Books nominated for Best Translated Book Awards are announced

The 25 finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards were announced featuring works originally published in 16 languages none of them English. Five of then are translations from Spanish.

“BTBAs are awarded for both fiction and poetry. The winning authors -- and their translators -- are each given a prize of $5,000,” says Los Angeles Times. The nominees titles translated from Spanish are:

"The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra” by Pedro Mairal, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor (Argentina; New Vessel Press)

"The Infatuations" by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain; Random House),

"In the Night of Time" by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman (Spain; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

"The African Shore" by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Gray (Guatemala; Yale University Press)

"The End of Love" by Marcos Giralt Torrente, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Spain; McSweeney's)

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