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Shortlist 2021

Shortlist 2021Eight titles have been shortlisted for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation:

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, translated from Japanese by David Boyd and Sam Bett (Picador)

Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile, translated from French by Melanie Mauthner (Daunt Books Publishing)

Judith Schalansky, An Inventory of Losses, translated from German by Jackie Smith (MacLehose Press)

Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Maria Stepanova, War of the Beasts and the Animals, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Bloodaxe Books)

MaƂgorzata Szejnert, Ellis Island: A People's History, translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye (Scribe UK)

Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis Press)

Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing, translated from French by Frank Wynne (Picador

The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on 24 November.