{"id":7183,"date":"2012-04-10T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2016-07-13T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:23:00","slug":"2012-best-translated-book-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/04\/10\/2012-best-translated-book-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Best Translated Book Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the ten finalists for the Best Translated Book Award were announced, whittling away at the longlist of twenty-five (click <a title=\"BTBA Longlist\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/02\/29\/2012-best-translated-book-award-longlist-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for the longlist). Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Lightning<\/strong><\/em>, by Jean Echenoz, tr. from the French by Linda Coverdale (New Press)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Upstaged<\/strong><\/em>, by Jacques Jouet, tr. from the French by Leland de la Durantaye (Dalkey Archive)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Korn\u00e9l Esti<\/strong><\/em>, by Dezs\u00f6 Kosztol\u00e1nyi, tr. from the Hungarian by Bernard Adams (New Directions)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>I Am a Japanese Writer<\/strong><\/em>, by Dany Laferri\u00e8re, tr. from the French by David Hormel (Douglas &amp; MacIntyre)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>New Finnish Grammar<\/strong><\/em>, by Diego Marani, tr. from the Italian by Judith Landry (Dedalus)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Stone Upon Stone<\/strong><\/em>, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, tr. from the Polish by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Scars<\/strong><\/em>, by Juan Jos\u00e9 Saer, tr. from the Spanish by Steve Dolph (Open Letter)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Kafka\u2019s Leopards<\/strong><\/em>, by Moacyr Scliar, tr. from the Portuguese by Thomas O. Beebee (Texas Tech University Press)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>In Red<\/strong><\/em>, by Magdelena Tulli, tr. from the Polish by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Never Any End to Paris<\/em><\/strong>, tr. from the Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the longlist was announced on February 29, I have been trying to get through a number of the books, and to date I have read eleven. Of the seven finalists\u00a0I&#8217;ve read\u00a0to now, the only one on this list that I&#8217;m a bit surprised by is <em>Upstaged<\/em>, which was fun but . . . well, I must have missed something of the Republicanism or something. I also didn&#8217;t particularly care for <em>New Finnish Grammar<\/em>, but I can see why others like it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to my reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Lightning<\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Lightning\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/06\/22\/jean-echenoz-lightning\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Upstaged<\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Upstaged\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/04\/12\/jacques-jouet-upstaged\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em><strong>Korn\u00e9l Esti<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Kornel Esti\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/02\/22\/dezso-kosztolanyi-kornel-esti\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>New Finnish Grammar<\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of New Finnish Grammar\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/04\/11\/diego-marani-new-finnish-grammar\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em><strong>Scars<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Scars\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/12\/juan-jose-saer-scars\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><em><strong>Kafka\u2019s Leopards<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Kafka's Leopards\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/21\/moacyr-scliar-kafkas-leopards\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Never Any End to Paris<\/em><\/strong> (click <a title=\"Mookse Review of Never Any End to Paris\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/04\/29\/enrique-vila-matas-never-any-end-to-paris\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Translated Book Award shortlist is here. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/04\/10\/2012-best-translated-book-award-finalists\/\"><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-7183","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-1RR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","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=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/19327"}],"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=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}