{"id":275566,"date":"2009-12-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/12\/15\/best-translated-book-award-poetry\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:41","slug":"best-translated-book-award-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/12\/15\/best-translated-book-award-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award: Poetry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2334\">posted about<\/a> the 2010 Best Translated Book Award and included all of the dates and information for the Fiction selections. (To recap: We&#8217;ll announce the 25-title longlist on Tuesday, January 5th, the ten finalists on Tuesday, February 16th, and the winner at a <span class=\"caps\">TBD<\/span> day in mid-March.) <\/p>\n<p>In terms of potery, just over 60 titles came out over the past year (that year being from December 2008 through November 2009), so rather than announce a longlist consisting of 40% of all eligible books, for poetry we&#8217;re skipping right to the finalists and announcing the ten <span class=\"caps\">BTB<\/span> poetry books on Tuesday, February 16th. And just as we do for the fiction titles, we&#8217;ll be highlighting a poetry book a day between the 22nd of February and the announcement of the winner.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been contacting all publishers with eligible titles, but in case I missed anyone, or in case you&#8217;re intentionally or unintentionally ignoring my e-mail, I thought I&#8217;d post the general guidelines on submitting books for the prize. <\/p>\n<p>All original translations published between December 1, 2008 and November 30, 2009 are eligible. And by &#8220;original&#8221; we mean collections that have never before appeared in English&#8212;so no reprints, and no retranslations. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no entry fee, all you have to do is mail one copy of your publication to each of the five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=file_download&#38;id=57\">panelists.<\/a> (And if possible, send one copy to me as well&#8212;my address is on that same form&#8212;for record keeping and whatnot.) Please include a note or mark the package in some way indicating that these are 2010 <span class=\"caps\">BTB<\/span> submissions . . . <\/p>\n<p>Here are the names of the five panelists for this year&#8217;s award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brandon Holmquest, poet, translator, editor of <em><span class=\"caps\">CALQUE<\/span><\/em>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Kronovet, poet, translator, editor of <em>Circumference<\/em>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Idra Novey, poet, translator, Executive Director of the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Prufer, poet, academic, essayist, and co-editor of <em>New European Poets<\/em>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Zapruder, poet, translator, academic, and co-editor of Wave Books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now the countdown begins . . . I have a feeling that this year&#8217;s award will spark a lot more debate than the 2009 one. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be as many clear-cut favorites this time around, whereas last year was all about Bolano . . . And although he didn&#8217;t win, <em>2666<\/em> was one of the three best books that stood out to all of the panelists, along with Horacio Castellanos Moya&#8217;s <em>Senselessness,<\/em> and eventual winner Attila Bartis&#8217;s <em>Tranquility.<\/em> Should be interesting . . .<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/12-pilch#mighty\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/255.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I posted about the 2010 Best Translated Book Award and included all of the dates and information for the Fiction selections. (To recap: We&#8217;ll announce the 25-title longlist on Tuesday, January 5th, the ten finalists on Tuesday, February 16th, and the winner at a TBD day in mid-March.) In terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67476],"tags":[18416,28386,10576],"class_list":["post-275566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-best-translated-book-award","tag-btb-2010","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335086,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275566\/revisions\/335086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}