NYRB Books on the PEN Literary Awards Longlists

We are very pleased to share that two of our titles have landed on the PEN Literary Awards longlists.

The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, by Matei Calinescu, translated from the Romanian by Adriana Calinescu has been selected for the PEN Translation Award longlist.

A Certain Plume, by Henri Michaux, translated from the French by Richard Sieburth has been selected for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation longlist.

Congratulations to our wonderful translators!

The finalists for all book awards will be announced in January 2019.

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