{"id":305566,"date":"2017-03-28T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/03\/28\/2017-best-translated-book-award-fiction-longlist-btba-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:13","slug":"2017-best-translated-book-award-fiction-longlist-btba-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/03\/28\/2017-best-translated-book-award-fiction-longlist-btba-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist [BTBA 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Queue<\/em><\/a> by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (Egypt, Melville House)<\/p>\n

The Young Bride<\/em><\/a> by Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions)<\/p>\n

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Wicked Weeds<\/em><\/a> by Pedro Cabiya, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Powell (Dominican Republic, Mandel Vilar Press)<\/p>\n

Chronicle of the Murdered House<\/em><\/a> by L\u00facio Cardoso, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson (Brazil, Open Letter Books)<\/p>\n

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On the Edge<\/em><\/a> by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, New Directions)<\/p>\n

Eve Out of Her Ruins<\/em><\/a> by Ananda Devi, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Mauritius, Deep Vellum)<\/p>\n

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Zama<\/em><\/a> by Antonio di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen (Argentina, New York Review Books)<\/p>\n

A Spare Life<\/em><\/a> by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from the Macedonian by Christina Kramer (Macedonia, Two Lines Press)<\/p>\n

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Doomi Golo<\/em><\/a> by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated from the Wolof by Vera W\u00fclfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Senegal, Michigan State University Press)<\/p>\n

Night Prayers<\/em><\/a> by Santiago Gamboa, translated from the Spanish by Howard Curtis (Colombia, Europa Editions)<\/p>\n

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Angel of Oblivion<\/em><\/a> by Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis (Austria, Archipelago Books)<\/p>\n

War and Turpentine<\/em><\/a> by Stefan Hertmans, translated from the Dutch by David McKay (Belgium, Pantheon)<\/p>\n

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Umami<\/em><\/a> by Laia Jufresa, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes (Mexico, Oneworld)<\/p>\n

Last Wolf and Herman<\/em><\/a> by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes and John Batki (Hungary, New Directions)<\/p>\n

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Oblivion<\/em><\/a> by Sergei Lebedev, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis (Russia, New Vessel Press)<\/p>\n

Thus Bad Begins<\/em><\/a> by Javier Mar\u00edas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, Knopf)<\/p>\n

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In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth<\/em><\/a> by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Chris Clarke (France, New York Review Books)<\/p>\n

Ladivine<\/em><\/a> by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump (France, Knopf)<\/p>\n

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Among Strange Victims<\/em><\/a> by Daniel Salda\u00f1a Par\u00eds, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico, Coffee House Press)<\/p>\n

Moonstone<\/em><\/a> by Sj\u00f3n, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb (Iceland, FSG<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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Memoirs of a Polar Bear<\/em><\/a> by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (Japan, New Directions)<\/p>\n

Vampire in Love<\/em><\/a> by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, New Directions)<\/p>\n

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My Marriage<\/em><\/a> by Jakob Wassermann, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (Germany, New York Review Books)<\/p>\n

Moshi Moshi<\/em><\/a> by Banana Yoshimoto, translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda (Japan, Counterpoint Press)<\/p>\n

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Super Extra Grande<\/em><\/a> by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by David Frye (Cuba, Restless Books)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (Egypt, Melville House) The Young Bride by Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions) Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Powell (Dominican Republic, Mandel Vilar Press) Chronicle of the Murdered House by […]<\/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":[35996,64586,48766,65516,1646],"class_list":["post-305566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba","tag-btba-2017","tag-btba-fiction","tag-btba-longlists","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305566","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=305566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315546,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305566\/revisions\/315546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}