Nike 2008 Longlist
Earlier this month announced the longlist for the 2008 Nike Prize, which is awarded to the best Polish book from last year.
The website is less than helpful—every time I click on the “more” button about the prize, I’m brought back to the same opening page and the fragmented statement—and totally in Polish, but what I can decipher is pretty interesting. There are twenty finalists and the winner will be announced in October. Starting earlier this month, the site started highlighting which is a pretty nice feature.
Here’s the longlist in all its untranslated glory:
- Lidia Amejko: 呕ywoty 艣wi臋tych osiedlowych
- Jacek Dukaj: 尝贸诲
- Pawe艂 Huelle : Ostatnia Wieczerza
- Jerzy Jarniewicz: Znaki firmowe
- Urszula Kozio艂: Przelotem
- Ewa Lipska: Pomara艅cza Newtona
- Ma艂gorzata 艁ukasiewicz: Rubryka pod r贸偶膮
- Ewa Madeyska: Katoniela
- Andrzej Mandalian: Poemat odjazdu
- Piotr Matywiecki: Twarz Tuwima
- W艂odzimierz Nowak: Obw贸d g艂owy
- Jerzy Pilch: Poci膮g do 偶ycia wiecznego
- Janusz Rudnicki: Chod藕cie, idziemy
- Mariusz Sieniewicz: Rebelia
- Andrzej Sosnowski: Po t臋czy
- Bronis艂aw 艢widerski: Asystent 艣mierci
- Andrzej Szczeklik: Kore
- Ma艂gorzata Szejnert: Czarny ogr贸d
- Olga Tokarczuk: Bieguni
- Krzysztof Varga: Nagrobek z lastryko
Great to see Jerzy Pilch on this list (we’re publishing The Mighty Angel next April), and we just got a copy of Pawel Huelle’s Castorp (a finalist for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) in for review.
I’l post more useful, reliable info about the individual titles as soon as I can find it. (Google Translator sucks as much as Babelfish with the Polish. See: “Contemporary American prose, it is impossible to describe, but fragmentary. Zwielokrotni艂a so much that the world is not literally.” Yes, yes Zwielokrotnila is that much.)
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