As Aaron Westerman reports, they've determined The 2013 Typographical Translation Award Winner -- and it's The Devil's Workshop, by Jáchym Topol, beating out Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, 137 votes to 107.
The public voting system -- both for the winner and the shortlist -- makes the award a bit vulnerable to the usual online voting issues -- and I suspect few to none of the voters actually read all the finalists before casting their vote (I haven't, either -- but I didn't vote) -- but the results suggest things didn't go totally off track. The Topol certainly wouldn't have been my choice (nor the make-up of the shortlist, even just selecting from that longlist), but it's certainly defensible.
And very nice to see that all the polling numbers have been made public.
The public voting system -- both for the winner and the shortlist -- makes the award a bit vulnerable to the usual online voting issues -- and I suspect few to none of the voters actually read all the finalists before casting their vote (I haven't, either -- but I didn't vote) -- but the results suggest things didn't go totally off track. The Topol certainly wouldn't have been my choice (nor the make-up of the shortlist, even just selecting from that longlist), but it's certainly defensible.
And very nice to see that all the polling numbers have been made public.