Congratulations to Padma Viswanathan, whose translation of Graciliano Ramos's novel São Bernardo (published by NYRB Classics in 2020) landed on the shortlist for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. You can read more about the award and see the rest of the shortlist here.
And one more exciting bit of NYRB news: Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, which will be published by New York Review Books in fall 2021, is on the shortlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Learn more here.