I have been reading a lot more this year in in languages other than English. Although I have not reviewed the majority of the books that I have read, there certainly have been some gems that I would love to see translated into English so that I could more readily recommend them to others. Here are a few titles released in the past five years or so that I'd love to see made available in English translation:
Portuguese:
Valter Hugo Mãe, O filho do mil homens
José Luiz Passos, O sonâmbulo amador
João Tordo, As tres vidas
Ondjaki, Os transparentes
David Soares, O Evangelho do Enforcado
French:
Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
Gilles Leroy, Alabama Song
Estelle Faye, Porcelaine
Italian:
Giorgio Pressburger, Nel Regno Oscuro and its sequel, Storia Umana e Inumana
Antonio Scurati, Il Padre Infedele
Marco Magini, Come fossi solo
Elisa Ruotolo, Ovunque, proteggici
Donatella di Pietrantonio, Bella Mia
Spanish:
Edmundo Paz Soldán, Iris
Javier Negrete, La hija del nilo
I am certain that I am missing quite a bit myself, so maybe if any reading this who've read recent works in these languages (and others) can suggest titles that they wish English readers could read in translation?
Portuguese:
Valter Hugo Mãe, O filho do mil homens
José Luiz Passos, O sonâmbulo amador
João Tordo, As tres vidas
Ondjaki, Os transparentes
David Soares, O Evangelho do Enforcado
French:
Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
Gilles Leroy, Alabama Song
Estelle Faye, Porcelaine
Italian:
Giorgio Pressburger, Nel Regno Oscuro and its sequel, Storia Umana e Inumana
Antonio Scurati, Il Padre Infedele
Marco Magini, Come fossi solo
Elisa Ruotolo, Ovunque, proteggici
Donatella di Pietrantonio, Bella Mia
Spanish:
Edmundo Paz Soldán, Iris
Javier Negrete, La hija del nilo
I am certain that I am missing quite a bit myself, so maybe if any reading this who've read recent works in these languages (and others) can suggest titles that they wish English readers could read in translation?
2 comments:
From Spanish, the books of S. Posteguillo (Scipio trilogy which is complete and the Trajan trilogy of which the 2nd volume was published last fall - read all 5 and loved them), while from French the upcoming L'Ile du Point Nemo by JM Blas de Robles of the Tigers book
Another French one that I want to check out is Matthias Enard Rue de Voleurs (Street of Thieves), companion to Zone - the one sentence 500 page novel that was acclaimed a few years back - which will be published in English in August
Tempting, especially the Spanish ones. Thanks!
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