{"id":6469,"date":"2019-03-15T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2019-05-05T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T17:01:34","slug":"favorite-sft-from-2018-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=6469","title":{"rendered":"Favorite SFT From 2018 Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/checking-task-list-by-hand_23-2147501304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first &#8220;Favorite SFT Poll&#8221; was a big success- 277 people voted for their favorite short stories, novels, anthologies &amp; collections, translators, and publishers from 2018! Thanks so much to everyone who participated. Let&#8217;s do it again next year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listed below are the top three favorites in each category. The winner is in bold, with the runner-up and the second runner-up below it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Favorite short story<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/en\/2018\/november\/city-x-novel-101-tweets-alberto-chimal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201c<em>City X:<\/em> A Novel in 101 Tweets\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by Sara Caplan, Rita Correa, M\u00f3nica Bravo D\u00edaz, Rachel Echeto, Emily Gilmore, Lauren Hammer, Hannah Mitchell, Matthew Mogulescu Ross, and LaTasha Weston, <em>Latin American Literature Today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/en\/2018\/november\/portuguese-ghost-miguel-gomes\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cA Portuguese Ghost\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Miguel Gomes, translated from the Spanish by Katie Brown, <em>Latin American Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/2018\/november\/health-all-yoss\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cHealth for All\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by George Henson, <em>World Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Favorite novel<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodrigo Fresan, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/the-bottom-of-the-sky\"><i>The Bottom of the Sky<\/i><\/a>,<\/span> translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden,Open Letter Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yoss, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/restlessbooks.org\/bookstore\/condomnauts\"><i>Condomnauts,<\/i><\/a><\/span> translated from the Spanish by David Frye, Restless Books<\/p>\n<p>Haruki Murakami, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/561550\/killing-commendatore-by-haruki-murakami\/9780525520047\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Killing Commendatore<\/span><\/a>,<\/i> translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Knopf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Favorite anthology\/collection<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristina Jurado, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/alphaland-cristina-jurado\/1129072059\"><i>Alphaland,<\/i><\/a><\/span> translated from the Spanish by James Womack, Nevsky Books<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sara Gallardo, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkinpress.com\/product\/land-of-smoke\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Land of Smoke<\/span><\/a>,<\/i> translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira, Pushkin Press<\/p>\n<p>Dino Buzzati, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062742735\/catastrophe\/\"><i>Catastrophe,<\/i><\/a> translated from the Italian by Judith Landry, Ecco Books<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Favorite translator<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Henson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toshiya Kamei<\/p>\n<p>Katie Brown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Favorite Publisher\/Journal\/Magazine<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org\/en\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>Latin American Literature Today<\/i><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>World Literature Today<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rosariumpublishing.com\/index.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rosarium Publishing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first &#8220;Favorite SFT Poll&#8221; was a big success- 277 people voted for their favorite short stories, novels, anthologies &amp; collections, translators, and publishers from 2018! Thanks so much to everyone who participated. Let&#8217;s do it again next year! Listed below are the top three favorites in each category. The winner is in bold,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=6469\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}