{"id":2571,"date":"2012-03-01T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:55","slug":"2012-best-translated-book-awards-longlist-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/01\/2012-best-translated-book-awards-longlist-released\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Best Translated Book Awards Longlist Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 Best Translated Book Awards were announced.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the fifth year for the BTBA<\/span>, which launched in 2007 as a way of highlighting the best works of international literature published in the U.S. in the previous year.<\/p>\n

The 2012 BTBA<\/span> Fiction Longlist (in alphabetical order by author):<\/p>\n

Leeches<\/em><\/a> by David Albahari
\nTranslated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursa\u00c4\u2021
\n(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Two Worlds<\/em><\/a> by Sergio Chejfec
\nTranslated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson
\n(Open Letter)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Demolishing Nisard<\/em><\/a> by Eric Chevillard
\nTranslated from the French by Jordan Stump
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Private Property<\/em><\/a> by Paule Constant
\nTranslated from the French by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn
\n(University of Nebraska Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lightning<\/em><\/a> by Jean Echenoz
\nTranslated from the French by Linda Coverdale
\n(New Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zone<\/em><\/a> by Mathias \u00c3\u2030nard
\nTranslated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
\n(Open Letter)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?<\/em><\/a> by Johan Harstad
\nTranslated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin
\n(Seven Stories)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Upstaged<\/em><\/a> by Jacques Jouet
\nTranslated from the French by Leland de la Durantaye
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fiasco<\/em><\/a> by Imre Kert\u00c3\u00a9sz
\nTranslated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson
\n(Melville House)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Montecore<\/em><\/a> by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
\nTranslated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
\n(Knopf)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Korn\u00c3\u00a9l Esti<\/em><\/a> by Dezs\u00c5\u2018 Kosztol\u00c3\u00a1nyi
\nTranslated from the Hungarian by Bernard Adams
\n(New Directions)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I Am a Japanese Writer<\/em><\/a> by Dany Laferri\u00c3\u00a8re
\nTranslated from the French by David Homel
\n(Douglas & MacIntyre)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suicide<\/em><\/a> by Edouard Lev\u00c3\u00a9
\nTranslated from the French by Jan Steyn
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New Finnish Grammar<\/em><\/a> by Diego Marani
\nTranslated from the Italian by Judith Landry
\n(Dedalus)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purgatory<\/em><\/a> by Tom\u00c3\u00a1s Eloy Mart\u00c3\u00adnez
\nTranslated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
\n(Bloomsbury)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stone Upon Stone<\/em><\/a> by Wies\u00c5\u201aaw My\u00c5\u203aliwski
\nTranslated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
\n(Archipelago Books)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scenes from Village Life<\/em><\/a> by Amos Oz
\nTranslated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
\n(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Shadow-Boxing Woman<\/em><\/a> by Inka Parei
\nTranslated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
\n(Seagull Books)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funeral for a Dog<\/em><\/a> by Thomas Pletzinger
\nTranslated from the German by Ross Benjamin
\n(W.W. Norton)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scars<\/em><\/a> by Juan Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Saer
\nTranslated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph
\n(Open Letter)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kafka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Leopards<\/em><\/a> by Moacyr Scliar
\nTranslated from the Portuguese by Thomas O. Beebee
\n(Texas Tech University Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seven Years<\/em><\/a> by Peter Stamm
\nTranslated from the German by Michael Hofmann
\n(Other Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Truth about Marie<\/em><\/a> by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
\nTranslated from the French by Matthew B. Smith
\n(Dalkey Archive Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Red<\/em><\/a> by Magdalena Tulli
\nTranslated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
\n(Archipelago Books)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never Any End to Paris<\/em><\/a> by Enrique Vila-Matas
\nTranslated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
\n(New Directions)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Three Percent: And Here It Is: The BTBA 2012 Fiction Longlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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