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
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