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Worthy Foreign Authors
Information on authors around the world that are important in America,whose home and life and work are/were in other lands and in other languages
. . . essentially the category 'World Literature'
![Nobel-laureate Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia](images/SAA_GGMarquez.jpg "Nobel-laureate Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia")
![painting of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]](images/SAA-JWvonGoethe.jpg "painting of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]")
![painting of Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [1860-1904]](images/SAA-AntonChekhov.jpg "painting of Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [1860-1904]")
![Dutch teenager Anne Frank [1929-45], who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp](images/SAA-AnneFrank-pencil.jpg "Dutch teenager Anne Frank [1929-45], who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp")
see also Spirit of America Bookstore's World Literature Pages
on Page 1: top of page • • anthologies & reference
on Page 2: top of page • • links • • authors pages worldwide • •
ancient literature • • folk literature & fairytales
Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors of Britain Pages
'A Pocketful of Brits' Pages at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors of France Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors of Germany Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's The Brothers Grimm of Germany Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's Authors of Russia Page
Authors, A to Z
A thru F {just below} • G thru L •• on Page 2: M thru S • T thru Z
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Chinua Achebe¨ ¨
Æsop of Ancient Greece [620-564 B.C.E.]
"Aesop's Fables" entry at Wikipedia
'Aesopica' fansite [est. 2002] - the fables in English, Latin & Greek
25 free online etexts at Project Gutenberg
Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Aesop's Fables" Stories, Books, Stageplays & Movies Page
 | "Aesop's Fables" [1867 edition] |
 | "Aesop's Fables" for Kindle [1912 edition]
Kindle Illustrated Edition from Maplewood Books [8/2014] for 99¢ {sic} over 280 fables, with classic illustrations by Arthur Rackham |
César Aira of Argentina
The prolific César Aira has already produced some 90 short novels over his career, publishing two to four novels annually, a staggering bibliographic hurricane that shows no sign of abating. He sets many of his tales in his strangely named hometown, Colonel Pringles, and gets so entangled in digressions that his stories seldom make it to an expected ending. Aira supposedly never rewrites, never plans plot direction, never corrects contradictions, and relentlessly produces a page a day. The novellas resulting from this are exhilarating, infuriating, exasperating, inspiring and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
The most recent addition to the 10 novels in translation available from New Directions is "Dinner" (translated by Katherine Silver).
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Tuscan/Italian poet Dante Alighieri [1265?-1321]
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Hans Christian Anderson [1805-75] of Denmark
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos [1953-2003] of Chile & Mexico
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Chetan Bhagat, India’s best-selling English author
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Giovanni Boccaccio [1313-75] of Medieval Florence, Italy
browse the Giovanni Boccaccio Store {returns 270+ titles} at Amazon • entry at Wikipedia
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"The Decameron: The Human Comedy" [completed 1353, English publn 1620] In the mid-1300s, as the Black Death was decimating Europe, the Italian writer Boccaccio imagined an escape from the city by members of the aristocracy: seven young women and three eligible men retreat to the countryside, where they go for walks, drink, and sing. In real life, as much as 60 percent of the population in Boccaccio’s home town of Florence was dying in agony; in his alternative vision, the characters meet each day to share ten stories on a new theme. Not all of Boccaccio’s stories are successful, but together the stories made a mark: nearly 700 years after they were written, the Decameron remains “probably the [raunchiest] great book in the Western canon”. book entry at Wikipedia 1909 edition Volume 1 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive 1909 edition Volume 2 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive 1909 edition Volume 3 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive 1909 edition Volume 4 is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive Navarre Society 1963 edition is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
Lots more information - Kindle editions, analyses, movies & TV & streaming - on
the "The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio" [1553] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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María Luisa Bombal [1910-80] of Chile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_Bombal
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Italo Calvino [1923-85] of Italy
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C.P. Cavafy [] of Greece
the most widely known and best-loved modern Greek poet
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-parallel-Oxford-Classics/dp/0199555958/
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Israel Centeno is living in exile in Pittsburgh, PA
considered one of the most important Venezuelan writers of the last 50 years
browse books •
author entry at Wikipedia {empty}
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poet Luis Cernuda [1902-1963] of Spain & Mexico
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2003 Nobel-laureate J.M. Coetzee [b. 1940] of South Africa
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis [1839-1908] of Brasil
He wrote four romantic novels: "Ressurreição" [1872], "A Mão e Luva" [1874], "Helena" [1876], and "Iaiá Garcia" [1878], then switched to writing amazing realist fiction:
"Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" [1881], "Quincas Borba (Philosopher or Dog?)" [1891], "Dom Casmurro" [1899], "Esaú e Jacó" [1904] and "Memorial de Aires" [1908];
"A Missa do Galo (Midnight Mass)", considered his greatest short story, was published in 1893; he also wrote plays and poetry.
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IMDb listing •
entry at Wikipedia
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"The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis" [2018] Translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson, Foreword by Michael Wood Kindle Edition from Liveright [6/2018] for $16.05 Liveright 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2018] for $24.93 |
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra [1547-1616] of Spain
see Spirit of America Bookstore's Miguel de Cervantes / "Don Quixote" Page
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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio [1562-1635] of Spain
Spanish playwright, poet, & novelist; one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature, his reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that
of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature. He was nicknamed
'The Phoenix of Wits' and 'Monster of Nature' (Fénix de Los Ingenios, Monstruo de La Naturaleza) by Cervantes because of his prolific nature.
http://www.amazon.com/Lope-de-Vega/e/B001IU0P4C/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [1648-95] of Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz
"Hombres Necios que Acusáis (You Foolish Men)" [1680s] - a succinct feminist manifesto written by a 17th-century Mexican nun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz_(TV_series) [Telesistema Mexicano 1962]
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe" [1982 book] by Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz [1914-98]
translated to English by Margaret Sayers Peden as "Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith" [1988]
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sor_Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz_o_las_trampas_de_la_fe
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa [1896-1957] of Italy
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journalist & author Antonio di Benedetto [1922-86] of Argentina
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1194321/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_di_Benedetto
neglected South American masterpiece “Zama” [1956 existential novel]
recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a classic, took sixty years to be translated into English
https://www.amazon.com/Zama-York-Review-Books-Classics-ebook/dp/B00LYXDZPO/
https://www.amazon.com/Zama-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590177177/
https://www.amazon.com/Zama-El-silenciero-Los-suicidas/dp/8476699840/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3409848/
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Isak Dinesen {Karen von Blixen-Finecke} [1885-1962] of Denmark
Umberto Eco [1932-2016] of Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco
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1997 Nobel-laureate Dario Fo [b. 1926] of Italy
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teenage diarist Anne Frank [1929-45] of The Netherlands
author entry at Wikipedia
"Watch rare footage of Anne Frank before her family was forced into hiding" [20 seconds] on YouTube
search for movies & videos about Anne Frank {returns over 100 items} on YouTube
"The Diary of A Young Girl" [Dutch 1947, English 1952] by Anne Frank
book entry at Wikipedia
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Carlos Fuentes of Mexico
Carlos Fuentes Macías [1928-2012]
author entry at Wikipedia
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"La Región Más Transparente (Where The Air Is Clear): A Novel" [Mexico 1958] by Carlos Fuentes book entry at Wikipedia Deutsch 7½x5 pb [1985] out of print/used Ivan Obolensky NYC 8¼x5½ hardcover [1960] out of print/used 1988 translation by Sam Hileman, Introduction by Ignacio Padilla Kindle Edition from FS&G/Macmillan [5/2013] for $7.99 Dalkey Archive Press 8½x5½ pb [12/2014] for $15.69 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 8x5½ hardcover [1988] out of print/50+ used Spanish-language editions Destino Spanish-language 7½x4½ pb [6/2004] for $14.95 Alfaguara 50th anniv edition 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2008] out of print/used |
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Kahlil Gibran [] wrote "The Prophet" []¨ ¨
The Brothers Grimm [circa 1785-1860] of Germany
"Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm: A New English Version" [2012] by Philip Pullman
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1991 Nobel-laureate Nadine Gordimer [1923-2014] of South Africa
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mystery author Batya Gur [1947-2005] of Israel
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1920 Nobel-laureate Knut Hamsun [1859-1952] of Norway
for his novel "Growth of The Soil"
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Keigo Higashino - described as 'Japan’s bestselling and most widely read author'
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Ancient Greek epic poet Homer / Homerus [lived in the VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
Homer's works are about fifty percent speeches; he is best known as the author of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"
Greek epic poet Homer online works {returns 30+} at Project Gutenberg
Greek epic poet Homer entry at Wikipedia
"The Iliad" [written 760-710 BCE] entry at Wikipedia
"The Odyssey" [written prior to 700 BCE] entry at Wikipedia
 | "Ithaca: A Novel of Homer's Odyssey" [2016] by Patrick Dillon Troubled teenager Telemachus is the son of the king and queen of the island of Ithaca; his father went to war against Troy long ago, and various suitors are trying to convince Penelope that she is a widow and should marry one of them; Telemachus sets out to find the truth of his father's fate . . . Kindle Edition from Pegasus Books [7/2016] for $12.99 Pegasus Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2016] for $17.74 |
Afghanistan-born author Khaled Hosseini
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playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906] of Norway
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Kazuo Ishiguro of Japan
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Franz Kafka [1884-1923] of Prague, Austria-Hungary
browse books •
IMDb listing {117 credits} •
author/book entry at Wikipedia
Kafka Society of America
 | "Kafkaesque: 14 Stories" [2018] by The New Yorker cartoonist Peter Kuper Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [9/2018] for $12.82 W.W. Norton & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2018] for $13.49 |
polymath poet Omar Khayyám [1048-1131] of Persia
Omar Khayyám entry at Wikipedia
"The Rubáiyát (Quatrains) of Omar Khayyám" as translated by Edward FitzGerald [1809-83]
A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts per line (derived from the Arabic language root for 'four'), hence the plural rubáiyát means 'quatrains'. FitzGerald's first edition
of 1859 contained 75 quatrains, the second in 1868 contained 110, there were 101 quatrains in the third [1872], fourth [1879], and fifth [1889] editions; the posthumous
fifth edition was revised based on handwritten notes left by FitzGerald
'Rubáiyát' entry at Wikipedia
read 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' 1859 illustrated first edition online at Internet Archive
 | "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: First and Fifth Editions"
132-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} 144-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [10/2010] for $8.95 164-page F.Q. Classics 9x6 hardcover [9/2007] for $19.99 144-page Palala Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/2015] for $22.95 |
 | "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fifth Edition - Translated by Edward FitzGerald" [1889] Introduction and Annotations by Robert D. Richardson, Illustrated by Lincoln Perry A celebration of FitzGerald's loose translation and an arrangement of Khayyam's verse into a unified narrative, published in conjunction with Richardson's dual biography {just below} 144-page Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury USA [6/2016] for $12.53 144-page Bloomsbury USA 7¾x5½ hardcover [6/2016] for $13.19 |
 | "Nearer The Heart's Desire: Poets of The Rubaiyat - A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald" [2016] by Robert D. Richardson
Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury USA [6/2016] for $9.99 Bloomsbury USA 8½x6 hardcover [6/2016] for $15.10 |
Ayse Kulin [b. 1941] - "Türkiye’s beloved bestselling novelist"
Kuzin has written 27 books (1984-2014); only four novels and one story collection are translated into English.
browse books •
author entry at Wikipedia
  | "Last Train To Istanbul: A Novel" [intl bestseller 2013] by Ayse Kulin, Translated by John W. Baker A Turkish woman marries a Jewish man and they exile themselves to Paris, France; when Hitler's armies threaten France, the Turkish embassy schedules a train to Istanbul to rescue Turkish & Jewish citizens; book won the European Council Jewish Community Best Novel Award. Kindle Edition from AmazonCrossing [10/2013] for $4.99 AmazonCrossing 8x5½ pb [10/2013] for $7.99 "Der Letzte Zug Nach Istanbul: Roman" [2015] by Ayse Kulin, Translated by Ute Birgi Kindle Edition from AmazonCrossing [8/2015] for $4.99 AmazonCrossing 7¼x5 pb [8/2015] for $10.99 "Nefes Nefese" [Turkish original 2002] by Ayse Kulin Edition Orient 7¾x5¼ pb [12/2002] import/used Everest mass pb [2011] import/used |
1951 Nobel-laureate Pär Lagerkvist [1891-1974] of Sweden
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness [1902-98] of Iceland
Iceland’s greatest novelist; winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature
browse the Halldór Laxness Store {returns 20+ titles} at Amazon •
author entry at Wikipedia
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Stieg Larsson [1954-2004] of Sweden
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Yiddish poet H. Leivick [1888-1962] of Russia (1888-1913) and U.S.A (1913-1962)
pen name of Leivick Halpern, also spelled H. Leyvik
browse books at Amazon •
entry at Wikipedia •
bio article [2000] by Jaff Malka
The Leyvik House [est. 1970] in Tel Aviv, Israel {in Hebrew & English} 
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science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem [1921-2006] of Poland
official website {in four languages} •
author entry at Wikipedia
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Federico García Lorca [1898-1936] of Spain
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Luo Guanzhong / Lo Kuan-chung [XIVth Century] of China
browse books •
IMDb listing •
author entry at Wikipedia
"Romance of The Three Kingdoms" [circa 1320]
one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature and the most famous historical novel in China
book entry at Wikipedia •
book fansite
 | "Three Kingdoms" 4-Volume Box Set [2008] by Luo Guanzhong, Translated by Moss Roberts more than 1,300 popular and easy to understand pictures Foreign Languages Press 7¼x4¾x3¼ pb box set [2008] 4 books for $26.50 |
 | "The Romance of The Three Kingdoms" for Kindle [2013] by Luo Guanzhong, Translated by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor, Edited by Dr. Rafe de Crespigny Kindle Edition from tresreinos.ES [5/2013] for $4.88 |
more details (history, books, movies & TV, links, merchandise) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Romance of The Three Kingdoms" Page
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see also Spirit of America Bookstore's World Literature Pages
on Page 1: top of page • • anthologies & reference
on Page 2: top of page • • links • • authors pages worldwide • •
ancient literature • • folk literature & fairytales
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