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National Books Awards Longlists: Translated Literature and Poetry

September 16, 2020
By Erin Somers

Announcements of the National Book Award longlists continued, first with the nominees for Translated Literature on Wednesday, and then with the poetry candidates on Thursday:

Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions)
Translated, from the Persian, by Anonymous

Linda Boström Knausgård, The Helios Disaster (World Editions)
Translated, from the Swedish, by Rachel Willson-Broyles

Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise (Catapult)
Translated, from the German, by Anne Posten

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause (FSG)
Translated, from the Swedish, by Alice Menzies

Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season (New Directions)
Translated, from the Spanish, by Sophie Hughes

Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station (Riverhead)
Translated, from the Japanese, by Morgan Giles

Perumal Murugan, The Story of a Goat (Black Cat)
Translated, from the Tamil, by N. Kalyan Raman

Cho Nam-joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Liveright)
Translated, from the Korean, by Jamie Chang

Pilar Quintana, The Bitch (World Editions)
Translated, from the Spanish, by Lisa Dillman

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail (New Directions)
Translated, from the Arabic, by Elisabeth Jaquette

The poetry longlist features:

Rick Barot, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions)
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars (New Directions)
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Travesty Generator (Noemi Press)
Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books)
Victoria Chang, Obit (Copper Canyon Press)
Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony (Wave Books)
Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn Publishing)
Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine (Graywolf Press)
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan University Press)

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