Hello all,
Just writing a quick note to say that I am back from traveling (at least for the moment!), and have a bunch of good things in store for the next month or so.
First, I will be participating in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shadow jury this year. This prize honors the best work of fiction by a living author that has been translated into English and published in the UK in 2014. To read more about the prize, judges, and longlist, see here.
The shadow jury is a group of bloggers that will read the books on the official longlist, write reviews, and choose our own shortlist and IFFP winner. I am excited to participate in this project, and look forward to the opportunity to read a wide range of translated literature. You can find out about the members of the shadow jury and keep track of our progress here. Follow us on twitter to find out more about what we're up to!
The official longlist (with links to reviews when I post them):
Bloodlines by Marcello Fois, translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar
Colorless Tsukaru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
F by Daniel Kuhlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez, translated by Frank Wynne
Look Who's Back by Vernes Timur, translated by Jamie Bulloch
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Andrew Bromfield
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky, translated by Shaun Whiteside
The Investigation by J.M. Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim
The Last Lover by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan
The Ravens by Tomas Bannerhed, translated by Sarah Death
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Valasco, translated by Tim Mohr
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier, translated by Paul Vincent
And an addition to the list for the Shadow Panel:
Zone by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
I have until April 9th to read as many of these books as possible. Wish me luck!
In other news, I have a rather large stack of books that are waiting for reviews to be written. I'll try to work on those when I'm not reading the IFFP longlist.
Coming up (in no particular order):
Happy reading!
Just writing a quick note to say that I am back from traveling (at least for the moment!), and have a bunch of good things in store for the next month or so.
First, I will be participating in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shadow jury this year. This prize honors the best work of fiction by a living author that has been translated into English and published in the UK in 2014. To read more about the prize, judges, and longlist, see here.
The shadow jury is a group of bloggers that will read the books on the official longlist, write reviews, and choose our own shortlist and IFFP winner. I am excited to participate in this project, and look forward to the opportunity to read a wide range of translated literature. You can find out about the members of the shadow jury and keep track of our progress here. Follow us on twitter to find out more about what we're up to!
The official longlist (with links to reviews when I post them):
Bloodlines by Marcello Fois, translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar
Colorless Tsukaru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
F by Daniel Kuhlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez, translated by Frank Wynne
Look Who's Back by Vernes Timur, translated by Jamie Bulloch
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Andrew Bromfield
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky, translated by Shaun Whiteside
The Investigation by J.M. Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim
The Last Lover by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan
The Ravens by Tomas Bannerhed, translated by Sarah Death
Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Valasco, translated by Tim Mohr
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier, translated by Paul Vincent
And an addition to the list for the Shadow Panel:
Zone by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
I have until April 9th to read as many of these books as possible. Wish me luck!
In other news, I have a rather large stack of books that are waiting for reviews to be written. I'll try to work on those when I'm not reading the IFFP longlist.
Coming up (in no particular order):
- A novelization of the Mahabharata tale of a king who accidentally drinks a magic potion and becomes pregnant.
- A classic 1930s coming-of-age novel of the Australian outback, which includes a beautiful discussion of homosexuality.
- A collection of science fiction stories set in modern-day India.
- A novelization of the legend of a tribal woman who worked as a British tax collector in Assam, India.
- Scientifically accurate tall tales from the biggest fibber in the Bengali language, if not the world.
I have also been accepted as a Goodreads librarian! This will be a huge help, since I am frequently finding books that do not have Goodreads pages.
Happy reading!
I'm looking forward to reading for the IFFP with you, Chelsea!
ReplyDeleteShould be interesting. Just finished "The Last Lover" and didn't like it very much. I hope the other ones are better.
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