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Literature in Translation
Listed by original language. See also the
world literature
category.
Afrikaans
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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
(Wilma Stockenström)
- a slave woman survives a doomed expedition into the interior
Albanian
Arabic
Basque
Bengali
My Kind of Girl
(Buddhadeva Bose)
- "Is the memory of happiness that has passed, happy or sad?"
Bulgarian
Natural Novel
(Georgi Gospodinov)
- a comedy in fragments
Catalan
Salt Water
(Josep Pla)
- stories of the north Catalan coast
Chinese
Czech
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
(Jiri Weil)
- a blackly comic tragedy about the Holocaust in Prague
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Notebooks from New Guinea
(Vojtech Novotny)
Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist
War With the Newts
(Karel Capek)
- sweeping science fiction satire
Danish
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A Change of Time
(Ida Jessen)
- facing widowhood in a Danish country town
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
(Peter Høeg)
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
Dutch
Egyptian
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Love Songs of the New Kingdom
(John L. Foster)
- ancient Egyptian love poems
Estonian
French
Galician
In the Wilderness
(Manuel Rivas)
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
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Vermeer's Milkmaid
(Manuel Rivas)
- superb Galician short stories
German
Gikuyu
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
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
(Robert B. Strassler)
- stupendously annotated and enhanced
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
(Apostolos Doxiadis)
- a novel of obsession and mathematics
Hebrew
Hindi
Tomb of Sand
(Geetanjali Shree)
- from family comedy to the politics of partition
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
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On Thrones of Gold
(James R. Brandon)
Three Javanese Shadow Plays
Korean
Malayalam
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The Legends of Khasak
(O.V. Vijayan)
- interwoven stories of life and death in a South Indian village
Mandarin
The Stolen Bicycle
(Wu Ming-Yi)
- a spiralling exploration of memory and history in Taiwan
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Russian
Sanskrit
Much Ado About Religion
(Bhatta Jayanta)
- a Sanskrit religious drama from 900 AD
Once the Buddha Was a Monkey: Jatakamala
(Arya Sura)
- morality tales about lives of the Buddha
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
A Kitchen in the Corner of the House
(Ambai)
- short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
Turkish
Uzbek
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Manaschi
(Hamid Ismailov)
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
Vietnamese
Yiddish
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