Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Irish novelist Colum McCann ...
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Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Irish novelist Colum McCann, and with dozens of editorial, media, and programming partners in the U.S., UK, 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.
UK, WALES: Wiliam Owen Roberts, The Professionals
UK, ENGLAND: Hilary Mantel, The Hearts Fails without Warning
TURKEY: Ersan Üldes, Professional Behavior
SWITZERLAND: Verena Stefan, Doe a Deer
SPAIN (Catalan): Mercè Ibarz, Nela and the Virgins
SPAIN (Castilian): Enrique Vila-Matas, Far From Here
SLOVENIA: Drago Jančar, The Prophecy
SERBIA: Vladimir Arsenijević, One Minute: Dumbo’s Death
RUSSIA: Andrei Gelasimov, The Evil Eye
ROMANIA: Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Goose Chase
PORTUGAL: Gonçalo Manuel Tavares, Six Tales
POLAND: Olga Tokarczuk, The Ugliest Woman in the World
NORWAY: Frode Grytten, Hotel by a Railroad
NETHERLANDS: Manon Uphoff, Desire
MONTENEGRO: Ognjen Spahić, Raymond is No Longer with Us—Carver is Dead
MOLDOVA: Iulian Ciocan, Auntie Frosea
MACEDONIA: Blaže Minevski, Academician Sisoye’s Inaugural Speech
LITHUANIA: Danutė Kalinauskaitė, Just Things
LIECHTENSTEIN: Stefan Sprenger, Dust
LATVIA: Nora Ikstena, Elza Kuga’s Old-Age Dementia
ITALY: Marco Candida, Dream Diary
IRELAND (Irish): Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Trespasses
IRELAND (English): Kevin Barry, Doctor Sot
ICELAND: Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Holes in People
HUNGARY: László Krasznahorkai, The Bill
GERMANY: Ingo Schulze, Oranges and Angel
GEORGIA: Zurab Lezhava, Sex for Fridge
FRANCE: Eric Laurrent, American Diary
FINLAND: Anita Konkka, The Clown
ESTONIA: Toomas Vint, Beyond the Window a Park is Dimming
DENMARK: Peter Adolphsen, Fourteen Small Stories
CZECH REPULIC: Michal Ajvaz, The Wire Book
CYPRUS: Nora Nadjarian, Exhibition
CROATIA: Mimi Simić, My Girlfriend
BULGARIA: Alek Popov, Plumbers
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Goran Samardžić, Varneesh
BELGIUM: François Emmanuel, Lou Dancing
BELARUS: Victor Martinovich, Taboo
AUSTRIA: Dieter Sperl, Random Walker
ALBANIA: Arian Leka, Brothers of the Blade