The Shortlist of the year 2009
PRIZE WINNER 2009:
Alarcón, Daniel: Lost City Radio
Wagenbach 2008 ; translated by Friederike Meltendorf
(Lost City Radio, HarperCollins 2007)
Doulatabadi, Mahmud: Der Colonel
Unionsverlag 2009, translated by Bahman Nirumand
(Sawal-e Colonel )
Hage, Rawi: Als ob es kein Morgen gäbe
DuMont Verlag 2009, translated by Gregor Hens
(De Niro’s Game, Anansi Press 2006)
Hemon, Aleksandar: Lazarus
Knaus Verlag 2009 , translated by Rudolf Hermstein
(The Lazarus Project, Riverhead Books 2008)
Kohan, Martín: Zweimal Juni
Suhrkamp Verlag 2009, translated by Peter Kultzen
(Des veces junio, Editorial Sudamericana 2002
Mengestu, Dinaw: Zum Wiedersehen der Sterne
Claassen Verlag 2009, translated by Volker Oldenburg
(The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Riverhead Books 2007)