The 2026 Longlist
Andrey Kurkov, The Stolen Heart: The Kyiv Mysteries (MacLehose Press) translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
Carlos Manuel Álvarez, False War (Fitzcarraldo) translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso (New York Review of Books) translated from the Italian by D.M. Black
Elena Fischer, Paradise Garden (The Indigo Press) translated from the German by Alexandra Roesch
Fernando Pessoa, Fower Pessoas (Carcanet) translated from the Portuguese by Colin Bramwell
Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D. (Pushkin Press) translated from the Portuguese by Nathanaël and Rachel Gontijo Araujo
Irma Pineda, Stolen Flower (Yale University Press) translated from the Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec) and Spanish by Wendy Call
Ivan V. Lalic, The Taste of Lightening (Bloodaxe Books) translated from the Serbian by Francis R. Jones
J.M.G. Le Clézio, On the Wrong Side: Stories of the Rejected (Seagull Books) translated from the French by Teresa Lavendar Fagan
Markus Werner, The Frog in the Throat (New York Review of Books) translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
Matteo Melchiorre, The Duke (Foundry Editions) translated from the Italian by Antonella Lettieri
Oliver Lovrenski, Back in the Day (Hamish Hamilton) translated from the Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Raharimanana, Return (Seagull Books) translated from the French by Allison M. Charette
Susanna Bissoli, Struck (Linden Editions) translated from the Italian by Georgia Wall
Touhfat Mouhtare, The Fire Within (Dedalus) translated from the French by Rachael McGill
Yoko Tawada, The Naked Eye (Granta) translated from by German by Susan Bernofsky
