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PEN RECOMMENDS
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What are we missing? What important books written in other languages are not available in English? In 2001, PEN members sent in answers that were subsequently published in the PEN America 2: Home & Away. Not surprisingly, the responses were numerous. An NEA study found that out of more than 10,000 works of fiction and poetry published in the United States in 1999, only 300 were works in translation. UNESCO figures showed that while 50 percent of all translations published worldwide are translated from English, only 6 percent are translated into English. Clearly, in the dialogue with the world's non–English-speaking majority, we are not very good listeners.
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UPDATE THE LIST & NOMINATE BOOKS
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PEN members: Help update our list and nominate books you consider to be of great merit that are not
currently in print in the United States in English. Books once
translated but now out of print, or books published in English but
outside the United States are eligible. |
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ARABIC |
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The Book of Ruses: The Political Strategy of the Arab World
By Anonymous
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BENGALI |
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Selected Short Stories of Shahed Ali
By Shahed Ali
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Anti-stories
By Subimal Misra
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BOSNIAN |
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Kad su narodi nestali (after the nations have disappeared)
By Nihad Hasanovic
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CHINESE |
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Four Generations One Roof
By Lao She
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DANISH |
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Lykke-Per
By Henrik Pontoppidan
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DUTCH |
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Selected Works
By Nescio
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FINNISH |
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The forest of hanged foxes
By Arto Paasilinna
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FRENCH |
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Selected Works
By Jules Valle
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Selected Works
By Gustave Le Rouge
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Le Garcon Savoyard
By Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
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Theatre
BY Radovan Ivsic
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Private Property
By Paule Constant
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Pedigree
By Simenon
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Pas un jour
By Anne Garrta
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Les Combustibles
By Amelie Nothamb
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Le thtre des oprations
By Maurice Dantec
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La Dcomposition
By Anne Garrta
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L'abolition
By Robert Badinter
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L'herbe rouge
By Boris Vian
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L'amour les yeux ferms
By Michel Henry
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Une tenebreuse affaire
By Balzac
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La vie de Marianne
By Marivaux
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Selected Works
By Edmonde Charles-Roux
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Talismano
By Abdelwahab Meddeb
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Moi, l'aigre
By Mohammed Khar-Eddine
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Lyon Trilogy
By Ren Belletto
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La compagnie des eaux
By Jean-Luc Outers
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Le voyage en France
By Benot Duteurtre
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Carl Th. Dreyer, n Nilsson
By Maurice Drouzy
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Quartier perdu
By Patrick Modiano
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Ciels liquides
By Anne Garrta
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GERMAN
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The Serapion Brotherhood
By E. T. A. Hoffman
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Johann Fatzer
By Heiner Muller
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Heliopolis
By Ernst Jnger
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Selected Works
By Hans Henny Jahnn
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Amsterdam, Keizersgrachet 333: Querido Verlag
By Fritz H. Landshoff
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Spazieren in Berlin
By Franz Hessel
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Am krzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
By Thomas Brussig
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Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht
By Karl Kraus
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Jacob Schllaeft
By Klaus Merz
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Die Sonne scheint uns
By Georg Klein
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HEBREW
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Days of Ziklag
By S. Yizhar
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Death in the Family
By Dahlia Ravikovitch
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The Street of Sand
By S. Shifra
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