The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature honors (with CHF 50,000) a work: "of fiction or non fiction, irrespective of the language in which it is written" annually; Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's The Colonel won in 2013.
They are unfortunately not very good about getting the word out, and I missed the announcements (if there were any ...) of both the first and the second selections of the jury -- and now also the announcement of the three finalists.
Two non-fiction titles are in the remaining running, a book by this year's Peace Prize of the German Book Trade-winner, Navid Kermani, and Mark Thompson's Danilo Kiš-biography, Birth Certificate (see the Cornell University Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). The other finalist is by another German-writing author, Bagdad Marlboro, by Najem Wali -- subtitled: 'A novel for Bradley Manning'.
They are unfortunately not very good about getting the word out, and I missed the announcements (if there were any ...) of both the first and the second selections of the jury -- and now also the announcement of the three finalists.
Two non-fiction titles are in the remaining running, a book by this year's Peace Prize of the German Book Trade-winner, Navid Kermani, and Mark Thompson's Danilo Kiš-biography, Birth Certificate (see the Cornell University Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk). The other finalist is by another German-writing author, Bagdad Marlboro, by Najem Wali -- subtitled: 'A novel for Bradley Manning'.