The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008 has been awarded to the Belgian author Paul Verhaeghen for his novel Omega Minor, published by Dalkey Archive Press in November 2007. Paul Verhaeghen is the first author to have both written and translated the winning title and has therefore won the full £10,000 prize. The award, a partnership between Arts Council England and the Independent newspaper, was made in association with Champagne Taittinger in the UK. Past winners have included Immortality by Milan Kundera and Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald.

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the largest prize devoted to literary works in translation in the world, celebrates an exceptional work of fiction by a living author that has been translated into English from any other language.

I think I need to check this book out. (It was mentioned, timely enough, in the Scott Esposito article I recently linked to.)

More info at The Literary Saloon.