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The eighth annual Best Translated Book Awards were announced at BookExpo America on Wednesday, May 27, with Chinese author Can Xue\u2019s The Last Lover<\/em> taking home the award for fiction, and Spanish poet Roc\u00edo Cer\u00f3n\u2019s Diorama <\/em>winning for poetry.<\/p>\n

Organized by Three Percent<\/a> at the URochester, the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA<\/a>) is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the United States over the previous year. Each of the winning authors and translators will be given $5,000 in cash prizes from Amazon.com\u2019s giving program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe this is the most beautiful thing that has happened in my whole life,\u201d said winner Xue. \u201cI always think of the BTBA as a very prestigious prize rewarding writers who have the great courage to achieve their literary ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to this year\u2019s jury, Xue\u2019s The Last Lover<\/em> translated by Annelise Finegan, was the most radical and uncompromising of this year\u2019s finalists, pushing the novel form into bold new territory. Published by Yale University Press, the book \u201ctakes readers on a journey through a dream world as strange yet disquietingly familiar as Kafka\u2019s Amerika<\/em>,\u201d said Monica Carter, chair of the BTBA fiction committee. If Orientalists describe an East that exists only in the Western imagination, Xue describes \u201cits shadow, offering a beguiling dream of a Chinese West. In addition, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen\u2019s translation succeeds in crafting a powerful English voice for a writer of singular imagination and insight,\u201d said Carter.<\/p>\n

The jury also named three runners-up in fiction: Harlequin\u2019s Millions <\/em>by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from Czech by Stacey Knecht and published by Archipelago Books, for the \u201cwonderful lyricism\u201d of its winding sentences; Faces in the Crowd <\/em>by Valeria Luiselli, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney and published by Coffee House Press, for the \u201cexceptional promise demonstrated by its young author\u201d; and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay <\/em>by Elena Ferrante, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein and published by Europa Editions, for its \u201cvibrant characters and sweeping narrative power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past winners of the fiction award include Seiobo There Below <\/em>and Satantango<\/em>, both by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai (recent recipient of the Man Booker International Prize) and translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet and George Szirtes, respectively; Stone Upon Stone <\/em>by Wies\u0142aw Mys\u0301liwski, translated from Polish by Bill Johnston; and, The True Deceiver <\/em>by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal. Jansson and Teal are the only author and translator on this year\u2019s fiction shortlist who previously won the award.<\/p>\n

The nine judges who made up this year\u2019s fiction jury are: George Carroll (North-North-West and Shelf Awareness<\/em>); Monica Carter, (Salonica)<\/em>; James Crossley (Island Books); Scott Esposito (Conversational Reading and Center for the Art of Translation); Jeremy Garber (Powell’s Books); Katrine \u00d8gaard Jensen (Asymptote)<\/em>; Madeleine LaRue (Music & Literature); Daniel Medin (American University of Paris, Cahiers<\/em> Series<\/em>, Quarterly<\/em> Conversation <\/em>and the White<\/em> Review<\/em>); and Michael Orthofer (Complete Review<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s poetry winner, Cer\u00f3n\u2019s Diorama, <\/em>was translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong and published by Phoneme Media. \u201cWe congratulate translator Anna Rosenwong for her masterful translation of Roc\u00edo Cer\u00f3n’s Diorama<\/em>, our first book of poetry and one of the most fascinating and important books to have been published in Mexico this century,\u201d said David Shook, the co-founder and editorial director of Phoneme. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful for the support of the BTBA’s judges and organizers, Three Percent and Chad Post, to our fellow shortlisted publishing houses, translators, and authors, and to our readers around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past poetry award winners include of the award The Guest in the Wood <\/em>by Elisa Biagini, translated from Italian by Diana Thow, Sarah Stickney, and Eugene Ostashevsky; Wheel with a Single Spoke <\/em>by Nichita Sta\u0306nescu, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter; and Spectacle & Pigsty <\/em>by Kiwao Nomura, translated from Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s poetry jury consisted of judges: Biswamit Dwibedy (poet); Bill Martin (translator, critic, organizer of The Bridge)<\/em>; Dawn Lundy Martin( poet); Erica Mena (poet and translator); and Stefan Tobler, (And Other Stories and translator).<\/p>\n

For more information, visit Three Percent, the official Best Translated Book Award site and the official BTBA Facebook page, and follow the award on Twitter. For detailed questions, contact Post at chad.post@rochester.edu<\/a> or 585.319.0823.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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