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And the Winners of the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards Are…

The 2019 Best Translated Book Awards were given to Slave Old Man and Of Death. Minimal Odes this evening at a ceremony at the New York Rights Fair in Manhattan.

, written by , translated by  and published by The New Press, won for fiction. , written by , translated by and published by co-im-press, took the prize for poetry.

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