{"id":298106,"date":"2014-05-21T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/05\/21\/2014-world-cup-of-literature-the-details\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:21","slug":"2014-world-cup-of-literature-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/05\/21\/2014-world-cup-of-literature-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 World Cup of Literature: The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of months ago, I alluded to the idea of having Three Percent host a &#8220;World Cup of Literature&#8221; pitting all of the World Cup qualifying countries (see below) against one another in a battle for world literature supremacy. (At least until the next World Cup.) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the time for that is now!, and so here are all the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The World Cup of Literature will be a 32-book knock-out tournament that will run around the same time as the actual World Cup of Football Soccering. Obviously, our game schedule will be different, since we&#8217;re forgoing all that round robin stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stealing a bit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/tob\/\">Morning News Tournament of Books,<\/a> each &#8220;match&#8221; will pit two books against one another and will be judged by one of our fifteen illustrious judges. (More on that below, but if you&#8217;re illustrious and a judge, let me know. We need a few more good readers.) They&#8217;ll assign a soccer-like score and one of the two books will move on. (No draws! Because we are America and America is about winning and teams that don&#8217;t win as the winning team.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All fifteen judges will weigh in on the championship match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where you all come in: We need recommendations of books for all the World Cup countries. The full list of countries is below. And I set up a special email account (worldcupofliterature@gmail.com) for you to send in your ideas. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/worldcupofliterature\">Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldCupofLit\">Twitter feed<\/a> that we&#8217;ll get going over the next few days. Submit recommendations there are well!<\/p>\n<p>In terms of what we&#8217;re looking for, I think the books we end up including in this competition should be fun, interesting, enjoyable, &#8220;readable,&#8221; etc. So, in contrast to the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> finalists, this could include more genre works and the like. Not that we want to include crap, but I don&#8217;t think this should feature 32 obscure, high modernist writers from around the world. <\/p>\n<p>And to keep in the World Cup spirit of young, healthy people running around athletically, we&#8217;d like to include books published from 2000 onwards. Keep it young! (And avoid match-ups like <em>The Tin Drum<\/em> vs. <em>The Great Gatsby.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Please send along any and all recommendations you have by <b>June 10th.<\/b> Obviously, there are certain countries that are trickier to find good representatives from than others. (Like Costa Rica. Like C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. And good luck coming up with an American book.) I&#8217;ll post all the recommendations we get after the 10th, and we&#8217;ll announce the official representatives later that week along with a match schedule. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m serious about looking for a few more judges. Rather than calling on all the usual suspects, I think it would be more fun to include a bunch of Three Percent\/International Literature fans in the judging process. As a judge you will be assigned two matches that you&#8217;re responsible for, and can vote on the championship. The pieces you write can be as serious or as flippant as you want&#8212;it&#8217;s up to you. Just email the same address (worldcupofliterature@gmail.com) if you&#8217;re interested. <\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s it for now . . . So for the non-soccer obsessed, here are the countries that are participating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Belgium<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<li>Colombia<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>England<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Greece<\/li>\n<li>Honduras<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Ivory Coast<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Russia<\/li>\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>Uruguay<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of months ago, I alluded to the idea of having Three Percent host a &#8220;World Cup of Literature&#8221; pitting all of the World Cup qualifying countries (see below) against one another in a battle for world literature supremacy. (At least until the next World Cup.) Anyway, the time for that is now!, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[56386],"class_list":["post-298106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-world-cup-of-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337856,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298106\/revisions\/337856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}