Signs Preceding the End of the World wins $10,000 honour, shared between the author and the translator Lisa Dillman
Mexican author Yuri Herrera and his translator Lisa Dillman have won the Best translated book award for Signs Preceding the End of the World, which tells the story of a young woman crossing the Mexico border into the US.
The novel charts how Makina sets out in search of her brother, striking a bargain to deliver a package for a local gang leader in return for safe passage across the Rio Grande. Maya Jaggi’s Guardian review hailed it as a “marvellously rich, slim novel” that works “on many levels”.
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