Award overlap

Books That Won Both the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN America Literary Awards

1 book has won both the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN America Literary Awards: Stone Upon Stone (2012/2012). 25 more were recognized by both without winning both.

Years are award years. Best Translated Book Award · PEN America Literary Awards

Won both

Books that won both the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN America Literary Awards, most recent first.
BookAuthorBest Translated Book AwardPEN America Literary Awards
Stone Upon StoneWiesław Myśliwski
  • 2012 Winner (Fiction)
  • 2012 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN America Literary Awards without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorBest Translated Book AwardPEN America Literary Awards
Beyond BabylonIgiaba Scego
  • 2020 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2020 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk
  • 2020 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2020 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
The Winter Garden PhotographReina María Rodríguez
  • 2020 Longlist (Poetry)
  • 2020 Winner (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
DisorientalNégar Djavadi
  • 2019 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2019 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
Negative SpaceLuljeta Lleshanaku
  • 2019 Finalist (Poetry)
  • 2019 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
Angel of OblivionMaja Haderlap
  • 2017 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2017 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
In Praise of Defeat: PoemsAbdellatif Laâbi
  • 2017 Finalist (Poetry)
  • 2017 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
Rilke ShakeAngélica Freitas
  • 2016 Winner (Poetry)
  • 2016 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
The Complete StoriesClarice Lispector
  • 2016 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2016 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
The Physics of SorrowGeorgi Gospodinov
  • 2016 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2016 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
BaboonNaja Marie Aidt
  • 2015 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2015 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
GuantanamoFrank Smith
  • 2015 Longlist (Poetry)
  • 2015 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary AfghanistanEliza Griswold
  • 2015 Longlist (Poetry)
  • 2015 Winner (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
Sorrowtoothpaste MirrorcreamKim Hyesoon
  • 2015 Longlist (Poetry)
  • 2015 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
Autobiography of a CorpseSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
  • 2014 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2014 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
Paul Klee’s BoatAnzhelina Polonskaya
  • 2014 Finalist (Poetry)
  • 2014 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
The African ShoreRodrigo Rey Rosa
  • 2014 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2014 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
Almost 1 Book/Almost 1 LifeElfriede Czurda
  • 2013 Finalist (Poetry)
  • 2013 Finalist (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
The Island of Second SightAlbert Vigoleis Thelen
  • 2013 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2013 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
Hocus BogusRomain Gary
  • 2011 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2011 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
RexJosé Manuel Prieto
  • 2010 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2010 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
WonderHugo Claus
  • 2010 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2010 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
2666Roberto Bolaño
  • 2009 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2009 Winner (PEN Translation Prize)
The Post-Office GirlStefan Zweig
  • 2009 Finalist (Fiction)
  • 2009 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)
The Waitress Was NewDominique Fabre
  • 2009 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2009 Finalist (PEN Translation Prize)