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2024 Finalists for the Neustadt Prize

October 2023

Ananda Devi

Jenny Erpenbeck

Nona Fernández

Valeria Luiselli

Close-up of the texture of a cobalt blue textile.

Photo by Kseniya Lapteva via Pexels. Creative Commons.

Weaving Dreams

She answered, listening to the detailed instructions of the fabric against her skin.

Translated from French by Jean Anderson

Multilingual

A spoon with stringy bits of meat sits in a stew

Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash

Kari Disan

It hadn’t been a gastronomic experience so much as an obstacle course.

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Rows of bright multicolored glass marbles

Photo by Stefano Bazzoli on Unsplash

From “The Book of Words”

By Jenny Erpenbeck

2024 International Booker winner Jenny Erpenbeck takes us into the mind of a dreamy child in this excerpt from her novel The Book of Words.

Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky

Building a New World

By Valeria Luiselli

Perhaps language, especially written and read, acquaints time with space.

Remembering Ricardo Piglia

By Valeria Luiselli

This article originally appeared in Spanish in El País.In my daughter’s bedroom there is a chest full of toys. It’s a large chest, finished in black leather, with copper corners. We…

Translated by Christina MacSweeney

Chilean Electric

By Nona Fernández

Nobody couldn’t have a belly button.

Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer