The deadline for entries for the 2017 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has now passed. However, you can read the list of all eligible entries, available for use by translators, publishers and bookshops during the upcoming Women in Translation Month — August of every year — and to support the reading of women in translation all months of the year.
The shortlist will be announced in early October, with the inaugural prize set to be awarded in a ceremony at the Helen Martin Studio in the Warwick Arts Centre on Wednesday November 15, 2017.
List of eligible titles entered for the prize (58 titles, 24 languages)
English Title | Source Language | Author | Translator(s) | Publisher |
Wherever it is Summer | German | Tamara Bach | Siobhán Parkinson | Little Island Books |
Chernobyl Prayer | Russian | Svetlana Alexievich | Anna Gunin and Arch Tait | Penguin Classics |
Second-hand Time | Russian | Svetlana Alexievich | Bela Sheyavich | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
The Equestrienne | Slovak | Uršuľa Kovalyk | Julia and Peter Sherwood | Parthian Books |
The Boy | Dutch | Wystke Versteeg | Sarah Welling | HopeRoad Publishing |
Shards from the Polar Ice | Russian | Lydia Grigorieva | John Farndon with Olga Nakston | Glagoslav Publications |
Pages of Travel | French | Silvia Baron Supervielle | Peter Schulman | Lapwing Publications |
Life Begins on Friday | Romanian | Ioana Parvulescu | Alistair Ian Blyth | Istros Books |
Memoirs of a Polar Bear | German | Yoko Tawada | Susan Bernofsky | Portobello Books |
Confessions of a Madman | French | Leïla Sebbar | Rachel Crovello | Dalkey Archive Press |
The Nakano Thrift Shop | Japanese | Hiromi Kawakami | Allison Markin Powell | Portobello Books |
Volatile Texts: Us Two | German | Zsuzsanna Gahse | Chenxin Jiang | Dalkey Archive Press |
Fragile Travelers | Serbian | Jovanka Živanović | Jovanka Kalaba | Dalkey Archive Press |
The Fox Was Ever The Hunter | German | Herta Müller | Philip Boehm | Portobello Books |
The Gringo Champion | Spanish | Aura Xilonen | Andrea Rosenberg | Europa Editions |
Eva Sleeps | Italian | Francesca Melandri | Katherine Gregor | Europa Editions |
A House With No Doors | Georgian | Sturua et al. | Natalia Bukia-Peters and Victoria Field | Francis Boutle Publishers |
Boundary |
French (Québec) |
Andrée A. Michaud | Donald Winkler | No Exit Press |
Girl Detached | Italian | Manuela Salvi | Denise Muir | The Bucket List |
Code Name: Butterfly | Arabic | Ahlam Bsharat | Nancy Roberts | Neem Tree Press |
Clementine Loves Red | Polish | Krystyna Boglar | Zosia Krasodomska-Jones & Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Pushkin Children’s Books |
Trysting | French | Emmanuelle Pagano | Jennifer Higgins & Sophie Lewis | And Other Stories |
The Song of Seven | Dutch | Tonke Dragt | Laura Watkinson | Pushkin Children’s Books |
Wildwitch: Bloodling | Danish | Lene Kaaberbøl | Charlotte Barslund | Pushkin Children’s Books |
Spring Garden | Japanese | Tomoka Shibasaki | Polly Barton | Pushkin Press |
Soft in the Head | French | Marie-Sabine Roger | Frank Wynne | Pushkin Press |
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal | Danish | Dorthe Nors | Misha Hoekstra | Pushkin Press |
The Art of Being a Tiger | Portuguese | Ana Luísa Amaral | Margaret Jull Costa | Liverpool University Press |
Masked Dolls | Chinese (Taiwan) | Shih Chiung-Yu | Wang Xinlin and Poppy Toland | Balestier Press |
Crystal Wedding | Chinese | Xu Xiaobin | Nicky Harman | Balestier Press |
Swallowing Mercury | Polish | Wioletta Greg | Eliza Marciniak | Portobello Books |
Anna Svard | Swedish | Selma Lagerlöf | Linda Schenck | Norvik Press |
A House in Norway | Norwegian | Vigdis Hjorth | Charlotte Barslund | Norvik Press |
Fever Dream | Spanish | Samanta Schweblin | Megan McDowell | Oneworld Publications |
Swallow Summer | German | Larissa Boehning | Lyn Marven | Comma Press |
Roxy | Dutch | Esther Gerritsen | Michele Hutchison | World Editions |
Thirty Days | Dutch | Annelies Verbeke | Liz Waters | World Editions |
We and Me | Dutch | Saskia de Coster | Nancy Forest-Flier | World Editions |
The Dutch Maiden | Dutch | Marente de Moor | David Doherty | World Editions |
The Last Poets | Dutch | Christine Otten | Jonathan Reeder | World Editions |
Khomeini, Sade and Me | French | Abnousse Shalmani | Charlotte Coombe | World Editions |
Traces of Sandalwood | Spanish | Asha Miró and Anna Soler-Pont | Charlotte Coombe | World Editions |
The Good Lover | Icelandic | Steinunn Sigurðardóttir | Phil Roughton | World Editions |
One Hundred Shadows | Korean | Hwang Jungeun | Jung Yewon | Tilted Axis Press |
Panty |
Bengali | Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay | Arunava Sinha | Tilted Axis Press |
Hellfire |
Norwegian | Karin Fossum | Kari Dickson | Harvill Secker |
This Too Shall Pass | Spanish | Milena Busquets | Valerie Miles | Harvill Secker |
Notes on a Thesis | French | Tiphaine Rivière | Francesca Barrie | Harvill Secker |
The Bird Tribunal | Norwegian | Agnes Ravatn | Rosie Hedger | Orenda Books |
The Exiled | Finnish | Kati Hiekkapelto | David Hackston | Orenda Books |
The Little Breton Bistro | German | Nina George | Simon Pare | Abacus |
The Vintage Springtime Club | German | Beatrice Meier | Simon Pare | Little Brown |
The Dog Who Dared To Dream | Korean | Sun-Mi Hwang | Chi-Young Kim | Abacus |
Record of a Night Too Brief | Japanese | Hiromi Kawakami | Lucy North | Pushkin Press |
Eve out of Her Ruins | French (Mauritius) | Ananda Devi | Jeffrey Zuckerman | Les Fugitives |
Mårbacka | Swedish | Selma Lagerlöf | Sarah Death | Norvik Press |
The Coast Road | Irish | Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh | Various translators, Coady et al. | The Gallery Press |
Breathing into Marble | Lithuanian | Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė | Marija Marcinkute | Noir Press |
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