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Best Translated Book Award 2017

Founded in 2008 by Three Percent at the University or Rochester, the focus on finding the best books in translation from the past year has been constant.

Super Extra Grande

Yoss and David Frye

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“Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in Super Extra Grande…. Its author...

Science fiction

Moshi Moshi

Banana Yoshimoto and Asa Yoneda

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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown...

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My Marriage

Jakob Wassermann and Michael Hofmann

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Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There...

Thriller

Vampire in Love

Margaret Jull Costa and Enrique Vila-Matas

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“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New...

Fiction

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Susan Bernofsky and Yoko Tawada

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Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the...

Movie Critics (823 KP) created a video about Lost In Translation (2003) in Movies

Oct 5, 2017

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Lost In Translation Trailer

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Deborah (162 KP) rated Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions in Books

Dec 21, 2018

Solid although not spectacular mystery - translated from German, apparently!

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Oliver Hopkins (4 KP) rated Talisman in Apps

Jul 18, 2019

Talisman

Games

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9.0

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Interface! Identical but FASTER (0 more)

A bit too fast sometimes... Could be more detail on characters (0 more)

Really well translated into an app

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Rose Braisby (28 KP) rated Before The Coffee Gets Cold in Books

Jan 30, 2020

This was adorable in so many ways. (0 more)

Some bits were a little repetitive but that could be the way it was translated? (0 more)

Such a sweet little read

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Books Editor (673 KP) created a video about New Collected Poems in Books

Oct 12, 2017

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Tomas Tranströmer

The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. His books sell thousands of copies in Sweden, and his poetry has been translated into 60 languages.

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Larry Kramer recommended Rememberances of Things Past in Books (curated)

Rememberances of Things Past

Marcel Proust | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

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"The greatest (gay) novel, translated by its great (gay) translator. I much prefer this original English translation to all the subsequent attempts by others to make it into In Search of Lost Time"

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Fox Was Ever the Hunter in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Herta Müller's newly translated novel is a luscious mosaic depicting the last days before the fall of Ceausescu. Read more in my review of this book here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2016/06/11/capturing-the-fear/

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Pete Buttigieg recommended The Odyssey in Books (curated)

"This is the book that every searching twenty-something needs. The sense of humor is spot on, and the book turned me on to Norwegian literature as a whole, though unfortunately not much of Erlend Loe’s work has been translated."

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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 12, 2017

Never in history have so many diverse books from the Nordic nations been translated, and in the last five years in the UK and the USA the list has been growing.

There should be something here for every boreal-minded reader to cherish in the coming winter.

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The Guardian's Best Nordic Books

As a year-long festival celebrating the region’s writers gets under way in the UK, Icelandic novelist Sjón selects essential reading from the far north.