PEN Translation Prize Winners

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Winners

	Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver 4.06 avg rating — 290 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Julia Sanches (2022)	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
	A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa 3.65 avg rating — 388 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Emma Ramadan (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
	The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami 3.49 avg rating — 4,823 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Allison Markin Powell (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
	Love by Hanne Ørstavik 3.62 avg rating — 2,402 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Martin Aitken (2019)	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
	خیابان کاتالین by Magda Szabó 4.12 avg rating — 2,503 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Len Rix (2018)	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
	Engel des Vergessens by Maja Haderlap 3.82 avg rating — 747 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Tess Lewis (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
	The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector 4.37 avg rating — 2,843 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Katrina Dodson (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
	Bavian by Naja Marie Aidt 3.60 avg rating — 1,472 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Denise Newman (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
	Autobiography of a Corpse (New York Review Books Classics) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 3.92 avg rating — 967 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov (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 Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen 4.21 avg rating — 211 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Donald O. White (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
	Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski 4.41 avg rating — 1,045 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Bill Johnston (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
	يوميات الحزن العادي by Mahmoud Darwish 4.27 avg rating — 1,448 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Ibrahim Muhawi (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
	De verwondering by Hugo Claus 3.38 avg rating — 547 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Michael Henry Heim (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
	2666 by Roberto Bolaño 4.19 avg rating — 39,323 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Natasha Wimmer (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
	Os Maias by Eça de Queirós really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22,634 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa (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
	Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky 3.85 avg rating — 72,138 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Sandra Smith (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
	Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 4.14 avg rating — 428,129 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Philip Gabriel (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
	Fatelessness by Imre Kertész 4.07 avg rating — 10,820 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Tim Wilkinson (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
	Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina 3.99 avg rating — 821 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Margaret Sayers Peden (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
	La luna e i falò by Cesare Pavese 3.77 avg rating — 13,580 ratings PEN Translation Prize for R.W. Flint (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
	Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 4.30 avg rating — 11,233 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Tiina Nunnally (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
	Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval 4.29 avg rating — 309 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Richard Sieburth (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 Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth 3.63 avg rating — 517 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Michael Hofmann (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
	Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann 3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Peter Constantine (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
	The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh 4.08 avg rating — 93,238 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Arnold Pomerans (1997)	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
	View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wisława Szymborska 4.32 avg rating — 4,718 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh (1996)	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 Su Tung-p'o by Su Tung-p'o 4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Burton Watson (1995)	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
	Earthlight by André Breton 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Bill Zavatsky & Zack Rogow (1994)	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
	Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki by Ignacy Krasicki 3.13 avg rating — 168 ratings PEN Translation Prize for Thomas Hoisington (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
	A Poet's Bible: Rediscovering the Voices of the Original Text by David Rosenberg (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings PEN Translation Prize for David Rosenberg (1992)	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