2024 GLOBAL LITERATURE IN LIBRARIES INITIATIVE TRANSLATED YOUNG ADULT BOOK PRIZE SHORTLIST

The 2024 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Committee is very pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 prize.  This is the sixth year of the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize, which recognizes publishers, translators, and authors of books in English translation for young adult readers, aged 12 through 18 inclusive.

Publisher submissions to the 2024 longlist consisted of twenty-nine books in fifteen languages, published within the past three years.  See the prize criteria here and submission guidelines here.

The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and Jujitsu – by Clement Xavier, Lisa Lugrin & Albertine Ralenti / Translated from French by Edward Gauvin (Graphic Universe/2023)