Weekend Prizewinners

May 2, 2011 | 2 books mentioned

Next by James Hynes has been named the winner of The Believer Book Award, and it was announced Friday that Thomas Teal’s translation from the Swedish of Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver took home the Best Translated Book Award. The book was competing with a shortlist of ten novels in translation.

created The Millions and is its publisher. He and his family live in New Jersey.