At Three Percent Chad Post has a post on the 2013 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Update.
I'm one of the judges for this, and I've already worked my way through a decent amount of the eligible titles -- though I still also wait to get my hands on quite a few of them. (In my case it's not the unenthusiastic publisher Chad mentions -- they kindly send me the whole, big lot for review-purposes in any case -- but rather some of the big publishers that are slow/reluctant to respond to requests .....)
I certainly encourage all publishers to try to get their eligible titles into the hands of as many of the judges as possible (especially my grubby ones ...); we try to give absolutely all eligible titles the consideration they're due, even if the publishers won't play along at all, but it certainly makes everything a whole lot easier. Plus quite a few of the judges, myself included, are prone to mentioning, discussing, even praising many of the titles that don't ultimately make the longlist cut .....
I'm one of the judges for this, and I've already worked my way through a decent amount of the eligible titles -- though I still also wait to get my hands on quite a few of them. (In my case it's not the unenthusiastic publisher Chad mentions -- they kindly send me the whole, big lot for review-purposes in any case -- but rather some of the big publishers that are slow/reluctant to respond to requests .....)
I certainly encourage all publishers to try to get their eligible titles into the hands of as many of the judges as possible (especially my grubby ones ...); we try to give absolutely all eligible titles the consideration they're due, even if the publishers won't play along at all, but it certainly makes everything a whole lot easier. Plus quite a few of the judges, myself included, are prone to mentioning, discussing, even praising many of the titles that don't ultimately make the longlist cut .....