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Your Guide to the 2025 National Book Award Longlist for Translated Literature

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  • 11/09/2025

The National Book Foundation’s 2025 longlist for Translated Literature spans nine languages and ten countries, offering readers an extraordinary glimpse…

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Persian Literature in Translation: Reza Ghassemi’s Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime

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  • 10/09/2025

Deep Vellum will bring Iranian novelist and musician Reza Ghassemi’s debut work Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime to English readers…

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A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies by Ginny Tapley Takemori

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  • 04/09/2025

The first English translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies appeared in 1978, when James R. Abrams tried to…

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Yuki Tejima and the Art of Translating Mizuki Tsujimura

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  • 28/08/2025

Mizuki Tsujimura is one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary authors, with over forty books and several film adaptations. Translator Yuki…

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