They've announced -- in their usual subdued way (it's almost like they don't want anyone to know ...) -- that Ворошиловград (or the French translation, La Route du Donbass) by Ukrainian author Сергій Жадан (Serhiy Jadan, for French purposes; generally transliterated as Serhiy Zhadan into English) has been awarded the 2014 Jan Michalski prize for literature (which went to the great Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's The Colonel last year -- so, yeah, to be taken seriously, and not just because of the SF50,000 payday).
It hasn't been translated into English, but see for example the Suhrkamp foreign rights information page (or the Éditions Noir sur Blanc publicity page for the French edition).
I've actually read several of the Zhadan titles -- Suhrkamp has translated quite a few into German -- though not this one; the only one of his books available in English to date is Depeche Mode; get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
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