{"id":271116,"date":"2009-05-14T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/05\/14\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:57","slug":"independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/05\/14\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Foreign Fiction Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got word that the winner of this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is Evelio Rosero for The Armies<\/em>, which was translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. <\/p>\n

It’s available in the UK from Quercus (but not in the U.S. . . . or at least not yet) (Correction: It’s coming out from New Directions in September<\/em>), and here’s all the info from their site about the book, author and translator:<\/p>\n

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In the village of San Jos\u00e9 in the remote mountains of Colombia, retired teacher Ismael spends his days gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her orchard. It is a languid existence, pierced by his wife\u2019s scolding, which induces in him the furtive guilt of an aging voyeur. Out walking one day, Ismael and his wife lose sight of each other. The old man is fearful, for San Jos\u00e9 has random kidnappings in its past, but reassured by others who have seen her in the village. Soon, though, more people begin to go missing, and gradually bursts of gunfire can be heard in the distance. As the attacks grow steadily more brutal, Ismael finds himself caught in the crossfire; an old man battered by a reality he no longer understands. This is a novel with no easy solutions, in which no-one is spared, no-one is protected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Evelio Rosero studied Social Communication in the Externado University of Colombia. In 2006 he was awarded the Tusquets National Prize for Literature in Colombia for his novel The Armies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Anne McLean has translated the novels of, among others, Javier Cercas, Julio Cort\u00e1zar, Ignacio Padilla and Tom\u00e1s Eloy Mart\u00ednez. Her translation of Javier Cercas’ Soldiers of Salamis<\/em> won the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Inclan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Congrats to Evelio Rosero and Anne McLean! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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