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The covers of the books featured in the list

The Best Books of 2022—And What We’re Looking Forward to in 2023

By Words Without Borders

Our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they’re looking forward to in 2023.

The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist

The Watchlist: December 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mauritius, Romania, Japan, Spain, Germany, and Puerto Rico.

Left, the Romanian cover of Mircea Cartarescu's Solenoid; center, translator Sean Cotter; right,...

Romanian Translation’s Johnny Appleseed: An Interview with Sean Cotter

By Clara Burghelea

We shall see if the hype in the United States reaches the levels Cărtărescu garners in Colombia, where he needed a police cordon to get through his crowd of fans.

Portrait of writer Ioana Morpurgo

The City and the Writer: In Bucharest with Ioana Morpurgo

By Nathalie Handal

I love this city against my own better judgment.

The Release of Mr. K

By Matéi Visniec

There was no one to tell him what to do.

Translated from Romanian by Jozefina Komporaly

The Ditch

By Răzvan Petrescu

The shovels’ dull thud mixed with the steady patter of rain.

Translated from Romanian by Florin Bican

The Agent

By Tatiana Niculescu Bran

“Little lady, do you have a craving for cozonac?”

Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris

Onomasticon

By Mircea Horia Simionescu

As a child, he suffered from the disease called humility. Poor man!

Translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter

Grin and Bear It: Transformative New Romanian Fiction

To make haz de necaz is to transform tribulation through the play of wit.

In Our Backyard

By Dumitru Tsepeneag

Then, for the first time, the strange thought occurred to me that our carpet frame had become a gallows.

Translated from Romanian by Patrick Camiller

On Packing

By Herta Müller

I carried everything I had. It wasn't actually mine.

Translated from German by Donal McLaughlin

Nabokov in Brasov

By Mircea Cartarescu

I was asked to join Securitate.

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian

from Wasted Morning

By Gabriela Adamesteanu

“The preeminent voice among contemporary Romanian women novelists.”—Norman Manea

Translated from Romanian by Patrick Camiller

from The Roulette Player

By Mircea Cartarescu

The roulette with three bullets greased inside the chamber fuses in my mind with the events that followed.

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian

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