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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the support of Arts Council England. Entries (fiction or short stories) must be published in English translation in the UK in the year preceding the award and the author must be alive at the time that the translation is published.

Uniquely, the prize acknowledges both the winning novelist and translator, each being awarded £5,000.

Website: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-1632978.html

Winners

Year Title Author
2010 Brodeck's Report Philippe Claudel Shortlist...
2009 The Armies Evelio Rosero Shortlist...
2008 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen Shortlist...
2007 The Book of Chameleons José Eduardo Agualusa Shortlist...
2006 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson Shortlist...
2005 Windows on the World Frédéric Beigbeder Shortlist...
2004 Soldiers of Salamis Javier Cercas Shortlist...
2003 The Visit of the Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist Shortlist...
2002 Austerlitz WG Sebald Shortlist...