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Wednesday 25 February 2009

2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist

Last Monday, Linda Grant, Kate Griffin, Fiona Sampson, Boyd Tonkin and I chose the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist. After hours of discussion, we came down to a list of sixteen:

• Voiceover by Celine Curiol (trans. Sam Richard)
• A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann (trans. Sarah Death)
• The Blue Fox by Sjón (trans. Victoria Cribb; read our review)
• Friendly Fire by A.B. Yehoshua (trans. Stuart Schoffman)
• My Father's Wives by Jose Eduardo Algualusa (trans. Daniel Hahn)
• The White King by Gyorgy Dragomán (trans. Paul Olchvary)
• The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (trans. Anne McLean)
• Homesick by Eshkol Nevo (trans. Sondra Silverstein)
• Beijing Coma by Ma Jian (trans. Flora Drew)
• The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (trans Stephen Snyder)
• Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad (trans. Sverre Lyngstad)
• The Director by Alexander Ahndoril (trans. Sarah Death)
• The Armies by Evelio Rosero (trans. Anne McLean)
• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic (trans. Anthea Bell)
• The Siege by Ismail Kadare (trans. David Bellos, from the French of Jusuf Vrioni)
• Night Work by Thomas Glavinic (trans. John Brownjohn)

Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: IFFP09

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