{"id":3306,"date":"2010-02-17T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:39:50","slug":"best-translated-book-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/02\/17\/best-translated-book-award-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Idlewild Books, just a short subway ride away from where I was sitting (wish I could have been there), the Best Translated Fiction shortlist was announced. The winner will be announced on March 10.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Anonymous Celebrity<\/em><\/strong> by Ign\u00e1cio de Loyola Brand\u00e3o, translated from the Portuguese by Nelson Viera<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Confessions of Noa Weber<\/em><\/strong> by Gail Hareven, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Discoverer<\/em><\/strong> by Jan Kj\u00e6rstad, translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of Ghosts\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/05\/05\/cesar-airas-ghosts\/\" target=\"_self\">Ghosts<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by C\u00e9sar Aira, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Memories of the Future<\/em><\/strong> by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Rex<\/em><\/strong> by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Prieto, translated from the Spanish by Alfonso Gonz\u00e1lez and Stella T. Clark<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a title=\"Mookse Review of The Tanners\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/09\/03\/robert-walser-the-tanners\/\" target=\"_self\">The Tanners<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Twin<\/em><\/strong> by Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Weather Fifteen Years Ago<\/em><\/strong> by Wolf Haas, translated from the German by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Wonder<\/em><\/strong> by Hugo Claus, translated from the Dutch by Michael Henry Heim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have on my shelf <em>The Discoverer<\/em>, <em>The Twin<\/em>, and <em>Wonder<\/em>. In fact, I&#8217;ve already started <em>The Twin<\/em>, to happy results.\u00a0<em>Wonder<\/em> looks phenomenal, and I can&#8217;t wait to read it.\u00a0<em>The Discoverer<\/em> is part of a trilogy, the first\u00a0books of which I do not have.\u00a0I&#8217;ve heard\u00a0that each books stands alone, though, so perhaps I should get over my normal need\u00a0to conform to\u00a0that kind of order.\u00a0I hope to\u00a0get through these three before the winner is announced, though that would still mean I only read half of the finalists listed, and this looks like an excellent group.<\/p>\n<p>Of the ones on the <a title=\"BTBA Longlist\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/01\/06\/three-percent-best-translated-book-award-longlist\/\" target=\"_self\">longlist<\/a> that I read but that did not make it to this shortlist, I&#8217;m not surprised that\u00a0<a title=\"Mookse Review of Death in Spring\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/11\/10\/merce-rodoreda-death-in-spring\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Death in Spring<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Mookse Review of The Skating Rink\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/08\/18\/roberto-bolano-the-skating-rink\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>The Skating Rink<\/em><\/a>\u00a0didn&#8217;t make it, though either probably could have.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t like and didn&#8217;t review <em>There&#8217;s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night<\/em>, but I do feel I need to give it another look. I was surprised <a title=\"Mookse Review of Desert\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2009\/12\/28\/j-m-g-le-clezio-desert\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Desert<\/em><\/a>\u00a0didn&#8217;t make it, as that is\u00a0an excellent book. That said, I think <em>The Tanners<\/em> and <em>Ghosts<\/em> are two of the other best books I&#8217;ve read in years, so I fully support their spot on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for this year&#8217;s Best Translated Book Award has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/02\/17\/best-translated-book-award-shortlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BTBA-Logo.png?fit=256%2C202&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}