Press Release: Prizes and Awards
Longlist Announced For The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010
Posted at 12:49PM Thursday 11 Mar 2010
Arts Council England has today announced the longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010, in association with Champagne Taittinger. The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize celebrates an exceptional work of fiction by a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom in the last year. A total of 15 contenders have been longlisted for the 2010 prize, worth £10,000. They are: * The Coronation by Boris Akunin, translated by Andrew Bromfield from the Russian (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) * To the Music by Ketil Bjornstad, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuvvegik from the Norwegian (Maia) * The Madmen of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright from the Arabic (Comma Press) * Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen from the French (MacLehose Press) * The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck translated by Anthea Bell from the German (Harvill Secker) * Fists by Pietro Grossi, translated by Howard Curtis from the Italian (Pushkin) * Yalo by Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies from the Arabic (MacLehose Press) * The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, translated by Charlotte Mandell from the French (Chatto & Windus) * Broken Glass by Alain Manbanckou, translated by Halan Stevenson from the French (Serpent's Tail) * Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish (Chatto & Windus) * Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro, translated by Miranda France from the Spanish (Bitter Lemon) * The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder from the Japanese (Harvill Secker) * Chowringhee by Sankar, translated by Arunava Sinha from the Bengali (Atlantic Books) * The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami, translated by Anthea Bell from the German (Arabia) * Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher, translated by Humphrey Davies from the Arabic (Sceptre) This year's longlist reflects the international scope of the prize and includes writers working in Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Norwegian and Bengali. The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize ran previously between 1990 and 1995 and 2010 marks the tenth year since the Prize was revived with the support of Arts Council England in 2001. The £10,000 prize money is funded by Arts Council England and sponsored by The Independent and Champagne Taittinger.
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