2018 National Translation Award Longlist Celebrates Translated Works

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the Poetry and Prose longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA). In its twentieth year, the annual award celebrates translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by examining “both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.”

Here are the two 2018 NTA longlists (with bonus links):

Poetry

• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
• Directions for Use by Ana Ristović; translated from the Serbian by Steven Teref and Maja Teref
• Hackers by Aase Berg; translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson
• I Remember Nightfall by Marosa di Giorgio; translated from the Spanish by Jeannine Marie Pitas
• If I Were a Suicide Bomber by Per Aage Brandt; translated from the Danish by Thom Satterlee
• Magnetic Point: Selected Poems by Ryszard Krynicki; translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
• My Lai by Carmen Berenguer; translated from the Spanish by Liz Henry
• The Odyssey by Homer; translated from the Greek by Emily Wilson (An essay on Odysseys)
• Oxygen: Selected Poems by Julia Fiedorczuk; translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
• Sonic Peace by Kiriu Minashita; translated from the Japanese by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett
• Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems by Hirato Renkichi; translated from the Japanese by Sho Sugita
• Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen; translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Prose

• Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
• August by Romina Paula; translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Croft
• Compass by Mathias Énard; translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell (Featured in our own Lydia Kiesling‘s 2017 Year in Reading)
• Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
• Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag; translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
• The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo; translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
• The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán; translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden (Fresán’s novel also won the 2018 Best Translated Book Award)
• Italian Chronicles by Stendhal; translated from the French by Raymond N. MacKenzie
• Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani; translated from the French by Edward Gauvin
• Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig; translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
• Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg; translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak
• The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai; translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki (The Millions‘ review)

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) will announce the 5-title shortlists in September.