Best literary translations 2025 /
"Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza, 'Best literary translations 2025' features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today. Contemporary and historical works stand side...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English, translated from multiple languages. |
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Dallas, Texas :
Deep Vellum Publishing,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Best literary translations (BLT)
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Table of Contents:
- Coeditors' introduction
- Guest editor's introduction: A stacking of translations and the affect of the here-and-now
- Mother tongue / Adil Tuniyaz ; translated from the Uyghur by Munawware Abdulla
- Tumbleweed / Ao Omae ; translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri
- "Apple-flesh" an excerpt from the novel Deportation / András Visky ; translated from the Hungarian by Anna Bentley and Jozefina Komporaly
- A moving grove / Iryna Shuvalova ; translated from the Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker
- Come wilderness into our homes / Daniela Danz ; translated from the German by Monika Cassel
- Kaddish : for Miklós Radnóti / Radu Vancu ; translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
- [The room] / Natalia Rubanova ; translated from the Russian by Rachael Daum
- W for war / Fatemeh Shams ; translated from the Persian by Armen Davoudian
- Loom / Florentino Solano ; translted from Tu'un Savi to Spanish by the author ; and from the Spanish by Arthur Malcolm Dixon
- Instructions / Yordan Eftimov ; translated from the Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne
- Time delivery / Hisham Bustani ; translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes
- Not just passing / Heba Abu Nada ; translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine
- Two notes on 'The scream' / Edvard Munch ; translated from the Norwegian by Eirill Alvilde Falck
- An excerpt from A plan to save the world / Hassan Akram ; translated from the Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy
- Lili in her forest / Elsa Drucaroff ; translated from the Spanish by Slava Faybysh
- Before the earthquake / Salah Badis ; translated from the Arabic by Saliha Haddad
- Five phenomenologies / Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger ; translated from the Faroese by Bradley Harmon
- Sueñu-suañu / Pablo Texón ; translated from the Asturian by Will Howard
- The onion / Wisława Szymborska ; translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak Huss
- My fish will stay alive / Dmitry Blizniuk ; translated from the Russian by Yana Kane
- Suzy / Clemens J. Setz ; translated from the German by Lizzy Kinch
- [A woman who buried her son] / Yuliia Iliukha ; translated from the Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv
- Three poems / Saadi Youssef ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
- I write to purge this memory / Liliana Ancalao ; translated from the Mapuzungun to Spanish by the author ; and from Spanish to English by Seth Michelson
- How to draw a lichen (with help from the spirits) / Martha Riva Palacio Obón ; translated from the Spanish by Will Morningstar
- Of wood and hallucination / Mansoura Ez-Eldin ; translated from the Arabic by Lina Mounzer
- Dead cats continue to meow / Nasser Rabah ; translated from the Arabic by Emna Zghal, Khaled al-Hilli, and Ammiel Alcalay
- How death creates a dead man and his image : a poem in 43 lines / Laura Vazquez ; translated from the French by Alex Niemi
- Nine poems / Anna Glazova ; translated from the Russian by Alex Niemi
- Elena Kame is a spell / Rosa Chávez ; translated from the Spanish by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez
- Don't hide the madness / Nh̄a Thuyên ; translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin Rees
- Lovers' names / Vivian Lamarque ; translated from the Italian by Zack Rogow
- The aspiration for cha-ka-ta-pa / Bae Myung-hoon ; translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu
- Obscenity / Paloma Chen ; translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
- Cain and Abel / Yefim Zozulya ; translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman
- Heart / Shuang Xuetao ; translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang
- Welcome to the Department of Unanswered Prayers / Norman Erikson Pasaribu ; translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao
- Excerpt from What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium / Kim Simonsen ; translated from the Faroese by Randi Ward
- Lethe / Kwang-Chung Yu ; translated from the Chinese by Yifan Zhang.