Announcing the Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Translation!

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Translation. The winner will be announced at the 2024 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 2024 Big Other Book Award for Translation:

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s No One Knows Their Blood Type (CSU Poetry Center), translated by Hazem Jamjoum

Joseph Andras’s Faraway the Southern Sky (Verso Books), translated by Simon Leser

Najwan Darwish’s No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 (Yale University Press), translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s The Son of Man (Grove Press), translated by Frank Wynne

Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires (Riverhead), translated by Natasha Wimmer

Rodrigo Fresán’s Melvill (Open Letter Books), translated by Will Vanderhyden

Munir Hachemi’s Living Things (Coach House Books), translated by Julia Sanches

Yuri Herrera’s Season of the Swamp (Graywolf Press), translated by Lisa Dillman

Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea (Archipelago Books), translated by Humphrey Davies

László Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 (New Directions), translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Hanna Nordenhök’s Caesaria (Book*hug Press), translated by Saskia Vogel

Ingvild H. Rishøi’s Brightly Shining (Grove Press), translated by Caroline Waight

Mikeas Sánchez’s How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed Editions), translated by Wendy Call and Shook

Fien Veldman’s Hard Copy (Apollo), translated by Hester Velmans

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf Press), translated by Lin King

(Image: Yves Tanguy’s Multiplication of the Arcs (1954))

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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