{"id":300826,"date":"2015-04-03T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/04\/03\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-five\/"},"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-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/04\/03\/best-translated-book-award-2015-clues-to-the-fiction-longlist-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award 2015: Clues to the Fiction Longlist [Part Five]"},"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>I&#8217;m running out of good clues about the fiction list . . . so, I&#8217;ll make this first one all about me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve read&#8212;and rated on GoodReads&#8212;seven of the books that made the list. Six of them I gave 5-stars, one got 4 stars. (Although probably deserved 5. I have no idea what I was thinking at the time.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There is one author with two books on the list, and one previous <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> winning author also made it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Five different presses have had a fiction book win the award. Only two of them have a book on this year&#8217;s fiction longlist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back this weekend for clues about the poetry longlist . . . <\/p>\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-300826","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\/300826","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=300826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334856,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300826\/revisions\/334856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}