I wanted to share a bit about how I’m structuring my read around the world challenge and share with you 25 books from my TBR, from 19 different countries, and translated from 10 different languages.

If I mispronounced any of the authors’ names, please let me know!

0:00 Intro
1:02 Guidelines/rules for challenge
4:04 My reading priorities/where I'm starting
6:14 South American Literature
8:50 African/Middle Eastern Literature
10:29 European Literature
13:01 Outro

Books Mentioned

\\ South American Lit //
🇬🇾 Guyana: Buxton Spice, Oonya Kempadoo.
🇧🇿 Belize: The Festival of San Joaquin, Zee Edgell.
🇦🇷 Argentina: Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro. Translated by Frances Riddle from the Spanish.
🇨🇴 Colombia: Fish Soup by Margarita Garcia Roboyo. Translated by Charlotte Coombe from the Spanish.
🇨🇱 Chile: The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra. Translated Megan McDowell from the Spanish.
🇦🇷 Argentina: Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges.
Translated by John Sturrock + Anthony Kerrigan from the Spanish.
🇺🇾 Uruguay: Springtime in a Broken Mirror, Mario Benedetti. Translated by Nick Caistor from the Spanish.
🇧🇷 Brazil: Family Ties, Clarice Lispector. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero from the Portuguese.

\\ African/Middle Eastern Lit //
🇸🇩 Sudan: Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies from the Arabic.
🇮🇶 Iraq: Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi. Translated by Jonathan Wright from the Arabic.
🇪🇬 Egypt: The Quarter, Naguib Mahfouz. Translated by Roger Allen from the Arabic.
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea: By the Mountain Burns, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel. Translated by Jethro Soutar from the Spanish.
🇿🇦 South Africa: Mine Boy, Peter Abrahams.
🇿🇦 South Africa: The Yearning, Mohale Mashigo.
🇿🇦 South Africa: The Whale Caller, Zakes Mda.

\\ European Lit //
🇲🇹 Malta: Island Faces, Lino Spiteri.
Translated by Joseph Agius from the Maltese.
🇲🇹 Malta: Beyond a Satin Sea, edited by Terrence Portelli.
🇬🇪 Georgia: The Pear Field, Nana Ekvtimishvili. Translated by Elizabeth Heighway from the Georgian.
🇷🇺 Russia: Bride & Groom by Alisa Geneva. Translated by Carol Apollonio from the Russian.
🇳🇴 Norway: The Looking Glass Sisters, Gøhril Gabrielson. Translated by John Irons from the Norwegian.
🇮🇸 Iceland: Paradise Reclaimed, Halldór Laxness. Translated by Magnus Magnusson from the Icelandic.
🇮🇸 Iceland: The Greenhouse, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. Translated by Brian FitzGibbon from the Icelandic.
🇭🇷 Croatia: Singer in the Night, Olja Savičevič. Translated by Celia Hawkesworth from the Croatian.
🇭🇷 Croatia: No Signal Area, Rober Perišić. Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać from the Croatian.
🇺🇦 Ukraine: Carbide, Andriy Lyubka. Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stockhouse Wheeler from the Ukrainian.

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