Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 159 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature
The National Book Foundation has revealed the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award in Translated Literature. From a pool of 159 submissions, ten books have been chosen as potential finalists. This year’s judging panel includes Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Javier García del Moral, John Keene, Christopher Merrill, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. The remaining finalists will be announced on October 6, with the winners being revealed at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 18.
The longlisted titles hail from various languages and regions. They include works in Russian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Chinese, Indonesian, French, Arabic, and others. Notable among them are "Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body," translated by Lisa C. Hayden, and "Now I Surrender" by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Other notable entries are Karl Ove Knausgaard's "The School of Night," translated by Martin Aitken, and Samar Yazbek's "Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza," translated by Leri Price.
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