(American) National Translation Award prose longlist

       The American Literary Translators Association has announced the longlist for the 2015 National Translation Award in prose.
       It's like a 'best of the translation prizes'-longlist: among the finalists are:

• Annelise F. Wasmoen's translation of The Last Lover by Can Xue, which won this year's Best Translated Book Award
  
  
• Susan Bernofsky's translation of The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, which won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
  
  
• Donald Nicholson-Smith's translation of The Mad and the Bad, which won this year's French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize

       Nice also to see the Open Letter recognition -- four of the twelve finalists ! -- and interesting that only one (classic) re-translation made the cut (one of last year's Anna Karenina translations).
       Other finalists under review at the complete review are:

• Karen Emmerich's translation of Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou
  
  
• Eric Abrahamsen's translation of Running Through Beijingby Xu Zechen

       The shortlist will be announced "in September", and the winner will be announced at the annual ALTA conference (held 28 to 31 October).