Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist

       Two days after the announcement of the US Best Translated Book Award longlists (see my mention) the shortlist for the UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has now been announced; see also Nick Clark's report in The Independent.
       The six finalists are:

• By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Murakami Haruki
• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
• F by Daniel Kehlmann
• In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González
• While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier

       The first four of these were also BTBA-eligible, but none of them made that longlist; the other two will BTBA-eligible next year.