Shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010

The newly announced shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 is:

*Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel (MacLehose Press), translated from the French by John Cullen.

*The Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck (Harvill Secker), translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

*Fists by Pietro Grossi (Pushkin Press), translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.

*Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (Serpent’s Tail), translated from the French by Helen Stevenson.

*The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami (Arabia Books), translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

*Chowringhee by Sankar (Atlantic Books), translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.

One intrepid blogger RobAroundBooks: is reading all of them ahead of the announcement of the winner and you can read more about that here.

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