{"id":304346,"date":"2016-05-25T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/05\/25\/clmp-firecracker-awards-announced-spolier-we-won\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:24","slug":"clmp-firecracker-awards-announced-spolier-we-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/05\/25\/clmp-firecracker-awards-announced-spolier-we-won\/","title":{"rendered":"CLMP Firecracker Awards Announced [Spolier: We Won!]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, May 19th, CLMP<\/span><\/a> held the (new) 2nd Annual Firecracker Awards. Presented by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP<\/span>) with the American Booksellers Association, the Firecracker Awards for independently and self-published literature are a revitalized iteration of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award originally established in 1996.<\/p>\n

What we’re particularly pleased to announce is that Open Letter’s edition of The Things We Don’t Do<\/em> by Andr\u00e9s Neuman, translated from the Spanish be Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, was announced the winner for the Fiction category!<\/p>\n

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The lineup of finalists for the Fiction category was amazing, and included such titles as American Meteor<\/em> by Norman Lock (Bellvue Literary Press), The Sleep of the Righteous<\/em> by Wolfgang Hibig (Two Lines Press), and Home<\/em> by Leila S. Chudori (Deep Vellum). From the CLMP<\/span> website:<\/p>\n

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At an Awards Ceremony hosted by Poets House in New York City featuring Master of Ceremonies Dorothea Lasky (Rome), CLMP\u2019s esteemed panel of judges were pleased to reveal the winners of the 2016 Firecracker Awards for Independent Literary Publishing in four categories:<\/p>\n

FICTION<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 The Things We Don\u2019t Do<\/em> by Andr\u00e9s Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia (Open Letter Books)<\/p>\n

About this title, Brad Johnson, bookseller and manager for Diesel Bookstore (Oakland), writes: \u201cAt a time when so much of the world is talking about the policing of borders and the construction of walls, Andr\u00e9s Neuman\u2019s playful and philosophical stories in The Things We Don\u2019t Do are refreshing. For Neuman, there is no simple divide between one self and another; love and hate; or even life and death. We find that what occurs \u2018between\u2019 two people is not so different from what occurs within one. The Things We Don\u2019t Do is an achievement, and an extension of the Latin American tradition blazed by the likes of Cort\u00e1zar and Bola\u00f1o.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We are incredibly grateful to CLMP<\/span> and the jury, and excited for Andr\u00e9s, Nick, and Lorenza!<\/p>\n

For more information on CLMP<\/span> and the Firecracker Awards, as well as a full list of the finalists, and a full list of the winners, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday, May 19th, CLMP held the (new) 2nd Annual Firecracker Awards. Presented by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) with the American Booksellers Association, the Firecracker Awards for independently and self-published literature are a revitalized iteration of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award originally established in 1996. What we’re particularly pleased to announce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304346","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304346\/revisions\/333226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}