{"id":9079,"date":"2013-04-11T09:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:16:54","slug":"independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/04\/11\/independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the six books to make the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Detour<\/strong><\/em>, by Gerbrand Bakker; tr from the Dutch by David Colmer (in the U.S. this book was published as\u00a0<em>Ten White Geese<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Bundu<\/strong><\/em>, by Chris Barnard; tr. from the Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns (this will be available in the U.S. on May 1, 2013)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Trieste<\/strong><\/em>, by Dasa Drndic; tr. from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Fall of the Stone City<\/strong><\/em>, by Ismail Kadare; tr. from the Albanian by John Hodgson<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Traveler of the Century<\/strong><\/em>, by Andr\u00e9s Neuman; tr. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor &amp; Lorenza Garcia<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Dublinesque<\/strong><\/em>, by Enrique Vila-Matas; tr. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey &amp; Anne McLean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the second shortlist for translated fiction in two days, and the second to leave off one of my favorites: Karl Ove Knausgaard&#8217;s\u00a0<em>My Struggle: Book One<\/em> (or,\u00a0<em>A Death in the Family<\/em>). At least this one has one of my favorites, Enrique Vila-Matas&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Dublinesque<\/em>, and also picks up\u00a0<em>Traveler of the Century<\/em>, both of which were left off the Best Translated Book Award shortlist. But now, here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m shocked: this list left off Krasznahorkai&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Satantango<\/em>! As you can see, the Knausgaard, Vila-Matas, and Krasznahorkai would be on any shortlist I made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the six books to make the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist: The\u00a0Detour, by Gerbrand Bakker; tr from the Dutch by David Colmer (in the U.S. this book was published as\u00a0Ten 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) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-2mr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9080,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}