Best Translated Book Award anticipation !

       What excitement ! The Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge) will be announced tomorrow, at 13:00 EST ! There's even a countdown clock (which I'm not sure is calibrated right ...) !
       A reminder: the ten books remaining in the running (well, not really -- after long and hard deliberations we've decided on the winner already ...) 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

       I'll have the news of who took the prize (in a new, Monday post) a bit after the official announcement -- but the place to be is Paris (yes, France), where the delightful Amélie Nothomb will delight (and, at the same time, crush so many hopes, as nine (unless there's a tie ...) contenders fall by the wayside) with the announcement of the winner at a ceremony at Shakespeare &amp Co. that certainly sounds worth attending if you're anywhere in the vicinity.
       Sure, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize folk got Taittinger to underwrite their big announcement bash (22 May -- and I do appreciate the invitation !), but I think they'll do it up right at Shakespeare & Co. too.