Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist

Hello Gentle Reader

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has released its shortlist. Interesting authors and some usual suspects. However, the prize itself, is promoting world literature, translated literature, and is a continued endeavor to hold dialogues and diplomacy through literature, and cultural exchanges.

The following is the Shortlist –

Jenny Erpenbeck – “The End of Days,”
Daniel Kehlmann – “F,”
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel – “By Night the Mountain Burns,”
Tomás González – “In the Beginning Was the Sea,”
Erwin Mortier – “While the Gods Were Sleeping,”
Haruki Murakami – “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,”

Once again we find Haruki Murakami on the list. Yet once again, there is reason to suspect that Murakami will most likely walk away without the award, as it will most likely pass to another. With his reputation as an international readership; Murkami appears to be another that is both loved and admired by his devoted fans; but is a polarized figure towards other authors, who view him as a literary pop star, utilizing garden variety of magical realism, and the most liberally and loosely defined term of surrealism, to discuss aspects of alienation, and isolation and loneliness in contemporary Japan. In the end, good luck to the shortlisted authors; and many thanks to The Independent and this prize for its admirable efforts to welcome new authors to the English language markets.

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