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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

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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

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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

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removed countries that impossible to find authors from
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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

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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. :D

 

LOL @ your thread title - mine's going to be by snail too! :smile2:

 

And you've just reminded me that I haven't added Japan - same book as you - so thanks!

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