sirinrob Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 (edited) Seeing there are several members having a go at this , I thought I'd see how far I can get. The rules i'm following are the author's place of birth, NOT their country of residence counts. Edited January 10, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 (edited) North America Canada - 'Salamander' Thomas Wharton Greenland - 'The Great Bear' short story from 'Eskimo Tales' collected by Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen United States - 'Fahrenheit 451' Ray Bradbury Mexico - 'Like Water For Chocolate' Laura Esquivel Central America and the Caribbean Anguila Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Barbados Bahamas Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba - 'Our GG in Havana' Pedro Juan Guti�rrez Dominica 'Wide Sargasso Sea' Jean Rhys Dominican Republic - 'The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao' Junot D�az El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala - 'Comrades' Marco Antonio Flores Grenada Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Montserrat Netherlands Antilles Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Turks and Caicos Islands 'Middle Caicos Island TCI' (poem) Dale Marie Witt 1999 Trinidad and Tobago - 'One scattered skeleton' (memoir) Vahni Capildeo Virgin Islands South America Argentina - 'Labyrinths' L Borges Bolivia Brazil 'Brida Paulo Coelho Chile - 'By Night in Chile' Roberto Bola�o Colombia - 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez Ecuador Falkland Islands - 'Motherland' (poem) Ernest H Spencer French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela Edited August 31, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 (edited) progress continued... Africa Algeria - 'The Plague' Albert Camus Angola - 'Creole' Jos� Eduardo Agualusa Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Brazzaville -'The Glass of Water' (poem) Jean-Louis N’Tadi Congo Kinshasa Djibouti Egypt - 'Palace Walk' Naguib Mahfouz Equatorial Guinea Eritrea 'Freedom's Colours' (poem) A ngessom Isakk Ethiopia - 'Cutting for Stone' Abraham Verghese Gabon Gambia Ghana - 'A Good Man in Africa' William Boyd Guinea Bissau Guinee Conarky Ivory Coast Kenya - 'The Rogue Son' (short story)Abdifatah Shafat Lesotho - 'How We Buried Puso' Morabo Morojele Liberia - 'Faces' (short story) Vamba Sherif Libya Madagascar Malawi - 'Voice of The Gods' (short story)Dango Mkandawire Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco - 'For Everbody His Own Hell' (short story) Mouna Ben Haddou trans Mohamed Said Raihani from The Moroccan Dream", Anthology of Moroccan new short story directed by Mohamed Said Raihani. Mozambique - 'Warning Shots' (short story) Domi Chirongo Namibia Niger Nigeria Reunion Rwanda - 'Scent of African Dusk' (short story) Benjamin Sehene Sao Tome and principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia - 'Mandela' (poem) Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaariye' trans David Harsent South Africa - 'Bitter Eden' Tatamkhulu Afrika Sudan - 'The Swallowers (short story)' Kola Boof Swaziland Tanzania - 'Green Petals' (poem) Nasibu Mwanukuzi (Ras Nas) Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia - 'Maria's Vision' (short story) Austin Kaluba Zimbabwe - 'Mainini Grace’s Promises(short story)' Valerie Tagwira Edited August 4, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 (edited) Europe Albania - 'The Country Where No One Ever Dies' Ornela Vorspi Andorra - 'Andorra:Festivals,Traditions and Folklore' Andorra Writers circle Armenia - 'Thats Her,they say' poem Shushanik Kurghinian trans Shushan Avagyan Austria - 'Die Mansarde' Marlen Haushofer Azerbaijan - 'Hamburger' (short story) Samed Aydin Belarus - 'King Stakh's Hunt' Uladzimir Karatkevich trans Mary Mintz Belgium - 'Zidane's Melancholy' Jean-Phillipe Toussaint Bosnia and Herzegovina - 'At the Sarajevo Market(short story)' Igor Štiks Bulgaria - 'And All Turned Moon' (short story) Georgi Gospodinov Channel Islands Croatia - 'Vereš (short story) Neven Ušumović Czech Republic - 'Immortality' Milan Kundera Denmark 'The Quiet Girl' Peter H�eg Estonia - 'Foreign Women' (short story) Elo Viiding Faroe Islands - 'The Lost Musicians' Wilhelm Heinesen Finland 'A Winter Book - Selected Stories' Tove Jansson France - 'Cousin Bette' Honor� de Balzac Georgia Germany 'The Reader' Bernhard Schlink Gibraltar Greece Hungary 'Oliver VII' Anatal Szeb Iceland - 'Independent People' Halld�r Laxness Ireland -'Two Birds at Swim' Flann O'Brian Italy - 'If on a Winter's night a traveller' Italo Calvino Latvia - 'Ants and Bumblebees' (short story)Inga Ābele Liechtenstein - 'Deep In the Snow' (short story)Mathias Ospelt Lithuania - 'The Allure of the Text' (short story) Giedra Radvilavičiūtė Luxembourg - 'The Moon of the Big Winds' Claudine Muno Macedonia - 'Longing for the South ' (poem) Konstantin Miladinov Malta Moldova Netherlands - 'The Discovery Of Heaven' Harry Mulisch Norway - 'With Their Backs to the World Portraits from Serbia' �sne Seierstad Poland - 'Heart of Darkness' Joseph Conrad Portugal - 'Blindness' Jos� Saragamo Romania - 'Three Hundred Cups' (short story) Cosmin Manolache Russia -'Fathers and Children(Sons)' Ivan Turgenev Serbia and Montenegro - 'The Basilica in Lyon' (short story) David Albahari Slovakia - 'The Prompter' (extract) Peter Krišt�fek Slovenia - 'You do Understand?' (short story) Andrej Blatnik Spain 'The shadow of the Wind' Carlos Riuz Zaf�n Sweden 'Midsummer Days' August Strindberg Switzerland - 'Die Fliege und die Suppe' Hugo Loetscher Ukraine - 'Dead Souls' - Nikolai Gogol United Kingdom -'The Eyre Affair' Jasper Fforde Edited August 4, 2010 by sirinrob removed countries that impossible to find authors from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 (edited) Middle East Bahrain Cyprus - 'The Policewoman'(short story) Aydin Mehmet Ali Iran - 'Phoenix (short story)' Pari Mansouri Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen -'Oh life'(poem) Mogib Hassan Asia Afghanistan - 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' Khaled Hosseini Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China - 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth' Xiaolu Guo East Timor 'The Bird of Peace' (poem) Ab� Barreto Soares India - 'The God of Small Things' Arundhati Roy Indonesia 'Of Bees and Mist' Erick Setiawan Japan -'The windup bird chronicle' Murakami Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Malaysia ' On The Street Where I Lived' (short story) Susan Abraham Maldives Mongolia 'Cloud dogs' (poems) Galsan Tschinag Myanmar Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka South Korea Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam Australia and Pacific American Samoa Australia - 'A Fraction of the Whole' - Steve Toltz Fiji - 'Fear of an Estuary'(poem) Teresia Teaiwa French Polynesia - 'Tiare' Cel�stine Hitiura Vaite Guam Kiribati - 'Banaba - Our Rock of Kiribati' (poem) Jane Resture Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands Rarotonga & the Cook Islands Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Western Samoa 'Leaves of the Banyan tree' Albert Wendt Edited August 4, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 I've been holding fire before commenting so you could list all the countries. If this post is in the way let one of us know and we can insert a post for you above. LOL @ your thread title - mine's going to be by snail too! And you've just reminded me that I haven't added Japan - same book as you - so thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 No problem with post as i'm going to edit the above posts. Any suggestions always welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Your map is looking good. I must put Lolita further up the reading pile so I can colour a big bit in red! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 I've decided to drop San Marino and Vatican City from the list, as they are proving impossible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Also dropped Monaco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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