{"id":305436,"date":"2017-03-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/03\/20\/btba-2017-fiction-longlist-clues-day-one\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","slug":"btba-2017-fiction-longlist-clues-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/03\/20\/btba-2017-fiction-longlist-clues-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"BTBA 2017 Fiction Longlist Clues [Day One]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, March 28th, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/\">The Millions,<\/a> this year&#8217;s Best Translated Book Award longlists will finally be unveiled. So let the countdown begin!<\/p>\n<p>This really is a great time of year for international fiction&#8212;the <del>Independent Foreign Fiction Prize<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/themanbookerprize.com\/international\">Man Booker International Longlist<\/a> was released last week, as was the news that Jill Schoolman, founder and publisher of <a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/\">Archipelago Books,<\/a> will receive this year&#8217;s Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. <\/p>\n<p>And in that vein of promoting international literature, there&#8217;s the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span>, which is what I&#8217;ll be focusing on for the rest of the week. <\/p>\n<p>As with years past, I have the fiction longlist already (and will have the poetry one soon) and want to tease everyone by dropping some clues over the course of the week. We&#8217;ll start out pretty general, and by next Monday, I may even reveal some notable books that <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> make the cut. <\/p>\n<p>These clues and hints are all supposed to be fun&#8212;and maybe a bit cheeky&#8212;but as in the past, I&#8217;m willing to offer up an award for the first person who can correctly guess all twenty-five longlisted titles: a lifetime subscription to Open Letter books. My only condition is that you can only answer once, and in return, I&#8217;ll email you back letting you know how many titles you got correct. Just send your guesses to chad.post@rochester.edu or to @chadwpost on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>For this first set of clues, I&#8217;m just going to go with some of the easily quantifiable things, which are incredibly useful in trying to get all of your favorite books to fit onto this list . . . So, without further ado, here are a few details from the 2017 <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> Fiction Longlist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Thirteen different languages are represented on the longlist, and nineteen different countries;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Eighteen different publishers have at least one book included on the list, and one publisher has four titles;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>One translator is responsible for four books on the list;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight female authors have books on the list;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Only one book from the Man Booker International Longlist is also on the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> fiction longlist.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That should get you started . . . Tomorrow I&#8217;ll try and look at how many repeat authors and presses are on here, which should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it might be worthwhile checking out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=btba-2017\">posts from <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> judges<\/a> about the books they read and loved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, March 28th, over at The Millions, this year&#8217;s Best Translated Book Award longlists will finally be unveiled. So let the countdown begin! This really is a great time of year for international fiction&#8212;the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Man Booker International Longlist was released last week, as was the news that Jill Schoolman, founder [&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":[67476],"tags":[35996,64586,48766,60226],"class_list":["post-305436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba","tag-btba-2017","tag-btba-fiction","tag-btba-fiction-longlist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305436","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=305436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330726,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305436\/revisions\/330726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}