{"id":293206,"date":"2013-03-02T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/03\/02\/2013-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:56:41","slug":"2013-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/03\/02\/2013-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent<\/em> Foreign Fiction Prize longlist<\/a> was announced this morning, and is pretty spectacular. As you’ll find out on Tuesday, four of the books on the IFFP<\/span> longlist are also on the BTBA<\/span> longlist. (Which may seem small, but a number of these—The Detour<\/i>, The Sound of Things Falling<\/i>—have yet to be published\/distributed in America, and thus aren’t yet BTBA<\/span> eligible.) <\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a chunk of Boyd Tonkin’s great write-up on this year’s list:<\/p>\n

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Every year, the balance of the books that reach this antepenultimate round shifts. This time, central and eastern Europe shines: Pawel Huelle’s wryly delightful Polish stories; Ismail Kadare’s commanding Albanian history-cum-fable; Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s black-comic dystopia from rural Hungary; Dasa Drndic’s tragic family drama in north-eastern Italy, and the camps further east, under German rule.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We also showcase two different faces of Africa: the no-man’s-land between South Africa and Mozambique depicted in Chris Barnard’s ideas-rich adventure; and the remembered Congo that haunts the jesting barflies in Alain Mabanckou’s Paris. A trio of major contenders from past years re-appear: Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk, Italy’s Diego Marani, and Colombia’s Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez. We visit the Assads’ tyrannous Syria, (Khaled Khalifa), investigate a Danish killing (Pia Juul), and learn dark Norwegian family secrets (Karl Ove Knausgaard).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Our long-listed authors also travel far and wide. Andr\u00e9s Neuman, Argentinian-born, creates a Romantic-era town in Germany; Dutch Gerbrand Bakker despatches a heroine to rural Wales; in France, Laurent Binet re-imagines Nazi Prague; Enrique Vila-Matas sends a Barcelona publisher to literary Dublin. The Republic of Letters has no border controls. So join this mind-expanding tour – and bon voyage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This year’s judging panel is as impressive as ever. Joining Boyd in this nearly impossible task is Frank Wynne, Elif Shafak, Gabriel Josipovici, and Jean Boase-Beier. Good luck—it’s going to be tough to pick a winner from this list. <\/p>\n

To get on with it, here’s the complete 15-title longlist:<\/p>\n

Gerbrand Bakker: The Detour<\/em> (translated by David Colmer from the Dutch), and published by Harvill Secker<\/p>\n

Chris Barnard: Bundu<\/em> (Michiel Heyns; Afrikaans), Alma Books<\/p>\n

Laurent Binet: HHhH<\/em> (Sam Taylor; French), Harvill Secker<\/p>\n

Dasa Drndic: Trieste<\/em> (Ellen Elias-Bursac; Croatian), MacLehose Press<\/p>\n

Pawel Huelle: Cold Sea Stories<\/em> (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish), Comma Press<\/p>\n

Pia Juul: The Murder of Halland<\/em> (Martin Aitken; Danish), Peirene Press<\/p>\n

Ismail Kadare: The Fall of the Stone City<\/em> (John Hodgson; Albanian), Canongate<\/p>\n

Khaled Khalifa: In Praise of Hatred<\/em> (Leri Price; Arabic), Doubleday<\/p>\n

Karl Ove Knausgaard: A Death in the Family<\/em> (Don Bartlett; Norwegian), Harvill Secker<\/p>\n

Laszlo Krasznahorkai: Satantango<\/em> (George Szirtes; Hungarian), Tuskar Rock<\/p>\n

Alain Mabanckou: Black Bazaar<\/em> (Sarah Ardizzone; French), Serpent’s Tail<\/p>\n

Diego Marani: The Last of the Vostyachs<\/em> (Judith Landry; Italian), Dedalus<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9s Neuman: Traveller of the Century<\/em> (Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia; Spanish), Pushkin Press<\/p>\n

Orhan Pamuk: Silent House<\/em> (Robert Finn; Turkish), Faber<\/p>\n

Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez: The Sound of Things Falling<\/em> (Anne McLean; Spanish), Bloomsbury<\/p>\n

Enrique Vila-Matas: Dublinesque<\/em> (Rosalind Harvey & Anne McLean; Spanish), Harvill Secker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist was announced this morning, and is pretty spectacular. As you’ll find out on Tuesday, four of the books on the IFFP longlist are also on the BTBA longlist. (Which may seem small, but a number of these—The Detour, The Sound of Things Falling—have yet to be published\/distributed in America, […]<\/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":[9756,9746],"class_list":["post-293206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-boyd-tonkin","tag-independent-foreign-fiction-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293206","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=293206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340046,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293206\/revisions\/340046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}