2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist
The longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has (finally!) been announced. Here you go: Voice Over by Céline Curiol (trans. Sam Richard) A Blessed Child by Linn Ullman (trans. Sarah Death) The Blue Fox by Sjon (trans. Victoria Cribb) Friendly Fire by A.B. Yehoshua (trans. Stuart Schoffman) My ...
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Congrats to Paul Verhaeghen
Just announced today that Flemish author Paul Verhaeghen has won the Independent foreign fiction prize for his novel Omega Minor. Moving back and forth through the last century, Omega Minor, translated from the Dutch, is a story of love and death on the grandest possible scale. Its whirlwind plot takes in Berlin, Boston, ...
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist
As covered at Ready Steady Book, the shortlist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has just been announced. Here are your six finalists: Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model (Don Barlett; Norwegian; Arcadia Books) Pawel Huelle, Castorp (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish; Serpent’s Tail) Daniel ...
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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
In today’s Independent, Boyd Tonkin has the complete longlist for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Before getting to the list itself, Tonkin makes a case for the publication of literature in translation: The annual list of the bestselling paperbacks in Britain made, as ever, a more enlightening read than ...
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