Best Literary Translations 2026
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Translated Fiction
Living and the Rest
Archipelago Books, March 2025. Trade Paperback. "Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal's next candidate for the Nobel Prize" -- Alan Kaufman, author of Matches A thrilling tale that considers how the mind bends when the known world ends in a storm's flash..... More
Watching Over Her
Simon & Schuster, January 2026. Hardcover. From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a "sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story" (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his mysteriously powerful masterpiece--perfect for readers of..... More
Incest
Archipelago Books, November 2017. Trade Paperback. A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential..... More
Rarest Fruit
Europa Editions, June 2025. Hardcover. Gaëlle Bélem's The Rarest Fruit is a captivating tale of resilience, discovery, and the untold stories behind a beloved flavor. Set in 19th-century La Réunion, this novel follows Edmond Albius, a young Creole boy born into slavery, whose extraordinary talent for botany leads him to..... More
Lázár
S &s/Summit Books, April 2026. Hardcover. "Lázár is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us." --Patti Smith An "astonishing...disturbingly dreamlike" (Daniel Kehlmann, The Director) debut, inspired by the author's own family story--a gothic, inter-generational family saga capturing the rise and fall of an aristocratic..... More
Very Cold Winter
Transit Books, January 2026. Trade Paperback. "Cause for celebration."--Jhumpa Lahiri A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy's most significant women writers.Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored..... More
Last Summer in the City
Picador USA, August 2022. Trade Paperback. The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York..... More
Attila
Open Letter, April 2025. Trade Paperback. "My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished," declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerizing final novel. In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city, and the weight of legacy..... More
Vilhelm's Room
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2026. Hardcover. A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy. I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it;..... More
Samurai
New Directions Publishing Corporation, August 2018. Trade Paperback. In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their arduous journey lasts four years, as they travel onward to..... More
Now I Surrender
Riverhead Books, March 2026. Hardcover. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB! A woman's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars. Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical..... More
My Brilliant Friend Deluxe Edition: The Four Volumes
Europa Editions, October 2025. Hardcover. A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples. #1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY --NEW YORK TIMES "An unconditional masterpiece."?--Jhumpa Lahiri When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it..... More
Oppermanns
McNally Editions, October 2022. Trade Paperback. Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend. In the foment of..... More
Trilogy
Dalkey Archive Press, September 2022. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying..... More
Luminous Fairies and Mothra
University of Minnesota Press, January 2026. Trade Paperback. The original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the "kaijuverse"--available in English for the first time Mystical and benevolent, the colossal lepidopteran Mothra has been one of the most beloved kaiju since 1961, when The Luminous Fairies..... More
Doña Barbara
University of Chicago Press, May 2012. Trade Paperback. Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten..... More
Autobiography of Cotton
Graywolf Press, February 2026. Trade Paperback. In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from..... More
Death and the Gardener
Liveright Publishing Corporation, October 2025. Hardcover. "My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden." A man named Georgi sits patiently by his father's bedside, until a final winter morning. Navigating a season of grief, Georgi parses through the endless stories his father used to tell, and the history..... More
Delicious Hunger
Tilted Axis Press, June 2025. Trade Paperback. Winner, 2024 English PEN Translates Award From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the guerrilla forces of the Malayan Communist Party, and these short stories are inspired by his experiences in the rainforest. Struggling through an arduous trek, two comrades pine..... More
Two Women Living Together
Ecco Press, January 2026. Hardcover. The big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal expectations with their decision to grow old together under one roof. When most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Kim Hana and Hwang..... More
Unfit
New Directions Publishing Corporation, October 2025. Trade Paperback. Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her..... More
Killing Stella
New Directions Publishing Corporation, July 2025. Trade Paperback. Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at..... More
We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
Fsg Originals, January 2026. Trade Paperback. A wise and subtle work that explores the refractive power of memory, and what it means to exist in the lives of others-from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today. When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle..... More
Golden Pot: And Other Tales of the Uncanny
Archipelago Books, October 2023. Trade Paperback. "I could list plausible comparisons all day and night, but The Golden Pot is simply unlike anything else I have ever read." -- Justin Taylor, The Washington Post Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann's wildly imaginative tales offer an unflinching view of human nature and sing..... More
