Best Literary Translations 2024
Guest editor Jane HirshfieldSeries edited by Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten & Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Publication Date: April 9th, 2024 Paperback ISBN: 9781646053353eBook ISBN: 9781646053391 Description Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages—including some not commonly seen in U.S. translations, such as Burmese, Kurdish, Tigrinya, and Wayuu—brought into English by thirty-eight of the most talented translators working today. These poems, short stories, essays, and hybrid pieces were drawn from nominated works published in U.S. literary journals during 2023 that spanned more than eighty countries and nearly sixty languages. The four series coeditors, Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá Tu