Shortlist for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Announced
Posted on April 12, 2012
The shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been announced. The annual award was founded by The Independent, a British newspaper. The award is given to a novel translated into English in the U.K. The winning novelist and translator each get 5,000 pounds and a magnum of champagne from Taittinger. Here is the shortlist:
- Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld
- Alice by Judith Hermann
- From the Mouth of the Whale by Sj�n
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
- Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
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