Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award. It was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support of Arts Council England. Beginning in 2011 the administration of the prize was taken over by BookTrust, but retaining the "Independent" in the name. In 2015, the award was disbanded in a "reconfiguration" in which it was merged with the Man Booker International Prize.[1]

Entries (fiction or short stories) were published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award by a living author. The prize acknowledged both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000 and a magnum of champagne from drinks sponsor Champagne Taittinger.

Winners, shortlists and longlists[]

Blue Ribbon (Blue ribbon) = winner

1990[]

1991[]

1992[]

Shortlist[2]

  • Blue ribbon Simon Leys, (French, Patricia Clancy)
  • Slavenka Drakulic, Holograms Of Fear (Croat, Ellen Elias-Barsaic)
  • Pawel Huelle, Who Was David Weiser? (Polish, Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
  • Yashar Kemal, To Crush The Serpent (Turkish, Thilda Kemal)
  • Ivan Klima, Judge On Trial (Czech, A G Brain)
  • Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess (Italian, Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood)
  • Carlo Mazzantini, In Search Of A Glorious Death (Italian, Simonetta Wenkert)
  • Erik Orsenna, Love And Empire (French, Jeremy Leggatt)
  • Giorgio Pressburger, The Law Of White Spaces (Italian, Piers Spence)
  • Jean Rouaud, Fields Of Glory (French, Ralph Manheim)
  • Leonardio Sciascia, The Knight And Death (Italian, Joseph Farrell and Marie Evans)
  • Antonio Tabucchi, Vanishing Point (Italian, Tim Parks)

1993[]

Ismail Kadare

Shortlist[3]

1994[]

Amos Oz

Shortlist [4][5][6][7]

1995[]

1996 to 2000[]

Prize in abeyance.

2001[]

Shortlist

Marta Morazzoni

2002[]

Shortlist

2003[]

Shortlist

Also longlisted[8]

2004[]

Shortlist[9]

Also longlisted[10]

2005[]

Shortlist

Also longlisted[11]

  • David Albahari, Götz and Meyer (Serbian, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac)
  • Merete Morken Andersen, Oceans of Time (Norwegian, Barbara J Haveland)
  • Mia Couto, The Last Flight of the Flamingo (Portuguese, David Brookshaw)
  • Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Bride from Odessa (Spanish, Nick Caistor)
  • Victor Erofeyev, Life with an Idiot (Russian, Andrew Reynolds)
  • Turki al-Hamad, Shumaisi (Arabic, Paul Starkey)
  • Torgny Lindgren, Hash (Swedish, Tom Geddes)
  • Enrico Remmert, The Ballad of the Low Lifes (Italian, Aubrey Botsford)
  • José Saramago, The Double (Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa)
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish, Lucia Graves)

2006[]

The 2006 prize was announced in May. The jury for the 2006 Prize was composed of: Boyd Tonkin (Literary Editor, The Independent), the writers Paul Bailey, Margaret Busby and Maureen Freely, and Kate Griffin (Arts Council England).

Shortlist[12][13]

Also longlisted

2007[]

Shortlist[14]

Also longlisted[15]

2008[]

Shortlist

Also longlisted[16]

2009[]

Shortlist

  • Blue ribbon Evelio Rosero, (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish)
  • Celine Curiol, Voice Over (translated by from the French)
  • Ma Jian, Beijing Coma (translated by from the Chinese)
  • Ismail Kadare, The Siege (translated by David Bellos from the Albanian via French)
  • Juan Gabriel Vasquez, (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish)
  • AB Yehoshua, (translated by from the Hebrew)

Also longlisted

  • Sjón, The Blue Fox (translated by from the Icelandic)
  • Jose Eduardo Agualusa, My Father's Wives (translated by Daniel Hahn from the Portuguese)
  • Dag Solstad, Novel 11, Book 18 (translated by Sverre Lyngstad from the Norwegian)
  • Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool (translated by from the Japanese)
  • Eshkol Nevo, Homesick (translated by from the Hebrew)
  • Linn Ullmann, A Blessed Child (translated by from the Norwegian)
  • Thomas Glavinic, Night Work (translated by John Brownjohn from the German)
  • Gyorgy Dragoman, The White King (translated by from the Hungarian)
  • Alexander Ahndoril, The Director (translated by from the Swedish)
  • Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (translated by Anthea Bell from the German)

2010[]

Shortlist

  • Blue ribbon Philippe Claudel, Brodeck's Report (translated by ; French) MacLehose Press
  • Julia Franck, (translated by Anthea Bell; German) Harvill Secker
  • Pietro Grossi, (translated by Howard Curtis; Italian) Pushkin Press
  • Alain Mabanckou, (translated by ; French) Serpent's Tail
  • Sankar, Chowringhee (translated by Arunava Sinha; Bengali) Atlantic
  • Rafik Schami, The Dark Side of Love (translated by Anthea Bell; German) Arabia Books

Also longlisted[17]

  • Boris Akunin, The Coronation (translated by Andrew Bromfield from the Russian) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Ketil Bjørnstad, To Music (translated by & ; Norwegian) Maia Press
  • Hassan Blasim, The Madman of Freedom Square (translated by Jonathan Wright; Arabic) Comma Press
  • Elias Khoury, Yalo (translated by Humphrey Davies; Arabic) MacLehose Press
  • Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones (translated by Charlotte Mandell; French) Chatto & Windus
  • Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Spanish) Chatto & Windus
  • Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor (translated by ; Japanese) Harvill Secker
  • Claudia Piñeiro, Thursday Night Widows (translated by ; Spanish) Bitter Lemon Press
  • Bahaa Taher, Sunset Oasis (translated by Humphrey Davies; Arabic) Sceptre

2011[]

Shortlist[18]

Also longlisted

  • Veronique Olmi, Beside the Sea; translated by Adriana Hunter (Peirene Press), French
  • David Grossman, To the End of the Land; translated by Jessica Cohen (Jonathan Cape), Hebrew
  • Daniel Kehlmann, Fame translated by Carol Brown Janeway (Quercus), German
  • Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Secret History of Costaguana translated by Anne McLean (Bloomsbury), Spanish
  • Michal Witkowski, Lovetown translated by W Martin (Portobello Books), Polish
  • Jachym Topol, Gargling with Tar translated by David Short (Portobello Books), Czech
  • Juli Zeh, Dark Matter translated by Christine Lo (Harvill Secker), German
  • Shuichi Yoshida, Villain translated by Philip Gabriel (Harvill Secker), Japanese
  • Per Wästberg, The Journey of Anders Sparrman translated by Tom Geddes (Granta), Swedish

2012[]

Shortlist[19]

Also longlisted[20]

  • Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Books 1 and 2, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin (Harvill Secker)
  • Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies translated from the Swedish by (Faber)
  • Tristan Garcia, translated from the French by and Lorin Stein (Faber)
  • Matthias Politycki, translated from the German by Anthea Bell (Peirene Press)
  • Péter Nádas, Parallel Stories translated from the Hungarian by (Jonathan Cape)
  • Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mother translated from the Korean by (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • Dag Solstad, translated from the Norwegian by (Harvill Secker)
  • Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by (Chatto & Windus)
  • Bernardo Atxaga, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Harvill Secker)

2013[]

Shortlist[21]
Also longlisted[23]

2014[]

Shortlist[24]
  • Blue ribbon Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ (Arabic; trans. Jonathan Wright)[25]
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Man in Love (book 2 of My Struggle) (Norwegian; trans. Don Bartlett)
  • Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo (Japanese; trans. Allison Markin Powell)
  • Hubert Mingarelli, A Meal in Winter (French; trans. Sam Taylor)
  • Yōko Ogawa, Revenge (Japanese; trans. Stephen Snyder)
  • Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast (German; trans. Jamie Bulloch) - special mention by the jury.[25]
Also longlisted[26]
  • Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer (Arabic; translated by the author)
  • Julia Franck, Back to Back (German; trans. Anthea Bell)
  • Sayed Kashua, Exposure (Hebrew; trans. Mitch Ginsberg)
  • Andrej Longo, Ten (Italian; trans. Howard Curtis)
  • Ma Jian, The Dark Road (Chinese; trans. Flora Drew)
  • Andreï Makine, Brief Loves that Live Forever (French; trans. Geoffrey Strachan)
  • Javier Marías, The Infatuations (Spanish; trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
  • Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Butterflies in November (Icelandic; trans. Brian FitzGibbon)
  • Jón Kalman Stefánsson, The Sorrow of Angels (Icelandic; trans. Philip Roughton)

2015[]

Shortlist[27]
Also longlisted[29]

References[]

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  17. ^ Boyd Tonkin (12 March 2010). "Reading all over the world: The long-list for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize spans the globe". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
  18. ^ Alison Flood (11 April 2011). "Orhan Pamuk leads shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
  19. ^ Russell (April 4, 2012). "Icelandic novelist and poet shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012". icenews.is. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
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  21. ^ Staff writer (11 April 2013). "Lust in translation". Book Trust. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
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  23. ^ Boyd Tonkin (March 2, 2013). "Boyd Tonkin: From Syria to Colombia, and Albanian to Afrikaans, enjoy a global feast". The Independent. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
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  25. ^ a b Boyd Tonkin (23 May 2014). "Iraq's 'Irvine Welsh' wins the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ". The Independent. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
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  29. ^ "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 - longlist announced". BookTrust. 12 March 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
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