Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist

As covered at Ready Steady Book, the shortlist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has just been announced.

Here are your six finalists:

• Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model (Don Barlett; Norwegian; Arcadia Books)

• Pawel Huelle, Castorp (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish; Serpent’s Tail)

• Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (Carol Brown Janeway; German; Quercus)

• Marlene van Niekerk, The Way of the Women (Michiel Heyns; Afrikaans; Little, Brown)

• Bengt Ohlsson, Gregorius (Silvester Mazzarella; Swedish; Portobello)

• Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor (the author; Dutch; Dalkey Archive Press)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Christensen or Verhaeghen won, but I have a completely un-scientific feeling that Kehlmann is going to take it this year. (Although I also thought Vila-Matas’s Montano was a lock for the shortlist . . .)