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As announced “earlier this morning at The Millions,”: these are the six poetry finalists for this year’s Best Translated Book Award:

by Angélica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan (Brazil, Phoneme Media)

by Liu Xia, translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern (China, Graywolf)

edited and translated from the Persian by Farzana Marie (Afghanistan, Holy Cow! Press)

by Silvina Ocampo, translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss (Argentina, NYRB)

by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Djibouti, Seagull Books)

by Yi Lu, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (China, Milkweed)

As in years past, each of the winning authors and translators (for poetry and fiction), will receive $5,000 cash prizes thanks to the support of Amazon’s Literary Partnership program. Actually, after these are awarded, the BTBA will have given out $100,000 in prizes to international authors and their translators—not a bad accomplishment!

To celebrate this year’s Best Translated Book Awards, we will be hosting two separate events.

First up, on May 4th from 6:30-8:00pm, the official awards ceremony will take place at (92 W. Houston St., New York). The two winning titles will be revealed at 7pm sharp—both live in person AND at

Then, one week later during BookExpo America, there will be a special celebration at (1301 E. 57th St., Chicago) from 5:00-6:30pm. There will be some drinks and refreshments on hand, along with several BTBA judges. (Worth noting that this event will be immediately followed by This is part of the Polish programming that’s going on during BEA, and something a lot of BTBA fans will likely be interested in.)

This year’s poetry jury consisted of Jarrod Annis (), Katrine Øgaard Jensen (), Tess Lewis (writer and translator), Becka McKay (writer and translator), and Deborah Smith (writer, translator, founder of ).