Jabuti 2000 · Winner
The Woman Who Wrote the Bible
Moacyr Scliar
26 years to English
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Collection · 91 books in English
Waited longest for English
Celebrated at home, then years of waiting. Now finally in English, the longest wait first.
The books
Finlandia 2000 · Shortlist
Backlight
Pirkko Saisio
25 years to English
Mao Dun 2000 · Winner
The Choice
Zhang Ping
24 years to English
Strega 2001 · Winner
The House on Via Gemito
Domenico Starnone
22 years to English
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Finlandia 2001 · Winner
Canal Grande
Hannu Raittila
22 years to English
Akutagawa 2001 (first half) · Candidate
Nipponia Nippon
Kazushige Abe
22 years to English
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Akutagawa 2000 (first half) · Winner
Rip It Up
Kou Machida
22 years to English
Akutagawa 2004 (second half) · Candidate
Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives
Nao-Cola Yamazaki
22 years to English
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Sahitya Akademi 2002 · Winner
Ten Days of the Strike
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
22 years to English
Mao Dun 2000 · Winner
The Story of the Carefree Tea Mansion
Wang Xufeng
22 years to English
APE 2000 · Winner
Warning to the Crocodiles
António Lobo Antunes
21 years to English
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Yi Sang 2003 · Excellence prize
Wafers
Ha Seong-nan
21 years to English
NIN 2000 · Winner
At the Lucky Hand, aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers
Goran Petrović
20 years to English
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Yi Sang 2004 · Excellence prize
Wafers
Ha Seong-nan
20 years to English
Finlandia 2003 · Winner
The Red Book of Farewells
Pirkko Saisio
20 years to English
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NIN 2006 · Winner
The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease
Svetislav Basara
20 years to English
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Akutagawa 2006 (first half) · Candidate
Love at Least
Yukiko Motoya
20 years to English
APE 2003 · Winner
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes
Lídia Jorge
19 years to English
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Sahitya Akademi 2006 · Winner
Dhruvaputra: The Son of Dhruva
Amar Mitra
18 years to English
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Deutscher Buchpreis 2007 · Shortlist
Bad Sheep
Katja Lange-Müller
18 years to English
Strega 2007 · Shortlist
The Innocent Days of War
Mario Fortunato
18 years to English
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Akutagawa 2006 (second half) · Winner
A Perfect Day to Be Alone
Nanae Aoyama
18 years to English
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Akutagawa 2000 (second half) · Winner
The Bear and the Paving Stone
Toshiyuki Horie
18 years to English
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NIN 2000 · Shortlist
Millennium in Belgrade
Vladimir Pištalo
18 years to English
Brage 2004 · Winner
The Pastor
Hanne Ørstavik
17 years to English
Yi Sang 2007 · Excellence prize
To the Kennels: And Other Stories
Pyun Hye-young
17 years to English
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Deutscher Buchpreis 2005 · Shortlist
The Communicating Vessels
Friederike Mayröcker
16 years to English
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Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
Barcode
Krisztina Tóth
16 years to English
Anasoft litera 2007 · Winner
The Healer
Marek Vadas
16 years to English
Sapir 2000 · Shortlist
A Room
Youval Shimoni
16 years to English
Mao Dun 2008 · Winner
The Shaanxi Opera
Jia Pingwa
15 years to English
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Icelandic Literary Prize 2005 · Winner
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
15 years to English
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Governor General's (French) 2004 · Finalist
This Country of Mine
Didier Leclair
14 years to English
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Jabuti 2005 · Shortlist
Lord
João Gilberto Noll
14 years to English
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Mao Dun 2005 · Nominee
Coloratura
Li Er
14 years to English
Magnesia Litera 2009 · Shortlist
Journey to the South
Michal Ajvaz
14 years to English
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Sahitya Akademi 2001 · Winner
Collected Stories
Naiyer Masud
14 years to English
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Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Making Skeletons Dance
Peter Macsovszky
14 years to English
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Mao Dun 2008 · Winner
The Sons of Red Lake
Zhou Daxin
14 years to English
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Mao Dun 2005 · Winner
Eastern Concealment
Zong Pu
14 years to English
Jabuti 2008 · Shortlist
Antonio
Beatriz Bracher
13 years to English
NIN 2001 · Shortlist
Globetrotter
David Albahari
13 years to English
Akutagawa 2002 (second half) · Candidate
The Gun
Fuminori Nakamura
13 years to English
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Villaurrutia 2001 · Winner
Flowers & Mishima's Illustrated Biography
Mario Bellatin
13 years to English
tportal 2011 · Shortlist
Water, Spiderweb
Nada Gašić
13 years to English
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Sapir 2013 · Winner
House Arrest
Noa Yedlin
13 years to English
Augustpriset 2006 · Shortlist
The Faculty of Dreams
Sara Stridsberg
13 years to English
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Akutagawa 2011 (second half) · Winner
Cannibals
Shinya Tanaka
13 years to English
Nike 2000 · Winner
Mother Departs
Tadeusz Różewicz
13 years to English
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Akutagawa 2011 (second half) · Winner
Harlequin Butterfly
Toh EnJoe
13 years to English
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Orhan Kemal 2009 · Winner
The Last Island
Zülfü Livaneli
13 years to English
Brage 2006 · Winner
Armand V.
Dag Solstad
12 years to English
Akutagawa 2005 (first half) · Winner
The Boy in the Earth
Fuminori Nakamura
12 years to English
Aegon 2010 · Shortlist
Autobiographies of an Angel
Gábor Schein
12 years to English
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Magnesia Litera 2011 · Shortlist
Heaven Has No Ground
Hana Andronikova
12 years to English
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Magnesia Litera 2002 · Shortlist
Nightwork
Jáchym Topol
12 years to English
Magnesia Litera 2005 · Winner
Maybe We're Leaving
Jan Balabán
12 years to English
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Deutscher Buchpreis 2009 · Winner
You're Not Dying
Kathrin Schmidt
12 years to English
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Akutagawa 2003 (second half) · Winner
I Want to Kick You in the Back
Risa Wataya
12 years to English
Nike 2000 · Shortlist
God's Horse and The Atheists' School
Wilhelm Dichter
12 years to English
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Magnesia Litera 2013 · Winner
Ceilings
Zuzana Brabcová
12 years to English
Sapir 2005 · Winner
Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War
Alona Frankel
11 years to English
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Sahitya Akademi 2005 · Winner
Kasturi Mrig
Chetan Swami
11 years to English
Kresnik 2008 · Shortlist
Billiards at the Hotel Dobray
Dušan Šarotar
11 years to English
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Villaurrutia 2007 · Winner
Amorgos Notebook
Elsa Cross
11 years to English
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Magnesia Litera 2014 · Shortlist
A History of Light
Jan Němec
11 years to English
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Magnesia Litera 2010 · Shortlist
Gerta
Kateřina Tučková
11 years to English
Sahitya Akademi 2008 · Winner
Reformatory
Mitter Sain Meet
11 years to English
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Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)
Pavol Rankov
11 years to English
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Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee
My Travels in Ding Yi
Shi Tiesheng
11 years to English
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Jabuti 2013 · Shortlist
Glória
Victor Heringer
11 years to English
Aegon 2008 · Shortlist
Night School: A Reader for Grownups
Zsófia Bán
11 years to English
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
The Moon in Foil
Zuska Kepplová
11 years to English
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Augustpriset 2002 · Shortlist
Transfer Fat
Aase Berg
10 years to English
Kresnik 2009 · Shortlist
Change Me
Andrej Blatnik
10 years to English
Icelandic Literary Prize 2002 · Shortlist
LoveStar
Andri Snær Magnason
10 years to English
Nike 2005 · Shortlist
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
Anna Bikont
10 years to English
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Libris 2005 · Shortlist
The Last Poets
Christine Otten
10 years to English
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NIN 2015 · Winner
The Investigator
Dragan Velikić
10 years to English
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Kresnik 2005 · Shortlist
Tea with the Queen
Evald Flisar
10 years to English
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Brage 2008 · Shortlist
Wait, Blink
Gunnhild Øyehaug
10 years to English
Yi Sang 2005 · Winner
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
10 years to English
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Yi Sang 2004 · Excellence prize
He Gave Me Roses of the Balkans
Jung Mi-kyung
10 years to English
Akutagawa 2013 (first half) · Winner
Nails and Eyes
Kaori Fujino
10 years to English
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Goncourt 2007 · Shortlist
The Red Sofa
Michèle Lesbre
10 years to English
Schweizer Buchpreis 2011 · Shortlist
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
Monica Cantieni
10 years to English
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Anasoft litera 2011 · Winner
Boat Number Five
Monika Kompaníková
10 years to English
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Akutagawa 2016 (first half) · Candidate
Beautiful Distance
Nao-Cola Yamazaki
10 years to English
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Goncourt 2002 · Winner
The Roving Shadows
Pascal Quignard
10 years to English
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NIN 2001 · Shortlist
Farewell Gift
Vladimir Tasić
10 years to English
Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee
Mastiffs of the Plateau
Yang Zhijun
10 years to English