the winner of the independant foreign fiction prize 2010 is the brodeck’s report by Phillipe Claudel translated by john Cullen .all the winners were praised by Boyd tonkin ,the winner was announced by Kirsty wark this evening .this is a dark post warcrime novel is dark and kafkaesque book that has been a firm favourite with bloggers ,and was a not the tv book club pick earlier in the year .
the forethoughts about this book by my good blogger friend robaroundbooks
well done MacLehose Press on the win .
Thanks for the info, Stu. Off to read Rob’s review now 🙂
welcome boof ,stu
Thanks for the mention Stu. I wish I hadn’t delayed on writing up my afterthoughts on it now 🙁
Regardless, a VERY worthy winner
Warmest
Rob
look forward to them rob ,all the best stu
I’m glad to see it was one that Rob had read, I was following his challenge with interest. I’ll have to read this one hopefully sometime soon.
It seems a popular winner ,stu