The Best Translated Book Award, or BTBA, is organized by Three Percent at the University of Rochester.
The winning titles and translators for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards were announced on Friday, April 29, at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. In poetry, Aleš Šteger’s
The Book of Things, translated from the
Slovenian by Brian Henry, took the top honor. In fiction, the award went to Thomas Teal’s
translation from the
Swedish of Tove Jansson’s
The True Deceiver.
Lorin Stein, editor of the English translations of Roberto Bolaño’s
The Savage Detectives and
2666, and now publisher of
The Paris Review, hosted the celebration, which was held in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival for the first time this year. Thanks to the support of Amazon.com, the
awards came with $5,000 cash prizes for each winning author and translator.
