As announced “earlier this morning at The Millions,”: these are the six poetry finalists for this year’s Best Translated Book Award:<\/p>\n
Rilke Shake<\/em><\/a> by Ang\u00e9lica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan (Brazil, Phoneme Media)<\/p>\n Empty Chairs: Selected Poems<\/em><\/a> by Liu Xia, translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern (China, Graywolf) <\/p>\n Load Poems Like Guns: Women\u2019s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan<\/em>,<\/a> edited and translated from the Persian by Farzana Marie (Afghanistan, Holy Cow! Press)<\/p>\n Silvina Ocampo<\/em><\/a> by Silvina Ocampo, translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss (Argentina, NYRB<\/span>)<\/p>\n The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper<\/em><\/a> by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Djibouti, Seagull Books)<\/p>\n Sea Summit<\/em><\/a> by Yi Lu, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (China, Milkweed)<\/p>\n 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<\/span> will have given out $100,000 in prizes to international authors and their translators—not a bad accomplishment! <\/p>\n To celebrate this year’s Best Translated Book Awards, we will be hosting two separate events. <\/p>\n First up, on May 4th from 6:30-8:00pm, the official awards ceremony will take place at The Folly<\/a> (92 W. Houston St., New York). The two winning titles will be revealed at 7pm sharp—both live in person AND<\/span> at The Millions.<\/a><\/p>\n Then, one week later during BookExpo America, there will be a special celebration at 57th Street Books<\/a> (1301 E. 57th St., Chicago) from 5:00-6:30pm. There will be some drinks and refreshments on hand, along with several BTBA<\/span> judges. (Worth noting that this event will be immediately followed by Family History of Fear: Agata Tuszynska, Ron Balson, and Greg Archer.<\/a> This is part of the Polish programming that’s going on during BEA<\/span>, and something a lot of BTBA<\/span> fans will likely be interested in.) <\/p>\n This year’s poetry jury consisted of Jarrod Annis (Greenlight Bookstore<\/a>), Katrine \u00d8gaard Jensen (Words Without Borders<\/a>), Tess Lewis (writer and translator), Becka McKay (writer and translator), and Deborah Smith (writer, translator, founder of Tilted Axis<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As announced “earlier this morning at The Millions,”: these are the six poetry finalists for this year’s Best Translated Book Award: Rilke Shake by Ang\u00e9lica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan (Brazil, Phoneme Media) Empty Chairs: Selected Poems by Liu Xia, translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern (China, Graywolf) […]<\/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":[67476],"tags":[18416,35996,61536,49386],"class_list":["post-304196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-best-translated-book-award","tag-btba","tag-btba-2016","tag-btba-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304196","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=304196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330846,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304196\/revisions\/330846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}