The Best Translated Book Awards (USA)

2013 BTBA (Best Translated Book Awards) Winners: Satantango and Wheel with a Single Spoke

Details: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=6302

For past BTBA winners, see: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=btb

Among this years finalists (poetry) was

Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan, translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein (New Directions)

List of the finalists 2013: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/04/announcing-the-btba-poetry-finalists/

In 2012, Flash Cards by YU Jian translated by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett (Zephyr Press) made it to the shortlist.

The 2011 winner of BTBA (poetry) was  The Book of Things by Aleš Šteger
Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry (BOA Editions)

(The Book of Things has been translated into Chinese by Ming Di, to be published by Shanghai Wenyi Press)

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About 诗东西 Poetry East West

Chinese-English bilingual magazine (will include more languages), published in Los Angeles USA, printed in Beijing China. ISSN 2159-2772

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