No Arabic books made the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose, organized by the American Literary Translators Association. However, Lebanese novelist Charif Majdalani’s gorgeous Moving the Palace, beautifully translated by Edward Gauvin, did make the prose longlist, alongside books by László Krasznahorkai, Stendhal, Mathias Énard, and other luminaries:
The NTA prize makes its mark by being “the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.”
The 2018 longlists feature writing in 13 different languages, and are being judged by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Jennifer Feeley, and Sawako Nakayasu (for poetry) and Esther Allen, Tess Lewis, and Jeremy Tiang (for prose).
The five-book shortlists will be announced in September with the winner being announced at the end of October. Winning translators will receive a $2,500 cash prize each.
The complete 2018 NTA Longlist in Poetry:
by Fernando Pessoa
translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
(New Directions)
by Ana Ristović
translated from the Serbian by Steven Teref and Maja Teref
(Zephyr Press)
by Aase Berg
translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson
(Black Ocean)
by Marosa di Giorgio
translated from the Spanish by Jeannine Marie Pitas
(Ugly Duckling Presse)
by Per Aage Brandt
translated from the Danish by Thom Satterlee
(Open Letter Books)
by Ryszard Krynicki
translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
(New Directions)
by Carmen Berenguer
translated from the Spanish by Liz Henry
(Cardboard House Press)
by Homer
translated from the Greek by Emily Wilson
(W. W. Norton & Company)
by Julia Fiedorczuk
translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
(Zephyr Press)
by Kiriu Minashita
translated from the Japanese by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett
(Phoneme Media)
by Hirato Renkichi
translated from the Japanese by Sho Sugita
(Ugly Duckling Presse)
Third-Millennium Heart
by Ursula Andkjær Olsen
translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
(Action Books)
The complete 2018 NTA Longlist in Prose:
Affections
by Rodrigo Hasbún
translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
(Simon & Schuster)
by Romina Paula
translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Croft
(Feminist Press)
by Mathias Énard
translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
(New Directions)
by Yasunari Kawabata
translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
(New Directions)
by Vivek Shanbhag
translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
(Penguin Books)
by Han Yujoo
translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
(Graywolf Press)
by Rodrigo Fresán
translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden
(Open Letter Books)
by Stendhal
translated from the French by Raymond N. MacKenzie
(University of Minnesota Press)
by Charif Majdalani
translated from the French by Edward Gauvin
(New Vessel Press)
by Wolfgang Hilbig
translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
(Two Lines Press)
by Wioletta Greg
translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak
(Transit Books)
by László Krasznahorkai
translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki
(New Directions)
