This year’s Best Translated Book Award longlist includes four works of speculative fiction in translation! Here’s the entire list:

 

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, from Melville House

 

 

 

 

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, from New Directions

 

 

 

 

Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated from Spanish by Jessica Powell, from Mandel-Vilar Press

 

 

 

 

Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated from Spanish by David Frye, from Restless Books