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Best Translated Fiction of the Decade
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Title↕ | Author↕ | Original Language↕ | Translator↕ | English Year↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
My Struggle: Book One | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Norwegian | Don Bartlett | 2012 | Six-volume autofiction phenomenon, 3,600 pages about the author's own life |
My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | Italian | Ann Goldstein | 2012 | Neapolitan Quartet opener, pseudonymous author, HBO series |
The Vegetarian | Han Kang | Korean | Deborah Smith | 2015 | Man Booker International 2016, surreal body horror, later Nobel Prize 2024 |
Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | Polish | Jennifer Croft | 2017 | Man Booker International 2018, Tokarczuk won Nobel 2018, fragmented travel novel |
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones | 2018 | Eco-thriller with astrology and William Blake |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | French | Alison Anderson | 2008 | French bestseller, philosophical concierge novel, adapted to film |
The Memory Police | Yoko Ogawa | Japanese | Stephen Snyder | 2019 | International Booker shortlist, dystopia about disappearing objects |
Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata | Japanese | Ginny Tapley Takemori | 2018 | Akutagawa Prize, deadpan outsider narrator, global cult hit |
Ties | Domenico Starnone | Italian | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2017 | Marriage novel, translated by Pulitzer winner Lahiri |
At Night All Blood Is Black | David Diop | French | Anna Moschovakis | 2020 | International Booker 2021, Senegalese soldier in WWI trenches |
Tokyo Ueno Station | Yu Miri | Japanese | Morgan Giles | 2019 | National Book Award for Translated Literature 2020, homeless ghost narrator |
The Years | Annie Ernaux | French | Alison L. Strayer | 2017 | Collective autobiography of postwar France, Ernaux won Nobel 2022 |
Fever Dream | Samanta Schweblin | Spanish | Megan McDowell | 2017 | Argentine eco-horror novella, Booker International shortlist, Netflix film |
The Eighth Life | Nino Haratischwili | German | Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin | 2019 | 944-page Georgian family epic across the 20th century |
A Horse Walks Into a Bar | David Grossman | Hebrew | Jessica Cohen | 2016 | Man Booker International 2017, Israeli stand-up comedian's onstage breakdown |
Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi | Arabic | Marilyn Booth | 2018 | Man Booker International 2019, first Arabic novel to win, Omani family saga |
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