Typographical Era has its own 'Typographical Translation Award' and they've now announced the winner for best 2014 translation -- Texas: The Great Theft, by Carmen Boullosa, in Samantha Schnee's translation, the first offering from promising new publisher Deep Vellum (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk).
No doubt, some of the long- and short-listed titles will also be on the 25-title-strong longlist for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge) -- spoiler: Summer House With Swimming Pool ... probably not (like: bet the summer house probably not ...) -- and I am curious to see how much overlap there will be. Does this make Texas: The Great Theft an early BTBA favorite ? Hmmmm .....
No doubt, some of the long- and short-listed titles will also be on the 25-title-strong longlist for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge) -- spoiler: Summer House With Swimming Pool ... probably not (like: bet the summer house probably not ...) -- and I am curious to see how much overlap there will be. Does this make Texas: The Great Theft an early BTBA favorite ? Hmmmm .....