Today the National Book Foundation has announced the Translated Literature Longlist and the Young People’s Literature Longlists (the longlists for Poetry and Nonfiction will be announced tomorrow; Fiction will be announced Friday).
Translated Literature
- Disoriental
by Négar Djavadi
translated by Tina Kover
Purchase from Amazon - Comemadre
by Roque Larraquy
translated by Heather Cleary
Purchase on Amazon - The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
by Dunya Mikhail
translated by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail
Purchase on Amazon - One Part Woman
by Perumal Murugan
translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Purchase on Amazon - Love
by Hanne Ørstavik
translated by Martin Aitken
Purchase on Amazon - Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life
by Gunnhild Øyehaug
translated by Karl Dickson
Purchase on Amazon - Trick
by Domenica Starnone
translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
Purchase on Amazon - The Emissary
by Yoko Tawada
translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Purchase on Amazon - Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
translated by Jennifer Croft
Purchase on Amazon - Aetherial Worlds
by Tatyana Tolstaya
translated by Anya Migdal
Purchase on Amazon
Young People’s Literature
- The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Purchase on Amazon - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Purchase on Amazon - We’ll Fly Away
by Bryan Bliss
Purchase on Amazon - The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle
by Leslie Connor
Purchase on Amazon - The Journey of Little Charlie
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Purchase on Amazon - Hey, Kiddo
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Purchase on Amazon - A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi
Purchase on Amazon - Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
Purchase on Amazon - Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
by Elizabeth Partridge
Purchase on Amazon - What Night Sings
by Vesper Stamper
Purchase on Amazon
I don’t know any of the books on the YPL longlist.
On the Translated Literature longlist I’ve read only (and loved) Trick, by Domenico Starnone (I need to review it here!). Naturally, Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights keeps getting attention (see Paul’s review here). I have a few of the others and would love to get to them, but happy to hear all of your thoughts on these lists!
I absolutely LOVED Starnone’s Ties. I will be reading Trick as soon as my local library finishes processing it. No one else has put a hold on it. That’s good for me, but still disappointing.