PEN World Voices as Change Agent
By Chad W. Post It was almost seven years ago when I met then PEN executive director Michael Roberts and translator extraordinaire Esther Allen for ...
View ArticleAmazon.com to Underwrite Best Translated Book Awards
PRESS RELEASE from Open Letter Books: October 20, 2010: Amazon.com has awarded the University of Rochester/Three Percent website a $25,000 grant in support of the ...
View ArticleLast Year on PP: Germany’s Answer to Google, Irish Pub News, Kindle Still...
By Edward Nawotka A year ago this week, we covered the… launch of the DDB, the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) — the German Digital Library ...
View ArticleFiction Longlist Announced for 2011 Best Translated Book Awards
By Hannah Johnson Now in its fifth year, the Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) fiction longlist highlights 25 translated works of literature published in the ...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award Finalists: A Showcase of Indie Press Excellence
By Ed Nawotka Chad Post, frequent contributor and friend to Publishing Perspectives, has announced the finalists for the third year of the Best Translated Book ...
View Article2011 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced
Poetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry Fiction: Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver translated from the Swedish by ...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award for Fiction Longlist Announced
No, Murakami's 1Q84 didn't make the list of 25 titles for the Best Translated Book Awards for fiction, but every one that did is well worth seeking out.
View ArticleWinners of Best Translated Book Award 2012 Announced
The Best Translated Book Award, founded by Three Percent and sponsored by Amazon, honored a book of fiction and a book of poetry on May 4.
View ArticleKrasznahorkai and Stanescu Win the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards
A pair of Eastern European authors — Laszlo Krasznahorki and Nichita Stanescu — take home the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards.
View ArticleAdventures in Translating Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai
This year’s Best Translated Book Award went to Ottilie Mulzet for her translation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below. Here she discusses the challenges of the three year process. The post...
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Winners of 2015 Best Translated Book Awards
Members of the BTBA 2015 Jury announce the winners at BEA (From left: Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books; Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Asymptote; Chad Post, Open Letter Books; and Bill Martin, translator) The...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Awards: Mexico’s Yuri Herrera and Brazil’s Angélica Freitas
Funded by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Best Translated Book Award gives $5,000 to each winning author and translator, and is administered by Chad W. Post of the literary site Three Percent and...
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