{"id":301276,"date":"2015-05-04T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/05\/04\/2015-best-translated-book-award-finalists-some-clues\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:56:55","slug":"2015-best-translated-book-award-finalists-some-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/05\/04\/2015-best-translated-book-award-finalists-some-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Best Translated Book Award Finalists: Some Clues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s basically impossible to guess all 25 books on the Best Translated Book Award longlist, no matter how many odd clues I post. Which is why, when we play that game, I offer a lifetime subscription to anyone able to naming all of the books. (I really hope that some year someone actually does pull this off. It would be an incredible feat.) <\/p>\n<p>When it comes down to picking the books making the shortlist though . . . This is totally do able. Below are a handful of stats about the 10 titles on the fiction shortlist and the 6 poetry collections that have been shortlisted. <\/p>\n<p>The first person to name all 10 fiction titles or 6 poetry ones, gets a free year&#8217;s subscription to Open Letter Books. Only one guess per person though, so make it good. And you&#8217;ll have to do this fast: Get your entry to me at chad.post [at] rochester.edu by midnight tonight. The announcements start tomorrow morning at 10am . . . <\/p>\n<p>First up, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=13972\">Poetry Longlist<\/a> and a few clues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are four languages represented on the shortlist, with no single language having more then two titles on the list;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Each of the six shortlisted authors hail from different countries;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Four of the books on the shorlist are by female poets;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Only one publisher has two books on the shortlist.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, on to the Fiction Finalists . . . First up, here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=13982\">longlist.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are four female and six male finalists on the list;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nine different countries are represented on the shortlist;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The fiction finalists have been translated from seven different languages;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten different publishers have a book on the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Man, are those clues almost worthless . . . I&#8217;ll give you one more good giveaway. In terms of languages, one language has four representatives on the list. OK . . . go! Send me your guesses! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s basically impossible to guess all 25 books on the Best Translated Book Award longlist, no matter how many odd clues I post. Which is why, when we play that game, I offer a lifetime subscription to anyone able to naming all of the books. 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