Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. Willem Anker ; translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns. Hermann Hesse ; translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Pascal Mercier ; translated from the German by Barbara Harshav. Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Kazushige Abe ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich. Antoine de Saint-Exupery ; translated from the French by Richard Howard. Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Franz Kafka ; translated by Michael Hofmann.