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Spanish Language Lit Month Well last year Iris hosted Dutch lit month and Caroline and Lizzie hosted German lit month .Well I decide it time we had a month celebrating Spanish language lit .I contacted one of my favourite Bloggers Richard from the blog Caravana De Recuredos .He is perfectly suited a

Rondo by Kazimierz Brandys Polish fiction Translated by Jaroslaw Anders Kazimierz Brandys was a polish writer ,he is little known but a multiple prize winner and also a member of the order of fine arts in France .He was a graduate in law and made his writing debut in 1935 .his first novel published

Well friday this week saw 32 years since the to soon passing of Joy Divisions lead singer Ian Curtis .The band have been with me since my early teens ,I lived near where the band was from so I  knew places where  he lived and the site of his grave   as I went to [...]

Darkness at noon by Artur Koestler Hungarian fiction Translated by Daphne Hardy I ve held off on read Koestler for a number of years never quite sure why but recently saw a old penguin modern classic and thought it was about time I read it ,this book  is his most famous .It was on the [...]

HHhH by Laurent Binet French fiction Translator – Sam Taylor Laurent Binet is one of the hottest new writers in France ,this his debut novel won the Prix Goncourt prize for debut novel rather like our Costa prize for a first novel in the UK .He was Born and grew up in Paris, his father [...]

A quick word from me Stu the Chair of this years Shadow IFFP .I want thank all my fellow Judges for making this such a successful first year for the shadow IFFP . ROB SIMON  Lisa  Gary  Mark TONY  We all undertook the Journey of judging the 2012 shadow IFFP eight weeks ago .This journey [...]

The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier French Fiction Translator – Svein Cloustin Pascal Garnier was a french writer he had a number of jobs including being in a number of rock and roll bands before turning to a writing career in his mid thirties ,he unfortunately died in 2010 age 61 ,Gallic books have

Here’s a list of links to all the reviews done by the ‘Shadow’ Jury for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Thanks to Mark for keeping it through out the shadow panel  IQ84 (1&2) by Haruki Marukami (from Japanese; trans. Jay Rubin) (Harvill Secker) Tony’s Reading List ANZLitLovers Winston

The Patagonian Hare by Claude Lanzmann French Non-fiction biography Translator – Frank Wynne Making a history was not what I wanted to do .I wanted to construct something more powerful than that – Claude Lanzmann on Shoah Where to start with Claude Lanzmann ,he is maybe one of the most interesting f

Faces in the crowd by Valeria Luiselli Mexican Fiction Translator Christina Macsweeney Valeria Luiselli is young Mexican writer she lives in New york and has had pieces published in New york times and Letras Libres .She has a degree in Philosophy .She is due to appear at this year Hay festival . Fac