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Translated Lit Genre Challenge
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Diane's Challenge
1. Classic Fiction: Nana by Émile Zola. Original language: French.
Original title: Nana.
Translated by George Holden.
2. Young Adult: A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami.Original language: German.
Original title: Eine Hand voller Sterne.
Translated by Rika Lessker.
Schami's earlier novels were written in Arabic. His more recent novels are written in German.
3. Literary Fiction: The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela.Original language: Spanish.
Original title: Los de Abajo.
Translated by: Enrique Munguía.
Read another book for Classic Fiction: The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary.Original language: French
Original title: Les Racines du Ciel
Translator: Jonathan Griffin
4. Wildcard - Speculative Fiction: In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi.Original language: French
Original title: Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique
Translators: David and Nicole Ball
Read another for Classic Fiction: The Red and the Black by Stendhal.Original language: French
Original title: Le Rouge et le Noir
Translator: Roger Gard
Read another for Classic fiction: Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier.Original language: French
Original Title: La Peur
Translator: Imrie Malcolm
Read another for Classic or Literary Fiction. There was a lot of poetry in it, but I don't know if there is enough to count it as poetry.Fruits of the Earth by André Gide.
Original language: French
Original Title: Les nourritures terrestres
Translator: Dorothy Bussy
Another for classic fiction: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert.Original language: French
Original title: Un cœur simple
Translator: Arthur McDowall
Another for literary fiction: The Cathedral by Oles Honchar.Original language: Ukrainian
Original title: Собор
Translators: Yuri Tkach and Leonid Rudnytzky
5. Romance: Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali. 30 people shelved it as "Romance", so I'm going to run with it.Original language: Turkish
Original title: Kürk Mantolu Madonna
Translators: Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe
Another for literary fiction: Deep River by Shūsaku Endō.Original language: Japanese
Original title: 深い河
Translator: Van C. Gessel
6. Memoir/Autobiography: Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary.Original language: French
Original title: La promesse de l'aube
Translator: John M. Beach
7. Poetry/Epics: In Poems by Milan RúfusOriginal language: Slovak
Original title: Ako stopy v snehu
Translator: Allan J. Svevo
I almost forgot this one:8. Folklore: Georgian Folk Tales. The original stories came from published works by Aleksandr Antonovich Tsagareli and Lado Aghniashvili. The stories were translated and compiled into an English language book by Marjory Wardrop.
Original language: Georgian
Original title: N/A
Translator: Marjory Wardrop
Another for historical fiction:Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović.
Original language: Bosnian
Original title: Derviš i smrt
Translators: Bogdan Rakić and Stephen M. Dickey
9. Short Stories: Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat.Original language: Arabic
Original title: Couldn't find
Translator: Denys Johnson-Davies
10. Contemporary Fiction: All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom.Original language: Dutch
Original title: Allerzielen
Translator: Susan Massotty
11. Fantasy: My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci.Original language: Finnish
Original title: Kissani Jugoslavia
Translator: David Hackston
Another one that works for either historical fiction of fantasy: The Blue Fox by Sjón.Original language: Icelandic
Original title: Skugga-Baldur
Translator: Victoria Cribb
That's quite a variety of languages you've found for this challenge!
Another one for short stories: The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih.Original language: Arabic
Original title: عرس الزين ('Urs al-Zayn: Sab' qisas)
Translator: Denys Johnson-Davies
Another for literary fiction: A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmač.Original title: Pomladni dan
Original language: Slovenian
Translator: Fanny S. Copeland
Mome_Rath wrote: "That's quite a variety of languages you've found for this challenge!"I wish I was better at reading different genres than different languages!
12. History: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich.Original title: Чернобыльская молитва: Хроника будущего
Original language: Russian
Translator: Keith Gessen
Another historical fiction: The Railway by Hamid Ismailov.Original title: Железная дорога
Original language: Russian
Translator: Robert Chandler
13. Non-fiction: Life of Christ by Giovanni Papini.Original title: Storia di Cristo
Original language: Italian
Translator: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I found it interesting that children's book author and educational reformer Dorothy Canfield Fisher translated this book.
Another historical fiction: The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition by Miguel Delibes.Original title: El hereje
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Alfred MacAdam
14. Thriller/Suspense: I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti.Original title: Io non ho paura
Original language: Italian
Translator: Jonathan Hunt
Another for short stories: Tigers on the Tenth Day and Other Stories by Zakaria Tamer.Original title: النمور في اليوم العاشر
Original language: Arabic
Translator: Denys Johnson-Davies
Another for literary fiction: The Case Worker by George Konrád.Original title: A látogató
Original language: Hungarian
Translator: Paul Aston
Another for classics: Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola.Original title: Thérèse Raquin
Original language: French
Translator: Adam Thorpe
Another for short stories: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.Original title: キッチン
Original language: Japanese
Translator: Megan Backus
Another for classic fiction: The Manila Rope by Veijo Meri.Original title: Manillaköysi
Original language: Finnish
Translator: John McGahern and Annikki Laaksi
Another for Wild Card (Plays): A Tempest by Aimé Césaire.Original title: Une tempête
Original language: French
Translator: Richard Miller
Another for literary fiction: Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig.Original title: El beso de la mujer araña
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Thomas Colchie
Another for history: The Republic of San Marino: The Oldest and Smallest Republic of the World by Giuseppe RossiOriginal title: La Repubblica di San Marino
Original language: Italian
Translator: ?
Another for literary/historical fiction: Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis.Original title: Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Original language: Portuguese
Translator: William L. Grossman
Another for literary fiction: The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck.Original title: De ontaarde slapers
Original language: Flemish
Translator: R.B. Powell
15. Mystery/Crime: Out by Natsuo Kirino.Original title: アウト (Out)
Original language: Japanese
Translator: Stephen Snyder
Another for classic fiction: Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal.Original title: Ostře sledované vlaky
Original language: Czech
Translator: Edith Pargeter
Another for literary fiction: Children of the New World by Assia Djebar.Original title: Les enfants du nouveau monde
Original language: French
Translator: Marjolijn De Jager
Another for mythology: Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.Original title: 西遊記
Original language: Chinese
Translator: Arthur Waley
Another for literary fiction: Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga.Original title: Notre-Dame du Nil
Original language: French
Translator: Melanie L. Mauthner
Another for literary fiction: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares.Original title: La invención de Morel
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Ruth L.C. Simms
Another for classics: The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti.Original title: Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
Original language: French
Translator: Gerald Moore
Another for classics: Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.Original title: Обломов
Original language: Russian
Translator: Stephen Pearl
Another for classics: By the Open Sea by August Strindberg.Original title: I havsbandet
Original language: Swedish
Translator: Mary Sandbach
Another for short stories: Forever a Stranger and Other Stories by Hella S. Haasse.Original title: Oeroeg
Original language: Dutch
Translator: Margaret M. Alibasah
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