Independent foreign fiction prize

  • PEN Atlas Q&A: Jenny Erpenbeck

    In this special PEN Atlas Q&A, winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Jenny Erpenbeck shares thoughts on history, narrative and her relationship with her translator

  • New frontiers for translated fiction

    Jonathan Ruppin writes for PEN Atlas about the shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, what it can tell us about the context of translated fiction in the present and which names to keep an eye out for in the future

  • Performing in Chains

    The PEN Atlas continues this week with a two-part blog sequence. The first despatch comes from one of China’s most established writers, Yan Lianke