The finalists of the Premio Gregor von Rezzori

For the best work of foreign fiction published in Italy in the last year

The jury of the ninth edition of the Premio Gregor von Rezzori – Città di Firenze for the best work of foreign fiction published in Italy in the last year, is delighted to announce its shortlist:

Dasa Drndic

Trieste (Trieste), Bompiani

Andrew Miller

Pura (Pure), Bompiani

Guadalupe Nettel

Il corpo in cui sono nata (The Body Where I Was Born), Einaudi

Vladimir Sorokin

La giornata di un Opricnik (Day of the Oprichnik), Atmosphere Libri

Tommy Wieringa

Questi sono i nomi (These Are the Names), Iperborea

The members of the jury for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori are Beatrice Monti della Corte, Ernesto Ferrero, president, Alberto Manguel, Andrea Bajani and Edmund White. The judges will select a winner, which will be announced during the prize-giving ceremony on Friday 12th June at 6pm in the Salone del Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The prize is the culmination of the events that make up the Festival degli Scrittori, which takes place in Florence on the 10th, 11th and 12th June 2015. It is a three-day festival dedicated to the best international contemporary literature.

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The jury members of the prize for the best translation of a foreign work of fiction are Ilide Carmignani, Leonardo Marcello Pignataro and Martina Testa, president, and they have announced a winner:

Federica Aceto

End Zone, Don DeLillo (Einaudi)