Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Translated Books Completed in 2024:

Chinese:
An Empty Room by Mu Xin, tr. by Toming Jun Liu.

French:
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette, tr. by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. by Lara Vergnaud.
Standing Heavy by Gauz, tr. by Frank Wynne.

German:
Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions by Ror Wolf, tr. by Jennifer Marquart.

Hungarian:
Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, tr. by Ottilie Mulzet.

Italian:
I Am God by Giacomo Sartori, tr. by Frederika Randall.

Japanese:
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada, tr. by David Boyd.
Hellsing, Vol. 1 by Kohta Hirano, tr. by Duane Johnson.
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto, tr. by Asa Yoneda.
Dandadan, Vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu, tr. by Kumar Sivasubramanian.
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo, tr. by Casey Loe.
Rooster Fighter, Vol. 1 by Shu Sakuratani, tr. by Jonah Mayahara-Miller.
Spy x Family, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Endo, tr. by Casey Loe.
Spy x Family, Vol. 3 by Tatsuya Endo, tr. by Casey Loe.
Spy x Family, Vol. 4 by Tatsuya Endo, tr. by Casey Loe.
Assassination Classroom, Vol. 01 by Yūsei Matsui, tr. by Tetsuichiro Miyaki.
Dai Dark, Vol. 1 by Q. Hayashida, tr. by Casey Lucas.

Korean:
The Story of Hong Gildong by Unknown, tr. by Minsoo Kang.

Norwegian:
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad, tr. by Sverre Lyngstad.

Portuguese:
Role Play by Clara Drummond, tr. by Daniel Hahn.
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by José Eduardo Agualusa, tr. by Daniel Hahn.
Eden-Brazil by Moacyr Scliar, tr. by Malcolm K. McNee.

Russian:
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky, tr. by Olena Bormashenko

Spanish:
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, tr. by Heather Cleary.
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, tr. by Natasha Wimmer.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, tr. by Natasha Wimmer.
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, tr. by Douglas J. Weatherford.
The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena, tr. by Andrea Rosenberg.
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, tr. by Ruth L. C. Simms.
Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, tr. by Adrian Nathan West.
Legends of Salamanca by Tomás Hijo, tr. by Mark Anderson.

Swedish:
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, tr. by Paul Britten Austin.

Vietnamese:
Elevator in Sài Gòn by Thuận, tr. by Nguyễn An Lý.

My Translated Book Challenges for Previous Years:
2023: Catalan, Danish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.

2022: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Tegulu, Yoruba.

2021: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, Gikuyu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nuer, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish.