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Afghanistan Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns / Anna
Badkhen Waiting for the Taliban / Emmanuel Guibert The Photographer / (as told to)
Batya Swift Yasgur Behind the Burqa / Atiq Rahimi A Thousand Rooms of Dream
and Fear; The Patience Stone
Albania Ismail Kadare The Palace of Dreams; Broken April / Fatos Kongoli The
Loser
Algeria Lela Marouane The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris / Anouar Benmalek
Abduction / Assia Djebar So Vast the Prison / Boualem Sansal An Unfinished
Business; The German Mujahid / Al-Tahir Wattar The Earthquake / Anouar
Benmalek The Lovers of Algeria / Yasmina Khadra The Attack
Andorra Albert Salvad The Teacher of Cheops
Angola Jos Eduardo Agualusa My Fathers Wives; Creole / Pepetela The Return of
the Water Spirit / Ondjaki Good Morning Comrades; The Whistler / Jose Eduardo
Agualusa The Book of Chameleons / Manuel Rui Monteiro Quem me dera ser Onda
(translation sought)
Antigua and Barbuda Jamaica Kincaid Lucy; Annie John / Marie-Elena John
Unburnable / Althea Prince Loving this Man; Ladies of the Night / Gisele Isaac
Considering Venus
Argentina Martin Kohan Seconds Out / Csar Aira How I Became a Nun; An Episode
in the Life of a Landscape Painter / Ernesto Sbato The Tunnel / Alicia Steimberg
Musicians and Watchmakers / Jorges Luis Borges / Toms Eloy Martnez Purgatory
(trans. Frank Wynne) / Matias Nespolo 7 Ways to Kill a Cat (trans. Frank Wynne) /
Carlos Gamerro The Islands / Iosi Havilio Opendoor / Luisa Valenzuela / Ricardo
Piglia / Guillermo Martnez / Manuel Puig / Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of
Morel / Julio Cortzar Hopscotch
Armenia Armand Inezian Bringing Ararat / Grigoris Balakian Armenian Golgotha
Australia Tim Winton Cloudstreet / Helen Garner The Childrens Bach / Markus
Zusak The Book Thief / Nam Le The Boat / Andrew McGahan The White Earth /
Elizabeth Jolley / Alex Miller Lovesong / Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain
Austria Elias Canetti The Torch in my Ear / Anna Kim Frozen Time / Thomas
Bernhard Extinction / Stefan Zweig / Julya Rabinovich Splithead
Azerbaijan Gioulzar Akhmedova Magnolia / Maksud Ibragimbekov / Anar Razayev /
? Ali and Nino
The Bahamas Ian Strachan Gods Angry Babies / Garth Buckner Thine is the
Kingdom
Bahrain Ali Al Saeed Quixotiq / Sarah A Al Sahfei Yummah
Bangladesh Taslima Nasrin Shame / Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim / Humayun
Ahmed To the Woods Dark and Deep / Ekhlasuddin Ahmed When the Evening

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Darkens / Shawkat Osman The Laughter of a Slave / Anwar Pasha Rifles Bread
Women
Barbados Karen Lord Redemption in Indigo / Agymah Kamau Flickering Shadows;
Pictures of a Dying Man / Glenville Lovell Fire in the Canes; Song of Night; Too
Beautiful to Die
Belarus Artur Klinov The Sun City of Dreams / Uladzimir Karatkievich King Stakhs
Wild Hunt / Vasil Bykau Sotnikau or The Ordeal / Viktar Martsinovich Paranoia /
Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl / Uladzimir Karatkevich The Spikes
Under Your Sickle / Ivan Melezh People of the Swamp
Belgium Herg The Adventures of Tintin / Peter Terrin The Guard / Stefan Brijs The
Angel Maker / Francois Emmanuel Invitation to a Voyage / Dimitri Verhulst The
Misfortunates / Louis Paul Boon My Little War / Paul Verhaeghen Omega Minor /
Amlie Nothomb
Belize Zoila Ellis On Heroes, Lizards and Passion
Benin Gisle Hountondji / Jean Pliya / Florent Couao-Zotti / Adelaide Fassinou /
Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr Stories We Tell Each Other
Bhutan Kunzang Choden The Circle of Karma / Karma Ura The Hero with a
Thousand Eyes / T Sangay Wangchuk Seeing with the Third Eye / Dorji Penjore
Bomena / Pema Euden Coming Home / Sonam Kinga
Bolivia Jos Edmundo Paz-Soldn / Vctor Montoya / Renato Prada Oropeza /
Giovanna Rivero Sweet Blood / Juan de Recacoechea American Visa
Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlata Filipovic Zlatas Diary / Saa Stanii How the Soldier
Repairs the Gramophone / Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project / Ivo Andric The
Bridge on the Drina / Mea Selimovi Death and the Dervish; Fortress
Botswana Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice The Lion Children / Bessie Head A
Question of Power / Unity Dow
Brazil Joo Ubaldo Ribeiro House of the Fortunate Buddhas; An Invincible Memory /
Clarice Lispector / Rubem Fonseca / Paulo Freire / Clarice Lispector Agua Viva /
Jorge Amado Jubiab; The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray / Joo Guimares
Rosa / Paulo Coehlo / Machado de Assis Dom Casmurro / Chico Buarque Budapest /
Lygia Fagundes Telles The Marble Dance
Brunei Eva Maria Kershaw Dusun Folktales: A Collection of Eighty-eight Folktales
in the Dusun Language of Brunei with English Translations / Christopher Sun (aka
Sun Tze Yun) Four Kings / Amir Falique The Forlorn Adventure
Bulgaria Elias Canetti The Tongue Set Free / Kalin Terziyski Is there Anybody to
Love You? / Georgi Gospodinov Natural Novel / Kapka Kassabova Street Without a
Name / Anton Donchev Time of Parting / Milen Ruskov Thrown into Nature /
Emiliyan Stanev The Peach Thief / Dimitar Dimov Doomed Souls
Burkina Faso Sarah Bouyain / Frdric Pacr Titinga / Nobert Zongo The Parachute
Drop
Burundi Marie-Therese Toyi Weep Not, Refugee

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Cambodia U Sam Oeur Crossing Three Wildernesses / Alice Pung Unpolished Gem /
Vaddey Ratner In the Shadow of the Banyan / Loung Ung / Haing S Ngor / Bree
Lafreniere and Daran Kravanh Music Through Dark
Cameroon Mongo Beti La Pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba);
Mission to Kala / Beatrice Fri Bime Mystique: a collection of lake myths
Canada Robertson Davies / Nicole Brossard Mauve Desert / Alice Munro / Lauren B
Davis Our Daily Bread / Darcie Friesen Hossack Mennonites Dont Dance / Anne
Michaels Fugitive Pieces / Thomas King Green Grass, Running Water / Elizabeth
Hay Late Nights on Air / Michael Ondaatje In the Skin of a Lion / Frances Itani
Deafening / Joseph Boyden The Three Day Road / Carol Shields / Donna Morrissey /
Timothy Findley Not Wanted on the Voyage / Michael Crummey Galore / Anita Rau
Baudami Tamarind Mem; The Heros Walk
Cape Verde Germano Almeida The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Arajo
Central African Republic Pierre Makombo Bambot Dadas Travels from Ouadda to
Bangui / ed. Polly Strong African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic /
Etienne Goymid
Chad Joseph Brahim Seid Told by Starlight in Chad
Chile Roberto Bolano The Savage Detectives / Alejandro Zambra The Private Lives
of Trees; Bonsai / Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits (trans. Magda Bodin) /
Diamela Eltit / Alberto Fuguet / Mara Luisa Bombal / Luis Seplveda / Antonio
Skrmeta
China Zhu Wen I Love Dollars / Jian Rong Wolf Totem / Ma Jian Stick Out Your
Tongue; Red Dust/ Cao Xuequin Dream of the Red Chamber / Wu Chengen Journey
to the West / Zhang Yueran / Chan Koonchung The Fat Years (trans. Michael Duke) /
Yan Lianke Dream of Ding Village / Mo Yan The Garlic Ballads; Shifu, Youll Do
Anything for a Laugh / Zhu Wen / Zhang Yueran / Han Dong Banished! / Yan Ge /
Xialou Guo Village of Stone / Mian Mian Candy / Wang Shuo Playing for Thrills /
Chen Xiwo I Love My Mum / Xu Zechen / Xue Xinran The Good Women of China;
China Witness; Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother / Hok-Pang Tang &
David Coomler A Time of Ghosts / Huo Da Jade King / Wang Xiaobo
Colombia Evelio Rosero The Armies / Pilar Quintana Tickles in the Tongue / Juan
Gabriel Vasquez The Informers / Eduardo Garcia Aguilar Boulevard of Heroes /
Fernando Vallejo Our Lady of the Assassins / Hector Abad Faciolince / Laura
Restrepo Delirium / Fernando Vallejo / Gabriel Garca Mrquez / James Can Tales
from the Town of Windows / Leila Cobo
Comoros Mohammed Toihiri The Kafir of Karthala
Congo, Democratic Republic of Amba Bongo / Frederick Yamusangie Full Circle
Congo, Republic of Emmanuel Dongala Johnny Mad Dog; Little Boys Come from the
Stars / Sony Labou Tansi The Antipeople
Costa Rica Anacristina Rossi / Carmen Naranjo / Oscar Nunez Olivas Cadence of the
Moon / Anacristina Rossi The Madwoman of Gandoca / ed Barbara Ras Costa Rica:
A Travelers Literary Companion

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Cte dIvoire Bernard Dadi Climbi / Ahmadou Kourouma Allah is not Obliged
Croatia Miroslav Krlea On the Edge of Reason / Dubravka Ugrsic The Ministry of
Pain; In the Jaws of Life / Slavenka Drakulic A Guided Tour through the Museum of
Communism / Marija Juri Zagorka Daughter of the Lotrak; A Stone on the Road;
The Witch of Gric / Antun Gustav Mato / Robert Perii Our Man in Iraq
Cuba Mayra Montero Dancing to Almendra / Ena Lucia Portela One Hundred Bottles
/ Alejo Carpentier / Reinaldo Arenas / Antonio Jos Ponte / Leonardo Padura /
Reinaldo Arenas / Leonardo Padura Fuentes / Virgilio Piera / Jos Lezama Lima /
Severo Sarduy / Guillermo Cabrera Infante / Lydia Cabrera Afro-Cuban Tales
Cyprus Anna Marangou/Andreas Coutas (trans. Xenia Andreou) Famagusta: the Story
of the City / Eve Makis / Christy Lefteri A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible / Panos
Ioannides Gregory and other stories / Elmos Konis Magnette / Nora Nadjarian Ledra
Street
Czech Republic Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude / Hana Demetz The House on
Prague Street / Tom Zmekal Love Letter in Cuneiform Script / Josef kvoreck
The Engineer of Human Souls (trans. Paul Wilson) / Jchym Topol The Devils
Workshop
Denmark Jakob Ejersbo Exile: Book One of the African Trilogy / Morten Ramsland
Dog Head / Christian Jungersen The Exception / Louise Bugge Laermann Constanze
Mozart / Peter Heg Smillas Sense of Snow
Djibouti Abdourahman Waberi In the United States of Africa; Passage of Tears
Dominica Phyllis Shand Allfrey The Orchid House / Elma Napier Black and White
Sands / Jean Rhys / Pupils of Atkinson School The Snake King of the Kalinago /
Alick Lazare Pharcel / Various Home Again / Christborne Shillingford Most Wanted:
street stories from the Caribbean
Dominican Republic Juan Bosch / Arambilet Neguris Secret / Junot Diaz The Brief
Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao / Pedro Mir When they Loved the Communal Land /
Julia Alvarez
East Timor Luis Cardoso The Crossing
Ecuador Jorge Icaza Huasipungo
Egypt Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love; Cairo: My City, Our Revolution / Sonallah
Ibrahim Stealth / Mohamed Mansi Qandil Moon Over Samarqand / Waguih Ghali
Beer in the Snooker Club / Naguib Mahfouz Midaq Alley; The Thief and the Dogs;
Miramar; The Final Hour/ Alaa Al Aswany The Yacoubian Building / Radwa Ashour
/ Nawal El Saadawi / May Telmissany Dunyazad / Salwa Bakr / ed. Marilyn Booth
My Grandmothers Cactus / Gamal al-Ghitani Zayni Barakat / Yusef Zeidan Azazil /
Radwa Ashour Granada; Spectres / Ibrahim Abdel Meguid No One Sleeps in
Alexandria / Bahar Tahir / Muhammad Bisati
El Salvador Horacio Castellanos Moya Senselessness
Equatorial Guinea Juan Toms vila Laurel / Donato Ndongo Shadows of your Black
Memory / Maria Nsue Angue Ekomo
Eritrea Senait Mehari Heart of Fire / Sulaiman Addonia The Consequences of Love

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Estonia Jaan Kross Professor Martens Departure; Treading Air / Viivi Luik The
Beauty of History
Ethiopia Maaza Mengiste Beneath the Lions Gaze / Dinaw Mengestu Children of the
Revolution / Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone
Fiji Peter Thomson Kava in the Blood / Epeli Hauofa Kisses in the Nederends; Tales
of the Tikongs / Mikaele M.K. Yasa Of Baluka and Nibong Palm
Finland Arto Paasilinna The Year of the Hare / Mika Waltari The Egyptian / Johanna
Sinisalo Troll: A Love Story / Sofi Oksanen Purge / Emmi Itranta Memory of Water
France Alain-Fournier The Wanderer / Marie NDiaye Rosie Carpe / Marie
Darrieussecq My Phantom Husband / Colette Chri / Faiza Guene Dreams from the
Endz / Raymond Queneau Exercises in Style (trans. Barbara Wright) / Georges Perec
Life:a Users Manual (trans. David Bellos) / Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Wandering Star / Jean Echenoz Lightning / Delphine de Vigan Underground Time /
Faza Gune Just Like Tomorrow / Alexis Jenni The French Art of War / Laurence
Coss A Novel Bookstore / Hlne Grmillon The Confidant / Jrme Ferrari Where I
Left My Soul / Marguerite Yourcenar / Michel Houellebecq / Andr Schwarz-Bart A
Woman Named Solitude (trans. Ralph Manheim)
Gabon Daniel Mengara Mema
The Gambia Dayo Forster Reading the Ceiling / Dembo Fanta Bojang & Sukai Mbye
Bojang Folk Tales and Fables from The Gambia
Georgia Sana Krasikov One More Year / ed Elizabeth Heighway Contemporary
Georgian Fiction / Cabua Amirejibi Data Tutashkhia / Mikheil Javakhishvili Kvachi /
Otar Chiladze A Man Was Going Down the Road
Germany Jenny Erpenbeck Visitation; The End of Days / Gnter Grass The Tin Drum
/ Christa Wolf / Heinrich Bll The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum / Emine Sevgi
zdamar Bridge of the Golden Horn / Walter Benjamin Illuminations (trans. Harry
Zohn) / Clemens Meyer All the Lights / Christa Wolf Medea / Franz Fhmann / Inka
Parei The Shadow-Boxing Girl / Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin / Jurek Becker Jacob
the Liar / Herman Hesse Siddhartha / Thomas Mann
Ghana Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born / Isaac Neequaye /
Ama Ata Aidoo / Jo de Graft Hanson Amanfis Gold / Gheysika Adombire Agambila
Journey / Various Anansi Stories
Greece Kostas Hatziantoniou The Black Book of Bile; Agrigento / Margarita
Karapanou Kassandra and the Wolf / Panos Karnezis / Nikos Kazantzakis Freedom or
Death; The Last Temptation
Grenada Tobias Buckell / Merle Collins The Ladies are Upstairs
Guatemala Miguel Angel Asturias The President / Rodrigo Rey Rosa / Rigoberta
Mench I, Rigoberta Mench
Guinea Camara Laye The Radiance of the King; The Guardian of the Word
Guinea-Bissau Amilcar Cabral Unity and Struggle
Guyana Oonya Kempadoo Buxton Spice
Haiti Marvin Victor / Lyonel Trouillot Children of Heroes / Dany Laferriere How to
Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired; I am a Japanese Writer / Louis-Philppe

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Dalembert / Edwidge Danticat The Farming of the Bones / Franketienne / Gary Klang
/ Josaphat-Robert Large
Honduras Augusto Monterroso / Guillermo Yuscaran Points of Light / Ramn Amaya
Amador
Hungary Sndor Mrai Embers / Dezs Kosztolnyi Skylark / Zsigmond Mricz Be
Faithful Unto Death / Antal Szerb Journey by Moonlight / Peter Esterharzy Not Art /
Tibor Fischer Under the Frog / Antal Szerb The Pendragon Legend / Lszl
Krasznahorkai War and War (trans. George Szirtes) / Ferenc Karinthy Metropole /
Imre Kertsz Fatelessness / Albert Wass / Rejt Jen / Pter Ndas A Book of
Memories; Parallel Stories / Ivn Mndy On the Balcony / Ferenc Molnr The Paul
Street Boys
Iceland Arnaldur Indridason Jar City / Halldr Laxness The Atom Station / feigur
Sigursson / Gyrir Eliasson Stone Tree / Auur A lafsdttir The Greenhouse
India Suketu Mehta Maximum City / Rohinton Mistry Family Matters; A Fine
Balance / Premchand / Rahul Bhattacharya The Sly Company of People who Care /
Amitav Ghosh River of Smoke / Tabish Khair The Thing about Thugs / Aman Sathi
A Free Man / Sunetra Gupta / Omair Ahmad Jimmy the Terrorist / UR
Ananthamurthy Bharathipura / Chandrakanta A Street in Srinagar / Siddharth
Chowdhury Day Scholar / Kishwar Desai Witness the Night / Namita Devidayal
Aftertaste / Manu Joseph Serious Men / Kavery Nambisan: The Story that Must Not
Be Told / Kalpish Ratna The Quarantine Papers / Uppamanyu Chattergee Way to go /
Chandrahas Choudhury Arzee the Dwarf / Manju Kapur The Immigrant / Neel
Mukherjee The Immigrant / Mani Sankar Mukherji The Middleman / I. Allan Sealy
The Trotter Nama / Shashi Warrier / Aniruddha Bahal / Vikram Chandra / M T
Vasudevan Nair Mist; The Legacy; The Demon Seed; Second Turn; Kaalam / Asha
Poorna Devi / Ruskin Bond / Gurcharan Das India Unbound / Mark Tully / Shashi
Tharoor The Great Indian Novel / Mahasweta Devi Imaginary Maps; Bitter Soil;
Hajar Churashir Maa / RK Narayan Malgudi Days / Jhaverchand Meghani / Kushwant
Singh Train to Pakistan; The Portrait of a Lady / ed Rakesh Khanna The Blaft
Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction / Shivaji Sawant Mrityunjay / OV Vijayan /
Govardhanram Tripathi Saraswatichandra / Satyajit Ray Feluda series / Sunil
Gangopadhyay Those Days / Rabindranath Tagore / Sashi Deshpande / Kiran
Nagarkar Cuckold; Seven Sixes are Forty-Three / Charu Nivedita Zero Degree /
Tarun Tejpal Alchemy of Desire / Manoshi Bhattacharya Chittagong Summer of 1930
/ Sankar Chowringhee / Shanta Gokhale Crowfall / Maitreyi Devi Na Hanyate / Aruna
Chakrabarti Srikanta / Ruskin Bond / Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Chemmeen / Mulk
Raj Anand Untouchable / Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
Indonesia Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya (Romo Mangun) Burung-Burung Manyar;
Rara Mendut; Durga/Umayi / Ayu Utami / Mochtar Lubis / Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth of Mankind / Dewi Lestari Supernova / Agustinus Wibowo Blanket of
Dust (translation sought) / Andrea Hirata The Rainbow Troops

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Iran Akbar Golrang Parpin Flowers /Nasrin Alavi We are Iran / Shahrnush Parsipur
Touba and the Meaning of Night / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi The Colonel (trans. Tom
Patterdale) / Adnan-Ahmed
Iraq Samuel Shimon An Iraqi in Paris / Ali Bader The Tobacco Keeper / Hassan
Blasim The Madman of Freedom Square / Rodaan Al Galidi Thirsty River / Samira
Al-Mana / Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq / A Alwan The Sheikhs Detective / Fuad alTakarli The Long Way Back
Ireland James Joyce Ulysses / Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent / William Trevor /
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture / Flann OBrien The Third Policeman; At SwimTwo-Birds
Israel David Grossman Falling Out of Time; To the End of the Land; Be My Knife /
Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness (trans. Nicholas de Lange) / Savyon Liebrecht
/ AB Yehoshua / Ronit Matalon / Alex Epstein / Aharon Appelfeld Blooms of
Darkness / Sara Shilo The Falafel King is Dead / Etgar Keret / Yehoshua Kenaz
Italy Roberto Saviano Zero Zero Zero; Gomorrah / Leonardo Sciascia The Day of the
Owl (trans. Archibald Colquhoun) / Fabio Geda In the Sea there are Crocodiles (trans.
Howard Curtis) / Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter; The Days of Abandonment; My
Brilliant Friend / Antonio Tabucchi Pereira Maintains / Diego Marani New Finnish
Grammar / Alessandro Baricco Ocean Sea; Mr Gwyn / Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa The Leopard / Alessandro Manzoni / Luigi Pirandello / Primo Levi / Italo
Svevo / Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe
Jamaica Kei Miller / Lindsay Barrett / Margaret Cezair-Thompson The Pirates
Daughter / Colin Channer / Brian Meeks Paint the Town Red / Patricia Powell /
Victor Stafford Reid / Vanessa Spence / Marlon James The Book of Night Women;
John Crows Devil
Japan Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore; 1Q84 / Natsume Sseki The Miner; I am
a Cat/ Michitsuna no Haha (Michitsunas mother) The Kagero Diary (trans. Sonja
Arntzen) / Yukio Mishima Death in Midsummer (trans. Seidensticker, Keene, Morris,
Sargent) / Hiromi Kawakami Manazuru / Shiba Ryotaro / Yoko Ogawa / Yoriko
Shono / Yumiko Kurahashi / Yoko Tawada / Yasunari Kawabata Snow Country
Jordan Ibrahim Nasrallah Time of White Horses / Abdulrahman Munif Cities of Salt
Kazakhstan Rollan Seisenbayev The Day the World Collapsed / Mukhamet
Shayakhmetov The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin /
Nursultan Nazarbayev My Life, My Times and the Future / Ilyas Esenberlin Nomads /
Mukhtar Auezov Abai (translation sought)
Kenya Binyavanga Wainaina One Day I Will Write About This Place / Ngg wa
Thiongo A Grain of Wheat; Wizard of the Crow / Philo Ikonya Kenya, Will You
Marry Me? / NK Read Children of Saba
Kiribati Teweiariki Teaero Waa in Storms
Kuwait Saif Marzooq al-Shamlan Pearling in the Arabian Gulf / Jehan S Rajab
Invasion Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni Women in Kuwait / Danderma The Chronicles of
Dathra, a Dowdy Girl from Kuwait

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Kyrgyzstan Chinghiz Aitmatov Jamilia; The Place of the Skull; Farewell Gulsary;
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years; Short Novels; White Steamship; Tales of
the Mountains and Steppes; Cranes Fly Early;Time to Speak; Mother Earth and Other
Stories
Laos Outhine Bounyavong Mothers Beloved
Latvia David Bezmozgis The Free World / Agate Nesaule A Woman in Amber / Inga
Zolude A Solace for Adams Tree / Sandra Kalniete With Dance Shoes in Siberian
Snows / Janis Klidzejs The Child of Man (translation sought)
Lebanon Joumana Haddad I Killed Scheherazade / Elias Khoury Yalo; Gate of the
Sun / Hanan al-Shaykh One Thousand and One Nights; The Locust and the Bird /
Jabbour Douhaiy June Rain / Alexandra Chreiteh Always Coca-Cola / Iman
Humaydan Wild Mulberries / Amin Maalouf Samarkand; Leo the African / Rashid alDaif Dear Mr Kawabata / Amin al Rihani / Gibran Khalil Gibran
Lesotho Thomas Mofolo Chaka / AS Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boys Moon; The World
and the Cattle / Morabo Morojele How We Buried Puso / Various Basali! Stories by
and about women in Lesotho
Liberia Helene Cooper The House at Sugar Beach / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf This Child
Will Be Great / Mardia Stone Konkai: Living Between Two Worlds
Libya Hisham Matar In the Country of Men; Anatomy of a Disappearance / Ibrahim
Al-Khoni Anubius: A Desert Novel; Gold Dust; The Animists; The Bleeding of the
Stone; The Puppet; The Seven Veils of Seth / Ahmed Fagi Homeless Rats; 30 Short
Stories
Liechtenstein Iren Nigg / Stefan Sprenger / Heinrich Harrer Seven Years in Tibet / CC
Bergius The Noble Forger
Lithuania Laura Sintija erniauskait / Various No Men, No Cry / Ricardas Gavelis
Vilnius Poker / Jonas Mekas / Juozas Baltusis / Andrius Tapinas Hour of the Wolf /
Balys Sruoga Forest of the Gods / Antanas kma The White Shroud / Laimonas
Briedis Vilnius: City of Strangers
Luxembourg Jean Back Amateur / Robi Gottlieb-Cahen Minute Stories
Macedonia Rumena Buarovska Scribbles; Wisdom Tooth / Goce Smilevski Sigmund
Freuds Sister; Conversation with Spinoza / Elizabeta Bakovska On the way to
Damascus
Madagascar ed. Jacques Bourgeacq and Liliane Ramarosoa Voices from Madagascar
Malawi Samson Kambalu The Jive Talker / Aubrey Kachingwe No Easy Task
Malaysia Shih-Li Kow Ripples and Other Stories / A Samad Said / Adibah Amin This
End of The Rainbow / Dina Zaman King of the Sea
Maldives Abdullah Sadiq Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu
Mali Amadou Hampt B The Strange Destiny of Wangrin / Yambo Ouloguem
Bound to Violence
Malta Immanuel Mifsud Happy Weekend / Pierre Mejlak / Simon Bartolo / Oliver
Friggieri / Herbert Ganado My Century / Trevor Zahra / Kilin (Mikiel Spiteri)
Marshall Islands Ed Daniel Kelin Marshall Islands Legends and Stories / Marshallese
school students (the Unbound Bookmaker Project) The Important Book about Majuro

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/ Jack Niedenthal For the Good of Mankind / Bob Barclay In Melal: A Novel of the
Pacific / Dirk R Spennemann Bwebwenatoon etto: a collection of Marshallese legends
and traditions
Mauritania Mohamed Bouya Bamba Angels of Mauritania and the Curse of the
Language
Mauritius Anand Mulloo Watch Them Go Down / Barlen Pyamootoo Benares
Mexico Juan Pablo Villalobos Down the Rabbit Hole / Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of
Solitude (trans. Lysander Kemp) / Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate (trans.
Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen) / Martn Solares The Black Minutes /
Carlos Fuentes / Jorge Volpi / Rosario Castellanos / Carmen Boullosa / Mario Bellatn
/ Elena Garro / Juan Rulfo / Elena Poniatowska / Sergio Pitol / Juan Rulfo Pedro
Paramo
Micronesia, Federated States of Luelen Bernart The Book of Luelen
Moldova Ion Drutse Moldavian Autumn; The Story of an Ant / Vladimir Lorchenkov
The Good Life Elsewhere
Monaco ed. Richard and Danae Projetti Grace Kelly: Princesse du Cinema
Mongolia Galsan Tschinag The Blue Sky
Montenegro Petar II Petrovi-Njego The Mountain Wreath / Andrej Nikolaidis /
Xenia Popovich A Lullaby for No Mans Wolf
Morocco Diss Chrabi Heirs to the Past; Le Pass Simple (The Simple Past) / Tahar
Ben Jelloun The Sacred Night; The Sand Child; This Blinding Absence of Light
(trans. Linda Coverdale); A Palace in the Old Village (trans. Linda Coverdale) /
Bensalem Himmich The Polymath / Mohammed Achaari The Arch and the Butterfly /
Fatima Mernissi / Muhammad Shukri For Bread Alone / Muhammad Barrada The
Game of Forgetting
Mozambique Mia Couto The Sleepwalking Land; Under the Frangipani / Paulina
Chiziane Niketche / Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa Ualalapi / Luis Bernardo Honwana We
Killed Mangy Dog
Myanmar Cho Tu Zaw / Ma Thida / Nu Nu Yi Inwa Smile as they Bow
Namibia Joseph Diescho Troubled Waters / Neshani Andreas The Purple Violet of
Oshaantu
Nauru Timothy Detudamo Legends, Traditions and Tales of Nauru / Ben Bam
Solomon et al Stories from Nauru
Nepal Samrat Upadhyay Buddhas Orphans / Ajit Baral The Lazy Conman and Other
Stories / Parijat Blue Mimosa / Jagadish Ghimire Antarman ko yatra
Netherlands Harry Mulisch The Discovery of Heaven / Cees Noteboom Lost
Paradise; All Souls Day; Rituals / Tessa de Loo / Gerbrand Bakker The Twin / Kader
Abdolah The House of the Mosque / Abdelkader Benali / Jan van Mersbergen
Tomorrow Pamplona / Arthur Japin The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi / Tommy
Wieringa Little Caesar / Bernlef Out of Mind / Jan Wolkers Turkish Delight / WF
Hermans The Darkroom of Damocles / Arnon Grunberg Tirza; Skin and Hair / Nescio
Amsterdam Stories / Gerard Reve De avonden (translation sought)

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New Zealand Charlotte Grimshaw Singularity / Maurice Shadbolt Season of the Jew /
Keri Hulme The Bone People / Lloyd Jones Mr Pip / Alan Duff Once Were Warriors /
Witi Ihimaera Tangi / Janet Frame / Patricia Grace Potiki / Eleanor Catton The
Luminaries
Nicaragua Gioconda Belli Infinity in the Palm of her Hand
Niger recounted by Nouhou Malio The Epic of Askia Mohammed
Nigeria Wole Soyinka The Interpreters; Season of Anomy / Toyin Falola A Mouth
Sweeter than Salt / Lola Shoneyin The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives /
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah; Half of a Yellow Sun / Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
North Korea Ri In Mo My Life and Faith / Kye Wol Hyang
Norway Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle / Per Petterson To Siberia; Out Stealing
Horses (trans. Ann Born) / Knut Hamsun Hunger / Lars Saabye Christensen The Half
Brother / Jan Wiese The Naked Madonna / Linn Ullmann Before You Sleep / Agnar
Mykle Lasso Round the Moon / Gerd Brantenberg Egalias Daughters / Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter (trans. Tiina Nunnally)
Oman Ibrahim Farghali Smiles of Saints / Khadija bint Alawi Al-Dhahab My
Grandmothers Stories / Unni Wikan Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman /
Abdulaziz Al Farsi Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs
Pakistan Mohsin Hamid Moth Smoke; The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Sara Suleri
Meatless Days / Bapsi Sidhwa Ice Candy Man; An American Brat; The Pakistani
Bride/ Bina Shah A Season for Martyrs; Slum Child / Jamil Ahmad The Wandering
Falcon / Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders / HM Naqvi Home
Boy / Uzma Aslam Khan / Musharraf Ali Farooqi The Story of a Widow; Between
Clay and Dust / Ali Sethi The Wish Maker / Kamila Shamsie Kartography; Broken
Verses; Burnt Shadows / Mohammed Hanif
Palau Susan Kloulechad Spirits Tides
Palestine Ibtisam Barakat Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood / Sahar Khalifeh
Wild Thorns / Susan Abulhawa Mornings in Jenin / Mahmoud Shukair Mordechais
Moustache and his Wifes Cats, and Other Stories
Panama Juan David Morgan The Golden Horse / Carlos Russell
Papua New Guinea Russell Soaba Maiba / Regis Stella Gutsini Posa; Mata Sara /
Russell Soaba Maiba / Bernard Narokobi Two Seasons / Vincent Eri The Crocodile /
Nash Sorariba / Michael Somare Sana /
Paraguay Augusto Roa Bastos The Prosecutor
Peru Mario Vargas Llosa Death in the Andes; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (trans.
Ursule Molinaro, Hedwig Rappolt); The Storyteller (trans. Helen Lane) / Jaime Bayly
/ Jos Mara Arguedas / Santiago Roncagliolo
Philippines Charlson Ong / Joel Toledo / Miguel Syjuco Illustrado / F Sionil Jos /
Jessica Hagedorn Dogeaters / Bino Realuyo The Umbrella Country / Ninotchka Rosca
State of War / Azucena Grajo Uranza Bamboo in the Wind / Marivi Soliven The
Mango Bride

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Poland Stanislaw Lem / Olga Tokarczuk Primeval and Other Times; House of Day,
House of Night / Pawel Huelle Cold Sea Tales; Castorp; The Last Supper; Mercedes
Benz/ Zygmunt Miloszewski Entanglement; A Grain of Truth/ Witold Gombrowicz
Pornografia / Wiesaw Myliwski Stone upon Stone / Magdalena Tulli In Red /
Dorota Maslowska Snow White and Russian Red / Marek Krajewski The Eberhard
Mock books / Grazyna Plebanek Illegal Liaisons / Antoni Libera Madame / Andrzej
Stasiuk On the Road to Babadag; Dukla; Fado; Nine; White Raven / Stefan Chwin
Death in Danzig / Michal Witkowski Lovetown / Jacek Hugo-Bader White Fever /
Wojciech Jagielski The Night Wanderers / Kazimierz Moczarski Conversations with
an Executioner / Wojciech Tochman Like Eating a Stone
Portugal Eca de Queiroz The Mandarin and Other Stories / Jos Saramago Blindness;
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ /
Fernando Pessoa / Pero Vaz de Caminha Carta de Pro Vaz de Caminha / Agustina
Bessa-Lus
Qatar Mohammed Ali Victory over Abu Derya: The Quest for Pearls in the Arabian
Gulf / Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud The Corsair
Romania Herta Mller The Passport / Filip and Matei Florian The Baiut Alley Lads /
Mircea Cartarescu / Mircea Eliade
Russia Alina Bronsky The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine / Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (trans. Ralph Parker) / Vladimir
Sorokin Day of the Oprichnik / Mikhail Lermontov A Hero of Our Time / Mikhail
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (trans. Michael Glenny) / Roman Senchin
MINUS / Alan Cherchesov Requiem for the Living /Off the Beaten Tracks: Stories by
Russian Hitchhikers / Oleg Zaionchkovski Happiness is Possible / PD Ouspensky
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin / Alan Cherchesov Requiem for the Living / Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Rwanda Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be
Killed with our Families / Jean Hatzfeld Into the Quick of Life / Barassa Teta / John
Rusimbi By the Time She Returned / Gilbert Gatore The Past Ahead
Saint Kitts and Nevis Caryl Phillips / Bertram Roach Only God Can Make a Tree
Saint Lucia Derek Walcott Omeros / Garth St Omer A Room on the Hill; Shades of
Grey; Nor Any Country; J-, Black Bam and the Masqueraders / Dr Earl Long
Consolation; Voices from a Drum / McDonald Dixon Season of Mist / Michael
Aubertin Neg Maron
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines H Nigel Thomas Spirits in the Dark; Behind the
Face of Winter; Return to Arcadia / George Thomas Ruler in Hairoona / Cecil
Browne The Moon is Following Me / Richard Byron-Cox Were Mamas Tears in
Vain? / Marcia King-Gamble / Trish St Hill / Nickie Williams /
Samoa Misa Telefoni Retzlaff Love and Money / Lani Wendt Young Telesa: The
Covenant Keeper / Albert Wendt The Adventures of Vela; Sons for the Return Home;
Pouliuli / Sia Figiel Where We Once Belonged; The Girl in the Moon Circle; They
Who do not Grieve
San Marino Giuseppe Rossi The Republic of San Marino

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Sao Tome and Principe Olinda Beja The Shepherds House


Saudi Arabia Rajaa Al-Sanea Girls of Riyadh / Raja Alem My Thousand and One
Nights: A Novel of Mecca / Abdul Rahman Munif Endings; Cities of Salt; The
Trench; Variations on Night and Day / ed. Abubaker Bagader Voices of Change /
Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al Gosaibi
Senegal Mariama B So Long a Letter / Ken Bugul Riwan ou Le Chemin de Sable
(Riwan or The Path of Sand)
Serbia Milos Crnjanski A Novel About London; Migrations / Danilo Ki / David
Albahari Bait / Milorad Pavic Dictionary of the Khazars / Srdjan Valjarevic Lake
Como / Zoran ivkovi
Seychelles Glynn Burridge Voices / William Travis Beyond the Reefs; Shark for Sale
Sierra Leone Aminatta Forna The Memory of Love / Ishmael Beah A Long Way
Gone
Singapore Su-Chen Christine Lim Fistful of Colours
Slovakia Pavol Rankov / Peter Pianek Rivers of Babylon / Daniela Kapitnov
Samko Tales Cemetery Book
Slovenia Slavoj iek / Nataa Kramberger Heaven in a Blackberry Bush, a Novel in
Stories / Andrej Blatnik You do Understand / Andrej Skubic Fuine Blues / Miha
Mazzini The German Lottery / Vladimir Bartol Alamut / Luka Novak The Golden
Shower or What Men Want
Solomon Islands John Saunana The Alternative / ed. Alice Aruheeta Pollard and
Marilyn J. Waring Being the First: Storis Blong Oloketa Mere lo Solomon Aelan /
Celo Kulagoe
Somalia Nuruddin Farah Secrets; Sweet and Sour Milk
South Africa Gavin Evans Dancing Shoes is Dead / Ingrid Winterbach The Book of
Happenstance / Damon Galgut The Quarry / Kgebetli Moele The Book of the Dead /
Diane Awerbuck Cabin Fever / Siphiwo Mahala African Delights / Henrietta RoseInnes Nineveh / Ivan Vladislavic The Loss Library / Nelson Mandela The Long Walk
to Freedom / Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country / Bryce Courtenay The Power of
One / Dalene Matthee Fielas Child; Circles in the Forest
South Korea Hwang Sok-yong The Guest; The Old Garden / Lee Hye-Kyung A
House on the Road / Shin Kyung-Sook Please Look After Mom
South Sudan Julia Duany To Forgive is Divine Not Human
Spain Miguel Delibes Five Hours with Mario / Javier Cercas Soldiers of Salamis; The
Anatomy of a Moment (trans. Anne McClean) / Alberto Mendez The Blind
Sunflowers / Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (trans. Edith Grossman) / Carlos Ruiz
Zafon The Shadow of the Wind / Enrique Vila-Matas Dublinesque / Juan Goytisolo
Exiled from Almost Everywhere / Antonio Muoz Molina Sefarad / Javier Maras
The Infatuations
Sri Lanka Romesh Gunesekera Reef / Carl Muller The Jam Fruit Tree / Shehan
Karunatilaka Chinaman / Ru Freeman A Disobedient Girl / Siri Gunasinghe The
Shadow / Kathleen Jayawardena Circles of Fire / S Ponnuthurai Ritual / Sunethra
Rajakarunanayake Metta / Keerthi Welisarage The Doomed / Martin Wickramasinghe

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Sudan Amir Tag Elsir The Grub Hunter / Tarek Eltayeb The Palm House / Tayeb
Salih Season of Migration to the North / Leila Aboulela Minaret
Suriname Cynthia Mcleod The Cost of Sugar; The Free Negress
Swaziland Sarah Mkhonza Weeding the Flowerbeds
Sweden Henning Mankell Chronicler of the Winds / Per Olov Enquist The March of
the Musicians (trans. Joan Tate); The Story of Blanche and Marie / Jens Lapidus Easy
Money / Karin Altenberg Island of Wings / Jonas Hassen Khemiri Montecore /
Hjalmar Soderberg Doctor Glas / Lotta Lotass / Amelie Posse / John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In / Jonas Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out
of the Window and Disappeared
Switzerland Friedrich Drrenmatt The Pledge / Hansjrg Schertenlieb A Happy Man /
Gottfried Keller A Village Romeo and Juliet / Annemarie Schwarzenbach / Friedrich
Glauser In Mattos Realm / Peter Bichsel Childrens Stories / Aglaja Veteranyi Why
the Child is Cooking in the Polenta / Hugo Loetscher Noah / Gerhard Meier Isle of the
Dead
Syria Fadi Azzam Sarmada / Zakaria Tamer Breaking Knees / Ghadda Samman /
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights / Hassan Bahri / Hanna Mina Sun on a Cloudy Day /
Khaled Khalifa In Praise of Hatred
Taiwan Su Wei-chen / Pai Hsien-yung Crystal Boys
Tajikistan Andrei Volos Hurramabad / Sadriddin Aini The Sands of Oxus: Boyhood
Reminiscences of Sadriddin Aini
Tanzania Muhammed Said Abdulla / Abdulrazak Gurnah Desertion / Edwin Semzaba
/ Ismael Mbise Blood on Our Land / Agoro Anduru / Adam Shafi / Bethsaida Orphan
Girls Secondary School Their Voices, Their Stories / Sophia Mustafa Broken Reed /
Tengio Urrio The Girl from Uganda / S Ndunguru The Lion of Yola / Ronny Mintjens
More Than a Game
Thailand Chart Korbjitti The Judgement; No Way Out; Time; Mad Dogs & Co /
Kukrit Pramoj / Kampoon Boontawee A Child of the Northeast
Togo Jeanette D Ahonsou / Pyabelo Chaold Kouly / Tt-Michel Kpomassie An
African in Greenland
Tonga Joshua Taumoefolau A Providence of War / Epeli Hauofa Tales of the
Tikongs
Trinidad and Tobago VS Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas; In a Free State / Monique
Roffey The White Woman on the Green Bicycle / Robert Antoni / Keith Jardim Near
Open Water / Earl Lovelace Is Just a Movie / Vahni Capildeo One Scattered Skeleton
/ Errol John Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Tunisia Habib Selmi The Scents of Marie-Claire / Abdelwahab Meddeb Talismano /
Hassouna Mosbahi A Tunisian Tale / Ali Douagi / Mahmoud Messadi
Turkey Orhan Pamuk Snow / Latife Tekin Dear Shameless Death / Elif Shafak The
Forty Rules of Love / Erendiz Atasu The Other Side of the Mountain / Murathan
Mungan / Orhan Kemal / Halide Edip Advar / Reat Nuri Gntekin / Refik Halit
Karay / Sabahattin Ali / Yaar Kemal / Kemal Tahir / Fakir Baykurt / Sait Faik

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Abasyank / Gneli Gn On the Road to Baghdad / Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar The


Time Regulation Institute
Turkmenistan John Kropf Unknown Sands / Ak Welsapar The Tale of Aypi; Cobra
Tuvalu Various Tuvalu: A history
Uganda Okot pBitek Song of Lawino / Moses Isegawa Abyssinian Chronicles;
Snakepit / Doreen Baingan Tropical Fish: Stories Out Of Entebbe / Jennifer
Nansubuga Makumbi Kintu / Timothy Wangusa Upon This Mountain / Julius
Ocwinyo Fate of the Banished; The Unfulilled Dream; Footprints of the Outsider /
Goretti Kyomuhendo The First Daughter; Waiting; Secrets No More / Glaydah
Namukasa Voice of Dream
Ukraine Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin / Theodore Odrach Wave of Terror /
Nikolai Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
United Arab Emirates Qais Sedki Gold Ring / Maha Gargash The Sand Fish / Ameera
Al Hakawati Desperate in Dubai / Mohammad Al Murr The Wink of the Mona Lisa;
Dubai Tales
United Kingdom Angus MacLellan Stories from South Uist / Christina Hall To the
Edge of the Sea / Deborah Levy Swimming Home / Sin Melangell Dafydd Y
Trydydd Peth / Vanessa Gebbie / Caryl Lewis Martha, Jack and Shanco / Virginia
Woolf / Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day / JK Rowling
United States of America Neil Gaiman American Gods / Sean Murphy The Time of
New Weather / Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth / Michael Shaara The Killer
Angels / Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible / Cormac Mccarthy All the Pretty
Horses / Eliot Weinberger / Jhumpa Lahiri / Amy Tan / Sandra Cisneros / Tomas
Pynchon/ Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Harriette Arnow The
Dollmaker
Uruguay Juan Carlos Onetti The Shipyard; The Pit and Tonight / Felisberto
Hernndez Lands of Memory / Rafael Courtoisie / Cristina Peri Rossi /Eduardo
Galeano / Mario Benedetti / Horacio Quiroga The Decapitated Chicken
Uzbekistan Sabit Madaliev / Hamid Ismailov The Railway / Bibish The Dancer from
Khiva: One Muslim Womans Quest for Freedom
Vanuatu Sethy Regenvau Laef Blong Mi: From Village to Nation
Vatican City Luigi Marinello & The Millenari Shroud of Secrecy of Gone with the
Wind in the Vatican
Venezuela Francisco Suniaga / Alberto Barrera Tyszka The Sickness / Ana Teresa
Torres / Romulo Gallegos / Federico Vegas Falke
Vietnam Phan Hon Nhien The Joker; Cold Eyes; Left Wing / Bao Ninh The Sorrow
of War (trans. Frank Palmos, Phan Thanh Hao) / Nguyen Nhat Anh / Nguyen Ngoc
Thuan Open the Window, Eyes Closed
Yemen Wajdi al-Ahdal A Land without Jasmine / Zayd Mutee Dammaj The Hostage
Zambia Gaile Parkin Baking Cakes in Kigali / Field Ruwe / Binwell Sinyangwe A
Cowrie of Hope
Zimbabwe Petinah Gappah An Elegy for Easterly / Tsitsi Dangarembga Nervous
Conditions / Brian Chikwava Harare North / Tendai Huchu The Hairdresser of Harare

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/ Shimmer Chinodya Chioniso and Other Stories / Stephen Lungu Out of the Black
Shadows / Christopher Mlalazi They are Coming; Running with Mother

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