Look out for these titles.
January 2010
An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal (Bloomsbury)
Translated from French by Frank Wynne
Islam, the Holocaust and the Parisian banlieues come crashing together in this explosive novel by one Algeria's leading, but banned, writers.
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (Faber)
Translated from Turkish by Maureen Freely
Forbidden love, lost opportunties and obsession in 1970s Istanbul
Beelzebub by Youssef Ziedan (Atlantic)
Winner of the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair
February
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell (Harvill Secker)
The Orphans of Eldorado by Milton Hatoum (Canongate)
Translated from Portuguese by John Gledson
A retelling of the Eldorado myth by one of Brazil's bestselling writers.
May
The Ghost Rider by Ismail Kadare (Canongate)
Was Doruntine brought back to her Albanian village by the ghost of her dead brother?
June
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bloomsbury)
Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean
The Colombian who helps Joseph Conrad with research for Nostromo is not happy with the final result and goes about writing a riposte. Clever fiction by the author of The Informers.
2011
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell (Harvill Secker)
Translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson
The first new Wallander mystery for ten years.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker)
Translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin
The first two volumes of Murakami's trilogy about a fictionalised 1984 will be published in one volume in September.
Publishers!
If you would like your forthcoming translated novels listed here email james@booktrust.org.uk
