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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Translated Literature | 2026 | Longlist |
About This Book
Translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery, Mora's novel follows recent widower Redo Hauptshammer, who arrives in a small European town in the early 1800s to claim a plot of land and begins unearthing frozen bodies of soldiers. The book explores the legacy of war, secrets, and what excavation of the past can reveal. Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
About the Authors
Vicente Luis MoraSpanish
Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. A former director of the Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Málaga. Centroeuropa, his first novel published in North America, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery, was longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Rahul BeryBritish
Rahul Bery is a British translator from Spanish and Portuguese. His translations include Vicente Luis Mora's Centroeuropa, which won an English PEN Translates Award and was longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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