As I am taking a few days off everything, my year-end thoughts will have to wait until next week. But I don’t want to leave you hanging without anything these last few days of 2014, so since I love to read and I love to translate, here’s a list of fifty books in translation from fifty presses:<\/p>\n
And Other Stories<\/strong>: Sworn Virgin<\/em><\/a> by Elvira Dones, trans. Clarissa Botsford<\/p>\n Antilever Press<\/strong>: Alma Venus<\/em><\/a> by Pere Gimferrer, trans. Adrian West<\/p>\n Action Books<\/strong>: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream<\/em><\/a> by Kim Hyesoon, trans. Don Mee Choi<\/p>\n Archipelago Books<\/strong>: My Struggle: Book Three<\/em><\/a> by Karl Ove Knausgaard; trasn. Don Bartlett<\/p>\n Bellevue Literary Press<\/strong>: Aaron\u2019s Leap<\/em><\/a> by Magdalen\u00e1 Platzov\u00e1, trans. Craig Cravens<\/p>\n Biblioasis<\/strong>: Granma Nineteen and the Soviet\u2019s Secret<\/em><\/a> by Ondjaki, trans. Stephen Henighan<\/p>\n City Lights<\/strong>: Thousand Times Broken<\/em><\/a> by Henri Michaux, trans. Gillian Conoly<\/p>\n Coach House Books<\/strong>: Guyana<\/em><\/a> (by \u00c9lise Turcotte, trans. Rhonda Mullins<\/p>\n Coffee House Press<\/strong>: Faces in the Crowd<\/em><\/a> by Valeria Luiselli, trans. Christina MacSweeney<\/p>\n Contra Mundum Press<\/strong>: Towards the One and Only Metaphor<\/em><\/a> by Mikl\u00f3s Szentkuthy, trans. Tim Wilkinson<\/p>\n Dalkey Archive Press<\/strong>: Collected Stories<\/em><\/a> by Kjell Askildsen, trans. Se\u00e1n Kinsella<\/p>\n David R. Godine Press<\/strong>: Temple of the Iconoclasts<\/em><\/a> by J. Rodolfo Wilcock, trans. Lawrence Venuti<\/p>\n Deep Vellum Publishing<\/strong>: Texas: The Great Theft<\/em><\/a> by Carmen Boullosa, trans. Samantha Schnee<\/p>\n Dzanc\/DISQUIET Books<\/strong>: Sankya<\/em><\/a> by Zakhar Prilepin, trans. Mariya Gusev & Jeff Parker<\/p>\n Europa Editions<\/strong>: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay<\/em><\/a> by Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein<\/p>\n Feminist Press<\/strong>: The Silent Woman<\/em><\/a> by Monika Zgustova, trans. Mathew Tree<\/p>\n Farrar, Straus, and Giroux<\/strong>: The Symmetry Teacher<\/em><\/a> by Andrei Bitov, trans. Polly Gannon<\/p>\n Graywolf Press<\/strong>: Karate Chop<\/em><\/a> by Dorthe Nors, trans. Martin Aitken<\/p>\n Grove Atlantic<\/strong>: Twilight of the Eastern Gods<\/em><\/a> Ismail Kadare\/David Bellos<\/p>\n Hispabooks<\/strong>: Paris<\/em><\/a> by Marcos Giralt Torrente, trans. Margaret Jull Costa<\/p>\n McSweeney\u2019s<\/strong>: McSweeney\u2019s 46: 13 Crime Stories from Latin America<\/em><\/a> by various, trans. various<\/p>\n Melville House<\/strong>: The Nose<\/em><\/a> by Nikolai Gogol, trans. Ian Dreiblatt<\/p>\n New Directions<\/strong>: End of Days<\/em><\/a> by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Susan Bernofsky<\/p>\n New Press<\/strong>: Viviane<\/em><\/a> by Julia Deck, trans. Linda Coverdale<\/p>\n New Vessel Press<\/strong>: Who is Martha?<\/em><\/a> by Marjana Gaponenko, trans. Arabella Spencer<\/p>\n Nightboat Books<\/strong>: Mausoleum of Lovers<\/em><\/a> by Herv\u00e9 Guibert, trans. Nathana\u00ebl<\/p>\n New York Review Books<\/strong>: The Mad and the Bad<\/em><\/a> by Jean-Patrick Manchette, trans. James Sallis<\/p>\n NYU<\/span> Press<\/strong>: Leg Over Leg [Vol. 2]<\/em><\/a> by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, trans. Humphrey Davies<\/p>\n Oneworld Publications<\/strong>: The Hilltop<\/em><\/a> by Assaf Gavron, trans. Steven Cohen<\/p>\n Open Letter Books<\/strong>: La Grande<\/em><\/a> by Juan Jos\u00e9 Saer, trans. Steve Dolph<\/p>\n Other Press<\/strong>: Diary of the Fall<\/em><\/a> by Michel Laub, trans. Margaret Jull Costa<\/p>\n Otis Books<\/strong>: Panic Cure<\/em><\/a> by various, trans. by Forrest Gander<\/p>\n Penguin Classics<\/strong>: The Time Regulation Institute<\/em><\/a> by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, trans. Alexander Dawe & Maureen Freely<\/p>\n Pushkin Press<\/strong>: The Hunting Gun<\/em><\/a> by Yasushi Inoue, trans. Michael Emmerich<\/p>\n Seagull Books<\/strong>: Privy Portrait<\/em><\/a> by Jean-Luc Benoziglio, trans. Tess Lewis<\/p>\n Seven Stories Press<\/strong>: Natural Histories<\/em><\/a> by Guadalupe Nettel, trans. J.T. Lichtenstein<\/p>\n Serpent\u2019s Tail<\/strong>: Sila\u2019s Fortune<\/em><\/a> by Fabrice Humbert, trans. Frank Wynne<\/p>\n Siete Vientos (7Vientos)<\/strong>: Flowers and Mishima\u2019s Illustrated Biography<\/em><\/a> by Mario Bellatin, trans. Kolin Jordan<\/p>\n SOHO<\/span> Press<\/strong>: Last Winter, We Parted<\/em><\/a> by Fuminori Nakamura, trans. Allison Markin Powell<\/p>\n Sylph Editions<\/strong>: Stalin is Dead<\/em><\/a> by Rachel Shihor, trans. Ornan Rotem<\/p>\n Talon Books<\/strong>: Birth of a Bridge<\/em><\/a> by Mylis de Kerangal, trans. Jessica Moore<\/p>\n Tam Tam Books<\/strong>: The Death Instinct<\/em><\/a> by Jacques Mesrine, trans. Robert Greene & Catherine Texier<\/p>\n Tavern Books<\/strong>: Collected Translations<\/em><\/a> by various, trans. David Wevill<\/p>\n Twisted Spoon<\/strong>: Miruna, a Tale<\/em><\/a> by Bogdan Suceav\u0103, trans. Alistair Ian Blyth<\/p>\n Two Lines<\/strong>: Baboon<\/em><\/a> by Naja Marie Aidt, trans. Denise Newman<\/p>\n Ugly Duckling Presse<\/strong>: Diana\u2019s Tree<\/em><\/a> by Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. Yvette Siegert<\/p>\n Unnamed Press<\/strong>: Walker on Water<\/em><\/a> by Kristiina Ehin, trans. Ilmar Lehtpere<\/p>\n Wakefield Press<\/strong>: The Physiology of the Employee<\/em><\/a> by Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, trans. Andr\u00e9 Naffis-Sahely<\/p>\n Wave Books<\/strong>: Wallless Space<\/em> by Ernst Meister, trans. Graham Faust & Samuel Frederick<\/a><\/p>\n Yale University Press<\/strong>: Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas<\/em><\/a> by Patrick Modiano, trans. Mark Polizzoti<\/p>\n The list was compiled by