into a quiet meditation on loss, memory, and form.

A work of brief essays and descriptions about lost things and places.

253 pages
lossmemoryessaysformal experimentationbook design

An essayistic book that reconstructs Russian family history from photographs, letters, and diaries, turning memory itself into the subject of inquiry.

An essayistic book that reconstructs Russian family history from fragments.

432 pages
memoryfamily historyRussian historyessaysautobiographical writing