June 23, 2010 | Posted by admin Last year the inaugural David Gemmell Awards caused something of a stir when the best novel price (the Legend Award) went to a translated book, Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski. This year saw the introduction of a new category for debut fantasy novels, and it was won by Pierre Pevel’s The Cardinal’s Blades, translated [...]
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May 27, 2010 | Posted by admin The prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire have always been friendly to translation into French. This year they gave prizes for translated novels, short fiction and YA novels, and their Bande Dessinée (comic) and Manga winners were also translated. There is even a prize specifically for translators (into French). But they also went further, giving a [...]
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April 15, 2010 | Posted by admin The folks at Haikasoru have done it again! ZOO by Otsuichi (translated by Terry Gallagher) has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the category of Best Single-Author Collection. Nick Mamatas has further details.
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March 30, 2010 | Posted by admin Here are a few interesting stories that have turned up in the blogosphere in recent weeks.
- The Independent reviews Best European Fiction 2010, which includes a ghost story by Portugal’s Valter Hugo Mae and a “futuristic tale” by Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria.
- Chad W. Post ponders the value of automated translation tools.
- K.E. Semmel reviews [...]
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March 17, 2010 | Posted by admin The James Tiptree Jr. Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in science fiction. Given for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender, it has always been friendly to translated fiction. Johanna Sinisalo’s Troll (Not Before Sundown) was a joint winner for works published in 2004. The 2009 selection [...]
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February 18, 2010 | Posted by admin Chad W. Post has announced the short list for the mainstream translation award. You can find the full list over at Three Percent. We note that a couple of the books we highlighted as having fantastical content have made the final 10: Ghosts by César Aira and Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted by admin Over at Three Percent Chad W. Post is continuing his trip through the long list of the mainstream translation award. The latest book to come under the microscope is In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi. The book is set in alternate present in which, as Post explains, we are asked to imagine:
what [...]
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January 29, 2010 | Posted by admin While the mainstream award run through Three Percent is the primary mainstream we will be tracking, there is another mainstream prize for translation. It is only awarded every three years, but it is worth a whopping $10,000. The Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize is intended to foster awareness and appreciation of Spanish literature in [...]
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January 29, 2010 | Posted by admin Continuing his journey through the long list for this year’s mainstream fiction translation award, Chad W. Post has reached Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. The title is definitely promising, and Post mentions in his review that the book could be classified as science fiction, so this is definitely eligible material (although again it [...]
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January 26, 2010 | Posted by admin Over at Three Percent Chad Post is talking about Ghosts, a novel by Argentine author, César Aira. As the book has ghosts in it, it is definitely with our terms of reference. Of course it is a 2009 book, so our jury will only look at it if they think they don’t have a sufficient [...]
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