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The official shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was announced this week:

• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
• F by Daniel Kehlmann translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway
• By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar
• While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

We can also reveal our shadow jury shortlist:

• The Ravens by Tomas Bannerhed translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
• The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• Bloodlines by Marcello Fois translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
• The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
• Zone by Mathias Énard translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

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