The French-American Foundation received 64 submissions to the Translation Prize this year from more than 35 American publishers. . . . There will be one Fiction and one Non-Fiction prize presented at the annual Awards Ceremony on June 5 in New York. Each winning translator will receive a $10,000 cash prize funded by the Florence Gould Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nThe jury, which includes Linda Asher, David Bellos, Linda Coverdale, Emmanuelle Ertel and Lorin Stein, has selected the best English translations of French works published in 2012. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Here’s the list of the Fiction Finalists (descriptions theirs):<\/p>\n
No One<\/em> by Gwena\u00eblle Aubry and translated by Trista Selous (Tin House Books)<\/b><\/p>\n
No One<\/em> is a fictional memoir in dictionary form that investigates the unstable identity of the author’s father, a lawyer affected by a disabling bipolar disorder. Letter by letter, Aubry gives shape and meaning to the father who had long disappeared from her view. <\/p>\n
We Monks and Soldiers<\/em> by Lutz Bassmann and translated by Jordan Stump (University of Nebraska Press)<\/b><\/p>\n
While humanity seems to be fading around them, the members of a shadowy organization are doing their inadequate best to assist those experiencing their last moments. This remarkable work offers readers a thrilling entry into Bassmann’s numinous world.
\n<\/p>\n HHhH<\/em> by Laurent Binet and translated by Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/b><\/p>\n
A seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet’s remarkable imagination, HHhH<\/i>—a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman—is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War.<\/p>\n
Prehistoric Times<\/em> by Eric Chevillard and translated by Alyson Waters (Archipelago Books)<\/b><\/p>\n
The characters in Prehistoric Times<\/em> remind us of the inhabitants of Samuel Beckett’s world: dreamers who in their savage and deductive folly try to modify reality. <\/p>\n
With the Animals<\/em> by No\u00eblle Revaz and translated by W. Donald Wilson (Dalkey Archive Press)<\/b><\/p>\n
With the Animals<\/em>, No\u00eblle Revaz’s shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose linguistic audaciousness is matched only by its brutality, misanthropy, and gallows humor.<\/p>\n
And for those of you who have read this far in this post, you should know that two<\/b> of those five titles made the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist . . . <\/p>\n
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