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Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.
Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages—including some not commonly seen in U.S. translations, such as Burmese, Kurdish, Tigrinya, and Wayuu—brought into English by thirty-eight of the most talented translators working today. These poems, short stories, essays, and hybrid pieces were drawn from nominated works published in U.S. literary journals during 2023 that spanned more than eighty countries and nearly sixty languages. The four series coeditors, Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, selected the finalists from over five hundred nominations.
By spotlighting work from top literary journals, Best Literary Translations honors the excellent literature created every year by a diverse range of authors and translators and will continue to expand the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the bold and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors annually, for years to come.
Contents
Co-Editors' Introduction
Guest Editor's Introduction: In Words and Beyond Them by Jane Hirschfield
"Near the Shrine of Saint Naum" by Najwan Darwish translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
"From Guerrilla Blooms" by Daniela Catrileo translated from the Spanish by Edith Adams
"Hymn to Ra" by an unknown author translated from the Old Egyptian by Samson Allal
"We Will Survive" by Rolla Barraq translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
"Family Portrait of the Black Earth" by Yordanka Beleva translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
"00527" by Julia Rendón Abrahamson translated from the Spanish by Madeleine Arenivar
"Graceless" by Samwai Lam translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce
"[I have a collection of powerful objects]" by Jesús Amalio Lugo translated from the Spanish by David M. Brunson
"Death, Peppermint Flavored" by Ashur Etwebi translated from the Arabic by James Byrne and Ashur Etwebi
"Our Village" by Tesfamariam Woldamarian translated from the Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo and Menghis Samuel
"The Sea Krait" by Enrique Villasis translated from the Filipino by Bernard Capinpin
From "Ognosia" by Olga Tokarczuk translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
"A Red Blight" by Juan Cárdenas translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis
"Deterioration" by Fatemeh Shams translated from the Persian by Armen Davoudian
"Bone" by Behçet Necatigil translated from the Turkish by Neil P. Doherty
Rune Poems from Bergen, Norway, 13th and 14th Century by an unknown author translated from the runic alphabet by Eirill Falck
"The Funeral" by Geet Chaturvedi translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan
"Settling: Towards an Arabic translation of the English word 'Home'" by Hisham Bustani translated from the Arabic by Alice Guthrie
"The Lion" by Farhad Pirbal Translated from the Kurdish by Jiyar Homer and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse
"Joyful Mythology" by Zuzanna Ginczanka translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak Huss
"Such Love" by Yulia Musakovska translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and Yulia Musakovska
"The Snail's Spiral" by Disney Cardoso (in collaboration with Christian Rincón) translated from the Spanish by Jeanine Legato
"Water_Miniatures: Unboxing" by Gala Pushkarenko translated from the Russian by Dmitri Manin
"A Body" by Catalina Infante Beovic translated from the Spanish by Michelle Mirabella
"From "Unstill Life with Cat" by Anna Felder translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore
"Bottle to the Sea (Epilogue to a Story)" by Julio Cortázar translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
"First We'll Speak Many Words About God" by Almog Behar translated from the Hebrew by Shoshana Olidort
"In the Meantime / Mientras llega" by Luis Alberto de Cuenca translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat
"Bird-women" by Vito Apüshana translated from the Spanish and Wayuu by Maurice Rodriguez
"Grazing Land" by Leonidas translated from the Greek by Sherod Santos
Two Mapuche-Huilliche Poems by Jaime Huenún Villa translated from the Spanish by Cynthia Steele
"Neighbor" by Yoo Heekyung translated from the Korean by Stine Su Yon An
"[Untitled]" by Sa'eb Tabrizi translated from the Persian by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
"The mistress of the house" by ko ko thett translated from the Burmese by the author
"The Reeling City" by Najwa Bin Shatwan translated from the Arabic by Mona Zaki
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