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Since the New York Times didn’t reference PEN’s two translation prizes AT ALL in their official this morning (grrrrr!), I thought I’d list all the finalists here, if for no other reason than that this info exists on the Internet somewhere outside of

PEN Translation Prize ($3,000): For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2015.

JUDGES: Elisabeth Jaquette, Aviya Kushner, Ronald Meyer, Sara Nović, and Jeffrey Zuckerman

SHORTLIST:

by Clarice Lispector
Translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson (New Directions)

by Vladimir Sorokin
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated from the Russian by Oliver Ready (Penguin Classics)

by Georgi Gospodinov
Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Open Letter Books)

by Viola Di Grado
Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (Europa Editions)

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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000): For a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2015.

JUDGE: Urayoán Noel

SHORTLIST:

by Luis Hernández
Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist (Swan Isle Press)

Translated from the Chinese by David Hinton (New Directions)

by Angélica Freitas
Translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan (Phoneme Media)

Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu (Canarium Books)

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Obviously, I’m most excited that is on this list, but every author, translator, and publisher on here deserves to be congratulated. As do the judges. Pairing down the ten title longlists is a daunting task, and I’m sure picking a single winner is going to be exponentially more difficult.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll get individual posts up about all of these books, but in the meantime, I hope you share this information and pick up one of them to read . . .