Best Translated Book Award

Awards

2008

• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
• Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortázar, translated from Spanish by Anne McLean.
• Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated from Persian by Kamran Rastegar.
• Ravel by Jean Echenoz, translated from French by Linda Coverdale.
• Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy, translated from Hungarian by John Batki.
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from Norwegian by Anne Born.
• Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, translated from Dutch by the author.
• Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from Spanish by Jonathan Dunne.
• The Assistant by Robert Walser, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky.

• The Drug of Art: Selected Poems by Ivan Blatny, translated from Czech by Justin Quinn, Matthew Sweney, Alex Zucker, Veronika Tuckerova, and Anna Moschovakis.
• The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 edited and translated from Hebrew by Peter Cole.
• The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert, translated from Polish by Czesław Miłosz, Peter Dale Scott, and Alissa Valles.

2009

• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
• Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews.
• Voice Over by Céline Curiol, translated from French by Sam Richard.
• The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans, translated from Dutch by Ina Rilke.
• Yalo by Elias Khoury, translated from Arabic by Peter Theroux.
• Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver.
• Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge, translated from French by Richard Greeman.
• Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra, translated from Spanish by Carolina De Robertis.
• The [Post Office Girl] by Stefan Zweig, translated from German by Joel Rotenberg.

• Essential Poems and Writings by Robert Desnos, translated from French by Mary Ann Caws, Terry Hale, Bill Zavatsky, Martin Sorrell, Jonathan Eburne, Katherine Connelly, Patricia Terry, and Paul Auster.
• You Are the Business by Caroline Dubois, translated from French by Cole Swensen.
• As It Turned Out by Dmitry Golynko, translated from Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky, Rebecca Bella, and Simona Schneider.
• Poems of A.O. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud, translated from French by Ron Padgett & Bill Zavatsky.
• Night Wraps the Sky by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated from Russian by Katya Apekina, Val Vinokur, and Matvei Yankelevich, and edited by Michael Almereyda.
• A Different Practice by Fredrik Nyberg, translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida.
• EyeSeas by Raymond Queneau, translated from French by Daniela Hurezanu and Stephen Kessler.
• Peregrinary by Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, translated from Polish by Bill Johnston.
• Eternal Enemies by Adam Zagajewski, translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh.

2010

• Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão. Translated from Portuguese by Nelson Vieira.
• The Discoverer by Jan Kjaerstad. Translated from Norwegian by Barbara Haveland.
• Ghosts by Cesar Aira. Translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews.
• Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Translated from Russian by Joanne Turnbull.
• Rex by José Manuel Prieto. Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen.
• The Tanners by Robert Walser. Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky.
• The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker. Translated from Dutch by David Colmer.
• The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas. Translated from German by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen. Wonder by Hugo Claus. Translated from Dutch by Michael Henry Heim.

• Elena Fanailova, The Russian Version. Translated from Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler.
• Nicole Brossard, Selections. Translated from French by various.
• René Char, The Brittle Age and Returning Upland. Translated from French by Gustaf Sobin.
• Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another. Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
• Hiromi Ito, Killing Kanoko. Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles.
• Marcelijus Martinaitis, KB: The Suspect. Translated from Lithuanian by Laima Vince.
• Heeduk Ra, Scale and Stairs. Translated from Korean by Woo-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill.
• Novica Tadic, Dark Things. Translated from Serbian by Charles Simic.
• Liliana Ursu, Lightwall. Translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter.
• Wei Ying-wu, In Such Hard Times. Translated from Chinese by Red Pine.

2011

• The Literary Conference by César Aira, translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver
• The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated from Czech by Andrew Oakland
• A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated from French by Edward Gauvin
• The Jokers by Albert Cossery, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis
• Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky
• Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary, translated from French by David Bellos
• On Elegance While Sleeping by Emilio Lascano Tegui, translated from Spanish by Idra Novey
• Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns
• Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss, translated from German by Joel Rotenberg

• Geometries by Eugene Guillevic, translated from French by Richard Sieburth
• Flash Cards by Yu Jian, translated from Chinese by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett
• Time of Sky & Castles in the Air by Ayane Kawata, translated from Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
• Child of Nature by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated from Albanian by Henry Israeli and Shpresa Qatipi

2012

2013

• The Planets by Sergio Chejfec, translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary
• Prehistoric Times by Eric Chevillard, translated from French by Alyson Waters
• The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated from Persian by Tom Patterdale
• Autoportrait by Edouard Levé, translated from French by Lorin Stein
• A Breath of Life: Pulsations by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz
• The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller, translated from German by Philip Boehm
• Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz
• Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from French by David Ball and Nicole Ball
• My Father's Book by Urs Widmer, translated from German by Donal McLaughlin

• Transfer Fat by Aase Berg, translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson
• pH Neutral History by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid
• The Invention of Glass by Emmanuel Hocquard, translated from French by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith
• Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan, translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein
• Almost 1 Book / Almost 1 Life by Elfriede Czurda, translated from German by Rosmarie Waldrop

2014

• A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, translated from Japanese by Juliet Winters
• The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated from Spanish by Jeffrey Gray
• Horses of God by Mahi Binebine, translated from French by Lulu Norman
• Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
• Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett
• My Struggle: Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett
• Leg Over Leg Vol. 1 by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies
• The Forbidden Kingdom by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, translated from Dutch by Paul Vincent

• Four Elemental Bodies by Claude Royet-Journaud, translated from French by Keith Waldrop
• The Oasis of Now by Sohrab Sepehri, translated from Persian by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati
• Relocations: 3 Contemporary Russian Women Poets by Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Catherine Ciepiela, Anna Khasin, and Sibelan Forrester
• The Unknown University by Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Laura Healy
• White Piano by Nicole Brossard, translated from French by Robert Majzels and Erín Moure
• Murder by Danielle Collobert, translated from French by Nathanaël
• In the Moremarrow by Oliverio Girondo, translated from Spanish by Molly Weigel
• Paul Klee's Boat by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated from Russian by Andrew Wachtel
• His Days Go By the Way Her Years by Ye Mimi, translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury

2015

• The Author and Me by Éric Chevillard, translated from French by Jordan Stump
• Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires by Julio Cortázar, translated from Spanish by David Kurnick
• Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov, translated from Russian by Katherine Dovlatov
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
• Things Look Different in the Light by Medardo Fraile, translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
• Harlequin's Millions by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from Czech by Stacey Knecht
• The Woman Who Borrowed Memories by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
• Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
• La Grande by Juan José Saer, translated from Spanish by Steve Dolph

• Lazy Suzie by Suzanne Doppelt, translated from French by Cole Swensen
• Where Are the Trees Going? by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated from French by Marilyn Hacker
• Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated from Spanish by Yvette Siegert
• Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties by Lev Rubinstein, translated from Russian by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky
• End of the City Map by Farhad Showghi, translated from German by Rosmarie Waldrop

2016

2017

• Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña Paris, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
• Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated from Wolof and French by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop
• Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
• Ladivine by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump
• Oblivion by Sergi Lebedev, translated from Russian by Antonina W. Bouis
• Umami by Laia Jufresa, translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans, translated from Dutch by David McKay
• Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated from Spanish by Jessica Powell
• Zama by Antonio di Benedetto, translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

• Berlin-Hamlet by Szilárd Borbély, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet
• Of Things by Michael Donhauser, translated from German by Nick Hoff and Andrew Joron
• Cheer Up, Femme Fatale by Yideum Kim, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, and Johannes Göransson
• In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

2018

• Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated from French by Rhonda Mullins
• Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller by Guðbergur Bergsson, translated from Icelandic by Lytton Smith
• Compass by Mathias Énard, translated from French by Charlotte Mandell
• Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa, translated from Spanish by Howard Curtis
• Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig, translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole
• I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from Italian by Gini Alhadeff
• My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump
• August by Romina Paula, translated from Spanish by Jennifer Croft
• Remains of Life by Wu He, translated from Chinese by Michael Berry

• Hackers by Aase Berg, translated from Swedish by Johannes Goransson
• Paraguayan Sea by Wilson Bueno, translated from Portunhol and Guarani to Frenglish and Guarani by Erín Moure
• Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated from Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
• Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi, translated from Japanese by Sho Sugita
• Directions for Use by Ana Ristović, translated from Serbian by Steven Teref and Maja Teref

2019

• Congo Inc.: Bismarck’s Testament by In Koli Jean Bofane, translated from French by Marjolijn de Jager
• The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani, translated from French by Lara Vergnaud
• Pretty Things by Virginie Despentes, translated from French by Emma Ramadan
• Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour, translated from Persian by Sara Khalili
• Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer, translated from German by Katy Derbyshire
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson
• Öræfï by Ófeigur Sigurðsson, translated from Icelandic by Lytton Smith
• Fox by Dubravka Ugresic, translated from Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac and David Williams

• The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn by Tanella Boni, translated from French by Todd Fredson
• Moss & Silver by Jure Detela, translated from Slovenian by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik
• Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi
• Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated from Albanian by Ani Gjika

2020

• Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from French by Frank Wynne
• Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated from Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
• Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, translated from Spanish by Sara Moses and Carolina Orloff
• Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou, translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder
• 77 by Guillermo Saccomanno, translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger
• Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated from Italian by Aaron Robertson
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt

• Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf, translated from Hebrew by Yael Segalovitz
• Materia Prima by Amanda Berenguer, translated from Spanish by Gillian Brassil, Anna Deeny Morales, Mónica de la Torre, Urayoán Noel, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Kristin Dykstra, Kent Johnson, and Alex Verdolini
• Next Loves by Stéphane Bouquet, translated from French by Lindsay Turner
• Camouflage by Lupe Gómez, translated from Galician by Erín Moure

2021-present