Here's the 2022 longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

The longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature came out today.

Out of almost 150 submissions, these ten — representing nine different original languages — remain under consideration.

Finalists will be announced October 4, and the winners will be revealed November 16.

• Ibn Arabi’s Small Death, written by Mohammed Hasan Alwan and translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins

• A New Name: Septology VI-VII, written by Jon Fosse and translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls

• Seasons of Purgatory, written by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili

• Kibogo, written by Scholastique Mukasonga and translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

• Jawbone, written by Mónica Ojeda and translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker

• The Employees, written by Olga Rave and translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken

• Seven Empty Houses, written by Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

• Where You Come From, written by Saša Stanišić and translated from the German by Damion Searls

• Scattered All Over the Earth, written by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

• The Books of Jacob, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

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