Reading Translated Fiction

Reading translated fiction provides an opportunity to explore a variety of voices and writing styles. In that way, translated literature can offer a rewarding reading experience that may improve our appreciation and understanding of other cultures and languages. 

There is a wide variety of fiction titles translated into English from other languages as well as books about world literature available from the Library’s print and electronic collections.

Library Resources

Translated Fiction Print Books

The current In translation library book display features books translated into English from several languages. Those titles include:

• One hundred years of solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
• Roman stories (Jhumpa Lahiri) 
• The empusium : a health resort horror story (Olga Tokarczuk)
• Mina’s matchbox (Yōko Ogawa)

Translated Fiction Ebooks

• The reindeer hunters (Lars Mytting)  
• The book of perilous dishes (Doina Rusti) 
• Mechanisms of loss: two novellas (Misel Phais) 
• Moroccan folktales (Jilali El Koudia)

Ebooks about World Literature

• The complete review guide to contemporary world fiction (M. A. Orthofer)
• Analyzing world fiction : new horizons in narrative theory (F. L. Aldama)
• The fictions of translation (J. Woodsworth)
• Literature, geography, translation : studies in world writing (S. Helgesson & D. Watson)

To find more library books you may search OneSearch. Just limit the search to ‘Books’ before entering a few keywords. To find ebooks, limit book results to ‘Online Formats’ or search one of the Library’s ebook databases. 

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