Winners have been announced for this year's Best Translated Book Awards, sponsored by Three Percent, part of the University of Rochester. Wheel with a Single Spoke by Nichita Stanescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter (Archipelago Books), won in the poetry category; and Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes (New Directions), took the fiction prize. The authors and translators each received $5,000.
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Winners of the Agatha Awards, which celebrate the "traditional mystery--books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie," were honored at the Malice Domestic convention in Bethesda, Md., last weekend. This year's winners are:
Novel: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
First novel: Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer
Historical Novel: Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder by Catriona McPherson
Nonfiction: Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's
Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly/Declan Burke
Short story: "Mischief in Mesopotamia" by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012)
Children's/YA: The Code Busters Club, Case #2: The Haunted Lighthouse by Penny Warner
