World Literature

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Spotlight

Awards

Sovas Award Audiobook Narration - Fiction, Best Voiceover

Winner

The Murmur of Bees (2019)

Scandinavian-American Award for Translated Fiction

Winner

A Fist or a Heart (2019)

PEN Translation Prize

Nominated

The Dead Wander in the Desert (2019)

Nominated

Nowhere to Be Found (2015)

Vondel Translation Prize

Winner

Stage Four (2019)

Yomiuri Prize for Literature

Winner

A Man (2018)

Freeman Book Award

Winner

GO (2018)

Holland’s ECI Literature Prize

Winner

Rivers (2016)

The Glass Key Award

Winner

The Last Pilgrim (2014)

Japan’s Booksellers Award

Winner

The Great Passage (2012)

Russia’s Big Book Prize

Winner

The Gray House (2009)

Croatia’s Gjalski Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year

Winner

The Judgment of Richard Richter (2006)

PEN Translation Prize

Longlisted

I'm in Seattle Where Are You, Mortada Gzar (2021)

Carnegie Medals for Excellence

Finalist

Playing for Freedom, Zarifa Adiba (2024)