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The 2012 Best Translated Book Award Winners: Wiesław Myśliwski’s "Stone Upon Stone" and Kiwao Nomura’s "Spectacle & Pigsty"

The winning titles and translators of this year’s Best Translated Book Award were announced earlier this evening at McNally Jackson Books as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. In poetry, Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty, translated from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander, took the top honor, and ...

And the Winners Are . . . [BTBA Final Thoughts]

Named inside these fancy envelopes. (And named on the trophy’s I’m currently lugging to my secret hotel in NYC.) T-33 hours and counting . . . ...