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)
第6回(2023年)
受賞者
10名A tender story of queer life in Brazil that follows love, loss, and the echoes words leave behind.
Even after words fade, feeling leaves a shape behind.
A genre-bending story collection that mixes horror, fable, and black humor to expose violence embedded in family, consumer culture, and the body.
The strange starts to throw the real world back into view.
A historical novel that traces the memory of slavery and colonial violence through a journey to the African coast, where the living and the dead are forced into the same frame.
Beyond the door of no return, history's wounds accumulate.
An autobiographical novel about the collapse of a house and a family in Medellín, where grief, rage, and memory collide around a dying brother and a violent country.
Beneath the rage, a trace of love and memory remains.
A fragmentary novel about Noenka, a Black woman who leaves home after her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and begins a new life shadowed by colonial history, desire, and isolation.
New freedom does not shake off the past so easily.
A biologist returns to his hometown and confronts grief, failure, and the eerie transformations of a provincial place.
Going home means being pulled back into the past.
Set against the collapse of East Germany, a love story gradually turns into a study of power, manipulation, and the way memory can trap people in time.
Love reveals another face as the era collapses around it.
A Syrian novel haunted by war, dictatorship, and the dead, where grief, memory, and disappearance remain inseparable.
The absence of the unprayed-for dead keeps sounding beneath the story.
A collection of true stories and literary sketches from Mexico that captures violence, fatigue, and the unstable life of the city.
This is both a city record and a record of wounds.
A meta-novel about a young Senegalese writer that probes literary memory, legacy, plagiarism, and the burden of authorship.
The most secret memory hides inside the written word.