{"id":304296,"date":"2016-05-05T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/05\/05\/2016-best-translated-book-award-winners-signs-preceding-the-end-of-the-world-and-rilke-shake\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:15","slug":"2016-best-translated-book-award-winners-signs-preceding-the-end-of-the-world-and-rilke-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/05\/05\/2016-best-translated-book-award-winners-signs-preceding-the-end-of-the-world-and-rilke-shake\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Best Translated Book Award Winners: "Signs Preceding the End of the World" and "Rilke Shake""},"content":{"rendered":"

May 4, 2016\u2014The ninth annual Best Translated Book Awards were announced this evening at The Folly in New York City, and at The Millions<\/a> with Yuri Herrera\u2019s Signs Preceding the End of the World<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, winning for fiction, and Ang\u00e9lica Freitas\u2019s Rilke Shake<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan, winning for poetry. <\/p>\n

This is the ninth iteration of the BTBA<\/span> and the fifth in which the four winning authors and translators will receive $5,000 cash prizes thanks to funding from the Amazon Literary Partnership program. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs it nears its tenth year, the Best Translated Book Awards has become an annual literary highlight, shining an important spotlight on great international works that deserve to be introduced to U.S. readers,\u201d said Neal Thompson, Amazon\u2019s director of Author and Publishing Relations. \u201cThe Amazon Literary Partnership is proud to support international authors and their translators and to have contributed more than $100,000 over the past five years to the Best Translated Book Awards.”<\/p>\n

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Despite the prevelance of Spanish-language authors published in translation\u2014and who have made the BTBA<\/span> longlist\u2014Yuri Herrera is the first Spanish-language writer to win the award for fiction. According to BTBA<\/span> judge Jason Grunebaum, “Translator Lisa Dillman has crafted a dazzling voice in English for Yuri Herrera\u2019s Signs Preceding the End of the World<\/em>, a transformative tale of a young woman\u2019s trip on foot from Mexico to the U.S. to deliver a package and find a brother. This novel of real pathos and unexpected displacement in self, place, and language achieves a near perfect artistic convergence of translator and author, while giving readers an urgent account from today\u2019s wall-building world.” <\/p>\n

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Lisa Dillman has translated almost a dozen books over the past few years, including works by Andr\u00e9s Barba and Eduardo Halfon, and teaches Spanish at Emory College. Her translation of Herrera\u2019s next novel, The Transmigration of Bodies<\/em><\/a> (also published by And Other Stories), comes out in July. <\/p>\n

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With Rilke Shake<\/em> taking home the poetry award, Phoneme Media becomes the first press to win for poetry in back-to-back years. (Diorama by Roc\u00edo Cer\u00f3n, translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosenwong, won last year). Hilary Kaplan also received a PEN<\/span>\/Heim Translation Fund grant to work on this collection. <\/p>\n

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BTBA<\/span> judge Tess Lewis praised the collection, saying, \u201c[Kaplan] has done the grant and Freitas\u2019s poems justice, capturing the many shifts in tone in and between the lines, from playful to wry to sardonic to pathetic, even sentimental, to deadpan and back to playful, sometimes within a single poem. For all of Freitas\u2019s lyric clowning, it\u2019s clear she takes poetry too seriously not to dismantle it and use it to her own purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next Wednesday, May 11th, from 5-6:30pm, 57th Street Books in Chicago will be hosting a BTBA<\/span> party at the store. The event\u2014which will feature a number of BTBA<\/span> judges\u2014is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s fiction jury is made up of: Amanda Bullock (Literary Arts, Portland), Heather Cleary, (translator, co-founder of the Buenos Aires Review), Kevin Elliott (57th Street Books), Kate Garber (192 Books) Jason Grunebaum (translator, writer), Mark Haber (writer, Brazos Bookstore), Stacey Knecht (translator), Amanda Nelson (Book Riot), and P. T. Smith (writer and reader).<\/p>\n

And this year\u2019s poetry jury is made up of: Jarrod Annis (Greenlight Bookstore), Katrine \u00d8gaard Jensen (Council for European Studies), Tess Lewis (writer and translator), Becka McKay (writer, translator), and Deborah Smith (writer, translator, founder of Tilted Axis).<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the official Best Translated Book Award site and the official BTBA<\/span> Facebook page, and follow the award on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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