They've announced that this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award goes to The Sound of Things Falling, with €75,000 going to author Juan Gabriel Vásquez and €25,000 to translator Anne McLean.
This didn't make it past the longlist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 and, quite honestly, didn't even come close to the 25-title strong longlist for the Best Translated Book Award. But Impac prize judge Maya Jaggi: how we chose this year's winner explains at The Guardian's Book Blog that its nearest competition was ... Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century .....
I've been underwhelmed by the (three) Vásquezs I've seen so far (The Informers is the only one I bothered to review) -- there's some talent here, but .....
English PEN offer a timely Q & A with translator McLean; see also the Bloomsbury publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com (it just came out in paperback in the US) or Amazon.co.uk.
This didn't make it past the longlist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 and, quite honestly, didn't even come close to the 25-title strong longlist for the Best Translated Book Award. But Impac prize judge Maya Jaggi: how we chose this year's winner explains at The Guardian's Book Blog that its nearest competition was ... Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century .....
I've been underwhelmed by the (three) Vásquezs I've seen so far (The Informers is the only one I bothered to review) -- there's some talent here, but .....
English PEN offer a timely Q & A with translator McLean; see also the Bloomsbury publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com (it just came out in paperback in the US) or Amazon.co.uk.