Best Translated Book Award - fiction finalists

       They've announced the fiction-finalists for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am a judge), and they are:

• The Author and Me, by Éric Chevillard, tr. Jordan Stump
  
  
• Faces in the Crowd, by Valeria Luiselli, tr. Christina MacSweeney
  
  
• Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires, by Julio Cortázar, tr. David Krunick
  
  
• La Grande, by Juan José Saer, tr. Steve Dolph
  
  
• Harlequin's Millions, by Bohumil Hrabal, tr. Stacey Knecht
  
  
• The Last Lover, by Can Xue, tr. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
  
  
• Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov, tr. Katherine Dovlatov
  
  
• Things Look Different in the Light, by Medardo Fraile, tr. Margaret Jull Costa
  
  
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein
  
  
• The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, tr. Thomas Teal

       A nicely varied lot (with just a bit of a Spanish-language tilt), and it'll be interesting to see what winner emerges.
       The winner will be announced 27 May (at BookExpo America).