Five New Clues about the 2017 BTBA Fiction Longlist [Day Two]

Following on yesterday’s post about the upcoming Best Transated Book Award longlist announcement, I thought I’d give you some more clues, all centering around “new” additions to the “BTBA family.”

1) There are five presses with a book on the BTBA longlist for the first time ever;

2) Of the twenty-five translators on the list, sixteen of them are appearing here for the first time ever; and,

3) Only five of the authors have appeared on BTBA longlists in the past.

Although it’s true that there a lot of the BTBA favorite presses have made it again, it is great to see some new organizations getting recognized for their contributions to the promotion and discussion of international literature. It’s also encouraging to see that more than half of the nominated translators are new to the lists, as are most of the nominated authors.

Remember, for a chance to win a lifetime subscription to Open Letter Books, just send me your complete list of 25 longlisted titles, and I’ll let you know how many you got right.