Best Translated Book Award

Winners

Fiction

Poetry

Awards

2008

• Guantanamo by Dorothea Dieckmann, translated from German by Tim Mohr.
• 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 Krudy, 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

• Tranquility by Attila Bartis, translated from Hungarian by Imre Goldstein.
• 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.

• For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide, translated from Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu.
• 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

• The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven. Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.
• 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 True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal
• 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
• ' by Ernst Weiss, translated from German by Joel Rotenberg

• The Book of Things by Aleš Šteger, translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
• 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

• Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated from Polish by Bill Johnston
• Lightning by Jean Echenoz, translated from French by Linda Coverdale
• Upstaged by Jacques Jouet, translated from French by Leland de la Durantaye
• Kornél Esti by Kosztolányi Dezső, translated from Hungarian by Bernard Adams
• I Am a Japanese Writer by Dany Laferrière, translated from French by David Homel
• New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani, translated from Italian by Judith Landry
• Scars by Juan José Saer, translated from Spanish by Steve Dolph
• Kafka's Leopards by Moacyr Scliar, translated from Portuguese by Thomas O. Beebee
• In Red by Magdalena Tulli, translated from Polish by Bill Johnston
• Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from Spanish by Anne McLean

• Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, translated from Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander
• Hagar Before the Occupation, Hagar After the Occupation by Amal al-Jubouri, translated from Arabic by Rebecca Gayle Howell with Husam Qaisi
• Last Verses by Jules Laforgue, translated from French by Donald Revell
• A Fireproof Box by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated from Russian by Christopher Mattison
• engulf—enkindle by Anja Utler, translation from the German by Kurt Beals
• False Friends by Uljana Wolf, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky

  2013

• Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes
• 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
• ' 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

• Wheel with a Single Spoke by Nichita Stanescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
• 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

• Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet
• 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

• The Guest in the Wood by Elisa Biagini, translated from Italian by Diana Thow, Sarah Stickney, and Eugene Ostashevsky
• 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 Erin Mouré
• 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 Last Lover by Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
• 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

• Diorama by Rocío Cerón, translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong
• 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

• Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman
• A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
• Arvida by Samuel Archibald, translated from French by Donald Winkler
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein
• The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
• Moods by Yoel Hoffmann, translated from Hebrew by Peter Cole
• The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Katrina Dodson
• The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
• War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda, translated from Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent
• Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop, translated from French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie

• Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas, translated from Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan
• Empty Chairs: Selected Poems by Liu Xia, translated from Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern
• Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan, edited and translated from Persian by Farzana Marie
• Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo, translated from Spanish by Jason Weiss
• The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
• Sea Summit by Yi Lu, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

  2017

• Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso, translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson
• 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

• Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated from Spanish by Yvette Siegert
• 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

• The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
• 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

• Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich
• 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 Erin Moore
• 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

• Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau, translated from French by Linda Coverdale
• 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

• Of Death. Minimal Odes by Hilda Hilst, translated from Portuguese by Laura Cesarco Eglin
• 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

• EEG by Daša Drndić, translated from Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
• 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

• Time by Etel Adnan, translated from French by Sarah Riggs
• 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