The Story of the Lost Child and a posthumous collection of the mighty Brazilian author’s short stories among 10 finalistsThe Italian novelist Elena Ferrante,already in the running for the 2016 Man Booker International prize, has made the shortlist for the Best Translated Book award.
Worth $5000 (£3500) to both its winning authors and translators, and the prize is race by the Three Percent blog at the University of Rochester,and underwritten by Amazon.com’s literary partnership programmes. Ferrante was picked by judges for The Story of the Lost Child, the final novel in her Neapolitan series, and which also made the Man Booker International prize shortlist last week. Translated by Ann Goldstein,the novel was called “the first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have arrive out of Italy for many decades” by the Observer.
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Source: theguardian.com