National Translation Award Longlists Announced
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards for poetry and prose. The shortlists will be announced on October 10 and winners on October 26, at ALTA's annual conference. The winning translators will receive a $4,000 purse.
This year’s prose judges are Philip Boehm, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Will Forrester, Joon-Li Kim, and poupeh missaghi. This year’s judges for poetry are Kazim Ali, Ronnie Apter, and Mary Jo Bang.
The 2024 National Translation Award in Prose Longlist (in alphabetical order by title):
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By Mathias Énard
Translated from French by Frank Wynne
New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK)
By the Rivers of Babylon
By Antonio Lobo Antunes
Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Yale University Press
Cold Nights of Childhood
By Tezer Özlü
Translated from Turkish by Maureen Freely
Transit Books
The End of August
By Yu Miri
Translated from Japanese by Morgan Giles
Riverhead Books (US), Tilted Axis Press (UK)
The Hunger of Women
By Marosia Castaldi
Translated from Italian by Jamie Richards
And Other Stories
Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
translated from German by Michael Hoffman
New Directions (US), Granta Books (UK)
The Liar
By Martin A. Hansen
Translated from Danish by Paul Larkin
New York Review Books
Not Even the Dead
By Juan Gómez Bárcena
Translated from Spanish by Katie Whittemore
Open Letter Books
This is Not Miami
By Fernanda Melchor
Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes
New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK)
Traces of Enayat
By Iman Mersal,
Translated from Arabic by Robin Moger
And Other Stories (UK), Transit Books (US)
Whale
By Cheon Myeong-kwan
Translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim
Archipelago Books (US), Europa Editions (UK)
The World at My Back
By Thomas Melle
Translated from German by Luise von Flotow
Biblioasis
The 2024 National Translation Award in Poetry Longlist (in alphabetical order by title):
And the Street
By Pierre Alferi
Translated from French by Cole Swensen
Green Linden Press
Bathhouse and Other Tanka
By Tatsuhiko Ishii
Translated from Japanese by Hiroaki Sato
New Directions
Central American Book of the Dead
By Balam Rodrigo
Translated from Spanish by Dan Bellm
FlowerSong Press
Delicates
By Wendy Guerra
Translated from Spanish by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Seagull Books
The Dragonfly
By Amelia Roselli
Translated from Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
Entre Ríos Books
A Friend’s Kitchen
By Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Translated from Arabic by Bryar Bajalan with the poet Shook
The Poetry Translation Centre
The Iliad
By Homer
Translated from Ancient Greek by Emily Wilson
W. W. Norton & Company
Landless Boys
By Jerzy Jarniewicz
Translated from Polish by Piotr Florczyk
MadHat Press
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
By Ovid
Translated from Latin by C. Luke Soucy
University of California Press
The Roof of the Whale Poems
By Juan Calzadilla
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Olivia Lott
University of Wisconsin Press
Shining Sheep
By Ulrike Almut Sandig
Translated from German by Karen Leeder
Seagull Books
Winter King
By Ostap Slyvynsky
Translated from Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky and Iryna Shuvalova
Lost Horse Press
