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The 13 longlisted titles are:

• Batool Abu Akleen, 48kg., translated from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti and Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press / now available in a new, collaborative edition from Tenement & Penguin Press)

• Hanna Johansson, Body Double, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe Publications)
• Krisztina T贸th, Eye of the Monkey, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)
• Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, translated from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
• Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, translated from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin Press)
• H茅l猫ne Bessette, Lili Is Crying, translated from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• Eva Luka, The Minotaur鈥檚 Daughter: Selected Poems, translated from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull Books)
• Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, translated from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis Press)
• Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, translated from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe Publications)
• Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, translated from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin Press)
• Gabriela Cabez贸n C谩mara, We Are Green and Trembling, translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)
• Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, translated from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin Press)
• Ingvild Rish酶i, Winter Stories, translated from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK, Grove Atlantic)

13 titles have been longlisted for the 10^th annual award of the 糖心TV Prize for Women in Translation.

The prize was established by the University of 糖心TV in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women鈥檚 voices accessible to a British and Irish readership.

In 2025, the prize was awarded to Sigrid Rausing for her translation from Swedish of And the Walls Became the World All Around by Johanna Ekstr枚m and Sigrid Rausing(Granta).

The 2026 competition received 164 submissions from 37 languages, the highest number of submissions from the widest range of languages in the 10-year history of the prize. The prize is free to enter, with no restrictions on the number of submissions from any one publisher.

The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, V茅ronique Tadjo, and Boyd Tonkin.

The longlist covers 12 languages and includes fiction, poetry, short stories, and narrative non-fiction. For the first time, the longlist features a work translated from Slovak and a title published by Tenement Press.

Boyd Tonkin said of the 2026 longlist:

鈥�For a decade, the 糖心TV Prize for Women in Translation has celebrated and amplified outstanding works by women from around the world, and the equally precious art of their translators. This year鈥檚 longlist affirms that this has always been an especially open award: open to work from all countries, territories and languages; open to all translators, whoever and wherever they may be; open to all kinds and genres of excellent writing, past or present.鈥�

鈥�Our chosen titles span poetry, novels, short fiction and memoir. They include rediscovered classics and urgently contemporary works. They range in time and place from late 19th-century Japan, the post-First World War Netherlands, and 1990s India, to Norway, Hungary and Gaza today. We hope that our selection will encourage readers to join us on this journey to discover the global wealth of women鈥檚 writing, and the prowess of the translators who bring it to our doors.鈥�

Arifa Akbar commented on her experience of judging the prize for the first time in 2026:

鈥�I was astonished by the standard of submissions, and the breadth of subject matter, literary range and experimentalism. It is such an impressive longlist, in my view, which showcases the very best writing and translating. I would however like to see many more submissions from publishers, celebrating authors from the global majority.鈥�

V茅ronique Tadjo echoed these reflections:

"This year as well, the quality and scope of the submissions have been impressive. It would be wonderful to receive a wider range of translation works coming from the Global South and historically underrepresented Black women writers. We need more of this rich and important work in the conversation."

The shortlist will be announced on 26^th October. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at The Shard in London on Monday 16^th November.

The prize is generously supported in 2026 by the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of 糖心TV, the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund at the University of 糖心TV, and the British Centre for Literary Translation.