Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award for fiction. Writing: Lúcio Cardoso Translation from Portuguese: Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson Proofreading: Bruno George The prize was awarded for the translation, not for my work, but I'm proud to have been part of the project. BTBA judge Jeremy Garber of Powell’s Books said, “Though it took longer than 50 years to finally appear in English, Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the M