{"id":300766,"date":"2015-04-01T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/04\/01\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-three\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:56:55","slug":"best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/04\/01\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part Three]"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I explained on Monday,<\/a> to start building the hype for this year’s Best Translated Book Award longlists, I’m going to be dropping a series of clues over the course of this week, and, if you’re able to guess one complete list (25 titles for fiction, 10 for poetry) on your first<\/em> try, you’ll receive a lifetime subscription to Open Letter Books. <\/p>\n

To enter, just send your complete list by Sunday, April 5th at 8pm EDT<\/span> to chad.post [at] rochester [dot] edu. I’ll let you know how close you came. <\/p>\n

Here’s a recap of the clues so far: nine languages and sixteen places or origin are represented on the fiction longlist; nine of the twenty-five fiction titles are by women and fifteen of the twenty-seven translators who made it (one translator made it twice) are women; and twenty different presses are on the fiction longlist, with no press receiving more than two nominations. <\/p>\n

I’m still stuck in a sort of bean-counter mode, since coming up with clues for specific books seems like it would only help you in very small ways, and I haven’t been able to find any major trends that would be interesting and useful . . . That said, here’s what I got:<\/p>\n