This year’s Awards will confer over $330,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2019. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more, these longlisted books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence.
The winners will be celebrated live at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2 at Town Hall in New York City. For full announcement please click PEN 2020
Congratulations to CALA’s MS in Translation faculty, Elizabeth Lowe and Jenny McPhee, who are judges of the Translation Prize for a book-length translation of prose from any language into English published in 2019.
Judges: Sean Gasper Bye, Jim Hicks, Geoffrey C. Howes, Sara Khalili, Elizabeth Lowe, Jenny McPhee
Below is the full longlist:
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back: Carl’s Book, Naja Marie Aidt (Coffee House Press) Translated from the Danish by Denise Newman
If You Cross the River: A Novel, Geneviève Damas (Milkweed Editions)
Translated from the French by Jody Gladding
Happiness, as Such, Natalia Ginzburg (New Directions Publishing)
Translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor
The Ten Loves of Nishino, Hiromi Kawakami (Europa Editions)
Translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell
Beyond Babylon, Igiaba Scego (Two Lines Press)
Translated from the Italian by Aaron Robertson
The Dead Wander in the Desert, Rollan Seisenbayev (Amazon Crossing)
Translated from the Russian by Olga Nakston and John Farndon
Flowers of Mold & Other Stories, Ha Seong-nan (Open Letter Books) Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
At Dusk, Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe US)
Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel, Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books)
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories, Hebe Uhart (Archipelago Books)
Translated from the Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy
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