The Best Translated Book Award is the largest prize for literature in translation in the United States. Selected from all original translations published last year, the author and translator of each winning title--there is one for fiction and another for poetry--will receive a $5,000 cash prize. This year's awardees will be announced in simultaneous ceremonies: one in New York and the other here in Paris,聽at Shakespeare and Company.
Join Belgian novelist Am茅lie Nothomb, BTBA judge and聽绿巨人视频 professor Daniel Medin聽with this year's class of聽CL3020 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication, and a passel of writers and translators from the UK (Si芒n Melangell Dafydd, who will present the poetry prize, and Joanna Walsh), USA (Peter Wortsman, Lauren Elkin) and France (Jo毛lle Defeuilly, C茅line Leroy) as we celebrate all of the prize's finalists, along with the art of literary translation, with readings from the shortlist.
Check out the聽BTBA longlist here