Prescribed Literature in Translation

• A Distant Neighbourhood, Taniguchi, J - Graphic novel

• A Doll's House, Ibsen, H - Drama

• A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway, E - Novel

• A Fine Balance, Mistry, R - Novel

• A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov, M - Novel

• A Personal Matter, Oe, K - Novel

• A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Handke, P - Novel

• A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams, T - Drama

• Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fo, D - Drama

• Adonis - Poetry

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain, M - Novel

• Agamemnon, Aeschylus - Drama

• Ake: The Years of Childhood, Soyinka, W - Memoir

• Akhmatova, A - Poetry

• Akutagawa, R - Short story

• Al-Bayati, A W - Poetry

• Alighieri, D - Poetry

• All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy, C - Novel

• Allah is not obliged, Kourouma, A - Novel

• Amichai, Y - Poetry

• Among the Believers, Naipaul, V S - Prose

• Amulet, Bolaño, R - Novel

• An Angel at my Table (Autobiography Vol. 2), Frame, J - Autobiography

• Andrade, C D de - Poetry

• Andresen, S de M B - Poetry

• Angels of the Universe, Einar Már Guðmundsson - Novel

• Anna Karenina, Tolstoy, L - Novel

• Annie John, Kincaid, J - Novel

• Antigone, Anouilh, J - Drama

• Antigone, Sophocles - Drama

• As I Lay Dying, Faulkner, W - Novel

• Austerlitz, Sebald, W G - Novel

• Aya, Abouet, M - Graphic novel

• Baltasar and Blimunda, Saramago, J - Novel

• Baotown, Wang Anyi - Novel

• Barabbas, Lagerkvist, P - Novel

• Baudelaire, C - Poetry

• Bei Dao - Poetry

• Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills, Tekin, L - Novel

• Black Rain, Ibuse, M - Novel

• Blixen, K - Short story

• Blood Wedding, García Lorca, F - Drama

• Book of Hrabal, Esterházy, P - Novel

• Borges, J L - Short story

• Brave New World, Huxley, A - Novel

• Brodeck's Report, Claudel, P - Novel

• Broken April, Kadare, I - Novel

• Brutus, D - Poetry

• Candide, Voltaire - Novel

• Cassandra, Wolf, C - Novel

• Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Tanizaki, J - Novel

• Chaos of the Senses, Mosteghanemi, A - Novel

• Cheese, Elsschot, W - Novel

• Chekhov, A - Short story

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Garcia Marquez, G - Novel

• Chughtai, I - Short story

• City of Glass, Auster, P, Karasik, P, Mazzucchelli, D - Graphic novel

• Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, F - Novel

• Crossing the Mangrove, Conde, M - Novel

• Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand, E - Drama

• Darwish, M - Poetry

• De: Tales, Ba, G, and Moon, F - Graphic novel

• Death and the King's Horseman, Soyinka, W - Drama

• Death and the Maiden, Dorfman, A - Drama

• Death in Venice, Mann, T - Novel

• Death of a Salesman, Miller, A - Drama

• Desai, A - Short story

• Desert, Le Clézio, J-M G - Novel

• Devil on the Cross, Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Novel

• Dilemma of a Ghost, Aidoo, A A - Drama

• Diop, B - Short story

• Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis, J M - Novel

• Don Quixote, Cervantes, M - Novel

• Dr. Zhivago, Pasternak, B - Novel

• Draum om Hausten, Fosse, J - Drama

• Dream Bridges, Nordbrandt, H - Novel

• Effi Briest, Fontane, T - Novel

• Eline Vere, Couperus, L - Novel

• Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Djebar, A - Novel

• Farewell to My Concubine: A Novel, Li Bihua - Novel

• Fateless, Kertész, I - Novel

• Fathers and Sons, Turgenev, I - Novel

• Faulkner, W - Short story

• Faust, Goethe, J W - Drama

• Fear and Trembling, Nothomb, A - Novel

• Fiela's Child, Matthee, D - Novel

• Fima, Oz, A - Novel

• Five Modern Noh Plays, Mishima, Y - Drama

• From a Cottager's Sketchbook, Liang Shih-chiu - Prose

• From Sleep Unbound, Chedid, A - Novel

• Frost, R - Poetry

• Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Amado , J - Novel

• Ghosts, Ibsen, H - Drama

• God's Bits of Wood, Sembène, O - Novel

• Great Expectations, Dickens, C - Novel

• Gringo Viejo, Fuentes, C - Novel

• Hamlet, Shakespeare, W - Drama

• Head, B - Short story

• Heart of Darkness, Conrad, J - Novel

• Hedda Gabler, Ibsen, H - Drama

• Hemingway, E - Short story

• Hikmet, N - Poetry

• Homer - Poetry

• Houseboy, Oyono, F - Novel

• Hunger, Hamsun, K - Novel

• Hyrder, Seeberg, P - Novel

• I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree, Verga, G - Novel

• I Will Marry When I Want, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ngugi wa Mirii - Drama

• I, Anatolia and other plays: an anthology of Modern Turkish Drama, Dilmen, G - Drama

• Idris, Y - Short story

• If This is a Man, Levi, P - Autobiography

• In Patagonia, Chatwin, B - Prose

• In Praise of Shadows, Tanizaki, J - Essay

• Independent People, Laxness, H - Novel

• Inevitable, Couperus, L - Novel

• Istanbul: Memories and the City, Pamuk, O - Memoir

• Jane Eyre, Brontë, C - Novel

• Jeppe of the Hill, Holberg, L - Drama

• Jergovic, M - Short story

• Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware, C - Graphic novel

• Joyce, J - Poetry

• József, A - Poetry

• Kafka on the Shore, Murakami, H - Novel

• Kafka, F - Short story

• Kalpa Imperial, Gorodischer, A - Novel

• Keats, J - Poetry

• King Lear, Shakespeare, W - Drama

• Kitchen, Yoshimoto, B - Novel

• Kokoro, Natsume, S - Novel

• Kosovel, S - Poetry

• Leo Africanus, Maalouf, A - Novel

• Les Belles Soeurs, Tremblay, M - Drama

• Li Po (Li Bai) - Poetry

• Life and Times of Michael K, Coetzee, J M - Novel

• Life is Elsewhere, Kundera, M - Novel

• Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Anonymous - Novel

• Liksom, R, Short story

• Lispector, C - Short story

• Lord Jim, Conrad, J - Novel

• Love in the Time of Cholera, Garcia Marquez, G - Novel

• Love Medicine, Erdrich, L - Novel

• Lu Xun - Short story

• Macbeth, Shakespeare, W - Drama

• Madame Bovary, Flaubert, G - Novel

• Mansfield Park, Austen, J - Novel

• Mapanje, J - Poetry

• Marshall, O - Short story

• Master Harold and the Boys, Fugard, A - Drama

• Matigari, Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Novel

• Maus, Spiegelman, A - Graphic novel

• Medea, Euripedes - Drama

• Memory For Forgetfulness, Darwish, M - Prose

• Midaq Alley, Mahfouz, N - Novel

• Milosz, C - Poetry

• Miss Julie, Strindberg, A - Drama

• Monkey: A Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en - Novel

• Mother Courage and Her Children, Brecht, B - Drama

• Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Nieh Hualing - Novel

• Munro, A - Short story

• Murakami, H - Short story

• My Father's War, Dis, A Van - Novel

• My Name Is Red, Pamuk, O - Novel

• My Name is Salma, Faqir, F - Novel

• Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad, Mamdouh, A - Novel

• Naruto, Kishimoto, M - Graphic novel

• Neruda, P - Poetry

• Nguyen Huy Thiep - Short story

• Niels Klim's Underground Travels, Holberg, L - Novel

• Njal's Saga, Anonymous - Prose

• No Exit, Sartre, J-P - Drama

• No Longer at Ease, Achebe, C - Novel

• Nostalgia, Cartarescu, M - Novel

• Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles - Drama

• Oedipus the King, Sophocles - Drama

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn, A - Novel

• Othello, Shakespeare, W - Drama

• Out of the Dark, Modiano, P - Novel

• Out Stealing Horses, Petterson, Per - Novel

• Ovid - Poetry

• P’Bitek - Poetry

• Pai Hsien-yung - Short story

• Paradise of the Blind, Duong, T H - Novel

• Paz, O - Poetry

• Pedro Paramo, Rulfo, J - Novel

• Pere Goriot, Balzac, H de - Novel

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Suskind, P - Novel

• Persepolis, Satrapi, M - Graphic novel

• Pillars of Salt, Faqir, F - Novel

• Plath, S - Poetry

• Possession, Byatt, A S - Novel

• Pu Songling - Short story

• Pushkin, A - Poetry

• Red Oleanders, Tagore, R - Drama

• Red Sorghum, Mo Yan - Novel

• Remembering Babylon, Malouf, D - Novel

• Rickshaw Boy, Lao She - Novel

• Rilke, R M - Poetry

• Rituals, Nooteboom, C - Novel

• Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, W - Drama

• Salih, T - Short story

• Saying Yes, Gambaro, G - Drama

• Schulz, B - Short story

• Season of Migration to the North, Salih, T - Novel

• See under: Love, Grossman, D - Novel

• Selected Plays: 1963–1983, Havel, V - Drama

• Senghor, L S - Poetry

• Sense and Sensibility, Austen, J - Novel

• Shen Congwen - Short story

• Shutterspeed, Mortier, E - Novel

• Siegfried, Mulisch, H - Novel

• Silence, Endo, S - Novel

• Simon and the Oaks, Fredriksson, M - Novel

• Singer, I B - Short story

• Sinuhe, The Egyptian, Waltari, M - Novel

• Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello, L - Drama

• Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Fugard, A - Drama

• Snow Country, Kawabata, Y - Novel

• So Long a Letter, Ba, M - Novel

• Söderberg, H - Short story

• Soldados de Salamina, Cercas, J - Novel

• Sorescu, M - Poetry

• Szymborska, W - Poetry

• Tagore, R - Poetry

• Tamas, Sahni, B - Novel

• Tango, Mrożek, S - Drama

• Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), Laozi - Prose

• Tartuffe, Molière - Drama

• Tear This Heart Out, Mastretta, A - Novel

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Hardy, T - Novel

• The Analects of Confucius, Confucius - Prose

• The Assault, Mulisch, H - Novel

• The Awakening, Chopin, K - Novel

• The Bald Soprano, Ionesco, E - Drama

• The Birds, Vesaas, T - Novel

• The Blind Owl, Hedayat, S - Novel

• The Bluest Eye, Morrison, T - Novel

• The Book of Chuang Tzu, Zhuangzi - Prose

• The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, F - Novel

• The Carpenter's Pencil, Rivas, M - Novel

• The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov, A - Drama

• The Chess Master, Ah Cheng - Novel

• The Christmas Oratorio, Tunstrøm, G - Novel

• The City and the Dogs, Vargas Llosa, M - Novel

• The Confusions of Young Torless, Musil, R - Novel

• The Czar's Madman, Kross, J - Novel

• The Dark Room of Damocles, Hermans, W F - Novel

• The Diary of a Parish Clerk, Blicher, S S - Novel

• The Doctor's Wife, Ariyoshi, S - Novel

• The Fall of the King, Jensen, J V - Novel

• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Bassani, G - Novel

• The Gaze, Shafak, E - Novel

• The Inhabited Woman, Belli, G - Novel

• The Just Assassins, Camus, A - Drama

• The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Puig, M - Novel

• The Kite Runner, Husseini, K - Novel

• The Leopard, Lampedusa, G T - Novel

• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Boll, H - Novel

• The Lover, Duras, M - Novel

• The Man From Bashmour, Bakr, S - Novel

• The Marquise of O- and other stories, Kleist, H von - Novel

• The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov, M - Novel

• The Masterpiece, Enquist, A - Novel

• The Name of the Rose, Eco, U - Novel

• The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho, M - Prose

• The Non-Existent Knight, Calvino, I - Novel

• The Outsider, Camus, A - Novel

• The Peony Pavilion, Tang Xianzu - Drama

• The Plague, Camus, A - Novel

• The President, Asturias, M A - Novel

• The Prince, Machiavelli, N - Essay

• The Reader, Schlink, B - Novel

• The Red and the Black, Stendhal - Novel

• The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro, K - Novel

• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Mishima, Y - Novel

• The Sand Child, Ben Jelloun, T - Novel

• The Seagull, Chekhov, A - Drama

• The Secret, Enquist, A - Novel

• The Sergeant in the Snow, Rigoni Stern, M - Novel

• The Setting Sun, Dazai, O - Novel

• The Shadow of the Sun, Kapuscinski, R - Prose

• The Slave, Singer, I B - Novel

• The Sorrow of War, Ninh, B - Novel

• The Sound of Waves, Mishima, Y - Novel

• The Stone Angel, Laurence, M - Novel

• The Stone of Laughter, Barakat, H - Novel

• The Story of Zahra, Al-Shaykh, H - Novel

• The Stranger Next Door, Nothomb, A - Novel

• The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway, E - Novel

• The Tartar Steppe, Buzzati, D - Novel

• The Teahouse, Lao She - Drama

• The Thief and the Dogs, Mahfouz, N - Novel

• The Time of Indifference, Moravia, A - Novel

• The Tin Drum, Grass, G - Novel

• The Tunnel, Sábato, E - Novel

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera, M - Novel

• The Unknown Soldier, Linna, V - Novel

• The Visit, Durrenmatt, F - Drama

• The Windup Bird Chronicle, Murakami, H - Novel

• The Woman in the Dunes, Abe, K - Novel

• Therese Raquin, Zola, E - Novel

• This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen! Borowski, T - Novel

• Thousand Cranes, Kawabata, Y - Novel

• Three Plays, Abe, K - Drama

• Three Sisters, Chekhov, A - Drama

• Time of the Doves, Rodoreda, M - Novel

• To Each His Own, Sciascia, L - Novel

• To Live: A Novel, Yu Hua - Novel

• Transtromer, T - Poetry

• Two Women, Mulisch, H - Novel

• Uncle Vanya, Chekhov, A - Drama

• Upside Down, Galeano, E - Prose

• Vallejo, C - Poetry

• Variations on Night and Day, Munif, A - Novel

• Virgil - Poetry

• Waiting for Godot, Beckett, S - Drama

• Walcott, D - Poetry

• Wang Wei - Poetry

• War with the Newts, Capek, K - Novel

• We, Zamyatin, Y - Novel

• Whale Rider, Ihimaera, W - Novel

• Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys, J - Novel

• Wild Kids: Two Novels About Growing Up, Zhang Dachun - Novel

• Wild Thorns, Khalifeh, S - Novel

• Williams, W - Poetry

• Windflower, Roy, G - Novel

• Woman at Point Zero, El Saadawi, N - Novel

• Wonderful Fool, Endo, S - Novel

• Wright, J - Poetry

• Yalo, Khoury, E - Novel

• Zaat, Ibrahim, S - Novel

• Zhou Zuoren: Selected Essays, Zhou Zuoren - Prose

• Zorba the Greek, Kazantzakis, N - Novel