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 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
354 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
371 History of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
17152 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
14985 The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino 1965 Italian Italian
4494 Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1957 French French
17152 Saint Joan Of The Stockyards Bertolt Brecht 1931 German German
1986 The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japanese Japanese
2309 Chance And Necessity Jacques Monod 1970 French French
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
4801 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
17152 Alternating Current Octavio Paz 1967 Mexican Spanish
14779 Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry 1896 French French
17152 The Agony Of Christianity And Essays On Faith Miguel de Unamuno 1925 Spanish Spanish
17152 Romance Of The Western Chamber Wang Shifu 1200 Chinese Chinese
17152 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
14976 The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo César Vallejo 1968 Peruvian Spanish
5917 Hard Labor Cesare Pavese 1938 Italian Italian
17152 Complete Critical Prose And Letters Osip Mandelstam 1997 Russian Russian
4494 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
14985 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
17152 In The Shade Of Spring Leaves Ichiyō Higuchi 1981 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Ten Thousand Leaves Robert Lyons Danly 1981 Unknown English
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French