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Time for me to pay attention! Here is the fifteen title longlist. Finalists will be announced in October; the winner in November during the ALTA conference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Poems of Consummation<\/strong><\/em>, by Vicente Aleixandre<br \/>\nTranslated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Cavafy: Complete Poems<\/strong><\/em>, by C.P. Cavafy<br \/>\nTranslated from the Greek by George Economou<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Dark<\/strong><\/em>, by Sergio Chejfec<br \/>\nTranslated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Theme of Farewell and After-Poems<\/strong><\/em>, by Milo de Angelis<br \/>\nTranslated from the Italian by Susan Steward &amp; Patrizio Ceccagnoli<\/li>\n<li><em><em><strong>Life&#8217;s G<\/strong><\/em><\/em><em><strong>ood, Brother<\/strong><\/em>, by Nazim Kikmet<br \/>\nTranslated from the Turkish by Mutlu Konuk Blasing<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don&#8217;t Exist<\/strong><\/em>, by Agnieszka Kuciak<br \/>\nTranslated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mookse Review of A Treatise on Shelling Beans\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/12\/10\/wieslaw-mysliwski-a-treatise-on-shelling-beans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Treatise on Shelling Beans<\/strong><\/em>, by Wieslaw Mysliwski<\/a><br \/>\nTranslated from the Polish by Bill Johnston<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Between Friends<\/strong><\/em>, by Amos Oz<br \/>\nTranslated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Girl with the Golden Parasol<\/strong><\/em>, by Uday Prakash<br \/>\nTranslated from the Hindi by Jason Gruenbaum<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mookse Review of The African Shore\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/04\/29\/rodrigo-rey-rosa-the-african-shore\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The African Shore<\/strong><\/em>, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa<\/a><br \/>\nTranslated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Gray<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Four Elemental Bodies<\/strong><\/em>, by Claude Royet-Journoud<br \/>\nTranslated from the French by Keith Waldrop<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Light and Dark<\/strong><\/em>, by Natsume Soseki<br \/>\nTranslated from the Japanese by John Nathan<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Crossings<\/strong><\/em>, by Habib Tengour<br \/>\nTranslated from the French by Marilyn Hacker<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>An Invitation for Me to Think<\/strong><\/em>, by Alexander Vvedensky<br \/>\nTranslated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky &amp; Matvei Yankelevich<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mookse Review of A Schoolboy's Diary\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/09\/05\/robert-walser-a-schoolboys-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Schoolboy&#8217;s Diary<\/strong><\/em>, by Robert Walser<\/a><br \/>\nTranslated from the German by Damion Searls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 National Translation Award Longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/08\/05\/the-2014-national-translation-award-longlist\"><u>Read the full 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