Philippe CLAUDEL wins the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Brodeck’s Report

FRENCH NOVELIST Philippe Claudel has won the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Brodeck’s Report, the story of a murder in a postwar French hamlet. Claudel, who directed and wrote the BAFTA-winning French film, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long), is the second French author to win the prize. He saw off competition from India, the Congo and Europe to take the £10,000 award, which is shared equally with his American translator John Cullen.