ATA is happy to announce its shortlist of nominees for the 2026 Lewis Galantière Award for literary translation!
The ATA Galantière Award is given for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language, except German, into English published in the United States. The award is bestowed biennially in even-numbered years, and for the 2026 award, the translations were published in 2024/25. The winner will be announced on October 29, 2026 at the ATA’s 67th Annual Conference in San Francisco!
This year’s shortlist includes five outstanding translations into English from French, Japanese, Russian, and Uzbek. The nominees for the 2026 Lewis Galantière Award for literary translation are:
Nevermore (Seagull Books, 2024) by Cécile Wajsbrot, translated from French by Tess Lewis.
People and Trees (Plamen Press, 2024) by Akram Aylisli, translated from Russian and Azeri by Katherine E. Young.
Portraits of a Mother (Yale University Press, 2024) by Shūsaku Endō, translated from Japanese by Van C. Gessel.
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel (Yale University Press, 2025) by Hamid Ismailov, translated from Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega.
When We Only Have the Earth (University of Nebraska Press, 2025) by Djibouti poet, novelist and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson.