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description: Historically English-language readers have been great fans of European literature and names like Franz Kafka Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas styles and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today?Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur Genius-Award winner Aleksandar Hemon 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 whats happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe where the next Kafka Flaubert or Mann is waiting to be discovered.List of contributorsPreface: Zadie SmithIntroduction: Aleksandar HemonOrnela Vorpsi (Albania): from The Country Where No One Ever DiesAntonio Fian (Austria): from While SleepingPeter Terrin (Belgium: Dutch): from The MurdererJean-Philippe Toussaint (Belgium: French): Zidane's MelancholyIgor Stiks (Bosnia): At the Sarajevo MarketGeorgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria): And All Turned MoonNeven Usumovic (Croatia): VeresNaja Marie Aidt (Denmark): BulbjergElo Viiding (Estonia): Foreign WomenJuhani Brander (Finland): from ExtinctionChristine Montalbetti (France): Hotel Komaba Eminence (with Haruki Murakami)George Konrd (Hungary): Jeremiah's Terrible TaleSteinar Bragi (Iceland): The Sky Over ThingvellirJulian Gough (Ireland: English): The Orphan and the MobOrnan Choilein (Ireland: Irish): CaminoGiulio Mozzi (AKA Carlo Dalcielo) (Italy): Carlo Doesn't Know How to ReadInga Abele (Latvia): Ants and BumblebeesMathias Ospelt (Liechtenstein): Deep In the SnowGiedra Radvilaviciute (Lithuania): The Allure of the TextGoce Smilevski (Macedonia): Fourteen Little GustavsStephan Enter (Netherlands): ResistanceJon Fosse (Norway): Waves of StoneMichal Witkowski (Poland): DidiValter Hugo Me (Portugal): dona malva and senhor jos ferreiroCosmin Manolache (Romania): Three Hundred CupsVictor Pelevin (Russia): Friedmann SpaceDavid Albahari (Serbia): The Basilica in LyonPeter Kristfek (Slovakia): from The PrompterAndrej Blatnik (Slovenia): from You Do Understand?Julin Ros (Spain: Castilian): Revelation on the Boulevard of CrimeJosep Fonalleras (Spain: Catalan): Noir in Five Parts and an EpiloguePeter Stamm (Switzerland): Ice MoonDeborah Levy (United Kingdom: England): from Swimming HomeAlasdair Gray (United Kingdom: Scotland): The Ballad of Ann BonnyPenny Simpson (United Kingdom: Wales): Indigo's Mermaid
language: English
title: Best European Fiction 2010
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press