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夜の鳥
河出書房新社

夜の鳥

トールモー・ハウゲン, 山口 卓文

The story of Joakim (Jake), a lonely boy whose father suffers from depression and disappears into the night. Haunted by visions of monstrous night birds lurking in his closet, Joakim must confront both real and imagined fears as his family struggles with his father's illness. Winner of the Norwegian Literature Prize and the German Children's Literature Prize, this is the landmark work of 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Award laureate Tormod Haugen.

Hans Christian Andersen Award
Perma Red
Blue Hen Trade

Perma Red

Debra Magpie Earling

A novel set on the reservation, following Louise White Elk through love, violence, and the urge to escape community pressures.

American Book Awards
Oublier Palerme (Le Livre De Poche)
Distribooks Inc

Oublier Palerme (Le Livre De Poche)

Edmonde Charles-Roux

Set against Sicily, this novel follows family, marriage, and the shifting feeling of belonging as memory, forgetting, and the pull of home drive the narrative forward. Personal fate and the history of a place overlap, giving the book a strong sense of exile.

Prix Goncourt
朗読者 (新潮文庫)
新潮社

朗読者 (新潮文庫)

ベルンハルト シュリンク, Bernhard Schlink, 松永 美穂

Around the relationship between fifteen-year-old Michael and Hanna, love, secrecy, judgment, and guilt gather. The novel looks steadily at memory in postwar Germany.

Park Kyong-ni Prize
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch: A Newbery Medal–Winning Adventure About Courage and Mastering the Seas
Clarion Books

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch: A Newbery Medal–Winning Adventure About Courage and Mastering the Seas

Jean Lee Latham, Mary R. Walsh

Newbery Medal Winner Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “log, lead, and lookout.” Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailors’ Bible”), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero.

Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)