Tomorrow, 2: Dance and Dream (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) Eva Menasse, Vienna (German, trans. Anthea Bell) Dag Solstad, Shyness and Dignity (Norwegian, trans. Sverre Lyngstad) Also longlisted Kader Abdolah, My Father's Notebook (translated by Susan Massotty from Dutch; Canongate) Niccolò Ammaniti, Steal You Away (Jonathan Hunt; Italian; Canongate) Javier Cercas, The Speed of Light (Anne McLean; Spanish; Bloomsbury) Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Moldavian Pimp (Nick Caistor; Spanish; Harvill Secker) Jenny Erpenbeck, The Old Child (Susan Bernofsky; German; Portobello) Faïza Guène, Just Like Tomorrow (Sarah Adams; French; Chatto & Windus) Ismail Kadare, The Successor (David Bellos; French; Canongate) Ma Jian, Stick out your Tongue (Flora Drew; Chinese; Chatto & Windus) Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow (the author; Gikuyu; Harvill Secker) Leonardo Padura, Havana Black (Peter Bush; Spanish; Bitter Lemon) Atiq Rahimi, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (Sarah Maguire & Yama Yari; Dari; Chatto & Windus) José Saramago, Seeing (Margaret Jull Costa; Portuguese; Harvill Secker) Elif Shafak, The Gaze (Brendan Freely; Turkish; Marion Boyars) Linn Ullmann, Grace (Barbara Haveland; Norwegian; Picador) 2008 Shortlist Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor (translated by the author from the Dutch) Pawel Huelle, Castorp (translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones from the Polish) Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (translated by Carol Brown Janeway from the German) Bengt Ohlsson, Gregorius (translated by Silvester Mazzarella from the Swedish) Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model (translated by Don Barlett from the Norwegian) Marlene van Niekerk, The Way of the Women (translated by Michiel Heyns from the Afrikaans) Also longlisted Alaa al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building (translated by Humphrey Davies from the Arabic) Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (translated by Susan Bernofsky from the German) Bi Feiyu, The Moon Opera (translated by Howard Goldblatt from the Chinese) Ismail Kadare, Agamemnon's Daughter (translated by David Bellos from the French) Sayed Kashua, Let It Be Morning (translated by Miraim Shlesinger from the Hebrew) Erwin Mortier, Shutterspeed (translated by Ina Rilke from the Dutch) Alan Pauls, The Past (translated by Nick Caistor from the Spanish) Peter Pišťanek, Rivers of Babylon (translated by Peter Petro from the Slovak) Laura Restrepo, Delirium (translated by Natasha Wimmer from the Spanish) Yasmina Traboulsi, Bahia Blues (translated by Polly McLean from the French) Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano (translated by Jonathan Dunne from the Spanish) 2009 Shortlist Evelio Rosero, The Armies (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish) Celine Curiol, Voice Over (translated by Sam Richard from the French) Ma Jian,