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And the Winners of the 2018 Best Translated Book Awards Are…

The 11th annual Best Translated Book Awards were announced this evening at the New York Rights Fair. The Invented Part by  Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden, won for fiction. Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, translated by Karen Emmerich, took the prize for poetry.
Here are the jury’s statements:

“The Invented Part weaves together the intellectual, the emotional, and the aesthetic as one, resulting

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