Here are the six books to make the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist:
- The Detour, by Gerbrand Bakker; tr from the Dutch by David Colmer (in the U.S. this book was published as Ten White Geese)
- Bundu, by Chris Barnard; tr. from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns (this will be available in the U.S. on May 1, 2013)
- Trieste, by Dasa Drndic; tr. from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac
- The Fall of the Stone City, by Ismail Kadare; tr. from the Albanian by John Hodgson
- Traveler of the Century, by Andrés Neuman; tr. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia
- Dublinesque, by Enrique Vila-Matas; tr. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey & Anne McLean
This is the second shortlist for translated fiction in two days, and the second to leave off one of my favorites: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle: Book One (or, A Death in the Family). At least this one has one of my favorites, Enrique Vila-Matas’s Dublinesque, and also picks up Traveler of the Century, both of which were left off the Best Translated Book Award shortlist. But now, here’s where I’m shocked: this list left off Krasznahorkai’s Satantango! As you can see, the Knausgaard, Vila-Matas, and Krasznahorkai would be on any shortlist I made.
Yep, the ‘Satantango’ omission was the big shock, but the inclusion of ‘Bundu’ is just as surprising! Very happy with the list overall though :)
no satantango a shock ,I feel traveller ,dublinesque and trieste my favourites ,all the best stu