The Best Translated Book Award longlist covered 19 countries and 12 languages, and its shape shows exactly which literatures get bought in English and which do not.
The Best Translated Book Award longlist covered 19 countries and 12 languages, and its shape shows exactly which literatures get bought in English and which do not.
Foreign governments and foundations are funding their own way into the US book market, tackling the 3 percent problem that keeps translated literature off American shelves.
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