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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 7 (2024)

Translated literatureFictionNonfiction

Winners

10 people

A travelogue that traces Taiwan's landscapes, history, food, and memory, linking place and identity through an intimate, observational voice.

Travel becomes a way of rereading the land's history.

281 pages
travelogueTaiwanmemorycolonial historyidentity

A novel about censorship, forbidden books, and the desire to read, set in a library where power and curiosity are in constant tension.

In a library of banned books, reading itself becomes resistance.

272 pages
censorshiplibraryreadingpowerfable
Linnea Axelsson Nominee

An epic poem of Sámi land, family, migration, and survival that expands from individual voice into collective memory.

Memory of dispossession breathes through the long flow of the poem.

448 pages
poetrySámilandfamilymemory

A kinetic novel set against chaos and violence in Congo, where music, rhythm, and bodily energy drive a story of social rupture.

The rhythm of dance becomes the pulse of a broken world.

207 pages
Congomusicviolencerhythmsociety
Samar Yazbek Nominee

A Syrian novel of displacement and survival that explores what it means to seek home when war has made return uncertain.

The home the wind calls may already be lost.

168 pages
Syriadisplacementwarhomesurvival
Nasser Abu Srour Longlisted

A prison memoir by a Palestinian detainee that reflects on decades of captivity while asking what hope and freedom mean behind a wall.

Living beside the wall changes the shape of hope.

321 pages
memoirPalestineimprisonmenthopefreedom
Solvej Balle Longlisted

A woman trapped in a repeating day discovers how time, routine, and perception can gradually bend into something else.

The same day begins to show different faces.

162 pages
repetitiontimeexperimental fictiondaily lifeperception
Layla Martínez Longlisted

A gothic novel about a house marked by inherited memory, family tension, and the slow build of feminine rage.

Unease soaked into the house swells across generations.

96 pages
gothicfamilyinheritancewomenunease
Fernanda Trías Longlisted

A novel set in an environmentally damaged world, where toxic seas and an atmosphere of unease shape everyday life after the collapse.

Life goes on even after the world has broken.

196 pages
environmental collapsedystopiaseauneaseeveryday life
Fernando Vallejo Longlisted

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.

Before rage burns everything down, memory barely remains.

185 pages
autofictionfamilyMedellíngriefviolence