Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlis

       It's been quite the week for shortlist-announcements for international fiction prizes, and now we have the final one, as the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has announced its shortlist, consisting of six titles:

• Bundu by Chris Barnard
• The Detour (published as Ten White Geese in the US) by Gerbrand Bakker
• Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
• The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
• Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman
• Trieste by Daša Drndić

       There's no overlap with the Best Translated Book Award finalists -- announced Wednesday; see my discussion -- though in large part that's an eligibility issue: three of the six Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-titles have 2013 US publication dates (and hence will be up for next year's prize, rather than this year's), and one (Trieste) doesn't seem to have any .....
       However, two also-BTBA-longlisted titles that did not move on to that shortlist did make the IFFP shortlist: the Vila-Matas and the Neuman.
       Also of note: among the titles they had longlisted the IFFP also passed on Knausgaard's My Struggle (as did the BTBA) as well as, even more stunningly, Krasznahorkai's Satantango (a BTBA finalist) -- and, more disappointingly, Diego Marani's The Last of the Vostyachs.
       The eligibility criteria make for three slightly different pools for IFFP, BTBA, and the third in the lot, the IMPAC (see my last mention), but it's striking that there's no remaining overlap (as there still had been at the longlist stage).