This is the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Longlist, with links to reviews by the Shadow prize jury. Books which made the official shortlist are in bold, (see judges comments here) and those which made the Shadow shortlist are in italics.
- IQ84 (1&2) by Haruki Marukami (from Japanese; trans. Jay Rubin) (Harvill Secker)
- Alice by Judith Hermann (from German; trans. Margot Bettauer Dembo) (The Clerkenwell Press)
- Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld (from Hebrew; trans. Jeffrey M. Green) (Alma Books)
- Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke (from Chinese; trans. Cindy Carter) (Constable)
- From The Mouth of the Whale by Sjon (from Icelandic; trans. Victoria Cribb) (Telegram)
- Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia (from French; trans. Marion Duvert/Lorin Stein) (Faber)
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani (from Italian; trans. Judith Landry) (Dedalus)
- Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (from German; trans. Anthea Bell) (Peirene)
- Parallel Stories by Peter Nadas (from Hungarian; trans. Imre Goldstein) (Jonathan Cape)
- Please Look After Mother by Kyung-sook Shin (from Korean; trans. Chi-Young Kim) (Weidenfeld)
- Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad (from Norwegian; trans. Agnes Scott) (Harvill Secker)
- Scenes From Village Life by Amos Oz (from Hebrew; trans. Nicholas de Lange) (Chatto & Windus)
- Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga (from Spanish; trans. Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker)
- The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg (from Swedish; trans. Sarah Death) (Faber)
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (from Italian; trans. Richard Dixon) (Harvill Secker)
Links on the titles are all to the Book Depository.
many thanks lisa for posting this ,all the best stu
By: winstonsdad on March 27, 2012
at 4:39 am
*chuckle* I’m trying to keep up with it all!
By: Lisa Hill on March 27, 2012
at 6:34 pm
I love them all! (Oh for the time to read them!)
I do have one correction – Diego Marani did not write New Finnish Grammar in Finnish – Diego Marani is Italian. Finnish is a chunk of the subject matter. Of all the books listed that’s the one I really want to read.
Thanks for the list, Lisa! I’ve only read 2 so far. I might make it a personal challenge to read the world this year – this list!
By: beckylindroos on March 30, 2012
at 2:54 pm
HI Bec, thanks for the correction, I can’t remember where I got the original list from, but I’ve checked the IFFP website and you are right. (And I’ve fixed it).
By: Lisa Hill on March 30, 2012
at 5:58 pm