Beijing Coma (translated by Flora Drew from the Chinese) Ismail Kadare, The Siege (translated by David Bellos from the Albanian via French) Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Informers (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish) AB Yehoshua, Friendly Fire (translated by Stuart Schoffman from the Hebrew) Also longlisted Sjón, The Blue Fox (translated by Victoria Cribb from the Icelandic) Jose Eduardo Agualusa, My Father's Wives (translated by Daniel Hahn from the Portuguese) Dag Solstad, Novel 11, Book 18 (translated by Sverre Lyngstad from the Norwegian) Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool (translated by Stephen Snyder from the Japanese) Eshkol Nevo, Homesick (translated by Sondra Silverston from the Hebrew) Linn Ullmann, A Blessed Child (translated by Sarah Death from the Norwegian) Thomas Glavinic, Night Work (translated by John Brownjohn from the German) Gyorgy Dragoman, The White King (translated by Paul Olchvary from the Hungarian) Alexander Ahndoril, The Director (translated by Sarah Death from the Swedish) Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (translated by Anthea Bell from the German) 2010 Shortlist Philippe Claudel, Brodeck's Report (translated by John Cullen; French) MacLehose Press Julia Franck, The Blindness of the Heart (translated by Anthea Bell; German) Harvill Secker Pietro Grossi, Fists (translated by Howard Curtis; Italian) Pushkin Press Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass (translated by Helen Stevenson; French) Serpent's Tail Sankar, Chowringhee (translated by Arunava Sinha; Bengali) Atlantic Rafik Schami, The Dark Side of Love (translated by Anthea Bell; German) Arabia Books Also longlisted Boris Akunin, The Coronation (translated by Andrew Bromfield from the Russian) Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ketil Bjørnstad, To Music (translated by Deborah Dawkin & Erik Skuggevik; Norwegian) Maia Press Hassan Blasim, The Madman of Freedom Square (translated by Jonathan Wright; Arabic) Comma Press Elias Khoury, Yalo (translated by Humphrey Davies; Arabic) MacLehose Press Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones (translated by Charlotte Mandell; French) Chatto & Windus Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Spanish) Chatto & Windus Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor (translated by Stephen Snyder; Japanese) Harvill Secker Claudia Piñeiro, Thursday Night Widows (translated by Miranda France; Spanish) Bitter Lemon Press Bahaa Taher, Sunset Oasis (translated by Humphrey Davies; Arabic) Sceptre 2011 Shortlist Santiago Roncagliolo, Red April translated by Edith Grossman (Atlantic Books), Spanish Marcelo Figueras, Kamchatka translated by Frank Wynne (Atlantic Books), Spanish Alberto Berrera Tyszka, The Sickness translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Maclehose Press), Spanish Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation