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PEN Translation Prize Longlist 2023

January 2023

The covers of Pina, All Your Children, Scattered, Jawbone, Moldy Strawberries, and Motherfield

We present five excerpts from titles longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize for Fiction and the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Sunset over a field with melting snow
Photo by Vitali Adutskevich on Unsplash
Multilingual
A cobblestone street in Rwanda at sunset with a few pedestrians and motorcycle riders
Photo by Michael Muli on Unsplash
Palm trees along the shoreline in Huahine, Tahiti
Matthew Dillon from Hollywood, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons