Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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.
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