Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. 2026 National Book Award honorees in Translated Literature read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing, reading, and recognition. Moderated by Natalie Green, director of programs and partnerships at the National Book Foundation.
Featured authors: Night of a Thousand Hells: A Novel by Intan Paramaditha follows the lives of three sisters, irrevocably altered when the youngest straps a bomb to her chest and detonates it in a crowd. In Centuroeuropa, translated by Rahul Bery, a new widower digs a grave for his wife, only to discover body after body of perfectly preserved, frozen soldiers from other ages.
Buy Night of a Thousand Hells: A Novel – Paramaditha/Epstein/Tsao