2.14 Recommending Translated Fiction (plus special guests!)
Welcome back to another episode of The Community Library! This month, the theme for the podcast is TRANSLATED FICTION, so we’re starting off with some recommendations! Because I have read a shockingly small amount of translated fiction, I enlisted the help of some friends and family (and you, the listeners!) to recommend some more books.
The discussion pick for this month is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. My dear friend and former guest on the podcast Kaliya and I will be discussing it on the 24th of May.
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My recommendations
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, translated from German by Anthea Bell
Claudine at School by Colette translated from French by Antonio White
Kalliope’s recommendation
Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, translated from Swedish by Patricia Crampton
Kate’s recommendations
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, translated from German by Michael Hoffman
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated from French by Sandra Smith
Jeremy’s recommendations
Demons (also known as The Possessed or The Devils)by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This work has seen many translations from Russian, but my dad particularly recommends the Constance Garnett’s translation: The Possessed
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, translated from French by Irene Ash
The work of Marguerite Duras
Laurence’s recommendation
The Moomin series by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by David McDuff
Recommendations from the listeners!
1Q24 by Haruki Murakami, translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, translated from French by Robin Buss
One Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights), originally written in Arabic. This work has seen many versions and translations, but the most famous one is by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt, translated from Dutch by Laura Watkinson