# Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize is awarded by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), USA. Named after the San Antonio playwright, poet and journalist Greg Barrios (d. 2021), the prize was agreed in 2021, and the first prize was awarded in 2022. It is awarded annually for “the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States”.

## Gregg Barrios

Barrios was a playwright, poet and journalist. A 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow, and on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He was inducted at the Texas Institute of Letters, and was the 2015 Fall Visiting Writer at Our Lady of the Lake University. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, Film Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Andy Warhol's Interview. He is a former book editor of the San Antonio Express-News.

## 2022 Winner and Long List

Source:
* WINNER: Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, tr. Boris Dralyuk, Fiction (Deep Vellum) (Russian)
* A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts by Wang Yin, tr. Andrea Lingenfelter, Poetry (New York Review Books) (Chinese)
* A Woman’s Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis, tr. Tash Aw, Nonfiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (French)
* Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. Mark Polizzotti, Fiction (Archipelago) (French)
* Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera, tr. Christina MacSweeney, Nonfiction (Two Lines Press) (Spanish)
* Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin, tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Fiction (Open Letter) (French)
* Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug, tr. Kari Dickson, Fiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Norwegian)
* The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft, Fiction (Riverhead) (Polish)
* Violets by Kyung-sook Shin, tr. Anton Hur, Fiction (Feminist Press) (Korean)
* Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark, tr. Hanna Strömberg, Graphic Novel (Drawn & Quarterly) (Swedish)
* When I Sing Mountains Dance, by Irene Solà, tr. Mara Faye Lethem, Fiction (Graywolf) (Catalan)
* You Can Be the Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, tr. Fady Joudah, Poetry (Milkweed Editions) (Arabic)

## 2023 Winner and Long List

Source:
* WINNER: Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, tr. Maureen Freely (Transit Books) (Turkish)
* The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar Ali, tr. Kareem Abdulrahman (Archipelago Books)
* Owlish by Dorothy Tse, tr. Natascha Bruce (Graywolf Press) (Chinese)
* Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, tr. Don Mee Choi (New Directions) (Korean)
* Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by Azo Vauguy, tr. Todd Fredson (Action Books)
* Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, tr. Tiffany Tsao (Feminist Press)
* Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-Bok, tr. Anton Hur (Sublunary Editions) (Korean)
* Our Philosopher by Gert Hofmann, tr. Eric Mace-Tessler (New York Review of Books) (German)
* The End of August by Yu Miri, tr. Morgan Giles (Riverhead) (Japanese)
* The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer, tr. James Young (New Directions) (Portuguese)
* The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, tr. Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly) (Korean)
* Vengeance is Mine by Marie N’Diaye, tr. Jordan Stump (Knopf) (French)

## 2024 Long List

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* The Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury, tr. Humphrey Davies (Archipelago), Fiction (Arabic)
* Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, tr. Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions), Fiction (Hungarian)
* Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale (New Directions), Poetry (Russian)
* A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, tr. Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics), Nonfiction (Spanish)
* Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, tr. Daniel Levin Becker (Fern), Nonfiction (French)
* Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, tr. Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter), Fiction (Spanish)
* Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi, tr. Jennifer Feeley (New York Review Books), Nonfiction (Chinese)
* A Muzzle for Witches by Dubravka Ugrešić, tr. Ellen Elias- Bursać (Open Letter), Nonfiction (Croatian)
* O by Judith Kiros, tr. Kira Josefsson (World Poetry), Poetry (Swedish)
* Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, tr. Susan Bernofsky (New Directions), Fiction (German)
* Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal, tr. Robin Moger (Transit), Nonfiction (Arabic)
* V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, tr. John Lambert (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Nonfiction (French)