The National Book Foundation’s 2025 longlist for Translated Literature spans nine languages and ten countries, offering readers an extraordinary glimpse into the global imagination. It includes works originally written in Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and, for…
Deep Vellum will bring Iranian novelist and musician Reza Ghassemi’s debut work Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime to English readers for the first time, marking an important moment for Persian literature in translation. Translated by scholar and translator Michelle Quay,…
The first English translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies appeared in 1978, when James R. Abrams tried to capture Nosaka’s long, stream-of-consciousness sentences and the local Kobe dialect. More than forty years later, translator Ginny Tapley Takemori has…