Best Translated Book Awards 2015 longlist announced

The longlist for the Best Translated Book Awards was announced Tuesday. Twenty-five fiction titles and 17 poetry collections are in the running for the prizes, which will award $5,000 each to the author and translator in both categories.

Finalists come from 23 different places of origin and wrote in 14 different languages. The books include the bestselling "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay" by Elena Ferrante of Italy; L.A. Times' first fiction book prize finalist "Faces in the Crowd" by Valeria Luiselli of Mexico; the collection "Nothing More to Lose" by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish; and two separate books by Czech writer Bohumil Hraba.

The awards are presented by Three Percent, the online site for literature in translation at the University of Rochester, which also is home to the independent translation house Open Letter Books. The shortlist will be announced May 5 and the prizes will be awarded in a ceremony at Book Expo on May 27.

Click here for the complete 2015 Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist.

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