Independent Foreign Fiction Prize finalists

Finalists have been named for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which honors modern writing in translation with a £10,000 (US$15,959) award that is shared equally by the author and translator. The winner will be announced May 14. This year's shortlisted titles are:

* Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld, translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
* Alice by Judith Hermann, translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo
* From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
* The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
* New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani, translated from the Italian by Judith Landry
* Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Cindy Carter