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Strange Pictures (other topics)First Love (other topics)
Stranger to the Moon (other topics)
The Enchanter (other topics)
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Uketsu (other topics)Rio Shimamoto (other topics)
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Basque:
Perfect Happiness by Anjel Lertxundi, tr. by Amaia Gabantxo.
Bengali:
Carnival by Sayam Bandyopadhyay, tr. by Arunava Sinha.
French:
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, tr. by Robin Buss.
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, tr. by Lydia Davis.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, tr. by ?
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin, tr. by Aneesa Abbas Higgins.
So Distant From My Life by Monique Ilboudo, tr. by Yarri Kamara.
Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dalí, tr. by Richard Howard.
Life Form by Amélie Nothomb, tr. by Alison Anderson.
Quarry by Célia Houdart, tr. by K. E. Gormley.
Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous by Rédoine Faïd, interviewed by Jérôme Pierrat, tr. by John Galbraith Simmons & Jocelyne Geneviève Barque.
Icelandic:
Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness, tr. by Magnus Magnusson.
Italian:
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi, tr. by J. C. Patrick.
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, tr. by Ann Goldstein.
Japanese:
Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai, tr. by Allison Markin Powell.
Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino, tr. by Kendall Heitzman.
First Love by Rio Shimamoto, tr. by Louise Heal Kawai.
Strange Pictures by Uketsu, tr. by Jim Rion.
Korean:
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel by Cho Nam-Joo, tr. by Jamie Chang.
Russian:
Rudin a Romance and A King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev, tr. by Isabel F. Hapgood.
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, edited by Robert Chandler & Anne Marie Jackson, tr. by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France, & Anne Marie Jackson.
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, tr. by Dmitri Nabokov.
Spanish:
The Plain in Flames by Juan Rulfo, tr. by Ilan Stavans with Harold Augenbraum.
A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro, tr. by Frances Riddle.
Stranger to the Moon by Evelio Rosero, tr. by Anne McLean & Victor Meadowcroft.
Swedish:
Carnality by Lina Wolff, tr. by Frank Perry.
The Details by Ia Genberg, tr. by Kira Josefsson.
My Translated Book Challenges from Previous Years:
2024: Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
2023: Catalan, Danish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.
2022: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Tegulu, Yoruba.
2021: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, Gikuyu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nuer, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish.