Friday, March 25, 2011

2011 Best Translated Book Award Finalists

The Literary Saloon

The finalists for the Best Translated Book Award have been announced, and the ten fiction finalists are:

* Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, translated from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns

* Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg

* The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated from the Czech by Andrew Oakland

* Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar), translated from the French by David Bellos

* The Jokers by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis

* A Life on Paper by Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin

* The Literary Conference by César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver

* On Elegance While Sleeping by 'Viscount' Lascano Tegui, translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey

* The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

* Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

More at The Literary Saloon. 

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