EDWARD GAUVIN

I’m proud to announce that my translation of Bernard Quiriny’s “Rara Avis” will join the roster of authors, translators, and stories honored by inclusion in Dalkey Archive‘s anthology Best European Fiction 2012, guest edited by Aleksandar Hemon. This will mark Belgian Francophone fabulist Quiriny’s third appearance in the U.S., after “A Guide to Famous Stabbings” in the Spring 2010 Subtropics and “Fear of the First Line” in the July 2010 issue of World Literature Today. While these stories were taken from his first collection, Fear of the First Line, the story in the Dalkey anthology is taken from his second collection, Contes carnivores, which won the Prix Rossel, Francophone Belgium’s top literary prize. I’d like to thank Dalkey Archive, editor Hemon, the Fulbright Foundation, and the NEA for their support of my work on this author.

Congratulations to all in the anthology!

Austria • Lydia Mischkulnig, “A Protagonist’s Nemesis”
Belgium: Flemish • Patricia de Martelaere, from The Unexpected Answer
Belgium: French • Bernard Quiriny, “Rara Avis”
Bosnia • Muharem Bazdulj, “Magic” and “Sarajevo”
Bulgaria • Rumen Balabanov, “The Ragiad”
Croatia • Maja Hrgović, “Zlatka”
Czech Republic • Jiři Kratochvil, “I, Loshaď”
Estonia • Armin Köomägi, “Logisticians Anonymous”
Finland • Maritta Lintunen, “Passiontide”
France • Marie Darrieussecq, “Juergen the Perfect Son-in-Law”
Georgia • David Dephy, “Before the End”
Germany • Clemens Meyer, “The Case of M.”
Hungary • Zsófia Bán, “When There Were Only Animals”
Iceland • Gerður Kristný, “The Ice People”
Ireland: English • Desmond Hogan, “Kennedy”
Ireland: Irish • Gabriel Rosenstock, “‘. . . everything emptying into white’”
Latvia • Gundega Repše, “How Important Is It To Be Ernest?”
Liechtenstein • Patrick Boltshauser, “Tomorrow it’s Deggendorf”
Lithuania • Ieva Toleikytė, “The Eye of the Maples”
Macedonia • Žarko Kujundžiski, “When the Glasses are Lost”
Moldova • Vitalie Ciobanu, “Orchestra Rehearsal”
Montenegro • Andrej Nikolaidis, “The Coming”
Netherlands • Sanneke van Hassel, “Pearl”
Norway • Bjarte Breiteg, “Down There They Don’t Grieve”
Poland • Janusz Rudnicki, “The Woes of Idiot Augustus”
Portugal • Rui Zink, from Tourist Destination
Romania • Dan Lungu, “Seven PM Wife”
Russia • Danila Davydov, “The Telescope”
Serbia • Marija Knežević, “Without Fear of Change”
Slovakia • Róbert Gál, “Agnomia”
Slovenia • Branko Gradišnik, “Memorinth”
Spain: Castilian • Santiago Pajares, “Today”
Spain: Catalan • Pep Puig, “Clara Bou”
Spain: Galician • Agustín Fernández Paz, “This Strange Lucidity”
Switzerland: French • Noëlle Revaz, “The Children”
Switzerland: German • Michael Stauffer, “The Woman with the Stocks”
Switzerland: Romansh • Arno Camenisch, from Sez Ner
Ukraine • Serhiy Zhadan, “Owner of the Best Gay Club”
United Kingdom: England • Lee Rourke, “Catastrophe”
United Kingdom: Scotland • Donal McLaughlin, “enough to make your heart”
United Kingdom: Wales • Duncan Bush, “Bigamy”

§ 5 Responses to Best European Fiction 2012!"

• Agustín Fernández Paz, o primeiro galego incluído na antoloxía Best European Fiction 2012 | Xerais says:

  April 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm

  […] Agustín Fernández Paz é o primeiro autor galego que vai ser incluído na antoloxía Best European Fiction 2012, que edita a editorial Dalkey Archive Press. Agustín formará parte da antoloxía, que é […]

• Bert Bailey says:

  December 7, 2011 at 11:34 am

  I’ve glanced through this anthology and read Duncan Bush’s ‘Bigamy.’
  If it’s indicative of the rest of this oddly-entitled volume — it still being December 2011 as I write this — this is a book to get!
  Cheers,
  Bert Bailey, in Ottawa, Canada

• Bert Bailey says:

  December 7, 2011 at 11:43 am

  He leído algunas partes de este tomo, aunque leí por completo el cuento llamado ‘Bigamy,’ por el Galés Duncan Bush.
  Si todos los cuentos en esta antología son de tal calidad, a mi parecer este libro (mal entitulado — pues aun es diciembre del 2011) les valdrá la pena leerlo.
  Saludos,
  Bert Bailey, en Ottawa, Canada

• Publícase un relato de «O único que queda é o amor», de Agustín Fernández Paz en «Best European Fiction 2012» | Xerais says:

  December 14, 2011 at 2:04 am

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• Publicado en Best European Fiction 2012 un relato de Agustín Fernández Paz | ::Axenda cultural AELG:: says:

  December 14, 2011 at 9:30 am

  […] O único que queda é o amor. Trátase do primeiro autor galego en ser incluído na antoloxía Best European Fiction 2012, que edita a editorial Dalkey Archive Press, baixo a responsabilidade de Aleksandar Hemon, co […]