{"id":277196,"date":"2010-03-12T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/12\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:01","slug":"independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/12\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, even though we&#8217;re in danger right now of becoming a blog that only writes about book prizes (or maybe I&#8217;m only feeling that way because the Best Translated Book Award has been on my mind for so long), we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t make mention of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/reading-all-over-the-world-the-longlist-for-this-years-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-spans-the-globe-1919979.html\">Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boris Akunin The Coronation (translated by Andrew Bromfield from the Russian) Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson<\/li>\n<li>Ketil Bj\u00f8rnstad To Music (Deborah Dawkin &amp; Erik Skuggevik; Norwegian) Maia Press<\/li>\n<li>Hassan Blasim The Madman of Freedom Square (Jonathan Wright; Arabic) Comma Press<\/li>\n<li>Philippe Claudel Brodeck&#8217;s Report (John Cullen; French) MacLehose Press<\/li>\n<li>Julia Franck The Blind Side of the Heart (Anthea Bell; German) Harvill Secker<\/li>\n<li>Pietro Grossi Fists (Howard Curtis; Italian) Pushkin Press<\/li>\n<li>Elias Khoury Yalo (Humphrey Davies; Arabic) MacLehose Press<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones (Charlotte Mandell; French) Chatto &amp; Windus<\/li>\n<li>Alain Mabanckou Broken Glass (Helen Stevenson; French) Serpent&#8217;s Tail<\/li>\n<li>Javier Mar\u00edas Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Margaret Jull Costa; Spanish) Chatto &amp; Windus<\/li>\n<li>Yoko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor (Stephen Snyder; Japanese) Harvill Secker<\/li>\n<li>Claudia Pi\u00f1eiro Thursday Night Widows (Miranda France; Spanish) Bitter Lemon Press<\/li>\n<li>Sankar Chowringhee (Arunava Sinha; Bengali) Atlantic<\/li>\n<li>Rafik Schami The Dark Side of Love (Anthea Bell; German) Arabia Books<\/li>\n<li>Bahaa Taher Sunset Oasis (Humphrey Davies; Arabic) Sceptre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a few things to note: Although the bigger presses, or big name presses, are well represented, it&#8217;s interesting to note how much of the heavy lifting for translation in the UK is done by smaller independent presses (Comma, Maia, Bitter Lemon); there are three books (three!) that are translated from Arabic, which has to be some kind of record; and Humphrey Davies and Anthea Bell have the knack&#8212;two nominated titles each.\n   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, even though we&#8217;re in danger right now of becoming a blog that only writes about book prizes (or maybe I&#8217;m only feeling that way because the Best Translated Book Award has been on my mind for so long), we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t make mention of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[19986,31396,31316,31376,2136,2526,31336,206,18676,31356,31326,31346,31366,23276,31386,9926],"class_list":["post-277196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alain-mabanckou","tag-bahaa-taher","tag-boris-akunin","tag-claudia-pineiro","tag-ejvl","tag-elias-khoury","tag-hassan-blasim","tag-javier-marias","tag-jonathan-littell","tag-julia-franck","tag-ketil-bjornstad","tag-philippe-claudel-brodeck","tag-pietro-grossi","tag-rafik-schami","tag-sankar-chowringhee","tag-yoko-ogawa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277196","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349196,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277196\/revisions\/349196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}