Best Translated Book Award shortlist

       The shortlist for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge) has been announced, and the remaining ten titles are:

• The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
  
  
• Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
  
  
• The Forbidden Kingdom by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
  
  
• Horses of God by Mahi Binebine
  
  
• Leg Over Leg (Vol. 1) by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
  
  
• My Struggle: Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  
  
• Seiobo There Below by Krasznahorkai László
  
  
• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
  
  
• Tirza by Arnon Grunberg
  
  
• A True Novel by Mizumura Minae

       Among the points of interest:

• Neither of the longlisted titles by Nobel laureates -- Sandalwood Death and Her Not All Her -- made the cut
  
  
• Four (!) volumes-that-are-parts-of-series (which I would have figured might have counted against them) made the cut: Cărtărescu, Ferrante, Knausgaard, al-Shidyaq
  
  
• Meanwhile, the three story-collections from the longlist all failed to advance
  
  
• The only language represented more than once ? Dutch !

       Six of the ten longlisted titles I voted for in this round of voting made the shortlist; five of the original ten titles I voted to be on the longlist have made it to the final round.