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80-year-old Israeli author wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for...

Posted 14 May 2012
Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012. Appelfeld and Jeffrey M Green, who translated the novel from the Hebrew into English, were each... Read '80-year-old Israeli author wins Independent Foreign...'
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist Announced

Posted 12 April 2012
Themes of loss and persecution pervade global shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012. Umberto Eco's latest masterpiece, a novel banned in China charting the devastating human cost of... Read 'Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist Announced'
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 longlist announced

Posted 8 March 2012
Dream of Ding Village, a novel banned by the Chinese Government has made the longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012. Yan Lianke's novel, which tells the story of... Read 'Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 longlist...'
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 judges announced

Posted 14 October 2011
2 comments The Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Nick Barley, and Xiaolu Guo, who wrote the Orange shortlisted A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, have joined the panel of judges... Read 'Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 judges...'
Santiago Roncagliolo wins the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Posted 26 May 2011
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 has been awarded to Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo for his third novel, Red April (Atlantic Books). At 36, Roncagliolo is the youngest-ever author, as... Read 'Santiago Roncagliolo wins the Independent Foreign...'