The 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner was announced on Tuesday. Angolan journalist and author Jose Eduardo Agualusa won for his novel, The Book of Chameleons (Call No.: English AGU). The Portuguese novel is translated into English by Daniel Hahn. Jose and Daniel will be sharing the prize of £10,000.
The prize celebrates a novel that has been translated into English and published in the UK last year.
Other 2007 shortlisted nominees were:
- Per Olov Enquist - The Story of Blanche and Marie
- Vangelis Hatziyannidis - Four Walls (Call No.: English HAT)
- Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow, 2: Dance and Dream (Call No.: English MAR)
- Eva Menasse - Vienna (Call No.: English MEN)
- Dag Solstad - Shyness and Dignity (Call No.: English SOL)
Past winners include Milan Kundera’s Immortality (Call No.: English KUN or here), WG Sebald’s Austerlitz (Call No.: English SEB or here), Javier Cercas’ Soldiers of Salamis (Call No.: English CER), and last year’s winner Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses (Call No.: English PET).
(via BBC|Entertainment)
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