Best Translated Book Award
Three Percent, University of Rochester (Open Letter Books)
Best Translated Book Award by year
Best Translated Book Award in our archive: 429 books across 13 years, 2008 to 2020.
- 202035 books · 2 winners
- 201935 books · 2 winners
- 201837 books · 2 winners
- 201735 books · 2 winners
- 201635 books · 2 winners
- 201542 books · 2 winners
- 201435 books · 2 winners
- 201331 books · 2 winners
- 201231 books · 2 winners
- 201130 books · 2 winners
- 201035 books · 2 winners
- 200935 books · 2 winners
- 200813 books · 1 winner
About the Best Translated Book Award
Every winning, finalist (shortlisted) and longlisted book for the Best Translated Book Award, listed once per category at its highest level. Year is the award year. The award ran 2008-2020 and then went on hiatus, so there are no 2021 or 2022 awards. 2008 was a reader vote among Three Percent's top 10 fiction translations of 2007, with three poetry books named alongside; Wikipedia lists Guantanamo as the first winner. The 2008 list of 50 mixed fiction, poetry and essays is not included. Poetry had finalists only until 2014; poetry longlists start in 2015. 2008-2018 lists and 2008-2017 winners come from the Three Percent blog at rochester.edu, where besttranslatedbook.org now redirects. 2019 and 2020 lists and the 2018-2020 winners come from The Millions, which announced the BTBA lists. Obvious name typos on the source pages were corrected (for example Xue Can to Can Xue). Translators are joined with "and"; for anthologies the credited editor is the author.
Organization: Three Percent, University of Rochester (Open Letter Books). Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)