Best Translated Book panelists
(Monica Carter, Scott Esposito, Susan Harris, Annie Janusch, Brandon Kennedy,
Bill Marx, Michael Orthofer , Chad W.
Post, and Jeff Waxman) have been reading like wild in preparation for Best Translated Book awards,
to be announced by Three Percent / Open Letter in late November, 2010. Since the
panelists haven’t made it down to the bottom of their stacks (or gotten
together as official jurors), their summer reading suggestions don’t amount
to the long list for the BPB Award/s. The results are more of a what we’ve recommenced to each other so far.
Happily the list includes Pigeon Post by Dumitru Tsepeneag (translated from
French by Jane Kunz) over at Dalkey Archive and Little Fingers by Filip Florian (translated by
Alistair Ian Blyth ), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
And since an appetizer is never enough, expect a raft
of still new-to-the-West Romanian writers in Absinthe 12, due out this fall.
