2012 Best Translated Book Award Finalists Named

Two Spanish originals among the fiction finalists to the 2012 Best Translated Book Award:

• Scars [Cicatrices (Sudamericana, 1969)] by Juan José Saer. Translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph. (Open Letter)
• Never Any End to Paris [París no se acaba nunca (Anagrama, 2003)] by Enrique Vila-Matas. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. (New Directions)

 

Juan José Saer also wrote detective fiction, HERE you can find a bilingual review of La pesquisa (The Investigation, Serpent’s Tail 1998).