We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Translation. The winner will be announced April 8, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. at the 2020 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony.
All the books below are linked to their respective pages at Bookshop. Visit the Big Other Shop there, where you can find the list of finalists in its entirety.
Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Translation:
Amang’s Raised by Wolves (Deep Vellum), translated by Steve Bradbury
Jean Frémon‘s Nativity (Black Square Editions), translated by Cole Swensen
Philippe Jaccottet’s Ponge, Pastures, Prairies (Black Square Editions), translated by John Taylor
Pergentino José’s Red Ants (Deep Vellum), translated by Thomas Bunstead
Fabienne Kanor‘s Humus (University of Virginia Press) translated by Lynn E Palermo
Marija Knežević Breathing Technique (Zephyr Press), translated by Sibelan Forrester
Nathacha Appanah‘s Tropic of Violence (Graywolf Press), translated by Geoffrey Strachan
Klaus Modick’s Moss (Bellevue Literary Press), translated by David Herman
C. F. Ramuz‘s Jean-Luc Persecuted (Deep Vellum), translated by Olivia Baes
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s From a Red Barn (co•im•press), translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
Yi Sang’s Selected Works (Wave Books), translated by Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung, and Sawako Nakayasu
Ya Shi’s Floral Mutter (Zephyr Press), translated by Nick Admussen
Marcin Świetlicki’s Night Truck Driver (Zephyr Press), translated by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese
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