Shortlist Announced: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011

The shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 has been announced and includes a few of my favorite reads from last year:

• Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky from the German, published by Portobello Books
• Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras, translated by Frank Wynne from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books
• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely from the Turkish, published by Faber and Faber
• I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson, translated by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson from the Norwegian, published by Harvill Secker
• Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo, translated by Edith Grossman from the Spanish, published by Atlantic Books
• The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka, translated by Margaret Jull Costa from the Spanish, published by MacLehose Press

Read more about the prize and shortlist here. 

Longlist Announced for Indie Booksellers Choice Awards

Well, we're a little late with this but the longlist for the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards (sponsored by Shelf Awareness and Melville House) was announced yesterday.

Many good books from writers and publishers we admire, along with a number of works in translation, including Jenny Erpenbeck's Visitation.  

We also must mention and applaud the inclusion of Asunder by Robert Lopez, published by our good friends at Dzanc Books.

Take a look at the list here.