Friday, January 19, 2007

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

A couple of crime novels have made it onto this year's long-list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

The full list:
  • Kader Abdolah, My Father's Notebook (translated by Susan Massotty from Dutch; Canongate)
  • José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons (Daniel Hahn; Portuguese; Arcadia)
  • Niccolò Ammaniti, Steal You Away (Jonathan Hunt; Italian; Canongate)
  • Javier Cercas, The Speed of Light (Anne McLean; Spanish; Bloomsbury)
  • Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Moldavian Pimp (Nick Caistor; Spanish; Harvill Secker)
  • Per Olov Enquist, The Story of Blanche and Marie (Tiina Nunnally; Swedish; Harvill Secker)
  • Jenny Erpenbeck, The Old Child (Susan Bernofsky; German; Portobello)
  • Faïza Guène, Just Like Tomorrow (Sarah Adams; French; Chatto & Windus)
  • Vangelis Hatziyannidis, Four Walls (Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife; Greek; Marion Boyars)
  • Ismail Kadare, The Successor (David Bellos; French; Canongate)
  • Ma Jian, Stick out your Tongue (Flora Drew; Chinese; Chatto & Windus)
  • Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream (Margaret Jull Costa; Spanish; Chatto & Windus)
  • Eva Menasse, Vienna (Anthea Bell; German; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow (the author; Gikuyu; Harvill Secker)
  • Leonardo Padura, Havana Black (Peter Bush; Spanish; Bitter Lemon)
  • Atiq Rahimi, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (Sarah Maguire & Yama Yari; Dari; Chatto & Windus)
  • José Saramago, Seeing (Margaret Jull Costa; Portuguese; Harvill Secker)
  • Elif Shafak, The Gaze (Brendan Freely; Turkish; Marion Boyars)
  • Dag Solstad, Shyness and Dignity (Sverre Lyngstad; Norwegian; Harvill Secker)
  • Linn Ullmann, Grace (Barbara Haveland; Norwegian; Picador)
Full article in today's Independent.

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