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Following on the announcement of the poetry shortlist, here’s the list of the ten titles that made this year’s shortlist.

As mentioned elsewhere, the two winning books will be announced at

Following that, we will be gathering at 5pm at on 92 West Houston St. Anyone interested in celebrating the BTBA and all the authors and translators who published books last year should definitely come out for this. Great way to kick off your BEA party times . . .

On with the announcement! Here are the ten fiction finalists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award:

by Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (China, Yale University Press)

by Éric Chevillard, translated from the French by Jordan Stump (France, Dalkey Archive Press)

by Julio Cortázar, translated from the Spanish by David Kurnick (Argentina, Semiotext(e))

by Sergei Dovlatov, translated from the Russian by Katherine Dovlatov (Russia, Counterpoint Press)

by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions)

by Medardo Fraile, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, Pushkin Press)

by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Stacey Knecht (Czech Republic, Archipelago Books)

by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella (Finland, NYRB)

by Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico, Coffee House Press)

by Juan José Saer, translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph (Argentina, Open Letter Books)