• Laurent Binet (France), Sam Taylor, The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker)

• Javier Cercas (Spain), Frank Wynne, The Impostor (MacLehose Press)

• Virginie Despentes (France), Frank Wynne, Vernon Subutex 1 (MacLehose Press)

• Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone (Portobello Books)

• Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith, The White Book (Portobello Books)

• Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff, Die, My Love (Charco Press)

• László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes, The World Goes On(Tuskar Rock Press)

• Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Camilo A. Ramirez, Like a Fading Shadow (Tuskar Rock Press)

• Christoph Ransmayr (Austria), Simon Pare, The Flying Mountain (Seagull Books)

• Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld)

• Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft, Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

• Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan), Darryl Sterk, The Stolen Bicycle (Text Publishing)

• Gabriela Ybarra (Spain), Natasha Wimmer, The Dinner Guest (Harvill Secker)

I have read one book on this list, The White Book by Han Kang (I’ve linked to my review above).  Of the rest I own four of the novels – The 7th Function of Language, Go, Went, Gone, Die, My Love, and Frankenstein in Baghdad – and I intend on reading them, hopefully before the announcement of the shortlist in April.

I don’t have much more to add.  I’m not in a position to speculate on what else might have been on list, although I was surprised not to see Such Small Hands by Andres Barba given (a) I think it’s a superb book and (b) all the people in the know, the critics who make a life out of reading translated fiction, praised it to the hilt.  Clearly, the judges didn’t agree.

For a far smarter analysis of the longlist head over to Tony’s Reading List who posted the shadow panel’s official response to the judge’s choices.