{"id":305636,"date":"2017-03-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/03\/29\/vampire-in-love-by-enrique-vila-matas-why-this-book-should-win\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:46:21","slug":"vampire-in-love-by-enrique-vila-matas-why-this-book-should-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/03\/29\/vampire-in-love-by-enrique-vila-matas-why-this-book-should-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vampire in Love&#8221; by Enrique Vila-Matas [Why This Book Should Win]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Between the announcement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=18832\">Best Translated Book Award longlists<\/a> and the unveiling of the finalists, we will be covering all thirty-five titles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/tag\/why-this-book-should-win\/\">Why This Book Should Win<\/a> series. Enjoy learning about all the various titles selected by the fourteen fiction and poetry judges, and I hope you find a few to purchase and read!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The entry below is by Mark Haber from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazosbookstore.com\/\">Brazos Bookstore<\/a> in Houston, Texas. He is also the author of<\/i> Melville\u2019s Beard, <i>which is available in a bilingual edition from Editorial Argon\u00e1utica.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/vampire-in-love\/\"><em>Vampire in Love<\/em><\/a> by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, New Directions)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chad\u2019s Uneducated and Unscientific Percentage Chance of Making the Shortlist: 35%<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chad\u2019s Uneducated and Unscientific Percentage Chance of Winning the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span>: 4%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A master writer. A collection of stories covering the breadth of his storied career. The first time in English. These are only a few reasons <em>Vampire in Love<\/em> should win the Best Translated Book Award. A reader needn\u2019t have experienced any of Vila-Matas\u2019s incredible novels to appreciate and enjoy these tremendous stories. Funny, eerie, worldly and strange, Vila-Matas is a master of the form. As Roberto Bola\u00f1o said: \u201cVila-Matas\u2019s excellence is an undisputed fact.\u201d An astounding collection translated by Margaret Jull Costa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the announcement of the Best Translated Book Award longlists and the unveiling of the finalists, we will be covering all thirty-five titles in the Why This Book Should Win series. Enjoy learning about all the various titles selected by the fourteen fiction and poetry judges, and I hope you find a few to purchase [&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":[35996,64586,48766,16,13566,59576,56,65566,37876],"class_list":["post-305636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba","tag-btba-2017","tag-btba-fiction","tag-enrique-vila-matas","tag-margaret-jull-costa","tag-mark-haber","tag-new-directions","tag-vampire-in-love","tag-why-this-book-should-win"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305636","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=305636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396892,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305636\/revisions\/396892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}