National Book Award for Translated Literature (1967-1983)

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National Book Award, 23 Books

The winners of the National Book Award for Translated Literature from 1967 to 1983. The award was reintroduced in 2018 with different eligibility criteria.

who voted:
The prize was judged by Karen Maeda Allman, Sinan Antoon, Susan Bernofsky, and Álvaro Enrigue and chaired by Harold Augenbraum.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site 11 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
353 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
370 History of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
17008 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
14901 The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino 1965 Italian Italian
4488 Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1957 French French
17008 Saint Joan Of The Stockyards Bertolt Brecht 1931 German German
1980 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
2302 Chance And Necessity Jacques Monod 1970 French French
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
4792 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
17008 Alternating Current Octavio Paz 1967 Mexican Spanish
14691 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
17008 The Agony Of Christianity And Essays On Faith Miguel de Unamuno 1925 Spanish Spanish
17008 Romance Of The Western Chamber Wang Shifu 1200 Chinese Chinese
17008 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
14892 The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo César Vallejo 1968 Peruvian Spanish
5907 Hard Labor Cesare Pavese 1938 Italian Italian
17008 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
4488 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
14901 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
17008 In The Shade Of Spring Leaves Ichiyō Higuchi 1981 Japanese Japanese
17008 The Ten Thousand Leaves Robert Lyons Danly 1981 Unknown English
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French