This is a page to keep track of all the titles nominated for the The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
This list has been updated with titles from the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 prizes. The year in parentheses is the year of nomination.
🌍 Africa
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon:
- Season of the Shadow by Léonora Miano, translated from French by Gila Walker (2019)
- 🇸🇸 South Sudan:
- Edo’s Souls by Stella Gaitano, translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain (2024)
- 🇸🇩 Sudan:
- Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (2020)
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda
- Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from French by Melanie Mauthner (2021)
🌍 Asia
- 🇨🇳 China:
- Cocoon by Zhang Yueran, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (2023)
- Owlish, Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce
- Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (2021)
- Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (2020)
- White Horse by Yan Ge, translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman (2020)
- 🇬🇪 Georgia:
- Why I No Longer Write Poems by Diana Anphimiadi, translated from Georgian by Natalia Bukia-Peters and Jean Sprackland (2022)
- The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway (2021)
- ⭐ The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili, translated from German by Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin (2020) – winner of 2020
- 🇮🇳 India:
- ⭐ Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell (2022) – joint winner of 2022
- 🇯🇵 Japan:
- Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai, translated from Japanese by Polly Barton (2024)
- The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, translated from Japanese by David Boyd (2024)
- Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima, translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori and Ian McCullough MacDonald (2022)
- People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Ted Goossen (2021)
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd (2021)
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2019)
- Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda (2019)
- Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima, translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt (2018)
- ⭐ Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky (2017) – winner of 2017
- Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Lucy North (2017)
- 🇰🇷 South Korea:
- Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon (2024)
- The White Book by Han Kang, translated from Korean by Deborah Smith (2018)
- 🇹🇭 Thailand:
- Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul (2021)
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam:
- Chinatown by Thuận, translated from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý (2023)
🌍 Europe
- 🇧🇾 Belarus:
- Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated from Russian by Bela Shayevich (2017)
- 🇭🇷 Croatia:
- ⭐ Belladonna by Daša Drndić, translated from Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth (2018) – winner of 2018
- Hair Everywhere by Tea Tulić, translated from Croatian by Coral Petkovich (2018)
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic:
- The Lake by Bianca Bellová, translated from Czech by Alex Zucker (2023)
- 🇩🇰 Denmark:
- A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors, translated from Danish by Caroline Waight (2023)
- The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken (2021)
- Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from Danish by Michael Favala Goldman (2020)
- Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt, translated from Danish by Paul Russell Garrett (2020)
- Bang by Dorrit Willumsen, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano (2018)
- Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors, translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra (2017)
- 🇫🇮 Finland:
- Things that Fall from the Sky by Selja Ahava, translated from Finnish by Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah (2020)
- 🇫🇷 France:
- Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq, translated from French by Penny Hueston (2024)
- The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras, translated from French by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan (2023)
- The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman, translated from French by Leslie Camhi (2022)
- Men Don’t Cry by Faïza Guène, translated from French by Sarah Ardizzone (2022)
- A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux, translated from French by Alison L. Strayer (2021)
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens, translated from French by Willard Wood (2021)
- The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, translated from French by Frank Wynne (2021)
- Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet, translated from French by Katherine Gregor (2020)
- ⭐ The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated from French by Alison L. Strayer (2019) – winner of 2019
- Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes, translated from French by Frank Wynne (2018)
- 🇩🇪 Germany:
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann (2024)
- ⭐ Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs, translated from German by Andrew Shanks (2024) – winner of 2024
- Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, translated from German by Jo Heinrich (2022)
- Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich, translated from German by Ayça Türkoğlu (2022)
- Not a Novel by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Kurt Beals (2021)
- Grove by Esther Kinsky, translated from German by Caroline Schmidt (2021)
- ⭐ An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, translated from German by Jackie Smith (2021) – winner of 2021
- Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, translated from German by Karen Leeder (2019)
- Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky (2018)
- Letti Park by Judith Hermann, translated from German by Margot Bettauer Dembo (2018)
- River by Esther Kinsky, translated from German by Iain Galbraith (2018)
- Swallow Summer by Larissa Boehning, translated from German by Lyn Marven (2017)
- 🇬🇷 Greece:
- Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, translated from Greek by Karen Van Dyck (2022)
- 🇭🇺 Hungary:
- Barcode by Krisztina Tóth, translated from Hungarian by Peter Sherwood (2023)
- The Fawn by Magda Szabó, translated from Hungarian by Len Rix (2023)
- Abigail by Magda Szabó, translated from Hungarian by Len Rix (2020)
- Pixel by Krisztina Tóth, translated from Hungarian by Owen Good (2020)
- Katalin Street by Magda Szabó, translated from Hungarian by Len Rix (2019)
- 🇮🇪 Ireland:
- The Coast Road by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, translated from Irish by multiple translators (2017)
- 🇮🇹 Italy:
- Marianna Sirca by Grazia Deledda, translated from Italian by Graham Anderson (2024)
- The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi, translated from Italian by Jamie Richards (2024)
- A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore (2023)
- Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein (2023)
- The Queen of Darkness by Grazia Deledda, translated from Italian by Graham Anderson (2023)
- Happiness as Such by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor (2020)
- Isabella by Isabella Morra, translated from Italian by Caroline Maldonado (2020)
- Eva Sleeps by Francesca Melandri, translated from Italian by Katherine Gregor (2017)
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania:
- Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, translated from Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas (2019)
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands:
- The Song of Seven by Tonke Dragt, translated from Dutch by Laura Watkinson (2017)
- The Dutch Maiden by Marente de Moor, translated from Dutch by David Doherty (2017)
- 🇳🇴 Norway:
- ti amo by Hanne Ørstavik, translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken (2023)
- The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon, translated from Norwegian by Barbara Haveland (2020)
- 🇵🇱 Poland:
- White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated from Polish by Kate Webster (2024)
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft (2022)
- Ellis Island: A People’s History by Małgorzata Szejnert, translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye (2021)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2019)
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft (2018)
- The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Żanna Słoniowska, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2018)
- Clementine Loves Red by Krystyna Boglar, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Zosia Krasodomska-Jones (2017)
- Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg, translated from Polish by Eliza Marciniak (2017)
- 🇵🇹 Portugal:
- The Art of Being a Tiger by Ana Luísa Amaral, translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa (2017)
- 🇷🇴 Romania:
- Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu, translated from Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth (2017)
- The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller, translated from German by Philip Boehm (2017)
- 🇷🇺 Russia:
- Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (2024)
- Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential by Yulia Yakovleva, translated from Russian by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (2024)
- In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (2021)
- War of the Beasts and the Animals by Maria Stepanova, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (2021)
- Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated from Russian by Lisa C. Hayden (2019)
- 🇪🇸 Spain :
- When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (2022)
- Brother In Ice by Alicia Kopf, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (2019)
- 🇸🇪 Sweden:
- Ædnan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel (2024)
- A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley (2023)
- ⭐ Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves (2022) – joint winner of 2022
- Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson, edited by Boel Westin & Helen Svensson, translated from Swedish by Sarah Death (2020)
- 1947 by Elisabeth Åsbrink, translated from Swedish by Fiona Graham (2018)
- The Emperor of Portugallia by Selma Lagerlöf, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves (2018)
- Mårbacka by Selma Lagerlöf, translated from Swedish by Sarah Death (2017)
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine:
- Maybe Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, translated from German by Shelley Frisch (2018)
🌍 Middle East
- 🇪🇬 Egypt:
- ⭐ Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed, translated from Arabic by Deena Mohamed (2023) – winner of 2023
- 🇮🇷 Iran:
- Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated from French by Tina Kover (2019)
- Negative of a Group Photograph by Azita Ghahreman, translated from Farsi by Maura Dooley with Elhum Shakerifar (2019)
- 🇱🇧 Lebanon:
- Yoghurt and Jam (or How My Mother Became Lebanese) by Lena Merhej, translated from Arabic by Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar (2024)
- 🇵🇸 Palestine:
- Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (2021)
- 🇸🇾 Syria:
- Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek, translated from Arabic by Leri Price (2022)
- 🇾🇪 Yemen:
- What Have You Left Behind by Bushra al-Maqtari, translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain (2023)
🌎 North America
- 🇲🇽 Mexico:
- The Remains by Margo Glantz, translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones (2023)
🌎 South America
- 🇦🇷 Argentina:
- Brickmakers by Selva Almada, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott (2022)
- To Love A Woman by Diana Bellessi, translated from Spanish by Leo Boix (2022)
- The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from Spanish by Iona Macintyre & Fiona Mackintosh (2020)
- People in the Room by Norah Lange, translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle (2019)
- Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira (2018)
- Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell (2017)
- 🇧🇷 Brazil:
- Too Much of Life: The Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa (2024)
- The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser & Magdalena Edwards (2020)
