Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe.
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Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, and with dozens of editorial, media, and programming partners in the U.S., U.K., and Europe, the Best European Fiction series will be a window onto what's happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe, where the next Kafka, Flaubert, or Mann is waiting to be discovered.
Preface Zadie Smith
Introduction Aleksandar Hemon
Ornela Vorpsi [Albania] From The Country Where No One Ever Dies
Antonio Fian [Austria] From While Sleeping
Peter Terrin [Belgium: Dutch] From The Murderer
Jean-Philippe Toussaint [Belgium: French] Zidane's Melancholy
Igor Stiks [Bosnia] At the Sarajevo Market
Georgi Gospodinov [Bulgaria] And All Turned Moon
Neven Ušumović [Croatia] Veresˇ
Naja Marie Aidt [Denmark] Bulbjerg
Elo Viiding [Estonia] Foreign Women
Juhani Brander [Finland] From Extinction
Christine Montalbetti [France] Hotel Komaba Eminence (with Haruki Murakami)
George Konrád [Hungary] Jeremiah's Terrible Tale
Steinar Bragi [Iceland] The Sky Over Thingvellir
Julian Gough [Ireland: English] The Orphan and the Mob
Orna Ní Choileáin [Ireland: Irish] Camino
Giulio Mozzi (aka Carlo Dalcielo) [Italy] Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read
Inga Abele [Latvia] Ants and Bumblebees
Mathias Ospelt [Liechtenstein] Deep In the Snow
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė [Lithuania] The Allure of the Text
Goce Smilevski [Macedonia] Fourteen Little Gustavs
Stephan Enter [Netherlands] Resistance
Jon Fosse [Norway] Waves of Stone
Michał Witkowski [Poland] Didi
Valter Hugo Mãe [Portugal] dona malva and senhor josé ferreiro
Cosmin Manolache [Romania] Three Hundred Cups
Victor Pelevin [Russia] Friedmann Space
David Albahari [Serbia] The Basilica in Lyon
Peter Kristúfek [Slovakia] From The Prompter
Andrej Blatnik [Slovenia] From You Do Understand?
Julián Ríos [Spain: Castilian] Revelation on the Boulevard of Crime
Josep M. Fonalleras [Spain: Catalan] Noir in Five Parts and an Epilogue
Peter Stamm [Switzerland] Ice Moon
Deborah Levy [United Kingdom: England] From Swimming Home
Alasdair Gray [United Kingdom: Scotland] The Ballad of Ann Bonny
Penny Simpson [United Kingdom: Wales] Indigo's Mermaid