The Best Translated Book Awards (BTBAs) were founded in 2008 by Three Percent at the University of Rochester (USA). Since 2008, the Amazon Literary Partnership has contributed over $150,000 to international authors and their translators through the BTBA.
This year’s winners are:
Fiction
Slave Old Man, written by Patrick Chamoiseau, translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale, and published by The New Press. It is the first BTBA win for a book from the French. It is also the first victory for an author from Martinique.
Poetry
Of Death. Minimal Odes, written by Hilda Hilst, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin, and published by co-im-press.
The full list of finalists can be found here.
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