Contributors
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 |