They've announced the winners of the Athens Prize for Literature, awarded both for best Greek novel, and best translated work; Theodoros Grigoriadis has the run-down at his weblog.
1Q84 by Murakami Haruki took the foreign prize -- winning in a translated-from-the-English dominated longlist field (six of ten titles) (and beating out what surely had to be the hometown favorite, Aris Fioretos' Den siste greken (see the Hedlund Agency publicity page (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) or the review in the Swedish Book Review). Other longlisted non-English titles were by Martin Walser and Chiara Gamberale, while US titles included The Marriage Plot, by another semi-native son, Jeffrey ('Τζέφρυ') Eugenides.
More interestingly, the best Greek novel was Πώς τελειώνει ο κόσμος ('How The World Ends') by Maria Xilouri; see the Καλέντης publicity page.
(See also the full Greek (and foreign) shortlists here.)
1Q84 by Murakami Haruki took the foreign prize -- winning in a translated-from-the-English dominated longlist field (six of ten titles) (and beating out what surely had to be the hometown favorite, Aris Fioretos' Den siste greken (see the Hedlund Agency publicity page (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) or the review in the Swedish Book Review). Other longlisted non-English titles were by Martin Walser and Chiara Gamberale, while US titles included The Marriage Plot, by another semi-native son, Jeffrey ('Τζέφρυ') Eugenides.
More interestingly, the best Greek novel was Πώς τελειώνει ο κόσμος ('How The World Ends') by Maria Xilouri; see the Καλέντης publicity page.
(See also the full Greek (and foreign) shortlists here.)