All credit to the Literary Saloon for mentioning that The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist has been announced. This award is for translations into English from any living European language. The titles, with publisher and translator in parenthesis, are:
- The Maias, E?a de Queiroz (Dedalus, Margaret Jull Costa)
- Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2006, Friederike Mayr?cker (Carcanet, Richard Dove)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani (Penguin, Jamie McKendrick)
- The Bell Of Bruges, Georges Rodenbach (Dedalus, Mike Mitchell)
- We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (Vintage, Natasha Randall)
- The Darkroom Of Damocles, W.F. Hermans (Harvill Secker, Ina Rilke)