World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2015
December 15, 2015 The Editors of WLT
Naja Marie Aidt, Rock, Paper, Scissors, K. E. Semmel, tr. (Open Letter)
Yehuda Amichai, The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Robert Alter, ed., Robert Alter et al., tr. (FSG)
Alaa Al Aswany, The Automobile Club of Egypt, Russell Harris, tr. (Knopf)
Bernado Atxaga, Shola and the Lions, Mikel Valverde, ill., Margaret Jull Costa, tr. (Pushkin Children’s Books)
Bang Hyun-seok, Time to Eat Lobster, Seung-Hee Jeon, tr. (MerwinAsia)
Jean-Philippe Blondel, The 6:41 to Paris, Alison Anderson, tr. (New Vessel Press)
Blai Bonet, The Sea, Maruxa Relaño & Martha Tennent, tr. (Dalkey Archive)
The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction, Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich, eds. (Comma Press)
Horacio Castellanos Moya, The Dream of My Return, Katherine Silver, tr. (New Directions)
Cheon Myeong-kwan, Modern Family, Kyoung-lee Park, tr. (White Pine Press)
Leila S. Chudori, Home, John H. McGlynn, tr. (Deep Vellum Publishing)
Mia Couto, Confession of the Lioness, David Brookshaw, tr. (FSG)
Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation, John Cullen, tr. (Other Press)
Boubacar Boris Diop, The Knight and His Shadow, Alan Furness, tr. (Michigan State University Press)
Carlos Gamerro, The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón, Ian Barnett, tr. (And Other Stories)
Anne Garréta, Sphinx, Emma Ramadan, tr. (Deep Vellum)
Anna Gavalda, Billie, Jennifer Rappaport, tr. (Europa)
Gabriella Ghermandi, Queen of Flowers and Pearls, Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi & Victoria Offredi Poletto, tr. (Indiana University Press)
Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters, Jennifer Grotz, tr. (Open Letter)
Gail Hareven, Lies, First Person, Dalya Bilu, tr. (Open Letter)
Liliana Heker, Please Talk to Me: Selected Stories, Alberto Manguel, ed., Alberto Manguel & Miranda France, tr. (Yale University Press)
Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World, Lisa Dillman, tr. (And Other Stories)
Wolfgang Hilbig, The Sleep of the Righteous, Isabel Fargo Cole, tr. (Two Lines Press)
Bensalem Himmich, My Torturess, Roger Allen, tr. (Syracuse University Press)
Yoel Hoffmann, Moods, Peter Cole, tr. (New Directions)
Tomiko Inui, The Secret of the Blue Glass, Ginny Tapley Takemori, tr. (Pushkin Children’s Books)
Erich Kästner, Dot and Anton, Walter Trier, ill., Anthea Bell, tr. (Pushkin Children’s Books)
Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years, Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, and Anthony Berris, tr. (Riverhead Books)
Yasmina Khadra, The African Equation, Howard Curtis, tr. (Gallic Books)
Angèle Kingué, Venus of Khala-Kanti, Christine Schwartz Hartley, tr. (Bucknell University Press)
Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle: Book Four, Don Bartlett, tr. (Archipelago)
Christian Kracht, Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas, Daniel Bowles, tr. (FSG)
Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound, Annie Tucker, tr. (New Directions)
Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle, Sophie Lewis, tr. (Feminist Press)
Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry, Victor Terán & David Shook, ed; David Shook, tr. (Phoneme Media)
Liu Xia, Empty Chairs: Selected Poems, Ming Di & Jennifer Stern, tr. (Graywolf)
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