2013 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist

    The Planets, by Sergio Chejfec; Argentina; tr. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Open Letter Books)

    Prehistoric Times, by Eric Chevillard; France; tr. from the French by Alyson Waters (Archipelago Books)

    The Colonel, by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi; Iran; tr. from the Persian by Tom Patterdale (Melville House)

    Atlas, by Dung Kai-Cheung; China; tr. from the Chinese by Anders Hansson & Bonnie S. McDougall (Columbia University Press)

    Kite, by Dominique Eddé; Lebanon; tr. from the French by Ros Schwartz (Seagull Books)

    We, the Children of Cats, by Tomoyuki Hoshino; Japan; tr. from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom (PM Press)

    The Map and the Territory, by Michel Houellebecq; France; tr. from the French by Gavin Bowd (Knopf)

    Basti, by Intizar Husain; Pakistan; tr. from the Urdu by Frances W. Pritchett (NYRB Classics)

    Mama Leone, by Miljenko Jergovic; Croatia; tr. from the Croatian by David William (Archipelago Books)

    Awakening to the Great Sleep War, by Gert Jonke; Austria; tr. from the German by Jean M. Snook (Dalkey Archive Press)

    My Struggle: Book One, by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Norway; tr. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (Archipelago Books)

    Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai; Hungary; tr. from the Hugarian by George Szirtes (New Directions)

    Autoportrait, by Edouard Levé; France; tr. from the French by Lorin Stein (Dalkey Archive Press)

    A Breath of Life, by Clarice Lispector; Brazil; tr. from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz (New Directions)

    The Lair, by Norman Manea; Romania; tr. from the Romanian by Oana Sanziana (Yale University Press)

    The Hunger Angel, by Herta Müller; Romania; tr. from the German by Philip Boehm (Metropolitan Books)

    Traveler of the Century, by Andrés Neuman; Argentina; tr. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia (FSG)

    Happy Moscow, by Andrey Plantonov; Russia; tr. from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (NYRB Classics)

    With the Animals, by Noëlle Revaz; Switzerland; tr. from the French by Donald W. Wilson (Dalkey Archive Press)

    Maidenhair, by Mikhail Shishkin; Russia; tr. from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Open Letter Books)

    Joseph Walser’s Machine, by Gonçalo M. Tavares; Portugal; tr. from the Portuguese by Rhett McNeill (Dalkey Archive Press)

    Island of Second Sight, by Albert Vigoleis; Germany; tr. from the Germany by Donald O. White (Overlook)

    Dublinesque, by Enrique Vila-Matas; Spain; tr. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean (New Directions)

    Transit, by Abdourahman A. Waberi; Djibouti; tr. from the French by David Ball and Nicole Ball (Indiana University Press)

    My Father’s Book, by Urs Widmer; Switzerland; tr. from the German by Donal McLaughlin (Seagull Books)

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07. 03. 2013.