ALTA National Translation Award Winners

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Winners

	The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye 3.08 avg rating — 436 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zama by Antonio di Benedetto really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,965 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Prose (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rilke shake by Angélica Freitas 3.84 avg rating — 211 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Poetry for Hilary Kaplan (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	تريستانو يحتضر by Antonio Tabucchi 3.38 avg rating — 735 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Prose for Elizabeth Harris (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	واو الصغرى by إبراهيم الكوني 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Prose for William Hutchins (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Invitation for Me to Think: Selected Poems by Alexander Vvedensky 4.11 avg rating — 88 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Poetry for Eugene Ostashevsky & Matvei Yankelevich (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller 3.89 avg rating — 5,865 ratings ALTA National Translation Award for Prose Poetry for Philip Boehm (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish 4.34 avg rating — 3,486 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter by Juan Gelman 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All This Belongs to Me by Petra Hůlová 3.85 avg rating — 673 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen by Norman R. Shapiro 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Illusion Comique by Pierre Corneille 3.46 avg rating — 1,646 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings, Vol. 3: Essays by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings, Vol. 2: Fictions by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings, Vol. 1: Plays by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 4.50 avg rating — 28 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Götz and Meyer by David Albahari 3.94 avg rating — 516 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poems by Propertius 3.97 avg rating — 633 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi by Bilge Karasu 4.27 avg rating — 929 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return of the River: The Selected Poems of Roberto Sosa by Roberto Sosa 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition by Victor Hugo 4.14 avg rating — 333 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz (Foreword) 3.78 avg rating — 16,641 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu Tienwen 3.58 avg rating — 140 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories by Anton Chekhov 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Painting by Rafael Alberti 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar 3.58 avg rating — 770 ratings ALTA National Translation Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Du Fu 4.23 avg rating — 488 ratings ALTA National Translation Award Nominee for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me by Choi Seungja 4.46 avg rating — 41 ratings ALTA National Translation Award Nominee for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings ALTA National Translation Award Nominee for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings ALTA National Translation Award Nominee for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agadir by Mohammed Khair-Eddine 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings ALTA National Translation Award Nominee for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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