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Thursday, 5 May 2016

The Best Translated Book Award Winner 2016

Hello Gentle Reader

This year’s Best Translated Book Award, was filled with unique writers, from the well known and world renowned, to new and upcoming writers, to writers we are just beginning to discover. Though, this year’s award was not won by Elena Ferrante, or by Clarice Lispector, or José Eduardo Agualusa, who were considered the great weights on this year’s shortlist. This year’s Best Translated Book Award for Fiction, went to the Mexican writer: Yuri Herrera, for his novel: “Signs Preceding the end of the World.”   The Best Translated Book Award for Poetry went to the Brazilian writer Angélica Fritas for her poetry collection: “Rilke Shake.”

Both of the awarded books, have been well received by the judges, and have been praised for their unique discussion of the issues in which they discuss. Yuri Herrera’s slim novel ““Signs Preceding the end of the World,” has been praised as a unique slim novel which discusses borders, languages, and cultures of borders, as well as immigration, in a Mexican concept. Angélica Fritas poetry in “Rilke Shake, “has been referred to as playful, sentimental, to wry and ironic, to sardonic, to pathetic and deadpan. These shifts of tone and voice are noted to happen in a single poem; and it becomes clear that Fritas does not take poetry to seriously, for her to deconstruct it, and shape it for her personal poetic measures, but rather blends and utilizes poetry in its numerous manners, to write in a unique poetic force.

Congratulations to both Yuri Herrera and Angélica Fritas, on winning this year’s Best Translated Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Of course also great thanks to the Three Percent Review, for creating such a needed award, and for giving readers such a unique look at writers in translation that are being published. It was certainly a unique list full of talent, old names, and refreshing new names.

Thank-you For Reading Gentle Reader
Take Care
And As Always
Stay Well Read

M. Mary


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