Which authors and books from your country would you recommend?

Question

Thank you for all the suggestions...

Answer 1

Ivo Andric - "Ex Ponto", "Anikina vremena" and "The Bridge on the Drina" (and many other short stories written by Andric )

Mesa Selimovic - "Death and the Dervish" (Dervis is smrt) - I have read this one three times and I will never stop thinking about it; "The Fortress" (Tvrdjava).

Milorad Pavic - "Dictionary of the Khazars" (Hazarski recnik) - fairly complicated, but great text that investigates very important historic question and connects it to the present time and Serbian people today (in my opinion Serbs are disappearing just like Khazars did).

Dobrica Cosic - You may not like him because of his political engagement, but you must love his books, especially "The Time of Death" (Vreme smrti) (war, history, suffering, pain, family, love...).

Vladan Desnica - "Proljeca Ivana Galeba" (I don't know English translation for this one, but I still know so many quotations from this book, it simply changes your believes and the way you look at life.

Aleksa Santic - "Ostajte Ovdje", "O klasje moje",... and many other great patriotic poems.

Answer 2

Here's a list of my favourite 20th c. Italian authors and their most famous books (some exist in English)
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, etc.
Luigi Meneghello: Libera Nos a Malo, The Outlaws, etc.
Carlo Emilio Gadda: That Awful Mess in Via Merulana, Cognizione del Dolore, etc.
Edith Bruck: Who Loves You Like This
Italo Svevo: Zeno's Conscience
Natalia Ginzburg: Things We Used to Say, Little Virtues

Answer 3

One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Patriarch's Autumn or Love in Cholera Times, all by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, 1982 Nobel prize winner.

Answer 4

Probably you’ll chose s777 as best answer, but I tell you some Hungarian books anyway. :)

First of all, we have a Nobel-awarded writer, Imre Kertész and his novel entitled “Fateless”. It’s about a different aspect of the Jewish holocaust. I don’t like it much, but it is worth reading once.

Second, I’ve heard that lately the novels of Sándor Márai were popular in England. I haven’t read any of those, but if they are so popular, they may be good.

Third, as far as I know only contemporary writers are mainly tarnslated to English, such as Esterházy, who writes very intellectual books. They are not easy to read, but they are interesting.

Finally, I would recommend the short story collection of István Örkény called “One-Minute Short Stories”. As the title suggest, the book contains short (1-2 pages long) short stories, which are absurd, sometimes funny.

Answer 5

If you've never read a novel by Robert Heinlein, you're missing out on some of the greatest insights into both the nature of humanity and our future. Political commentator and co author of the counter culture movement, Heinlein inspired a generation and I grok he wil continue to inspire those who wish to get beyond the vices of today.

Selected Works
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, The moon is a Harsh Mistress to name but a few. Happy reading!
If a people expect to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, they expect what never has been and never will be. -Thomas Jefferson
Educate for our future!

Answer 6

J.W. Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Faust.
Heinrich Heine - Deutschland, Ein Wintermärchen. (A Winter's Tale)
Heinrich von Kleist - Penthesilea.

Schopenhauer - Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Image?)

everything by Kurt Tucholsky and Erich Kaestner.

modern: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre - Soloalbum
Wladimir Kaminer - Russian Disco

Answer 7

Excelent idea. I'll keep one eye within its answers.

I'll put Authors because I do not know how its translated its titles. I've divided in 3 groups: Cool, Classic (boring), Modern

From Brazil (few from portugal)
Machado de Assis (like Victor Hugo) - Bras Cubas
Nelson Rodrigues (like bukowiski)
Lima Barreto
Euclides da cunha
Guimarães Rosa
Jorge Amado

Alvares do Azevedo
Gonçalves Dias (poem - I Juca Pirama)
Castro Alves (poem)
Graciliano Ramos
Aluísio de Azevedo
José de Alencar
José Lins do Rego
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Macunaima - too strange)
Cecília Meireles (poem)
Fernando Pessoa
Clarice Lispector (deep - tormented)
Manuel Bandeira
Mário de Andrade
José Lins do Rego
Eça de Queirós (Maias)

Jo Soares (Pop)
Paulo coelho (easy)
Severo Bruzinski
Érico Veríssimo
Monteiro Lobato (Children)
Fernando Sabino (easy - youth)

Answer 8

Mark Twain--Huckleberry Finn(First American modern novel, one of the first books to use real language and dialect in the dialogue.One of the only US novels ,of that era, to show any sort of race relations in an honest manner.)Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Scarlet Letter(First widely acclaimed American novel, just permeated through and through with New England puritan guilt.)John Steinbeck--The Grapes of Wrath(One of the first American novels to deal with The Great Depression, and how sometimes The American dream is just a wish for some , and nothing more.) Ernest Hemingway--For Whom the Bell Tolls( Taking place in the Spanish Civil War, presents Europe as it was, and it wasn't. One of the most beautiful love stories ever written.) F. Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby( Voted almost annually as the greatest American novel, 20's American culture and relationships, presented in all of their transient transparency.)

Answer 9

Diana Wynne Jones is stunning. i like her artwork. many don't be responsive to that she wrote Howl's shifting fortress, a e book that became grew to become right into a action picture those days. Her artwork is amazingly very comparable to Harry Potter, even yet it is not a knock off with the aid of fact her books got here first. i might start up with the Chrestomanci books with the aid of fact i think of they are the main suitable. I particularly have examine Anna McCaffrey, yet i got here across her to no longer my liking. She is lots too technology fiction for me, I delight in extra delusion. i would not propose her. some authors i might propose to you even however are those (maximum of them are delusion, Vampire, Werewolf and such): J.R. Ward, Kelley Armstrong, Laurell ok. Hamilton, Jeanne C. Stein, Scott Westerfeld, Patricia Briggs, Lynn Viehl, Vicki Pettersson, Karen hazard, Keri Arthur, Katie MacAlister, Lilith Saintcrow, Kim Harrison, Carla Jablonski (The books of Magic that are tailored from Neil Gaiman's photograph novels). i'm hoping you discover one you will delight in!

Answer 10

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (novel) by Alan Sillitoe

The Loneliness of the Long-Disrance Runner (short story) by Alan Sillitoe

Animal Farm (novel) by George Orwell

1984 (novel) by George Orwell