The French prix du Meilleur livre étranger is their one prize solely for foreign literature, awarding a prize for a work of fiction, and a work of non -- and they've announced that: Martin Amis et Christoph Ransmayr, lauréats du Prix du Meilleur livre étranger 2015.
Yes, Amis' The Zone of Interest beat out ... well, Marilynne Robinson's Lila and a recent Javier Cercas, among others.
More interesting is Christoph Ransmayr's Atlas of an Anxious Man, which I've mentioned before as possibly being the book to put him back on the US/UK map -- it's due out from Seagull in English next month, and I for one am very much looking forward to it; see the Seagull publicity page (at the University of Chicago Press; I can't find one on site yet), or pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Yes, Amis' The Zone of Interest beat out ... well, Marilynne Robinson's Lila and a recent Javier Cercas, among others.
More interesting is Christoph Ransmayr's Atlas of an Anxious Man, which I've mentioned before as possibly being the book to put him back on the US/UK map -- it's due out from Seagull in English next month, and I for one am very much looking forward to it; see the Seagull publicity page (at the University of Chicago Press; I can't find one on site yet), or pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.