Following the steps of Suicide, which last year was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, Levé’s Autoportrait (2005; tr. from the French by Lorin Stein, 2012) was recently named a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. When I reviewed Suicide (here), I began with a quote from a piece by Levé that The Paris Review published, “When I look at a Strawberry, I
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,
I’m shocked! This is quite a leap from the list I expected! The winner will be selected from this list on May 3. The Planets, by Sergio Chejfec; Argentina; tr. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Open Letter Books) Prehistoric Times, by Eric Chevillard; France; tr. from the French by Alyson Waters (Archipelago Books) The
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