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The 10 best translated books on the National Book Awards' 2021 longlist

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Article
https://www.businessinsider.com/national-book-award-longlist-translated-international-books-2021
Journal
Business Insider
Issued Date
September 28, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
Winter in Sokcho , On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
Writer
Bo-yong Kim
Translator
Aneesa Abbas Higgins,Sora Kim-Russell,Lee Jeongmin

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  • Elisa Shua Dusapin
  • Birth : 1992 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
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  • Korean Name : Elisa Shua Dusapin
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The best translated literature in 2021, according to the National Book Award's panel of five judges, spans both the globe and genres. The judges announced the translated literature longlist this week, which celebrated international works that were originally published in seven different languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. The books span a multitude of genres too, from fictional short stories to creative nonfiction. In Nona Fernández's "The Twilight Zone", a member of the Chilean secret police walks into a dissident magazine office and confesses to some of the worst crimes committed under the Pinochet dictatorship, kicking off the narrator's lifelong obsession with "the man who tortured people." "An Inventory of Losses" catalogs 12 extinct things — from tigers to islands — while "In Memory of Memory" examines the fallibility and impact of memory, lore, and national history. And history and mythology blend together as a woman named Xiumi campaigns for autonomy in Ge Fei's "Peach Blossom Paradise" during China's Hundred Days' Reform.

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