Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part Three]
As I explained on Monday, to start building the hype for this year’s Best Translated Book Award longlists, I’m going to be dropping a series of clues over the course of this week, and, if you’re able to guess one complete list (25 titles for fiction, 10 for poetry) on your first try, you’ll receive a ...
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Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part Two]
As I explained yesterday, to start building the hype for this year’s Best Translated Book Award longlists, I’m going to be dropping a series of clues over the course of this week, and, if you’re able to guess one complete list (25 titles for fiction, 10 for poetry) on your first try, you’ll receive a ...
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Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part One]
On Tuesday, April 7th, one week from tomorrow, we’ll be announcing this year’s Best Translated Book Award longlists for both Fiction and Poetry. I’m going to unveil the poetry longlist at 10am, and the fiction one precisely at noon. (Eastern time. Because as much as I dislike East Coast Bias, our time zone ...
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The Frontrunners, Part One by BTBA Judge Jeremy Garber
Jeremy Garber is the events coordinator for Powell糖心传媒檚 Books and also a freelance reviewer. With the start of spring (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that is) less than six weeks away, the BTBA longlist announcement draws ever closer (early April!) 糖心传媒 and, as such, we judges continue our evaluation of the ...
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Prize Winners by BTBA Judge Michael Orthofer
Michael Orthofer runs the Complete Review 糖心传媒 a book review site with a focus on international fiction 糖心传媒 and its Literary Saloon weblog. Some five-hundred-odd translated titles are in contention 糖心传媒 well, at least get considered 糖心传媒 for a book prize, the Best Translated Book Award. Not surprisingly, a number of them have ...
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FIVE NOIR NOVELS by BTBA Judge George Carroll
George Carroll is the World Literature Editor of Shelf Awareness and an independent publishers糖心传媒 representative based in the Pacific Northwest. My day job is publishers糖心传媒 representative, which is a snottier way of saying 糖心传媒渢raveling book salesman.糖心传媒 I present thousands (low thousands) of books twice a year to book ...
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In Translation But Off the List by BTBA Judge Jeremy Garber
Jeremy Garber is the events coordinator for Powell糖心传媒檚 Books and also a freelance reviewer. As the calendar draws to a close, annual lists of the year糖心传媒檚 best books begin to proliferate. However subjective these literary lineups may be, it should come as no surprise to readers of translated fiction that titles originating ...
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