It’s October, which means it’s National Book Award Shortlist announcement time, and here’s the second annual list of finalists for the two-year-old National Book Award for Translated Literature! You’ll recall the longlist published last month. Now feast your eyes on the shortlist!
Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
Translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet
New Directions
Scholastique Mukasonga, The Barefoot Woman
Translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Archipelago Books
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House
Pajtim Statovci, Crossing
Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House
The winners will be announced in a ceremony in New York on Nov. 20. Congratulations and best of luck to all the shortlisted translators!