Man Booker International Prize finalists

       They've announced the ten finalists for the biennial Man Booker International Prize (previously won by Lydia Davis (2013), Philip Roth (2011), Alice Munro (2009), Chinua Achebe (2007), and Ismail Kadaré (2005)).
       They are -- along with their titles under review at the complete review:

• César Aira:
  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
  • Ghosts
  • How I became a Nun
  • The Literary Conference
  • The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
  • The Seamstress and the Wind
  • Varamo
• Hoda Barakat
• Maryse Condé
• Mia Couto:
  • The Tuner of Silences
• Amitav Ghosh:
  • The Calcutta Chromosome
  • The Glass Palace
• Fanny Howe
• Ibrahim al-Koni:
  • Gold Dust
• Krasznahorkai László:
  • Animalinside
  • Satantango
• Alain Mabanckou:
  • African Psycho
  • Broken Glass
  • Memoirs of a Porcupine
• Marlene van Niekerk:
  • Triomf

       It's an interestingly varied list -- and it's particularly nice to see that so many authors writing in languages other than English are being considered, especially since in the first year they were far more insistent about that 'available-in-English'-requirement: recall that 2005 judge Alberto Manguel reported that they had to limit themselves to: "authors who remained fortuitously available" (in print, in English translation) that year, and for that reason "had to delete&quot from consideration authors including: Peter Handke, Antonio Lobo Antunes, Michel Tournier, and Christa Wolf (despite their books surely being as readily available in English in 2005 as several of the 2015 authors' books are today ...).