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The book, which was published by Haus in Germany in 2009, is a powerful novel on the life of a colonel who remembers his memories of families and friends in his solitude. The book concerns issues like nationality, history and family.
“‘The Colonel’ is a page-turning panorama of Iranian mental anguish, producing visions and nightmares like dark exotic blossoms,” the Swiss book critic Angela Schader wrote in the Swiss German-language daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Serge Gruzinski’s “L’Aigle et le Dragon: Démesure européenne et mondialisation au XVIe siècle” from France, Robert Macfarlane’s “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot” from England, Steve Sem-Sandberg’s “The Emperor of Lies” from Sweden, and Uday Prakash’s “The Walls of Delhi” from India are other nominees.
The Jan Michalski Foundation has established the prize to honor a work of the world literature.
The authors of the short-listed works will be invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l’Ecriture of the foundation.
The winner will be announced during an official ceremony in Zurich in November 2013.
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.jpg "Mahmud Dowlatabadi and the cover of an English copy of his novel “The Colonel”")