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AFRICAN AUTHORS

KENYA

Elspeth Huxley [1907-1997]	The African Poison Murders Florence Nightingale [B N56h] The Mottled Lizard [916.72 Hux]
Ali a Mazrui	The African Condition [916 Maz] The Africans: A Triple Heritage [960 qMaz]
Ngugi Wa Thiongo [1938- ]	Petals of Blood

GUINEA

Camara Laye [1928-1980]

The Dark Child [B L4492]
The Guardian of the Word [398.2 Lay]

NIGERIA

Chinua Achebe	African Short Stories [896 Ach] Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems [821 Ach] Home and Exile [B Ac38] A Man of the People The Short Century [709.6 qSho] Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka [1986 Nobel Prize]	Ake: The Years of Childhood [B So9] The Bacchae of Euripedes: A Communion Rite [822 Soy] A Dance of the Forest [822 Soy] Kongi's Harvest [822 Soy] Mandela's Earth and Other Poems [821 Soy]

SOUTH AFRICA

Andre Brink [1935- ]	An Act of Terror A Chain of Voices Devil's Valley Imaginings of Sand The Other Side of Silence
J.M. Coetzee (a.k.a. John Maxwell) [1940- ]	Age of Iron Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life [B C639] Diary of a Bad Year Elizabeth Costello Foe Slow Man Waiting for the Barbarians Youth [B C639]

ASIAN AUTHORS

CHINA

Zhang Jie	Heavy Wings
Ching-chun Shu	Rickshaw
Hua-ling Nieh	Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
Zhang Xianliang	Half of Man is Woman
Geling Yan	White Snake and Other Stories The Lost Daughters of Happiness

INDIA

Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen [1952-1993]	Crane's Morning
R.K. Narayan [1906-2001]	The Dark Room A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays (1958-1988) [082 Nar]
Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941]	Fireflies [891.4 Tag] Gitanjali [891.441 Tag] The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

INDONESIA

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Child of All Nations

JAPAN

Kobo Abe [1924-1993]	The Ark Sakura The Box Man The Face of Another
Yasunari Kawabata [1899-1972]	Beauty and Sadness The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories First Snow on Fuji The Lake
Haruki Murakami [1949- ]	After Dark After the Earthquake: Stories A Wild Sheep Chase Dance Dance Dance Kafka on the Shore South of the Border, West of the Sun Sputnik Sweetheart Underground [364.152 Mur]
Yukio Mishima [1925-1970]	Acts of Worship: Seven Stories After the Banquet Sun & Steel [B M68] Runaway Horses The Sound of Waves

KOREA

Inhoon Choi	A Grey Man
Chi-mun so	The Golden Phoenix [895.73 So]
Mun-yol Yi [1948- ]	The Poet
Heung-gil Yun	The House of Twilight
Junghyo Ahn	Silver Stallion

EUROPEAN AUTHORS

AUSTRIA

Thomas Bernhard [1931-1989]	Gathering Evidence: A Memoir [B B45027] The Loser Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship
Herman Broch [1886-1951]	The Death of Virgil [831 B78du] The Sleepwalkers The Spell
Elfriede Jelinek	The Piano Teacher

FRANCE

Honore de Balzac [1799-1850]	The Black Sheep Cousin Bette Selected Short Stories
Andre Gide [1869-1951]	Amyntas [916.1 Gid] Autumn Leaves [848 G36a] Madeleine [B G356m]

GERMANY

Heinrich Boll [1917-1985]	18 Stories Absent Without Leave: Two Novellas Children are Civilians Too
Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]	Beneath the Wheel Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth Siddhartha The Journey to the East

GREECE

Nikos Kazantzakis [1883-1957]

At the Palaces of Knossos
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel [833 K18o]
Zorba the Greek

IRELAND

John Banville [1945- ]	Ghosts The Sea The Infinities
James Joyce [1882-1941]	Dubliners Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses
Colm Toibin [1955- ]	The Blackwater Lightship The Master Brooklyn

CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPEAN AUTHORS

CZECH/SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Karel Capek [1890-1938]	Apocryphal Tales Good Men Still Live! [365.6 Cap] Nine Fairy Tales by Karl Capek (and One More Thrown in for Good Measure) Tales From Two Pockets
Franz Kafka [1883-1924]	Amerika The Blue Octavo Notebooks [838 Kaf] The Castle Letter to His Father: Brief an den Vater [836 Kaf]

HUNGARY

Imre Kertesz	Kaddish for a Child Not Born
Arthur Koestler [1905-1983]	The Act of Creation [153.35 Koe] Arrow in the Blue [B K81ar] Bricks to Babel: A Selection From 50 Years of His Writings [B K81b]

POLAND

Stanislaw Benski	Missing Pieces: Stories
Stanislaw Lem	The Chain of Chance The Cosmic Carnival of Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Eden

RUSSIA

Chingiz Aitmatov	The Place of the Skull
Mikhail Bulgakov	Black Snow Diaboliad and Other Stories Flight: A Play in Eight Dreams and Four Acts [891.72 Bul]

YUGOSLAVIA

Ivo Andric [1892-1975]

Bosnian Chronicle

LATIN AMERICAN AUTHORS

ARGENTINA

Thomas Eloy Martinez	Santa Evita
Abel Posse	The Dogs of Paradise
Horacio Vazquez Rial	Triste's History

BRAZIL

Jorge Amado [1912-2001]	Captains of the Sands Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale Home is the Sailor: The Whole Truth Concerning the Redoubtful Adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, Master Mariner
Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis [1839-1908]	Dom Casmurro The Devil's Church and Other Stories Helena

CHILE

Isabel Allende	Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses Daughter of Fortune Paula [B Al535]
Jose Donoso [1924-1996]	The Garden Next Door The House in the Country The Obscene Bird of Night

MEXICO

Rosario Castellanos [1925-1974]	The Book of Lamentations City of Kings
Jorge Ibarguengoitia	The Dead Girls
Angeles Mastretta	Lovesick Mexican Bolero

CARIBBEAN AUTHORS

CUBA

Reinaldo Arenas [1943-1990]	The Doorman Old Rosa: A Novel in Two Stories
Alejo Carpentier [1904-1980]	The Chase
Cristina Garcia	Dreaming in Cuban
Mayra Montero	Deep Purple In the Palm of Darkness The Last Night I Spent With You The Messenger The Red of His Shadow

GUADELOUPE

Maryse Conde

Crossing the Mangrove
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Windward Heights

HAITI

Edwidge Danticat	Breath, Eyes, Memory The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States [810.89 HaiYd] The Farming of Bones
Dany Lafrerriere	An Aroma of Coffee Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?

MARTINIQUE

Patrick Chamoiseau

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
Creole Folktales [398.2 Cha]
Seven Dreams of Elmira: A Tale of Martinique

WEST INDIES

Jamaica Kincaid	Annie John At the Bottom of the River Lucy Talk Stories [081 Kin]
Caryl Phillips	Cambridge Crossing the River The Nature of Blood A State of Independence

PUERTO RICO

Roberto Santiago	Boricuas [810.8 Sam]
Joy L. Dejesus	Growing Up Puerto Rican: An Anthology [810.8 Dej]
John V. Antush	Nuestro New York: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Plays [812.08 Ant] Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays From New York [812.08 Ant]

MIDDLE EASTERN AUTHORS

ALGERIA

Assia Djebar

So Vast the Prison [843 Dje]

EGYPT

Naguib Mahfouz [1912-2006]	Adrift on the Nile Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth The Cairo Trilogy The Beginning and the End Fountain and Tomb Children of the Alley
Nawal Saadawi	The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World [305.42 Saa] The Innocence of the Devil The Nawal El Saadawi Reader [305.42 Saa]

IRAN

Nahid Rachlin

Married to a Stranger

IRAQ

Betool Kehdairi

A Sky So Close

ISRAEL

Shmuel Yosef Agnon [1888-1970]	A Book That Was Lost and Other Stories A Guest for the Night In the Heart of the Seas Twenty-One Stories
Yehuda Amichai [1924-2000]	Amen [892.41 Ami] The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai [891.41 Ami] Poems of Jerusalem

THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

Aharon Appelfeld

Badenheim 1939
The Conversion
The Healer
Tzili: The Story of a Life

TURKEY

Yashar Kemal

The Undying Grass
Memed, My Hawk

SOUTH PACIFIC AUTHORS

AUSTRALIA

Thea Astley	Coda Hunting the Wild Pineapple It's Raining in Mango: Pictures From a Family Album Reaching Tin River
Shirley Hazzard	Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories Countenance of Truth [341.23 Haz] Defeat of an Ideal [341.23 Haz]
Elizabeth Jolley	Cabin Fever Foxybaby My Father's Moon The Newspaper of Claremont Street
David Malouf	The Conversations at Curlow Creek Dream Stuff: Stories The Great World

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

Mudrooroo	The Kwinkan Master of the Ghost Dreaming
Doris Pilkington (a.k.a. Nugi Garimara)	Rabbit Proof Fence [994.042 Pil]
Elsie Roughsey (a.k.a. Labumore)	An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and New [994 Rou]
Kath Walker (a.k.a. Oodgeroo Noonuccal) [1920-1993]	Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories [j398.2 Wal] Stradbroke Dreamtime [j398.2 Wal]

NEW ZEALAND

Keri Hulme	The Bone People
Janet Frame [1924-2004]	The Adaptable Man An Angel at My Table: An Autobiography [B F839] The Carpathians Envoy From Mirror City: An Autobiography, Volume Three [B F839e] Faces in the Water Intensive Care Living in the Maniototo The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies To the Is-Land: An Autobiography [B F839t]

Printed List - October 2002 gp
Updated and expanded for the web - March 2005 sdc / Last updated - September 2011 sdc/gb

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