Friday, April 10, 2015

Literary Giants Vie With Newcomers On Shortlist For 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize


International literary giants Haruki Murakami and Erwin Mortier have made the shortlist for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Murakami's bestselling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage tells the story of a man's attempt to understand why his four best friends abandoned him sixteen years before, and Mortier's While the Gods Were Sleeping is a First World War novel told from the Flemish point of view.

They are joined by German authors Jenny Erpenbeck and Daniel Kehlmann, and two writers translated into English for the first time from Spanish: Colombian Tomás González and Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel from Equatorial Guinea.


Press Release

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