The Independent has just released the longlist for its Foreign Fiction Prize which is to be whittled down to a shortlist of six. The winner and translator will share the prize of £10,000.
And the titles are:
Among those that narrowly got away was Etgar Keret's The Nimrod Flip-out.
- Tonino Benacquista, Someone Else (French)
- Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light (French)
- Stefan Chwin, Death in Danzig (Polish)
- Philippe Claudel, Grey Souls (French)
- Marie Darrieussecq, White (French)
- Karen Duve, This is Not a Love Song (German)
- David Grossman, Lovers and Strangers (Hebrew)
- Pawel Huelle, Mercedes-Benz (Polish)
- Imre Kértesz, Fatelessness (Hungarian)
- Ellen Mattson, Snow (Swedish)
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (Japanese)
- Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses (Norwegian)
- Dai Sijie, Mr Muo's Travelling Couch (French)
- Magda Szabó, The Door (Hungarian)
- Dubravka Ugresic, The Ministry of Pain (Croatian)
2 comments:
Anybody else read that list and think: "I need to read more foreign fiction"?
me for sure!!!!
i have bought the murukami but haven't had a chance to read it yet!
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