Alert! Holland Park Press have announced a French publishing deal for Karen Jennings’ novel Finding Soutbek.
Les éditions de l’Aube will produce the French language version of the novel, which was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature.
Finding Soutbek, which was first published in June 2012, will be translated by Benoîte Dauvergne. The French version is set to be published in August 2016.
Publisher Bernadette Jansen op de Haar says: “It’s lovely to see Finding Soutbek, which arrived as an unsolicited manuscript in my inbox, going from strength to strength with this forthcoming French translation.
“It has been a pleasure to deal with Manon Viard from Les éditions de l’Aube about contractual issues and I’m looking forward to working with her in the future.”
Jennings is the winner of the 2009 Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award and was longlisted for the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She edited the first Short Story Day Africa anthology, Feast, Famine and Potluck, in 2013. Her most recent book is a short story collection, Away from the Dead (Holland Park Press, September 2014).
It was announced yesterday that Jennings has made the shortlist for the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships, along with six other South Africans.
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- Finding Soutbek by Karen Jennings
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EAN: 9781907320200
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- Away from the Dead by Karen Jennings
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EAN: 9781907320439
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- Feast, Famine and Potluck edited by Karen Jennings
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EAN: 9780620588874
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