Tony Malone

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Championing the wonders of translated fiction, one review at a time. Slightly older and more haggard than the photos suggest. Bitter at most things, really.

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Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026!

The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir.

The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin.

For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are: • Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press) • Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe) • Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK) • Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton) • Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin) • Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo) • Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull) • Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis) • Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe) • Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin) • Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill) • Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin) • Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)
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'All Souls' is an introductory novel (of sorts) for the 'Your Face Tomorrow' trilogy, and it's probably a good starting point. Having said that, if you didn't like 'Tomorrow in the Battle...', Marías may just not be your thing as the style is pretty consistent...

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