{"id":298426,"date":"2014-06-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/06\/27\/first-round-complete-world-cup-of-literature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:12:38","slug":"first-round-complete-world-cup-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/06\/27\/first-round-complete-world-cup-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"First Round Complete! [World Cup of Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the inaugural World Cup of Literature is complete! Over the past two weeks, we&#8217;ve seen sixteen books eliminated from the competition for a variety of reasons. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=world-cup-of-literature\">Click here<\/a> to read all of the pieces from the first round.)<\/p>\n<p>The second round starts&#8212;and finishes&#8212;next week, so for those of you following along at home, here&#8217;s an updated bracket:<\/p>\n<p><txp_thumbnail id=\"7172\" poplink=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you can download a <a href=\"%3Ahttp%3A\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=file_download&amp;id=362\"><span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> version here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to next week, here are the match-ups (and judges) for Round Two:<\/p>\n<p>Brazil vs. Chile 6\/30 &#8211; Jeff Waxman<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780802142146-1\"><em>Budapest<\/em><\/a> by Chico Buarque (Brazil)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/7-9780811215473-3\"><em>By Night in Chile<\/em><\/a> by Roberto Bola\u00f1o (Chile)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan vs. Italy 6\/30 &#8211; Rhea Lyons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780307476463-1\"><em>1Q84<\/em><\/a> by Haruki Murakami (Japan)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9781933372006-0\"><em>The Days of Abandonment<\/em><\/a> by Elena Ferrante (Italy)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honduras vs. Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina 7\/1 &#8211; Stephen Sparks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9780811217071-0\"><em>Senselessness<\/em><\/a> by Horacio Castellanos Moya (Honduras)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/7-9780802144225-4\"><em>How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone<\/em><\/a> by Sa\u0161a Stani\u0161i\u0107 (Bosnia)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germany vs. Algeria 7\/1 &#8211; Florian Duijsens<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780812982619-0\"><em>Austerlitz<\/em><\/a> by W.G. Sebald (Germany)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9781933372853-3\"><em>The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris<\/em><\/a> by Leila Marouane (Algeria)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mexico vs. Australia 7\/2 &#8211; Chad W. Post<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9781566893541-0\"><em>Faces in the Crowd<\/em><\/a> by Valeria Luiselli (Mexico)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9781564786760-2\"><em>Barley Patch<\/em><\/a> by Gerald Murnane (Australia)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ivory Coast vs. Uruguay 7\/2 &#8211; Elianna Kan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9780307279576-0\"><em>Allah Is Not Obliged<\/em><\/a> by Ahmadou Kourouma (Ivory Coast)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780924047718-0\"><em>The Rest Is Jungle<\/em><\/a> by Mario Benedetti (Uruguay)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>France vs. Argentina 7\/3 &#8211; Tom Roberge <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780307946539-1\"><em>The Map and the Territory<\/em><\/a> by Michel Houellebecq (France)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780811216302-0\"><em>An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter<\/em><\/a> by C\u00e9sar Aira (Argentina)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span> vs. Belgium 7\/3 &#8211; Lori Feathers <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/7-9780316074223-5\"><em>The Pale King<\/em><\/a> by David Foster Wallace (<span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9781250035165-1\"><em>The Misfortunates<\/em><\/a> by Dimitri Verhulst (Belgium)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And once again, here&#8217;s the updated bracket:<\/p>\n<p><txp_thumbnail id=\"7172\" poplink=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which matches are you most excited about? Bunch of intriguing match-ups this round: Houellebecq vs. Aira is definitely one, but so is Buarque against Bola\u00f1o. Ferrante&#8212;who has become a Twitter favorite to win it all&#8212;is taking on <em>1Q84<\/em>. Will upstart Australian entry <em>Barley Patch<\/em> continue its winning streak? Or will Mexican Valeria Luiselli put a stop to that? No one knows. (Actually, I do, since I&#8217;m judging that match.) <\/p>\n<p>Come back on Monday for four days of second round action! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the inaugural World Cup of Literature is complete! Over the past two weeks, we&#8217;ve seen sixteen books eliminated from the competition for a variety of reasons. (Click here to read all of the pieces from the first round.) The second round starts&#8212;and finishes&#8212;next week, so for those of you following along [&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":[67486],"tags":[56386],"class_list":["post-298426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-world-cup-of-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298426","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=298426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337656,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298426\/revisions\/337656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}