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Independent foreign fiction prize

July 2015

  • Sarah Lee -  Chair of the judges, James Naughtie with the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Hilary Mantel, at the awards ceremony for the 2009 Man Booker Prize at the Guildhall, London
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    The change to the Man Booker International prize is good news for translated fiction

  • Man Booker International prize

    Man Booker International and Independent foreign fiction prizes merge to create super-award

May 2015

  • Jenny Erpenbeck

    Jenny Erpenbeck wins Independent foreign fiction prize

    German author and translator Susan Bernofsky share £10,000 award for The End of Days - a novel ‘to enjoy, to cherish and to revisit many times’

April 2015

  • Tomás González

    Colombian novel from 1983 makes Independent foreign fiction prize 2015 shortlist

    In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González lines up against novels by Haruki Murakami and Daniel Kehlmann

March 2015

  • Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Stars come out for the Independent foreign fiction prize 2015 longlist

    Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami return for the third time, and five German writers make the cut

May 2014

  • Hassan Blasim

    Exiled Iraqi is first Arab winner of UK's top prize for foreign fiction

    Hassan Blasim takes Independent prize with The Iraqi Christ, a collection of short stories portraying Iraq as a 'surrealist inferno'

May 2013

  • Gerbrand Bakker and David Colmer

    Independent Foreign Fiction prize goes to Gerbrand Bakker

    'Mesmeric' storytelling of The Detour secures £10,000 purse, shared with translator David Colmer

April 2013

  • Ismail Kadare in 2006

    Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced

    Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas and Man Booker International prize winner Ismail Kadare on shortlist

May 2012

  • Aharon Appelfeld

    Aharon Appelfeld scoops Independent foreign fiction prize

    Israeli author's dark tale of a Jewish boy taken in by a prostitute during the second world war 'glows on the page', said judges

April 2012

  • Umberto Eco

    Independent foreign fiction prize shortlist announced

    Chinese novel about Aids scandal up against Umberto Eco for £10,000 prize

May 2011

  • Santiago Roncagliolo

    Serial killer novel wins Independent foreign fiction prize

    Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo, which uses murder story to dramatise impact of Shining Path in Peru, takes £10,000 award

April 2011

  • Orhan Pamuk

    Orhan Pamuk leads shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize

    Santiago Roncagliolo, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Per Petterson, Jenny Erpenbeck and Marcelo Figueras also in contention

February 2011

  • Asia backpacking

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June 2010

  • Boxing ring: Joe Louis and Joe Walcott

    Books blog
    Walking the tightrope between translation and interpretation

    Sarah Ardizzone: Putting two translations of the same short story head to head in front of an audience will be hair-raising, but what does it mean for fiction if different translators make different choices?

May 2010

  • Kristin Scott Thomas in I've Loved You So Long

    Independent foreign fiction prize goes to Philippe Claudel

    Judges applaud Bafta-winning French writer Philippe Claudel for Brodeck's Report, a 'convincing fable of persecution, resistance and survival'

April 2010

  • Alain Mabanckou

    Globetrotting shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize

    Writers from Indian, Congo and Europe in contention for £10,000 honour

May 2009

  • Evilio Rosero

    Colombian civil war story wins Independent foreign fiction prize

    Evilio Rosero's The Armies hailed as 'a beautifully wrought, gently spoken novel of love, war and grief'

April 2009

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Looking forward to Latin literature after Márquez

  • Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    Colombia dominates Independent foreign fiction prize shortlist

May 2008

  • Belgian author scoops double foreign fiction prize win

    Paul Verhaegen tonight took the Independent foreign fiction prize both for his original Dutch-language novel and his own English translation of the work

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