The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 has been awarded to Peruvian author Santiago Roncagliolo for his third novel, Red April (Atlantic Books). Roncagliolo beat off competition from a strong shortlist including Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk and former Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner, Norwegian Per Petterson, to win the Prize.
At 36, Roncagliolo is the youngest-ever author to take the prize.The announcement marks the first time a Peruvian writer has claimed the awardHis American translator, Edith Grossman, shares the £10,000 prize money
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