Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist

Hello Gentle Reader

The longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been announced. On the list are some of the usual suspected writers have made it to the list: Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami. However the longlist also has five translated German authors on the longlist competing for the award. Here is the longlist in full:

Jenny Erpenbeck – “The End of Days,”
Judith Schalansky – “The Giraffe’s Neck,”
Daniel Kehlmann – “F,”
Timur Vermes – “Look Who’s Back,”
Stefanie de Velasco – “Tiger Milk,”
Jung-Myung Lee – “The Investigation,”
Can Xue – “The Last Lover,”
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel – “By Night the Mountain Burns,”
Tomás González – “In the Beginning Was the Sea,”
Marcello Fois – “Bloodlines,”
Tomas Bannerhed – “The Ravens,”
Erwin Mortier – “While the Gods Were Sleeping,”
Hamid Ismailov – “The Dead Lake,”
Karl Ove Knausgaard – “Book 3 – Boyhood Island,”
Haruki Murakami – “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,”

It is interesting to see so many German writers nominated for the award; and at the sametime it comes to no surprise that both literary celebrities Knausgaard and Murakami, are also on the longlist. Good luck, regardless to the authors!

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