{"id":260666,"date":"2008-02-29T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/29\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:24","slug":"independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/29\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As covered at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readysteadybook.com\/Blog.aspx?permalink=20080229000100\">Ready Steady Book<\/a>, the shortlist of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&#38;t=boyd-tonkin\">Independent Foreign Fiction Prize<\/a> has just been announced. <\/p>\n<p>Here are your six finalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lars Saabye Christensen, <i>The Model<\/i> (Don Barlett; Norwegian; Arcadia Books)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pawel Huelle, <i>Castorp<\/i> (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish; Serpent&#8217;s Tail)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Kehlmann, <i>Measuring the World<\/i> (Carol Brown Janeway; German; Quercus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marlene van Niekerk, <i>The Way of the Women<\/i> (Michiel Heyns; Afrikaans; Little, Brown)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bengt Ohlsson, <i>Gregorius<\/i> (Silvester Mazzarella; Swedish; Portobello)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Verhaeghen, <i>Omega Minor<\/i> (the author; Dutch; Dalkey Archive Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Christensen or Verhaeghen won, but I have a completely un-scientific feeling that Kehlmann is going to take it this year. (Although I also thought Vila-Matas&#8217;s <i>Montano<\/i> was a lock for the shortlist . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Tail) Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (Carol Brown Janeway; German; Quercus) Marlene van Niekerk, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,9746],"class_list":["post-260666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-independent-foreign-fiction-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359146,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666\/revisions\/359146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}