{"id":759,"date":"2012-03-01T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T02:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T02:54:57","slug":"best-translated-book-awards-2012-fiction-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Awards 2012 Fiction Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the 3% blog <\/a>Chad Post<\/a> has announced this year’s fiction longlist for the Best Translated Book Awards<\/a>. From the press release:<\/p>\n

February 28, 2012\u2014The 25-title fiction longlist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards was announced this afternoon. This is the fifth year for the BTBA, 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

Featuring authors from 14 countries writing in 12 languages, this year\u2019s fiction longlist illustrates the prize\u2019s dedication to literary diversity, ranging from works by established and classic authors, such as Moacyr Scliar\u2019s Kafka\u2019s Leopards<\/em> and Imre Kertesz\u2019s Fiasco<\/em>, to works by emerging voices, like Johan Harstad\u2019s Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?<\/em>, and Inka Parei\u2019s The Shadow-Boxing Woman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, if you’re in Chicago for the AWP, check out the Open Letter books booth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the 3% blog Chad Post has announced this year’s fiction longlist for the Best Translated Book Awards. From the press release: February 28, 2012\u2014The 25-title fiction longlist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards was announced this afternoon. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[119,216],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3137,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3137","url_meta":{"origin":759,"position":0},"title":"Bradbury’s Hsia Y\u00fc on BTBA Poetry Longlist","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For the first time ever, the Best Translated Book Award for poetry has a longlist--to match the longlist for fiction--and this year it features Steve Bradbury's translation of Salsa by Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87. 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