Best Literary Translations Annual Anthology · Deep Vellum Publishing
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All works selected for Best Literary Translations, organized by edition. Click a year to browse titles, authors, source languages, and translators.

Guest Editor: Jane Hirshfield

Work Author Language Translator(s)
Near the Shrine of Saint Naum Najwan Darwish Arabic Kareem James Abu-Zeid
From Guerrilla Blooms Daniela Catrileo Spanish Edith Adams
Hymn to Ra Unknown Author Old Egyptian Samson Allal
We Will Survive Rolla Barraq Arabic Muntather Alsawad & Jeffrey Clapp
Neighbor Yoo Heekyung Korean Stine Su Yon An
Family Portrait of the Black Earth Yordanka Beleva Bulgarian Izidora Angel
00572 Julia Rendón Abrahamson Spanish Madeleine Arenivar
Graceless Samwai Lam Chinese Natascha Bruce
[I have a collection of powerful objects] Jesús Amalio Lugo Spanish David M. Brunson
Death, Peppermint Flavored Ashur Etwebi Arabic James Byrne & Ashur Etwebi
Our Village Tesfamariam Woldamarian Tigrinya Charles Cantalupo & Menghis Samuel
The Sea Krait Enrique Villasis Filipino Bernard Capinpin
A Red Blight Juan Cárdenas Spanish Lizzie Davis
Deterioration Fatemeh Shams Persian Armen Davoudian
Bone Behçet Necatigil Turkish Neil P. Doherty
Rune Poems from Bergen, Norway Unknown Author Runic Alphabet Eirill Alvilde Falck
The Funeral Geet Chaturvedi Hindi Anita Gopalan
Settling: Toward an Arabic Translation of the English Word "Home" Hisham Bustani Arabic Alice Guthrie
The Lion Farhad Pirbal Kurdish Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
Joyful Mythology Zuzanna Ginczanka Polish Joanna Trzeciak Huss
The Snail's Spiral Disney Cardoso Spanish Jeanine Legato
Water_Miniatures: Unboxing Gala Pushkarenko Russian Dmitri Manin
A Body Catalina Infante Beovic Spanish Michelle Mirabella
From Unstill Life with Cat Anna Felder Italian Brian Robert Moore
Bottle to the Sea (Epilogue to a Story) Julio Cortázar Spanish Harry Morales
First We'll Speak Many Words About God Almog Behar Hebrew Shoshana Olidort
In the Meantime / Mientras llega Luis Alberto de Cuenca Spanish Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Bird-women Vito Apüshana Spanish & Wayuu Maurice Rodriguez
Grazing Land Leonidas Greek Sherod Santos
Two Mapuche-Huilliche Poems Jaime Huenún Villa Spanish Cynthia Steele
[Untitled] Saeb Tabrizi Persian Kayvan Tahmasebian & Rebecca Ruth Gould
The mistress of the house ko ko thett Burmese the author
The Reeling City Najwa Bin Shatwan Arabic Mona Zaki