Hello Gentle Reader
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist has been announced. Thirteen different languages and sixteen very different novels. Each work tackles different themes. From the political, to the personal and the historical. From Norwegian to Arabic, to Afrikaans, and back around to Dutch and Spanish; the list encompasses well-known names, like those of Nobel Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk, to the Nobel Prize Perennial nominee Ismail Kadare; to a confessional prose writer Karl Ove Knausgaard; also an IMPACT Dublin Award winner and gardener by trade Gerrband Bakker also makes the list.
The Longlist are as follows:
“A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1: Vol 1,” by Karl Ove Knausgaard
“Satantango,” by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
“Bundu,” by Chris Barnard
“The Detour,” by Gerrband Bakker
“Black Bazaar,” by Alain Mabanckou
“Cold Sea Stories,” by Pawel Huelle,
“Dublinesque,” by Enrique Villa-Matas
“HHhH,” by Laurent Binet
“In Praise of Hatred,” by Khalid Khalifa
“The Last of the Vostyachs,” by Diego Marani
“The Sound of things Falling,” by Juan Gabriel Vasquez,
“Traveler of the Century,” by Andrés Neuman
“Trieste,” by Dasa Drndic
“Silent House,” by Orhan Pamuk
“The Murder of Halland,” by Pia Juul
“The Fall of the Stone City,” by Ismail Kadare
There you have them Gentle Reader, the longlist. Ten will be eliminated by April 11th, leaving a six fictional strong short list. From the obscure, to the literary all-stars, the work compromises some of the best fiction. – On a personal note, two of the books that have been longlisted, I have already read. Their reviews coming shortly.
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