Best Fiction in Translation of 2021

by Elisa Shua Dusapin ; translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

A triumph. Full review >

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by Mariana Enríquez ; translated by Megan McDowell

Insidiously absorbing, like quicksand. Full review >

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by Nona Fernández ; translated by Natasha Wimmer

Fernández is emerging as a major voice in South American letters, and this slender but rich story shows why. Full review >

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by Anne Mette Hancock ; translated by Tara Chace

Scandinavian noir at its noirest. It’s hard, maybe unthinkable, to imagine how Hancock will follow it up. Full review >

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by Miljenko Jergović ; translated by Russell Scott Valentino

A masterwork of modern European letters that should earn the author a wide readership outside his homeland. Full review >

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by Sergei Lebedev

A darkly absorbing intellectual thriller by one of Russia's boldest young novelists. Full review >

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by Brenda Lozano ; translated by Annie McDermott

An intimate book that starts small and expands steadily outward, with a cumulative effect both moving and hopeful. Full review >

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by Domenico Starnone ; translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

Richly nuanced while also understated, Starnone’s latest appearance in English is a novel to be savored. Full review >

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by Pajtim Statovci ; translated by David Hackston

An unflinching consideration of the long aftereffects of an affair cut short. Full review >

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by Maria Stepanova ; translated by Sasha Dugdale

A remarkable work of the imagination—and, yes, memory. Full review >

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