Announcing the Finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Translation!

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Translation. The winner will be announced at the 2023 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced).

Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Translation:

Shushan Avagyan’s A Book, Untitled (Awst Press), translated by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz

César Aira’s Fulgentius (New Directions), translated by Chris Andrews

Mathias Énard‘s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild (New Directions), translated by Frank Wynne

Safaa Fathy’s Al-Haschische (Pamenar Press), translated by Patrick Love and Safaa Fathy

Marie-Andrée Gill’s Heating the Outdoors (Book*hug Press), translated by Kristen Renee Miller

Franca Mancinelli’s All the Eyes That I Have Opened (Black Square Editions), translated by John Taylor

Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine (Knopf), translated by Jordan Stump

Edgard Telles Ribeiro’s The Impostor (Bellevue Literary Press), translated by Kim M. Hastings and Margaret A. Neves

Martín Solares’s How to Draw a Novel (Grove Press), translated by Heather Cleary

Tuệ Sỹ’s Dreaming the Mountain (Milkweed Editions), translated by Nguyen Ba Chung and Martha Collins

(Image: Jess’s Ex. 5 – Mind’s I: Translation #12 (1965))

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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