{"id":300816,"date":"2015-04-02T19:31:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/04\/02\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-four\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:23","slug":"best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/04\/02\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part Four]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=13852\">on Monday,<\/a> to start building the hype for this year&#8217;s Best Translated Book Award longlists, I&#8217;m going to be dropping a series of clues over the course of this week, and, if you&#8217;re able to guess one complete list (25 titles for fiction, 10 for poetry) on your <em>first<\/em> try, you&#8217;ll receive a lifetime subscription to Open Letter Books. <\/p>\n<p>To enter, just send your complete list by Sunday, April 5th at 8pm <span class=\"caps\">EDT<\/span> to chad.post [at] rochester [dot] edu. I&#8217;ll let you know how close you came. <\/p>\n<p>OK, at least one more day of fiction longlist clues. (Should have the poetry list by the weekend, so I can post some poetry-specific clues on Saturday and Sunday.) <\/p>\n<p>The big clue yesterday was: &#8220;There is only one female writer from Mexico on the list.&#8221; Just to clarify a bit, according to the Translation Database, there are three women writers from Mexico who had a work of fiction come out in English last year: Guadalupe Nettel, Valeria Luiselli, and Carmen Boullosa. All three are stellar writers; all three books deserve to be on this list. So, when you&#8217;re submitting your guesses, this is the first choice you&#8217;ll have to make. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple more clues to help you fill out your guess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The UK equivalent of the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> is the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktrust.org.uk\/prizes\/7\">announced its longlist.<\/a> There is only one title that made both the <span class=\"caps\">IFFP<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> fiction longlists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are two books on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/literature\/2015-pen-translation-prize\"><span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> Translation Prize<\/a> longlist that also made the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Five of the books on the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> fiction longlist have one-word titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained on Monday, to start building the hype for this year&#8217;s Best Translated Book Award longlists, I&#8217;m going to be dropping a series of clues over the course of this week, and, if you&#8217;re able to guess one complete list (25 titles for fiction, 10 for poetry) on your first try, you&#8217;ll receive [&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":[57276,60046],"class_list":["post-300816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba-2015","tag-btba-contest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300816","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=300816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334866,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300816\/revisions\/334866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}