Summer Recommendations from the BTB Panelists

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Before getting into this list of recommendations, I feel like I have to provide a bit of background and a few qualifications. First off, in no way is this the longlist for the 2010 Best Translated Book Award. We won’t be voting on that until late-November, so please don’t assume that if a book is (or isn’t) on (or off) this list that it’s a finalist (or eliminated).

The list below simply represents all of the titles that the nine BTB panelists (Monica Carter, Scott Esposito, Susan Harris, Annie Janusch, Brandon Kennedy, Bill Marx, Michael Orthofer, Chad W. Post, and Jeff Waxman) have recommended to each other to take a look at. It’s a sort of list of “books in the running,” or more accurately, “translations that some of us have liked.” (And yes, this is just fiction. For now. Maybe we could do something with poetry in the not-too-distant future . . .)

  1. 1.
    Ghosts (New Directions Paperbook)
    by César Aira

  2. 2.
    The Twin
    by Gerbrand Bakker

  3. 4.
    Beauty Salon
    by Mario Bellatin

  4. 5.
    The Skating Rink
    by Roberto Bolaño

  5. 6.
    The Vampire of Ropraz
    by Jacques Chessex

  6. 7.
    Azorno (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Inger Christensen

  7. 8.
    Wonder
    by Hugo Claus

  8. 9.
    Every Man Dies Alone
    by Hans Fallada

  9. 10.
    Op Oloop (Latin American Literature)
    by Juan Filloy

  10. 11.
    Little Fingers
    by Filip Florian

  11. 12.
    Vilnius Poker
    by Ricardas Gavelis

  12. 13.
    The Zafarani Files (Modern Arabic Literature)
    by Gamal al-Ghitani

  13. 14.
    The Confessions of Noa Weber
    by Gail Hareven

  14. 15.
    Curriculum Vitae (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Yoel Hoffmann

  15. 16.
    Crossing the Hudson
    by Peter Stephan Jungk

  16. 17.
    The Conqueror
    by Jan Kjaerstad

  17. 18.
    The Discoverer (Jonas Wergeland Trilogy)
    by Jan Kjaerstad

  18. 19.
    Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

  19. 20.
    Desert (Verba Mundi)
    by J. M. G. Le Clezio

  20. 21.
    The She-Devil in the Mirror (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  21. 22.
    ?
    Rhyming Life and Death
    by Amos Oz

  22. 23.
    News from the Empire (Latin American Literature)
    by Fernando Del Paso

  23. 24.
    Rupert: A Confession
    by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

  24. 25.
    The Mighty Angel
    by Jerzy Pilch

  25. 26.
    Rex: A Novel
    by Jose Manuel Prieto

  26. 27.
    A Thousand Deaths Plus One
    by Sergio Ramirez

  27. 28.
    Death in Spring: A Novel
    by Merce Rodoreda

  28. 29.
    Red April: A Novel
    by Santiago Roncagliolo

  29. 30.
    The Halfway House (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Guillermo Rosales

  30. 31.
    The Loop (French Literature)
    by Jacques Roubaud

  31. 32.
    Microfictions (Latin American Women Writers)
    by Ana Maria Shua

  32. 33.
    Landscape With Dog: And Other Stories
    by Ersi Sotiropoulos

  33. 34.
    Salvation Army (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
    by Abdellah Taïa

  34. 35.
    The Naked Eye (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Yoko Tawada

  35. 36.
    ?

  36. 37.
    Pigeon Post
    by Dumitru Tsepeneag

  37. 38.
    Brecht at Night (Baltic Literature)
    by Mati Unt

  38. 39.
    In the United States of Africa (French Voices)
    by Abdourahman A. Waberi

  39. 40.
    The Tanners
    by Robert Walser

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Created by K McQuage on Jul 19, 2009.
 

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