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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 M • N 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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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
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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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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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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
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Umberto Eco [b. 1932] of Italy
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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 •
book 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Niccolò Machiavelli [1469-1527] of the Republic of Florence in Italy
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1988 Nobel-laureate Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] of Egypt
"The Cairo Trilogy" [1956-57]
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Curzio Malaparte [1898-1957] of Italy
was a pro-fascist writer, later pro-socialist; his novels were not political per se
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entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Kremlin Ball, 1929" [1957] by Curzio Malaparte, Translation & Foreword by Jenny McPhee This impertinent portrait of Russia's Marxist aristocracy is viewed thru the eyes of Joseph Stalin while he sits in his opera box; the book was unfinished and not published until 50 years after Malaparte's death; this is the first English translation New York Review of Books Classics 8x5 pb [4/2018] for $13.68 |
 | "Muss.: Il Grande Imbecille" [1999] by Curzio Malaparte 135-page Luni Editrice 2nd edition Italian language 9¼x7 pb [1999] out of print/scarce |
mystery author Henning Mankell [1948-2015] of Sweden
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Petros Markaris of Greece
Insp. Haritos of Athens Homicide series
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1982 Nobel-laureate Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014] of Colombia
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mystery author Seicho Matsumoto [1909-92] of Japan
Insp. Imanishi of Tokyo series
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poet & literary critic Zarko Milenik of Bosnia & Moscow
winner of the Struga Letters international award in 2017
"Eat The Rain" novel [2019] by Zarko Milenic - published in Croatian 5/2019 and in Macedonian 6/2019
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Nobel-laureate novelist Mo Yan {born Guan Moye} of Beijing, China
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia - lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.amazon.com/Silvia-Moreno-Garcia/e/B004H7M5PA/
http://www.silviamoreno-garcia.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Moreno-Garcia
 | "Mexican Gothic" [2020] New York Times bestseller listed as one of the Best Books of The Year by The New Yorker Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, N.P.R., The Washington Post, Tor-dot-com • Marie Claire Magazine, Vox, Mashable, Library Journal, Book Riot, and LibraryReads Kindle Edition from Del Rey [6/2020] for $12.99 Del Rey 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2020] for $18.97 announced 8/2020: in development as a Hulu/ABC Original Limited Series, produced by Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos • /tt12929864/ |
Haruki Murakami of Japan
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Murasaki Shikibu / Lady Murasaki [978?-1014?] of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu
"The Tale of Genji" [written around 1010 CE, English translation 1882]
The life and loves of an emperor’s son. And the world’s first novel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji
U.K. Guardian article 10/2019: A fifth part of "The Tale of Genji" has been found in a house in Tokyo; the manuscript has been in the hands
of the Okochi family since 1743, and the handwriting of the text, and the cover of the manuscript, are authenticated as identical
to other manuscripts transcribed by the poet & calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika [1162-1241].
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"The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated" [2019] by Lady Murasaki museum exhibit catalog by John Carpenter & Melissa McCormick, Preface by Sano Midori over 300 color illustrations, bibliography, index Metropolitan Museum of Art 11½x9¾ hardcover [3/2019] for $65.00 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji_(1951_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji_(1966_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genji_Monogatari_Sennenki
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1971 Nobel-laureate poet Pablo Neruda [1904-73] of Chile¨ ¨
mystery author Jo Nesbø of Norway
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1994 Nobel-laureate Kenzaburo Oe [b. 1935] of Japan
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Yei Theodora Ozaki [1871-1932] of Japan
entry at Wikipedia •
17 online etexts available free at Internet Archive
 | "The Japanese Fairy Book" [22 stories 1903] Translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin ("The Story of The Man Who Did Not Wish To Die" is taken from a little book written [circa 1800] by Shinsui Tamenaga [1790-1844]; the original title is "Chosei Furo (Longevity"); book re-printed in 1908 as "Japanese Fairy Tales". Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE {sic} Kindle Edition from Gold Edition [4/2017] for 99¢ CreateSpace 9x6 pb [4/2016] for $4.85 Andesite Press 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2015] for $23.95 A.L. Burt Co. hardcover [1903] long out of print/scarce |
"Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories" []
"Romances of Old Japan" []
http://www.archive.org/details/romancesofoldjap00ozak
"Buddha's Crystal and Other Fairy Stories" []
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2006 Nobel-laureate {Ferit} Orhan Pamuk of Republic of Türkiye
 | "Nights of Plague: A Novel" [2022]  by Nobel-laureate Orhan Pamuk of Türkiye, Translated by Ekin Oklap A bold and brilliant novel - part detective story, part historical epic - that imagines a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire in 1900; when a plague arrives - brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria - the people of the island refuse to respect the quarantine orders . . . Kindle Edition from Knopf [10/2022] for $14.99 Knopf 9¼x6¼ deckle-edge hardcover [10/2022] for $30.60 |
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1990 Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz [1914-98] of Mexico
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Portugal’s great modernist poet Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa [1888-1935]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
fiction masterpiece "The Book of Disquiet" [Portuguese 1982, English 1991]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Disquiet
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author and translator Sergio Pitol [1933-2018] of Mexico
awarded the prestigious Cervantes Prize for lifetime achievement in Spanish literature in 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Pitol
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mystery author Edogawa Ranpo {real name Hirai Taro} [1894-1965] of Japan
often called 'the Japanese Edgar Allen Poe'
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Satyajit Ray [1921-92] of India
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philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau [1712-78] of Switzerland
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Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón
born in Barcelona, Spain and currently lives in Los Angeles, California; writes in Spanish and is translated by others
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author's official website {in Catalan} •
wikipedia
"El Príncipe de La Niebla" [YA 1993] / English version "The Prince of Mist" [2010]
"El Palacio de La Medianoche" [YA 1994] / English version "The Midnight Palace" [2011]
"Las Luces de Septiembre" [YA 1995] / English version "The Watcher In The Shadows" [2013]
"Marina" [YA 1999] / English version 2013
'Cemetery of Forgotten Books' four-book series
"La Sombra del Viento" [2001] / English version "The Shadow of The Wind"
"may be the best book [that] you have never heard of, selling almost 15 million copies worldwide"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Wind
"El Juego del Ángel" [April 2008] / English version "The Angel's Game" [2009]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel%27s_Game
"El Prisionero del Cielo" [2011] / English version "Prisoner of Heaven" [July 2012]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Heaven
"El Laberinto de Los Espíritus" [Planeta 11/2016] / English version "The Labyrinth of Spirits" [HarperCollins 9/2018]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Labyrinth_of_Spirits
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Persian poet Rumi [1207-73] aka Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi
'The bestselling poet in America today'
 | "The Illuminated Rumi" [1997] Translations & Commentary by Coleman Barks, Illustrated by Michael Green Broadway Books 11x8¾ pb [10/97] out of print/used Broadway Books 11¼x8¾ hardcover [10/97] for $22.89 |
 | "The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom From The Poet of The Soul" [2000] A New Translation by Philip Dunn, Manuela Dunn Mascetti & R.A. Nicholson, Foreword by Huston Smith HarperOne 10x8 pb [12/2010] for $8.92 HarperOne 10x8 pb [12/2010] out of print/used HarperOne 10x8 hardcover [10/2000] out of print/used |
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Portuguese writer José de Sousa Saramago [1922-2010]
recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago
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Iranian author & filmmaker Marjane Satrapi lives in Paris, France
"Persepolis" [France May 2007, USA Oct 2007]
  | Oscar-nominated mostly black-and-white animated masterpiece, French-language with subtitles. Tells the history of artist Satrapi from her childhood under the Shah of Iran, during the Iraq-Iran War, and thru exile in Vienna & Paris. Co-written & co-directed by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, based on Satrapi's graphic novels; with the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, François Jerosme, Arié Elmaleh & Mathias Mlekuz; Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film
Sony Pictures widescreen color/b&w DVD [6/2008] for $20.99 full credits from IMDb official French-language movie site on MySpace {requires Flash} Sony Classics official USA moviesite {Flash only} French-language 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 "The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture" [2007]
Pantheon 8¾x6 pb graphic novel [10/2007] for $16.47 prior editions in paper & hardcover |
mystery author Soji Shimada of Japan
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mystery author team Maj Sjöwall [b. 1935] & Per Wahlöö [1926-75] of Sweden
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1986 Nobel-laureate Wole Soyinka [b. 1934] of Nigeria
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ex-banker/writer Ravi Subramanian of India
browse the Ravi Subramanian Store {returns ??+ titles} at Amazon •
www.RaviSubramanian.IN
http://www.SubramanianRavi.com/
 | "If God Wa$ A Bank€r" [2007] India national bestseller by Ravi Subramanian The setting is the ethically-polluted corporate bank environment; management graduate Swami's ideal-ism and ethics keep him behind ambitious & selfish & unscrupulous fellow Sundeep in the rat race for success Kindle Edition from Rupa Publications [9/2015] for $10.99 Rupa Publications mass pb [11/2014] for $12.99 |
 | "Don't Tell The Governor" [2018] by Ravi Subramanian Dynamic, charismatic, and ambitious Aditya Kesavan is appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and ecouraged not to rock the boat; but a series of crises head the country toward the most critical financial event in modern Indian history; his only choice is the most brazen act of his life - and, perhaps, his most foolish. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins India [11/2018] for $7.99 HarperCollins India 8½x5½ pb [11/2018] for $12.83 |
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"Thrillers To Bank On: 3 Novels" box set [2018] by Ravi Subramanian "Bankerupt" [2013]: an out-of-work banker steps into a nightmare at Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology; "God Is A Gamer" [2014]: 'the first bitcoin thriller'; and "In The Name of God" [2017]: thriller connecting a royal family in Kerala, a massive racket in the smuggling of antiques from temple ruins in south India to Dubai, and multiple bombings among diamond traders in Mumbai Kindle Edition omnibus from Penguin [11/2018] for $30.00 Penguin slipcover 8x5½ hardcover box set [11/2018] out of print/used |
Italian writer Italo Svevo [1861-1928]
Aron Ettore Schmitz was born in Trieste, Austrian Empire; Irish ex-patriot James Joyce helped Svevo gain some success late in life; Svevo's importance as a
prominent figure of early XXth Century Italian literature rests on the two novels "Senilità" [1898] and "La Coscienza di Zeno" [1923].
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Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941] of India¨ ¨
mystery author Paul Thomas [b. 1951] of Wellington, New Zealand
maverick Maori detective Tito Ihaka series
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mystery author Arthur W. Upfield [1888-1964] of Australia
Det. Insp. Napoleon Bonaparte series
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Sanskrit poet Valmiki {nee Ratnakara} [IVth Century BCE] of Ancient India
Valmiki entry at Wikipedia •
'Ramayana' entry at Wikipedia
The epic poem "Ramayana" was composed in the IVth Century BCE by Valmiki; it consists of 24,000 shlokas in 7 cantos (kandas) and runs about 480,000 words
(in Sanskrit). The story relates the struggle of Prince Rama to defeat a demonic god and rescue his kidnapped wife, thus restoring order to the world.
 | "The Ramayana" by Valmiki, Translated by R.T.H. Griffiths [1870]
CreateSpace 8x5¼ pb [10/2010] for $6.95 "The Ramayana" by Valmiki, Translated into English verse by Romesh Dutt [1899]
"The Ramayana" by Valmiki, Translated into Modern English by Arshia Sattar [1996]
"Ramayana For Children" [2016] by Arshia Sattar
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