{"product_id":"best-literary-translations-2027","title":"Best Literary Translations 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuest editor Emily Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries edited by Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Sara Elkamel \u0026amp; Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Literary Translations\u003c\/em\u003e redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 6th, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054664\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuest edited by Emily Wilson, \u003cem\u003eBest Literary Translations 2027\u003c\/em\u003e features poetry and prose that gives voice to the world’s collective grief, struggle, and joy, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth installment of the \u003cem\u003eBest Literary Translations\u003c\/em\u003e anthology features prose and poetry translated from over 20 different languages—including rarely-translated dialects including Cherokee, Afrikaans, Diné, and Bahasa Indonesian. These literary works shine a spotlight on some of the world’s dark corners: a Ukrainian poet and combat medic writes from within the ongoing war; a Salvadoran author traces the terrifying history of forced disappearance; a Palestinian writer looks back at the wreckage of Gaza while on a humanitarian caravan to Europe. Throughout the 34 works featured in this year’s anthology, each accompanied by a translator’s note reflecting on the discovery, translation, and resonance of the original work, \u003cem\u003eBest Literary Translations\u003c\/em\u003e brings forth urgent voices that bear unflinching witness to personal and collective devastation, and find moments of surprise and beauty within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance \u0026amp; Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is an editor of the \u003cem\u003eNorton Anthology of World Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and edited a volume of new essays on ancient tragedy. She has published \u003cem\u003eMocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton\u003c\/em\u003e (Johns Hopkins); \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Socrates: Hero, villain, chatterbox, saint\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvard UP\/Profile Books), and \u003cem\u003eThe Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford UP), as well as \u003cem\u003eCrossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Travels through ancient literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Profile Books\/ Norton). She has written introductions for several works of ancient literature in translation, including Ovid’s \u003cem\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/em\u003e (Charles Martin translation, Norton) and Virgil’s \u003cem\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e (McGill\/ Wright translation, Norton). She has published multiple articles about ancient Greek and Roman literature and philosophy and its later receptions and translations. She has also published verse translations of Seneca’s tragedies, Sophocles’ \u003cem\u003eOedipus Tyrannos\u003c\/em\u003e, four plays by Euripides, the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e. Current projects include more translations, and a cluster of projects about Greek mythology. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNoh Anothai\u003c\/strong\u003e’s translations range from classical Siamese poets to contemporary Thai authors. Anothai has also served as a judge for the Lucien Stryk Prize for Asian Literature in Translation and taught Creative Writing for almost a decade. Anothai received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Track for International Writers, at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Call\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author, co-editor, or translator of eight books. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa, as well as a fellow of Cornell University’s Institute of Comparative Modernities and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Elkamel\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, journalist, and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks \u003cem\u003eField of No Justice\u003c\/em\u003e (African Poetry Book Fund \u0026amp; Akashic Books, 2021) and \u003cem\u003eGarden City\u003c\/em\u003e (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2026). Her translations include Mona Kareem’s chapbook, \u003cem\u003eI Will Not Fold These Maps\u003c\/em\u003e (Poetry Translation Centre, 2023) and Dalia Taha’s \u003cem\u003eEnter World\u003c\/em\u003e (Graywolf Press, 2026). A Pushcart Prize winner, Elkamel was also awarded \u003cem\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2023 Gearhart Poetry Prize, the \u003cem\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize, \u003cem\u003eTinderbox Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and placed first in \u003cem\u003eRedivider\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2021 Blurred Genre Contest and \u003cem\u003eColumbia Journal\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2025 Online Translation Contest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKọ́lá Túbọ̀sún\u003c\/strong\u003e is the publisher of OlongoAfrica.com. A Nigerian writer and linguist, he has authored two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eEdwardsville\u003c\/em\u003e by Heart (2018) and \u003cem\u003eÌgbà Èwe \u003c\/em\u003e(2021), and a multimedia dictionary of names. He is a Fulbright Scholar (2009) and a Chevening Research Fellow at the British Library in London (2019\/2020). 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