The editors of World Literature Today have released their first-ever 75 Notable Translations list. So many of these would make an excellent gift in this season of book-giving... as would a subscription to WLT itself!
The following books are but a third of the full list; to see the rest, visit the WLT website.
- Zeina Abirached, A Game for Swallows, trans. Edward Gauvin
- Roberto Ampuero, The Neruda Case, trans. Carolina De Robertis
- Fabio Bartolomei, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles, trans. Antony Shugaar
- Marcel Beyer, Kaltenburg, trans. Alan Bance
- Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets, trans. ko ko thett, James Byrne et al.
- Chico Buarque, Spilt Milk, trans. Alison Entrekin
- Jacques Chessex, The Tyrant, trans. Martin Sokolinsky
- Mouloud Feraoun, Land and Blood, trans. Patricia Geesey
- Santiago Gamboa, Necropolis, trans. Howard Curtis
- Viola Di Grado, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, trans. Michael Reynolds
- Pia Juul, The Murder of Halland, trans. Martin Aitken
- Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies, trans. Jeffrey Yang
- Nicolas Mahler, Angelman, trans. Kim Thompson
- Diego Marani, The Last of the Vostyachs, trans. Judith Landry
- Fuminori Nakamura, The Thief, trans. Satoko Izumo & Stephen Coates
- Harri Nykänen, Nights of Awe, trans. Kristian London
- Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Children in Reindeer Woods, trans. Lytton Smith
- Octavio Paz, The Poems of Octavio Paz, trans. Eliot Weinberger et al.
- Adania Shibli, We Are All Equally Far from Love, trans. Paul Starkey
- Nichita Stănescu, Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, trans. Sean Cotter
- Benjamin Stein, The Canvas, trans. Brian Zumhagen
- Abdellah Taïa, An Arab Melancholia, trans. Frank Stock
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling, trans. Anne McLean
- Richard Weihe, Sea of Ink, trans. Jamie Bulloch
- Samar Yazbek, A Woman in the Crossfire, trans. Max Weiss
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