Translations-from-the French shortlists

       The French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation have announced the finalists for their Translation Prizes.
       Only one overlap with the Best Translated Book Award longlist -- Pierre Michon's Winter Mythologies and Abbots -- but several others are under review at the complete review:

• Fiction:
  • The Mad and the Bad, by Jean-Patrick Manchette; tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith
  • Privy Portrait, by Jean-Luc Benoziglio; tr. Tess Lewis
• Non:
  • Limonov, by Emmanuel Carrère; tr. John Lambert

       The winners will be announced 9 June.