The website is less than helpful—every time I click on the “more” button about the prize, I’m brought back to the same opening page and the fragmented statement—and totally in Polish, but what I can decipher is pretty interesting. There are twenty finalists and the winner will be announced in October. Starting earlier this month, the site started highlighting which is a pretty nice feature.

Here’s the longlist in all its untranslated glory:

• Lidia Amejko: Żywoty świętych osiedlowych
• Jacek Dukaj: ��ó��
• Paweł Huelle : Ostatnia Wieczerza
• Jerzy Jarniewicz: Znaki firmowe
• Urszula Kozioł: Przelotem
• Ewa Lipska: Pomarańcza Newtona
• Małgorzata Łukasiewicz: Rubryka pod różą
• Ewa Madeyska: Katoniela
• Andrzej Mandalian: Poemat odjazdu
• Piotr Matywiecki: Twarz Tuwima
• Włodzimierz Nowak: Obwód głowy
• Jerzy Pilch: Pociąg do życia wiecznego
• Janusz Rudnicki: Chodźcie, idziemy
• Mariusz Sieniewicz: Rebelia
• Andrzej Sosnowski: Po tęczy
• Bronisław Świderski: Asystent śmierci
• Andrzej Szczeklik: Kore
• Małgorzata Szejnert: Czarny ogród
• Olga Tokarczuk: Bieguni
• Krzysztof Varga: Nagrobek z lastryko

Great to see Jerzy Pilch on this list (we’re publishing The Mighty Angel next April), and we just got a copy of Pawel Huelle’s Castorp (a finalist for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) in for review.

I’l post more useful, reliable info about the individual titles as soon as I can find it. (Google Translator sucks as much as Babelfish with the Polish. See: “Contemporary American prose, it is impossible to describe, but fragmentary. Zwielokrotniła so much that the world is not literally.” Yes, yes Zwielokrotnila is that much.)