Showing posts with label Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist 2014. Show all posts
Thursday, 22 May 2014

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 - The Shadow Jury announces the winner

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In 2014, for the third year in a row, Chairman Stu gathered together a group of brave bloggers to tackle the task of shadowing the Indep...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Revenge - Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder) - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014

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To be honest I really don’t know how to start this review, or actually how to write this review. I toyed with the idea of a long homage t...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Mussel Feast - Birgit Vanderbeke (translated by Jamie Bulloch) - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014

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Pardon my ignorance here, but how can a “modern German classic” one that “won the most prestigious German-language literature award, the ...
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014

The Iraqi Christ - Hassan Blasim (translated by Jonathan Wright) - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014

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Could you possibly imagine Gabriel Garcia Marquez being in Iraq? The magic realism spun into stories containing assassination attempts, d...
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Monday, 17 March 2014

A Meal in Winter - Hubert Mingarelli (translated by Sam Taylor) - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014

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The author blurb in my edition of “A Meal In Winter” states “Hubert Mingarelli is the author of numerous novels, short story collections...
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Monday, 10 March 2014

My Struggle Book Two, A Man In Love - Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated by Don Bartlett) - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Long List 2014 - Best Translated Book Award 2014

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Back in December 2013 I reviewed Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle – Book One, A Death In The Family” and spoke highly of his attention ...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

the briefcase - Hiromi Kawakami (aka Strange Weather in Tokyo) - Man Asian Literary Prize 2013 - Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014

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Here’s a challenge for you, write a novel about loneliness without becoming boring. Write one about emptiness without being melancholy, ...
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