They've announced the winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2012 -- "awarded for a work of world literature in the fiction and non fiction categories, except poetry", and worth CHF 50,000, and one of the more interesting international literature prizes.
In a regrettably and unaccountably non-fiction dominated year, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell took the prize; get your copy from Amazon.com (though it looks kind of ... out of print ?) or Amazon.co.uk.
In a regrettably and unaccountably non-fiction dominated year, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell took the prize; get your copy from Amazon.com (though it looks kind of ... out of print ?) or Amazon.co.uk.