Kirkus Best Books of the Year - Fiction in Translation (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2023

Shubeik Lubeik
(*)
Deena Mohamed

Heart Sutra
(*)
Yan Lianke

Greek Lessons
(*)
Han Kang

This is Not Miami
(*)
Fernanda Melchor

The House on Via Gemito
(*)
Domenico Starnone

Lies and Sorcery
(*)
Elsa Morante

Beyond the Door of No Return
(*)
David Diop

My Work
(*)
Olga Ravn

Reykjavik
(*)
Ragnar Jonasson

2022

The Books of Jacob
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Pollak's Arm
(*)
Hans von Trotha

Portrait of an Unknown Lady
(*)
Maria Gainza

Scattered All Over the Earth
(*)
Yoko Tawada

When I Sing, Mountains Dance
(*)
Irene Sola

Witches
(*)
Brenda Lozano

Invasion of the Spirit People
(*)
Juan Pablo Villalobos

Cancion
(*)
Eduardo Halfon

2021

Loop
(*)
Brenda Lozano

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

In Memory of Memory
(*)
Maria Stepanova

Untraceable
(*)
Sergey Lebedev

The Twilight Zone
(*)
Nona Fernandez

Winter in Sokcho
(*)
Elisa Shua Dusapin

Kin
(*)
Miljenko Jergovic

Bolla
(*)
Pajtim Statovci

The Corpse Flower
(*)
Anne Mette Hancock

Trust
(*)
Domenico Starnone

2020

Beowulf
(*)
Maria Dahvana Headley

The King of Warsaw
(*)
Szczepan Twardoch

Lake Like a Mirror
(*)
Ho Sok Fong

I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me
(*)
Juan Pablo Villalobos

The Fallen
(*)
Carlos Manuel Alvarez

The Lehman Trilogy
(*)
Stefano Massini

The Golden Cage
(*)
Camilla Lackberg

The Discomfort of Evening
(*)
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The Lying Life of Adults
(*)
Elena Ferrante

That Time of Year
(*)
Marie Ndiaye

The Kingdom
(*)
Jo Nesbo

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019