The finalists for the Best Translated Book Award in fiction and poetry have been announced. The award, founded in 2007 by the Three Percent weblog and underwritten with $25,000 in prize money from Amazon.com, exists to help bring attention to great works of international literature published in the previous year.
BTBA Fiction Finalists 2013:
- The Planets by Sergio Chejfec, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Open Letter Books, Argentina)
- Prehistoric Times by Eric Chevillard, translated from the French by Alyson Waters (Archipelago Books, France)
- The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, translated from the Persian by Tom Patterdale (Melville House, Iran)
- Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes (New Directions, Hungary)
- Autoportrait by Edouard Leve, translated from the French by Lorin Stein (Dalkey Archive Press, France)
- A Breath of Life: Pulsations by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz (New Directions, Brazil)
- The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm (Metropolitan Books, Romania)
- Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Open Letter Books, Russia)
- Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated from the French by David Ball and Nicole Ball (Indiana University Press, Djibouti)
- My Father’s Book by Urs Widmer, translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin (Seagull Books, Switzerland)
Massimiliano Gioni (Busto Arsizio, 1973) is a curator and contemporary art critic. In 2010 he directed 10.000 Lives, the eighth Gwangju Art Biennale in South Korea being its youngest and first European director ever of this contemporary art biennale; the edition he curated attracted 500.000 visitors. He was the curator of the section entitled “La Zona” at the 50th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. His experience as the artistic director of biennials and other international exhibitions includes the organization of Of Mice and Men – the fourth Berlin Biennale (2006) – and the fifth edition of the travelling art biennale Manifesta (2004). He is the Associate Director of the New Museum in New York and the Artistic Director of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan.
