Emma Ramadan, for her translation, from French, of Abdellah Taïb's A Country for Dying (Seven Stories Press). Of this Moroccan-French novel, the jury wrote: "Ramadan deftly captures the polyphonic complexity of the original, in its portrayal of two North African sex workers and an Iranian revolutionary: immigrants living in Paris with all their ghosts, loves, and longings. Ramadan renders each character's quest for identity - trans, female, gay, black - with a sympathetic ear...the unsung voices emerging from the French colonial wreckage." Read more about A Country for Dying and all the finalists and longlisted titles, all that the world has brought to enrich American literature in 2021.
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