2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction.
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2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
SLOVAKIA: Balla, Before the Breakup
MACEDONIA: Žarko Kujundžiski, When the Glasses Are Lost
MONTENEGRO: Dragan Radulović, The Face
GEORGIA: Lasha Bugadze, The Sins of the Wolf
BELGIUM: Paul Emond, Grand Froid
ARMENIA: Krikor Beledian, The Name under My Tongue
RUSSIA: Kirill Kobrin, Last Summer in Marienbad
MOLDOVA: Vitalie Ciobanu, Orchestra Rehearsal
IRELAND: Tomás Mac Síomóin, Music in the Bone
FINLAND: Tiina Raevaara, My Creator, My Creation
HUNGARY: Miklós Vajda, Portrait of a Mother in an American Frame
TURKEY: Zehra Çırak, Memory Cultivation Salon
PORTUGAL: Dulce Maria Cardoso, Angels on the Inside
LATVIA: Gundega Repše, How Important is it to be Ernest?
UKRAINE: Tania Malyarchuk, Me and My Sacred Cow
SPAIN (Castilian): Eloy Tizón, The Mercury in the Thermometers
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart
AUSTRIA: Lydia Mischkulnig, A Protagonist’s Nemesis
FRANCE: Marie Redonnet, Madame Zabee’s Guesthouse
LITHUANIA: Ieva Toleikytė, The Eye of the Maples
BULGARIA: Rumen Balabanov, The Ragiad
UK, ENGLAND: A.S. Byatt, Dolls’ Eyes
ESTONIA: Kristiina Ehin, The Surrealist’s Daughter
POLAND: Sylwia Chutnik, It’s All Up to You
LIECHTENSTEIN: Daniel Batliner, Malcontent’s Monologue
SPAIN (Basque): Bernardo Atxaga, Pirpo and Chanberlan, Murderers
SERBIA: Borivoje Adašević, For a Foreign Master
SLOVENIA: Mirana Likar Bajželj, Nada’s Tablecloth
DENMARK: Christina Hesselholdt, Camilla and the Horse
ROMANIA: Dan Lungu, 7 P.M. Wife
SWITZERLAND: Bernard Comment, A Son
UK, WALES: Ray French, Migration
IRELAND: Mike McCormack, Of One Mind
ICELAND: Gyrðir Elíasson, The Music Shop
NORWAY: Ari Behn, Thunder Snow and When a Dollar Was a Big Deal