Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced
Posted on May 6, 2011
The winning titles and translators for this year's Best Translated Book Awards have been announced. Organized by Three Percent at the University of Rochester, the Best Translated Book Award honors the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the U.S. over the previous year. Each winning author and translator receives a $5,000 cash prize thanks to support from Amazon.com. Here are the winners:
- Poetry: Ales Steger's The Book of Things, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry
- Fiction: Thomas Teal's translation from the Swedish of Tove Jansson's The True Deceiver
You can read a press release about this year's winners here.
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