Best European Fiction 2013

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Borivoje Adašević: “For a Foreign Master” © 2000, 2006 by Borivoje Adašević. Translation © by 2012 Celia Hawkesworth.

Bernardo Atxaga: “Pirpo and Chanberlán, Murderers” © 2006 by Bernardo Atxaga. Translation © 2006 by Margaret Jull Costa.

Mirana Likar Bajželj: “Nada’s Tablecloth” © 2011 by Air Beletrina. Translation © 2012 by David Limon.

Balla: “Before the Breakup” © 2005 by Balla. Translation © 2011 by Julia Sherwood.

Rumen Balabanov: “The Ragiad” © 2011 by Rumen Balabanov. Translation © 2012 by Christopher Buxton.

Daniel Batliner: “Malcontent’s Monologue” © 2012 by Daniel Batliner. Translation © 2012 by Amy Kerner.

Ari Behn: “Thunder Snow” and “When a Dollar Was a Big Deal” © 2011 by Ari Behn. Translation © 2011 by Robert Ferguson.

Krikor Beledian: “The Name under My Tongue,” excerpt from Anune lezuis dag (The Name under My Tongue) © 2003 by Krikor Beledian. Translation © 2012 by Shushan Avagyan.

Lasha Bugadze: “The Sins of the Wolf” © 2010 by Lasha Bugadze. Translation © 2012 by Elizabeth Heighway.

A. S. Byatt: “Dolls’ Eyes” © 2009 by A. S. Byatt.

Dulce Maria Cardoso: “Angels on the Inside” © 2011 by Dulce Maria Cardoso. Translation © 2012 by Rhett McNeil.

Sylwia Chutnik: “It's All Up to You” © 2011 by Ha!art. Translation © 2011 by Jennifer Croft.

Vitalie Ciobanu: “Orchestra Rehearsal,” excerpt from Castel la Carrara (Castle in Carrara) © 2012 by Vitalie Ciobanu. Translation © 2012 by Alistair Ian Blyth.

Zehra Çirak: “Memory Cultivation Salon” © 2012 by Schiler Verlag. Translation © 2012 by Marilya Veteto Reese.

Bernard Comment: “A Son” © 2011 by Christian Bourgois éditeur. Translation © 2012 by Jeffrey Zuckerman.

Kristiina Ehin: “The Surrealist’s Daughter” © 2011 by Kristiina Ehin. Translation © 2011 by Ilmar Lehtpere.

Gyrðir Elíasson: “The Music Shop” © 2009 by Gyrðir Elíasson. Translation © 2012 by Victoria Cribb.

Paul Emond: “Grand Froid” © 2011 by Éditeur la Muette-le Bord de l’eau. Translation © 2012 by Aaron Kerner.

Christina Hesselholdt: “Camilla and the Horse” © 2008 by Christina Hesselholdt and Rosinante & Co. Translation © 2011 by Roger Greenwald.

Ray French: “Migration” © 2010 by Ray French.

Kirill Kobrin: “Last Summer in Marienbad” © 2011 by Kirill Kobrin. Translation © 2011 by Anna Aslanyan.

Žarko Kujundžiski: “When the Glasses are Lost” © 2011 by Žarko Kujundžiski. Translation © 2011 by Nikolche Mickoski and Elena Mitreska Weiss.

Dan Lungu: “7 P.M. Wife” © 2005 by Dan Lungu. Translation © 2011 by Jean Harris and Florin Bican.

Tomás Mac Síomóin: “Music in the Bone” © 2011 by Tomás Mac Síomóin. Translation © 2011 by Joseph P. Murphy.

Tania Malyarchuk: “Me and My Sacred Cow” © 2006 by Tania Malyarchuk. Translation © 2012 by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Popelysh-Rosochynsky.

Mike McCormack: “Of One Mind” © 2012 by Mike McCormack.

Semezdin Mehmedinović: “My Heart” © 2011 by Semezdin Mehmedinović. Translation © 2012 by Celia Hawkesworth.

Lydia Mischkulnig: “A Protagonist’s Nemesis” © 2009 by Haymon Verlag Ges.m.b.H. Translation © 2012 Rachel McNicholl.

Dragan Radulović: “The Face” © 2007 by Dragan Radulović. Translation © 2011 by Will Firth.

Tiina Raevaara: “My Creator, My Creation” © 2010 by Tiina Raevaara. Translation © 2010 by Hildi Hawkins and Soila Lehtonen, originally published in Books from Finland.

Marie Redonnet: “Madame Zabée’s Guesthouse,” excerpt from Diego; original French text copyright © 2005 by Les Éditions de Minuit. Published by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Les Éditions de Minuit. Translation © 2012 by Katina Rogers.

Gundega Repše: “How Important Is It to Be Ernest?” © 2009 by Dienas Gramata. Translation © 2012 by Margita Gailitis and Vija Kostoff.

Eloy Tizón: “The Mercury in the Thermometers” © 2006 by Eloy Tizón. Translation © 2012 by Brendan Riley.

Ieva Toleikytė: “The Eye of the Maples” © 2011 by Ieva Toleikyte. Translation © 2011 by Jayde Will.

Miklós Vajda: “Portrait of a Mother in an American Frame,” excerpt from Anyakép, amerikai keretben (Portrait of a Mother in an American Frame) © 2009 by Miklós Vajda. Translation © 2010 by George Szirtes.