Books by Nationality

(Books are ordered alphabetically by the author’s country of origin)

A –  B –  C –  E –  F –  G – H –  I –  J – M –  N – P – R – S –  U –  Z 

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– A –

• Argentina
  • Fever Dream (2017), by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Distancia de rescate, 2014)
• Australia
  • See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt (2017)
• Austria
  • Fear, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2010 (Angst, 1920)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman,  by Stefan Zweig, translated by Paul Eden and Paul Cedar, 1999 (Brief einer Unbekannten,1922)
  • Manja, by Anna Gmeyner, tr. Kate Phillips, Persephone Books, 2003 (Manja: Ein Roman um 5 Kinder, 1938)
  • Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, 2003 (Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau, 1927)
  • The Wandering Jews, by Joseph Roth, tr. Michael Hofmann, 2000 (Juden auf Wanderschaft, 1927)
  • The Weight of Things, by Marianne Fritz, translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2015 (Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse, 1978)
  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933, by Joseph Roth, trans. by Michael Hofmann, 2002.

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– B –

• Belgium
  •  Kameleon: gedichten, by Charlotte van den Broeck (2015)
    • Laundromat De Netezon (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• Brazil
  • The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, tr. Katrina Dodson (New Directions/ Penguin Classics, 2015. Stories published from 1940 to 1977)
    • The Triumph & Obsession
  • Crow Blue, by Adriana Lisboa (Bloomsbury. Translated by Alison Entrekin, 2013. Original title: Azul corvo, 2010)
  • The House in Smyrna, by Tatiana Salem Levy, tr. Alison Entrekin ( Scribe, 2015, 160 p. Original title: A chave de casa, 2007)
  • Hut of Fallen Persimmons, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2011 (Rakushisha, 2007)
  • Symphony in White, by Adriana Lisboa, tr. Sarah Green, 2010 (Sinfonia em branco, 2001)

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– C –

• Canada
  • Annabel, by Kathleen Winter (2010)
  • Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
  • Chorus of Mushrooms, by Hiromi Goto (1994)
  • The Fire-Dwellers, by Margaret Laurence (1969)
  • Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood (2016)
  • Hetty Dorval, by Ethel Wilson (1947)
  • Runaway, by Alice Munro (2004)
• China
  • Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, by Xiaolu Guo (2017)
    • Also published in the United States with the title Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (2017)
• Colombia
  • The Dark Bride, by Laura Restrepo, transl. Stephan Lytle, 2003 (La Novia Oscura, 1999)
• Czech Republic
  • Parables and Paradoxes, by Franz Kafka(1958, edited by Nahum N. Glatzer)
    • The expulsion from Paradise (quote)

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-D-

• Dominica
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (1966)

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– E –

• England
  • Goblin Market and Other Poems,  by Christina Rossetti (1862)
    • A Birthday (poem, first published in the Macmillan’s Magazine, 1861)
  • Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë (1847)
  • Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea, by Vita Sackville-West (1927)
  • The Blood of the Vampire, by Forence Marryat (1897)
  • The Charioteer, by Mary Renault (1953)
  • Cluny Brown, by Margery Sharp (1944)
  • The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (1924)
  • Dusty Answer, by Rosamond Lehmann (1927)
  • The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West (1930)
  • Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym (1952)
  • The Foolish Gentlewoman, by Margery Sharp (1948)
  • The Forgotten Smile, by Margaret Kennedy (1961)
  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • Frost in May, by Antonia White (1933)
  • A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor (1951)
  • Good Daughters, by Mary Hocking (1984)
  • Harriet Said…, by Beryl Bainbridge (written in 1958 and published in1972)
  • Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy (2016)
  • In a Summer Season, by Elizabeth Taylor (1961)
  • Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)
  • Mariana, by Monica Dickens (1940)
  • My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
  • Novel on Yellow Paper, by Stevie Smith (1936)
  • Orlando, by Virginia Woolf (1928)
  • The Passion of New Eve, by Angela Carter (1977)
  • The Past, by Tessa Hadley (2015)
  • Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
  • The Runaway, by Elizabeth Anna Hart (1872)
  • Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy (2011)
  • The Vet’s Daughter, by Barbara Comyns (1959)
  • The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the dead, by T.S. Eliot (poem, 1922)
  • Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (1966)
  • The Winds of Heaven, by Monica Dickens (1955)
  • The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, by Ronald Hutton (2017)
  • The World My Wilderness, by Rose Macaulay (1950)
  • Two Worlds and Their Ways, by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1949)

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– F –

• France
  • 1914: a novel, by Jean Echenoz, tr. Linda Coverdale, 2014 (14, 2012)
  • Incest, by Christine Angot, tr. Tess Lewis, 2017 (L’Incest, 1999)

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– G –

• Germany
  • Adam and Evelyn, by Ingo Schulze, transl. John E. Woods, 2011 (Adam und Evelyn, 2008)
  • The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger, by Rosmarie Waldrop (1972)
    • Between (poem)
  • Das blaue Kleid, by Doris Dörrie, not translated yet – ‘The blue dress’ (2002)
  • Gilgi, by Irmgard Keun, tr. Geoff Wilkes, 2013 (Gilgi, eine von uns, 1931)
  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll, transl. Leila Vennewitz, 1994 (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, 1974)
  • Swallow Summer, by Larissa Boehning, tr. Lyn Marven, 2016 (Schwalbensommer, 2003)
  • Transit, by Anna Seghers, tr. by Margot Bettauer Dembo, 2013 (Transit, 1944)

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– H –

• Hungary
  • The Door, by Magda Szabo, tr. Len Rix, 2005 (Az ajtó, 1987)

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– I –

• Ireland
  • The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
  • The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
  • A girl is a half-formed thing ,by Eimear McBride (2013)
  • Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (1981)
  • Miss Emily, by Nuala O’Connor (2015)
  • In Night’s City, by Dorothy Nelson (1982).
  • Tea at Four O’Clock, by Janet McNeill (1956)
  • There Were No Windows, by Norah Hoult  (1944)
  • The Visitor, by Maeve Brennan (2000, originally written in the 1940’s)
• Italy
  • “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”, by Cristina de Stefano, translated from the Italian by Marina Harss (Other Press, 2017. First published in Italian as “Oriana, una donna”, Rizzoli, 2013)

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– J –

• Japan
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, by Lady Sarashina (1975, tr. Ivan Morris)
  • Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata, transl. by Howard Hibbett, 1996 (美しさと哀しみと – Utsukushisa to Kanashimi to, 1964)
  • Chorus of Mushrooms, by Hiromi Goto (1994)
  • The Diary of Lady Murasaki, by Murasaki Shikibu, tr. Richard Bowring, 2005 (紫式部日記 –Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, 1008-1010)
  • Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki, tr. Meredith McKinney, 2010 (こころ – Kokoro, 1914)
  • Masks, by Fumiko Enchi, tr. Juliet Winters Carpenter, 1983 (女面, Onna Men, 1958)
  • Naomi, by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, tr. Anthony H. Chambers, 2001 (痴人の愛 – Chijin no Ai, lit. A Fool’s Love, 1924)
  • The Sarashina diary: a woman’s life in eleventh-century Japan, by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, tr. Sonja Arntzen & Itō Moriyuki
  • The Tale of Genji ((源氏物語 Genji monogatari, 11th century), translated by (I) Arthur Waley (Tuttle Publishing, 2010, 1155 p.); (II) Edward G. Seidensticker (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 1224 p.); (III) Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2002, 1216 p.); (IV) Dennis Washburn’s (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 1360 p.);
    • Reading notes on Tyler’s translation:
      • Chapters 1 to  8

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– M –

• Mexico
  • Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Works, Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. Edith Grossman, 2015 (1681 – 1693: Ballads 1-2, 24, 44, Redondillas 87, 91 – 92, Epigrams 93 – 97, Decimas 102-103, 106-107, 109, 125, Sonnets 145-149, 152, 164-165, 173, 177, 179, 186-189, 205, El divino Narciso – 1688,  Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz – 1691, Primero sueño – 1692)

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– N –

• The Netherlands
  • But What: Selected Poems, by Judith Herzberg (transl. by Shirley Kaufman,1988)
    • Reunion (poem, tr. Shirley Kaufman and Judith Herzberg)
  • De Verhalen, by Belcampo (1934)
    • The Triumph of Love II (short-story)
  • Jij blijft bij mij, by Maarten van Roozendaal (2014, posthumous)
    •  Barmhart (2006, album)
      • Mooi (song)
  • Kameleon: gedichten, by Charlotte van den Broeck (2015)
    • Laundromat De Netezon (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Vergezichten en gezichten, by M. Vasalis  (1954)
    • Ebb (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
• Nigeria
  • Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2003

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– P –

• Pakistan
  • Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie (2009)
• Poland
  • Deborah, by Esther Kreitman, tr. Maurice Carr, 1946 (Der Shaidim Tantz, 1936)
• Portugal
  • A Cidade Líquida e Outras Texturas, by Filipa Leal (2006)
    • On sad days no one talks of birds (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • As Fábulas, by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (2002)
    • Of the voice of things (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Alguns Poemas da Rua do Forte, by Al Berto (1983)
    • The Moon Tamer (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Cantos do Canto, by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (1995)
    • Song of Genesis (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Dos Líquidos, by Daniel Faria (2000)
    • There are men opening their hands like books (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
    • They bring the waters in us and land us (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Explicação das árvores e outros animais, by Daniel Faria (1998)
    • It turned out that things got destroyed without him surviving (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Homens que são como lugares mal situados, by Daniel Faria (1998)
    • Men who are like misplaced places (poem, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • The house, by Filipa Leal (poem, tr. Juliana Brina, unpublished, 2011)
  • I dig into the heart a well of salt, by Al Berto (poem, first published in Filhos de Rimbaud, Revista Ler April 1997, tr. Juliana Brina)
  • Mulher ao  Mar, by Margarida Vale de Gato (2010)
    • Woman overboard (poem, translated by Juliana Brina)

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– R –

• Romania
  • Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, by Aglaja Veteranyi, transl. by Vincent Kling, 2012 (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht, 1999)
• Russia
  • City Folk and Country Folk,  by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, tr.  Nora Seligman Favorov, 2017 (Городские и деревенские, 1863)

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– S –

• Scotland
  • Autumn, by Ali Smith (2016)
  • Flesh of the Peach, by Helen McClory (2017)
  • How to Be Both, by Ali Smith (2014)
  • Miss Marjoribanks, by Margaret Oliphant (1866)
  • Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, by Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Kenneth J Fielding & David R Sorensen (2004)
  • Public Library and Other Stories, by Ali Smith (2015)
  • There But For The, by Ali Smith (2011)
• South Africa
  • Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy (2011)
• Switzerland
  • Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, by Aglaja Veteranyi, transl. by Vincent Kling, 2012 (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht, 1999)

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– U –

• United States
  • A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (1923)
  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, by Susan Sontag (2007)
    • Acts of resistance (quote)
  • After Kathy Acker: A Biography, by Chris Kraus (2017)
  • Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller (2017)
  • Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, written by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous)
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat, by Helen Phillips (2015)
  • The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (2009; 2016)
  • The Bird’s Nest, by Shirley Jackson (1954)
  • The Blank Wall, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1947)
  • The Blazing World, by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
  • The Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968, by Louise Bogan (1974)
    • Tears in Sleep (poem)
  • Body of this Death: Poems, by Louise Bogan (1923)
    • Medusa (poem)
  • Bronze, by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922)
    • Old Black Men (poem)
    • Cosmopolite (poem)
  • The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (2011)
  • Collected Poems, 1923-1953, by Louise Bogan(1954)
    • A Tale (poem)
    • Fifteenth Farewell (poem)
    • Knowledge (poem)
    • Putting to Sea (poem)
    • Sub Contra (poem)
  • The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop (1983)
    • The Man-Moth, by Elizabeth Bishop (poem)
  • The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1890)
    • To fill a Gap (poem)
    • Absent Place — an April Day — (poem)
  • Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith (1957)
  • Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox (1970)
  • Easter, by Jill Alexander Essbaum (poem, in Poetry, January, 2011)
  • Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
  • Elders, by Louise Bogan (poem, first published in Poetry Magazine August, 1922)
  • Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss (2017)
  • From the Lake, by Natalie Eilbert (poem, originally published in PEN America, November 30, 2016)
  • Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin (1956)
  • The Girls, by Emma Cline (2016)
  • The Heart of a Woman, by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918)
    • The Heart of a Woman (poem)
    • The Measure (poem)
  • Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson (1980)
  • Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich (2017)
  • The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (2018)
  • Irony, by Layli Long Soldier (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 7, 2016)
  • Mischling, by Affinity  Konar (2016)
  • Modern Lovers, by Emma Straub (2016)
  • Nature: Poems Old and New, by May Swenson (1994)
    • Feel me (poem)
    • I Will Be Earth (poem)
    • The Truth is Forced (poem)
    • Hearing the Wind at Night (poem)
  • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936)
  • Notes on the below, by Ada Limón (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 29, 2016)
  • Palabras in Each Fist, by Rebecca Balcarcel (2010)
    • Ferry crossing (poem)
  • Quicksand, by Nella Larsen (1928)
  • Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, by Susan Sontag (1947-1963)
    • 1. Not to repeat myself (quote, 1961)
  • The Simple Truth, by Elizabeth Hardwick (1955)
  • Smoke and Other Early Stories, by Djuna Barnes (1982)
  • The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward (1946)
  • The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt (2008)
  • Steeple Bush, by Robert Frost (1947)
    • Directive (poem)
  • Stoner, by John Williams (1965)
  • The Street, by Ann Petry (1946)
  • Traffic, by Rae Armantrout (poem, first published in Granta December, 5th, 2016)
  • Vigils, by Aline Murray Kilmer (1921)
    • Shards (poem)
    • To Sappho, About Her Apple (poem)
  • Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler (2016)
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson(1962)
  • The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück (1992)
    • April (poem)
  • Wildfire Moon, by Carol Muske-Dukes (poem, originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 14, 2016)

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– Z –

• Zimbabwe
  • We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013)