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The covers of the books featured in the list

World Kid Lit: The Best of 2022

By Jackie Friedman Mighdoll, Johanna McCalmont & Claire Storey

Join the editors of the World Kid Lit blog on a tour of their favorite international children’s books of 2022, from picture books to YA fiction and graphic novels.

The covers of the ten books featured in the gift guide

Your 2022 Holiday Gift Guide to Reading in Translation

By Isabella Corletto

Ten recent books in translation that the readers in your life are sure to enjoy this holiday season.

An International Menagerie: Animal Stories

By Susan Harris

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

Stalin in Tallinn

Stalin didn’t like this Estonia that he saw from the car window.

Translated from Estonian by Christopher Moseley

The Human Element: Writing from Estonia

Frank social critique and a fascination with relationships have been central tropes of classic and contemporary Estonian literature.

Neverland

The only things Margo had left were his appetite and ground beef.

Translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen

Multilingual

[You’re Right]

By Sveta Grigorjeva

you’ve no idea what it means to stand in a sausage line!

Translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen

Writing from the Edge: Estonian Literature

By Miriam McIlfatrick

Modern-day literature in Estonia is both aware of and wary of borders.

Jackdaw on a Snowdrift

By Andrei Ivanov

For two weeks I felt like I was wrapped in barbed wire.

Translated from Russian by Matthew Hyde

At the Manor, or Jump into the Fire

By Maarja Kangro

At one castle reception she had bitten into a decorative banana that tasted distinctly of sawdust.

Translated from Estonian by Christopher Moseley

[I wish there was a god]

I wish there was the sort of god / who would preserve us from a god / we invent for ourselves

Translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick

A Dog’s Life

He was old and filthy and probably hadn’t eaten for some time.

Translated from Estonian by Matthew Hyde

Multimedia

Evening Fare

By Kaur Riismaa

Turnips and time, pork and posterity, man and his life on the road between day and night.

Translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick

Multilingual

Four Prose Poems

There is the transition of land into sea, there is the unsettled sea that spits foam and kelp.

Translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen

Multilingual

what do you write about

By Triin Soomets

about love, I answered. / there isn’t anything else, is there.

Translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick

Multilingual

Mice in the Wind

A man of letters has to be in contact with life . . .

Translated from Estonian by Christopher Moseley

Death among the Icebergs

By Mehis Heinsaar

Three days later a diagnosis was received from Kärdla hospital: cardiac arrest as a result of varicose glaciation.

Translated from Estonian by Susan Wilson

from “When the Doves Disappeared”

By Sofi Oksanen

The town shook, burned, smoked, but it was still standing, and she was still alive, and the Red Army was gone.

Translated from Finnish by Lola Rogers