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  Winners of Best Translated Book Award 2012 Announced

  930 readersBy Hannah Johnson On May 4 at independent bookstore McNally Jackson, the winners of this year’s Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) were announced. In fiction, the winning title was Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston and published by Archipelago Books. The poetry winner was Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty,

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  Best Translated Book Award 2013 Fiction Longlist Announced

  810 readersThe fiction longlist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards includes 23 books from 15 publishers, representing 19 countries and 13 languages.

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  2011 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced

  1163 readersPoetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry Fiction: Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal Each winning author and translator will receive a $5,000 prize sponsored by Amazon.com From the press release: April 29, 2011 — The winning titles and translators for this year’s Best Translated Book

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  2013 Best Translated Book Award Finalists Announced

  875 readersTen fiction titles and six poetry collections finalists have been announced as the finalists for this year's Best Translated Book Awards. The winners will be revealed May 3rd.

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  IndieReader launches new “Discovery Awards” for self-publishers

  1336 readersOne of the best ways for a young organization to quickly add some legitimacy to its brand is to create an industry award, and the indie publishing website IndieReader, launched in 2009, has done just that. Its first annual IndieReader Discovery Awards is now accepting submissions through February 29th, 2012, with winners announced next June.

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  Jay-Z, Big-Six Publishers Among Winners of Publishing Innovation Awards

  1150 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Penguin, Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster and other publishing powerhouses were among the winners at the second annual Publishing Innovation Awards, announced tonight in New York City at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo. Rapper and producer Jazy-Z won an award, too. The awards highlight the

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  JSTOR adds ebooks

  3627 readersFrom a Chronicle of Higher Education Post by Jennifer Howard: [JSTOR] has struck agreements with four publishers—Princeton University Press, the University of Chicago Press, the University of Minnesota Press, and the University of North Carolina Press—to make their books available online next year. The e-books program, “Books at JSTOR,” was announced today at the American

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  EU Lit Prize Winners Dish on Tyranny of Big Languages

  973 readersUnless a writer is translated into one of the big languages – English, French, German, Spanish – then it becomes very hard to get translated into the smaller languages. By Michael Stein Three winners of the EU Prize for for Literature gathered together at a panel last month at Book World Pragueto speak about the award, the

• Digital Book World Conference + Expo: Publishing Innovation Awards Finalists Announced

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• Indie Authors Honored at IndieReader Awards

  203 readers How do indie authors get discovered in a world where thousands of new self-published works hit e-bookshelves every day? One way is by awards. To that end, IndieReader, which is a guide for consumers to self-published works, announced today the winners of its IR Discovery Awards, awards exclusively for self-published works. The judges are “top agents, traditional