her name is lisa dillman. she's the translator of writer like yuri herrera and hillary clinton.and i wrote to her and said, we're thinking about starting a publishing house. do you think you have some kind of book that has been passed over by another house for being too long or too short or too strange or too hard or too something? and i'd be curious to read it. and she sent us what would become the first book that we published, such small hands by the spanish writer andres barba, and it turned out that it was too short for the commercial houses that she had sent it to. also, a little too strange. it's kind of like a shirley jackson crossed with the virgin suicides about a young girl at an orphanage. and it kind of alternates perspectives between this call. we of the other girls in the orphanage and this and the the the recent arrival and it's a very eerie haunting very halloween appropriate book. and we loved it. it's a brilliant it's a brilliant, really taut, slim book that we thought would be the right one to to kick start our list with. and so we we made the case, you know,

portuguese by bruna dantas lobato new vessel press b larkin, tana abyss translated from the spanish by lisa dillman wild editions a street on a woman's madness. translated from the dutch lucy scott. two lines press. this year's book award for translator peter literature goes to stenio gardel bruna dantas lobato for the words that remain new press. what happening right now. thanks to the national book foundation and the judges. okay i dedicate this award to my mom. eat any. she's not us anymore. but she always believed me. and i wouldn't be here if or not for her. she was the best mom. and i miss so much. i'd like to thank my brother dale, all my family and friends so conversationally. vanessa ferrari, julia versus also fernanda in algae. stephanie hawk and everyone at. it was my brazilian publishing house and also lucia heath. julia berman and everyone at heath agency. finally, julie, special thanks to bruna to bruna for capturing the heart and the of the book and writing down in your own beautiful. and to my co-vice publisher of neo verso press for all your dedication and hard work and for giving

by bruno dantas lobato, new vessel press pillar quintana abyss translated from the spanish by lisa dillman"a street roma on a woman's madness," translated from the dutch by lucy scott. two lines press. this year's national book award for translated literature goes to shanel gardel and bruna dantas lobato for the words that remain new vessel press. >> [ applause ] ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ what happening right now. ♪♪ >> what is happening right now? thanks to the national book foundation and the judges. ok, i dedicate this award to my mom, you and she's not amongst us anymore, but she always believed in me and i wouldn't be here if it weren't for her. she was the best mom and i miss her so much. i'd like to thank my brother jadel, all my family and friends, soko sioli, vanessa ferrari, julia b. also fernando hina stephanie hawk, and everyone at compass laters my brazilian publishing house and also lucia heath julia wiman and everyone at heath agency. finally to special thanks to bruna, to bruna for capturing the heart and the breath of the book and writing them down in your own beautiful words and to michael