Matigari (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
- after independence, seeking truth and justice
Greek
The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
Farewell Anatolia (Dido Sotiriou)
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
Hebrew
*The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
Bathsheba (Torgny Lindgren)
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
**China, Empire of the Written Symbol (Cecilia Lindqvist)
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
Dumb Luck (Vu Trong Phung)
- a comic satire of late-colonial Vietnam
Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
- a North Vietnamese soldier's story
*The Sorrow of War (Bao Ninh)
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier