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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded to Gerbrand Bakker and translator David Colmer
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded to Gerbrand Bakker and translator David Colmer
28 May, 2013

This year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize of £10,000 has been awarded Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker and his translator David Colmer for Detour, published by Bloomsbury. The ‘mesmeric’ and ‘haunting’ novel beat off stiff competition from a prestigious shortlist: Bundu by Chris Barnard, translated from the Afrikaans by Michael Heyns; Trieste by Daša Drndić, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac; The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson; Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia; and Dublinesque, translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean.

David Colmer and Gerbrand Bakker previously won the €100,000 IMPAC prize for The Twin in 2010.

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