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The 2015 Best Translated Book Award festivities kick off today with the announcement below of the seventeen titles that made this year’s Poetry Longlist. The finalists will be announced the morning of Tuesday, May 5th, and the winner will be announced at a panel during BEA on Wednesday, May 27th. As always, thanks to Amazon.com’s grant, the winning author and translator will each receive a $5,000 cash prize.

Without further ado, here’s the list of longlisted titles for this year’s award:

by Rainer Brambach, translated from the German by Esther Kinsky (Switzerland, Seagull Books)

by Rocío Cerón, translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong (Mexico, Phoeneme)

by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Palestine, NYRB)

by Suzanne Doppelt, translated from the French by Cole Swenson (France, Litmus Press)

by André du Bouchet, translated from the French by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers (France, Yale University Press)

by Jean Frémon, translated from the French by Cole Swensen (France, Omnidawn)

edited and translated from the Pashto by Eliza Griswold (Afghanistan, FSG)

by Kim Hyesoon, translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi (South Korea, Action Books)

by Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker (Lebanon, Curbstone)

by Valerie Mejer, translated from the Spanish by A. S. Zelman-Doring, Forrest Gander, and C.D. Wright (Mexico, Action Books)

by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (Argentina, Ugly Duckling)

by Lev Rubinstein, translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky (Russia, Ugly Duckling)

by Olga Sedakova, translated from the Russian by Caroline Clark, Ksenia Golubovich, and Stephanie Sandler (Russia, Open Letter)

by Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren (Slovenia, Dalkey Archive)

by Farhad Showghi, translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop (Germany, Burning Deck)

by Frank Smith, translated from the French by Vanessa Place (France, Les Figues)

by Hsia Yü, translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury (Taiwan, Zephyr Press)