This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. This morning, we present the ten contenders in the category of Translated Literature. Check back tomorrow morning for Poetry.

This is the second time that the National Book Award for Translated Literature has been awarded, and the second time that Olga Tokarczuk, whom the New Yorker critic James Wood called “a talented redescriber of the world,” has appeared on the longlist. In 2018, the Polish novelist was recognized for “Flights,” which she calls a “constellation novel,” owing to its fragmentary form and genre-defying style, and which won that year’s Man Booker Prize. “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,” her latest novel to be translated into English (by Antonia Lloyd-Jones), is a murder mystery about a scheming animal-rights crusader who conspires against her neighbors, an array of avid hunters. Tokarczuk told Ruth Franklin, who profiled the author for The New Yorker earlier this year, that she embarked on the book because she wanted to write “something light.” In Poland, where simmering nationalist sentiment seems to be on the rise, Tokarczuk is especially popular among readers with a progressive bent; as Franklin writes, the novelist “relishes her role as a challenger of orthodoxies.”

For Pajtim Statovci, whose novel “Crossing,” translated into English by David Hackston, is another contender for this year’s prize, defiance is also an engine of fiction. His protagonists, two Albanian teen-agers, have fluid, if fraught, sexualities and identities. In his review of the book, Garth Greenwell praised Statovci’s lyric voice, with “longing and rage compressed in a single sentence.”

The ten titles on the longlist, originally written in ten different languages, include seven novels, two memoirs, and a collection of essays.

Naja Marie Aidt, “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book”

Translated by Denise Newman

Coffee House Press

Eliane Brum, “The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections”

Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty

Graywolf Press

Nona Fernández, “Space Invaders”

Translated by Natasha Wimmer

Graywolf Press

Vigdis Hjorth, “Will and Testament”

Translated by Charlotte Barslund

Verso Fiction / Verso Books

Khaled Khalifa, “Death Is Hard Work”

Translated by Leri Price

Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

László Krasznahorkai, “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming”

Translated by Ottilie Mulzet

New Directions

Scholastique Mukasonga, “The Barefoot Woman”

Translated by Jordan Stump

Archipelago Books

Yoko Ogawa, “The Memory Police”

Translated by Stephen Snyder

Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Pajtim Statovci, “Crossing”

Translated by David Hackston

Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Olga Tokarczuk, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

The judges for the category this year are Keith Gessen, a founding editor of n+1, and the author, most recently, of “A Terrible Country”; Elisabeth Jaquette, a translator and the executive director of the American Literary Translators Association; Katie Kitamura, whose most recent novel, “A Separation,” has been translated into sixteen languages; Idra Novey, the author of “Those Who Knew,” who teaches fiction at Princeton University; and Shuchi Saraswat, who has worked at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, GrubStreet, and an independent bookseller.