The launch of Dalkey’s Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews with editor Aleksandar Hemon on NPR stations in the US and BBC Radio 3 and 4 in the UK; and a terrific response from booksellers, who made Best European Fiction 2010 an “Indie Next” pick and created table displays and special promotions throughout the US and UK.



For 2011, Aleksandar Hemon is back as editor, along with a new preface by Colum McCann, and with a whole new cast of authors and stories, including work from countries not included in Best European Fiction 2010.


UK, WALES: Wiliam Owen Roberts, The Professionals

UK, ENGLAND: Hilary Mantel, The Hearts Fails without Warning

TURKEY: Ersan Üldes, Professional Behavior

SWITZERLAND: Verena Stefan, Doe a Deer

SPAIN (Catalan): Mercè Ibarz, Nela and the Virgins

SPAIN (Castilian): Enrique Vila-Matas, Far From Here

SLOVENIA: Drago Jančar, The Prophecy

SERBIA: Vladimir Arsenijević, One Minute: Dumbo’s Death

RUSSIA: Andrei Gelasimov, The Evil Eye

ROMANIA: Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Goose Chase

PORTUGAL: Gonçalo Manuel Tavares, Six Tales

POLAND: Olga Tokarczuk, The Ugliest Woman in the World

NORWAY: Frode Grytten, Hotel by a Railroad

NETHERLANDS: Manon Uphoff, Desire

MONTENEGRO: Ognjen Spahić, Raymond is No Longer with Us—Carver is Dead

MOLDOVA: Iulian Ciocan, Auntie Frosea

MACEDONIA: Blaže Minevski, Academician Sisoye’s Inaugural Speech

LITHUANIA: Danutė Kalinauskaitė, Just Things

LIECHTENSTEIN: Stefan Sprenger, Dust

LATVIA: Nora Ikstena, Elza Kuga’s Old-Age Dementia

ITALY: Marco Candida, Dream Diary

IRELAND (Irish): Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Trespasses

IRELAND (English): Kevin Barry, Doctor Sot

ICELAND: Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Holes in People

HUNGARY: László Krasznahorkai, The Bill

GERMANY: Ingo Schulze, Oranges and Angel

GEORGIA: Zurab Lezhava, Sex for Fridge

FRANCE: Eric Laurrent, American Diary

FINLAND: Anita Konkka, The Clown

ESTONIA: Toomas Vint, Beyond the Window a Park is Dimming

DENMARK: Peter Adolphsen, Fourteen Small Stories

CZECH REPULIC: Michal Ajvaz, The Wire Book

CYPRUS: Nora Nadjarian, Exhibition

CROATIA: Mimi Simić, My Girlfriend

BULGARIA: Alek Popov, Plumbers

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Goran Samardžić, Varneesh

BELGIUM: François Emmanuel, Lou Dancing

BELARUS: Victor Martinovich, Taboo

AUSTRIA: Dieter Sperl, Random Walker

ALBANIA: Arian Leka, Brothers of the Blade