World Literature

[Hithaeglir]

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EUROPE

Greece - Heliad (Homer, 8th century BC)
Italy - The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri, 1308 – 1320 AD)
Spain- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 – 1615)
Poland - Pan Tadeusz (Adam Mickiewicz, 1834)
France - The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
Russia- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1865 - 1867)
United Kingdom - Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)
Switzerland - Heidi (Johanna Spyri, 1881)
Norway - Hunger (Knut Hamsun, 1888)
Βulgaria- Under the Yoke (Ivan Vazov , 1888)
Sweden - Gosta Berling’s Saga (Selma Lagerlöf , 1891)
Hungary - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Géza Gárdonyi , 1899)
Latvia- Nāvas Ena (Rūdolfs Blaumanis, 1899)
Germany - Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann, 1901)
Czech Republic - The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek, 1921 – 1923)
Ireland - Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
Romania - Forest of the Hanged (Liviu Rebreanu, 1922)
Εstonia- Truth and Justice (Anton Hansen Tammsaare, 1926 – 1933)
Austria - The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil , 1930–43)
Slovenia - Alamut (Vladimir Bartol, 1938)
Finland - The Unknown Soldier (Väinö Linna, 1954)
Αlbania- The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare, 1963)
Portugal - Baltasar and Blimunda (José Saramago, 1982)
Βelgium- The Sorrow of Belgium (Hugo Claus, 1983)
Serbia- Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić, 1984)
Slovakia - Rivers of Babylon (Peter Pišťanek, 1991)
Denmark - Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg, 1992)
Netherlands - The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch, 1992)
Montenegro: A Novel (Starling Lawrenc, 1993)
Bosnia - Zlata’s diary (Zlata Filipović, 1993)
Croatia- Cafe Europa: Life After Communism (Slavenka Drakulić, 1996)
Ukraine - Death and the Penguin (Andrey Kurkov, 1996)
Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich, 1997)
Iceland - Jar City (Arnaldur Indriðason, 2000)
Μoldova - Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld (Nicolai Lilin, 2009)
Lithuania - White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life (Daiva Markelis, 2010)
Fyrom - Freud’s Sister (Goce Smilevski, 2012)
Luxembourg - In Reality: Selected Poems (Jean Portante, 2013)

AMERICA

Brazil - Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis, 1899)
Canada- Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1908)
Bolivia - Bronze Race (Alcides Arguedas, 1919)
Venezuela - Dona Barbara (Rómulo Gallegos, 1929)
Ecuador - The Villagers (Huasipungo) (Jorge Icaza, 1934)
Argentina- Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges, 1941-2, 1944, 1956)
Panama- Plenilunio (Rogelio Sinán, 1943)
Guatemala - Men of Maize (Miguel Ángel Asturias, 1949)
Μexico- Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo, 1955)
USA - To Kill a MockingBird (Harper Lee, 1960)
Guinea - Palace of the Peacock (Wilson Harris, 1960)
Hondurra - Cipotes (Ramón Amaya Amador, 1963)
Αntilles- Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)
Colombia - 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez , 1967)
French Guinea - Papillon (Henri Charrière, 1969)
Costa Rica - La Isla de los hombres solos (José León Sánchez, 1970)
Paraguay - I the Supreme (Augusto Roa Bastos, 1974)
Beliz- Beka Lamb (Zee Edgell, 1982)
Chile - The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende, 1982)
Εl Salvador- Bitter Grounds: Roots of Revolt in El Salvador (Liisa North, 1985)
Surinam - The Cost of Sugar (Cynthia McLeod, 1987)
Greenland - Islands, the Universe, Home (Gretel Ehrlich, 1991)
Peru - Death in the Andes (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1993)
Puerto Rico - When I was Puerto Rican Lesser (Esmeralda Santiago, 1993)
Haiti - Breath, Eyes, Memory (Edwidge Danticat, 1994)
Uruguay - Soccer in the Sun and Shadow (Eduardo Galeano , 1995)
Cuba - Havana Bay (Martin Cruz Smith, 1999)
Nicaragua - The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (Gioconda Belli, 2003)
Dominican Republic - Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz, 2007)
Bahamas - The Measure of a Man (Sidney Poitier, 2007)
Jamaica- A brief history of Seven Killings (Marlon James, 2014)

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Ιran: Shahnameh (Ferdowsi, 970 - 1010 AD)
Georgia: Knight in the Panther’s Skin (Shota Rustaveli, 1180 – 1205/07 AD)
China - The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin, 18th century AD)
Αrmenia: The Fool (Raffi, 1880)
Philippines- Noli Me Tangere (José Rizal, 1887)
Japan - Kokoro (Natsume Sōseki, 1914)
Kyrgystan - Jamilia (Chingiz Aytmatov , 1958)
Ιndonesia- This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1980)
Sudi Arabia - Cities of Salt (Abdul Rahman Munif, 1984)
Υemen - The Hostage (Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, 1984)
Vietnam - The Sorrow of War (Bảo Ninh, 1990)
East Timor - The Redundancy of Courage (Timothy Mo, 1991)
Kazakstan - The Book of Words (Abay Qunanbayuli, 1995)
Μongolia - The Blue Sky (Galsan Tschinag, 1997)
Ιndia - The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy, 1997)
Turkey: My Name is Red Georgia (Orhan Pamuk, 1998)
Τhailand- The Four Reigns (Kukrit Pramoj, 1998)
Αzerbaijan: Mavi Melekler (Chingiz Abdullayev, 2000)
Cambodia - First they Killed my Father (Loung Ung, 2000)
North Korea - The Aquariums of Pyongyang (Kang Chol-hwan & Pierre Rigoulot, 2000)
Sri Lanka- Anil’s Ghost (Michael Ondaatje, 2000)
Τajikistan - Hurramabad (Andrei Volos, 2001)
Αfghanistan - Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini , 2003)
Uzbekistan - Chasing the Sea (Tom Bissell, 2004)
Butan- The Circle of Karma (Kunzang Choden, 2005)
Νepal - The Palpasa Cafe (Narayan Wagle, 2005)
Qatar- The Emergence of Qatar: The Turbulent Years, 1627-1916 (Habibur Rahman, 2005)
Bangladesh - A Golden Age (Tahmima Anam, 2007)
Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid, 2007)
Laos - On The Other Side Of The Eye (Bryan Thao Worra, 2007)
South Korea- The Vegetarian (Han Kang, 2007)
Μyanmar - Smile as they Bow (Nu Nu Yi, 2008)
Syria- The Dark Side of love (Rafik Schami, 2009)
Lebanon - The Hakawati (Rabih Alameddine, 2008)
Kuwait- A Map of Home (Randa Jarrar, 2008)
United Arabic Emirates - The Sand Fish (Maha Gargash, 2009)
Ιsrael - Mornings in Jenin (Susan Abulhawa, 2010)
Brunei - Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (Jillian Lauren, 2010)
Μalaysia- The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng, 2012)
Οman - The Turtle of Oman (Naomi Shihab Nye, 2014)
Ιraq- The Corpses Exhibition and Other Stories (Hassan Blasim, 2014)
Turkmenistan - The Tale of Aypi (Ak Welsapar, 2016)
Τaiwan - Green Island (Shawna Yang Ryan, 2016)

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Fiji - Tales of the Tikongs (Epeli Hau'ofa, 1983)
Vanuatu- Black Stone (Grace Mera Molisa, 1983)
Solomon Islands - Suremada: faces from a Solomon Island village (Rexford T. Orotaloa, 1989)
New Zealand - The Βone People (Keri Hulme, 1984)
Australia: Cloudstreet (Tim Winton , 1991)
Papua New Guinea- Death of a Muruk: A Play (Bernard Narokobi, 2013)

[Hithaeglir]

Forgot to add,these are the most popular books per country.

[MissMischief]

Amazing map but why is Cuba represented by an American novel? "Paradiso" by José Lezama Lima comes to mind, as well as the works of Leonardo Padura, Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Alejo Carpentier. There are plenty of fascinating Cuban writers :thumb001:

[Zephyrus]

Forgot to add,these are the most popular books per country.


Croatia- Cafe Europa: Life After Communism (Slavenka Drakulić, 1996)

Don't trust everything you read on the internet, it's bullshit.

[catgeorge]

Good set of classics around the globe. There have been some great books since then too.

[Dandelion]

L'étranger by Albert Camus for Algeria. ;) He lived in Algeria as a Pied-Noir which was a French colony, so makes sense it gets considered literature of Algeria, I guess.

[Melki]

Amazing map but why is Cuba represented by an American novel? "Paradiso" by José Lezama Lima comes to mind, as well as the works of Leonardo Padura, Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Alejo Carpentier. There are plenty of fascinating Cuban writers :thumb001:

Also, why is there no Germany in the Europe list? I'd propose Goethe's Faust.

Or Young Werther's Sufferings, or Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Siddharta by Hermann Hesse The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass, The Perfume by Patrick Süskind...

For France, I would have better proposed In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Stranger by Albert Camus

[Smeagol]

America's should be Gone with the Wind.

[catgeorge]

America's should be Gone with the Wind.

The adventures of Huckelberry Finn and To kill a mockingbird is right up there

[barkoo]

Or Young Werther's Sufferings, or Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Siddharta by Hermann Hesse The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass, The Perfume by Patrick Süskind...

For France, I would have better proposed In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Stranger by Albert Camus

Yeah Siddharta is a great book, i would go for Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit by Louis Ferdinand Celine, still a little overrated though Eugenie Grandet by Honoré De Balzac and Les Particules Elementaires by Michel Houellebecq which is probably the best French novel of these last 20 years.

[Hithaeglir]

Don't trust everything you read on the internet, it's bullshit.

I don't trust everything i read on the internet,but it was an interesting map and can open a discussion between members,if they consider these titles representative of their country and maybe add more to the list as they are already doing :D

Definitely a more pleasant argument than the constant racial fights the forum is seeing everyday.

[MinervaItalica]

The Divine Comedy is obviously important but i expected to see The Betrothed for Italy which is probably considered one of the best example of Italian literature.

[Melki]

America's should be Gone with the Wind.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great antiracist novel, but I would have personally picked Moby Dick.

[Melki]

Yeah Siddharta is a great book, i would go for Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit by Louis Ferdinand Celine, still a little overrated though Eugenie Grandet by Honoré De Balzac and Les Particules Elementaires by Michel Houellebecq which is probably the best French novel of these last 20 years.

Yes, Journey til the End of the Night is my cult-book. I identify myself a lot with Bardamu, the hero. How could I have forgotten that novel??? I even own the DeLuxe edition illustrated by Jean Tardi.

[Smeagol]

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great antiracist novel, but I would have personally picked Moby Dick.

I never actually read that.