James Baldwin (US) |

Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work  

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Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)|

Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones, El Aleph.

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 R. K. Narayan (India)|

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The English Teacher. See his works on mythology/religion (Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana) see list of works.

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Graham Greene (England)|

The Comedians, The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, The Ministry of Fear,  Our Man in Havana, Monsignor Quixote 

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Robertson Davies (Canada)|

The Salterton Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, The “Toronto Trilogy”

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Giorgio Bassani (Italia)|

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Mordechai Richler (Canada)|

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney’s Version, Solomon Gursky Was Here

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Brian Moore (Northern Ireland/Canada)|

Judith Hearne, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Black Robe 

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Evelyn Waugh (England)|

Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour

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Anthony Powell (England)|

A Dance to the Music of Time

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Marcel Proust (France)|

In Search of Lost Time

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Robert Musil (Austria)|

The Man Without Qualities

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James Joyce (Ireland)|

Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners,  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Simone de Beauvoir (France)|

The Second Sex,  She Came to Stay, The Mandarins

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Bertolt Brecht (Germany)|

Threepenny Novel, Drums in the Night, The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre.     

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Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)|

Aké: The Years of Childhood, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Lion and the Jewel  

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Jean Cocteau (France)|

Les Enfants Terribles, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus 

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Jacques Prévert (France)|

Les Enfants du Paradis, Paroles (wrote scenarios and dialogues for films. See list)

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Toni Morrison (US)|

Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye

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Italo Calvino (Italia)|

Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, Our Ancestors trilogy, Cosmicomics

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Leonardo Sciascia (Italia)|

Una storia semplice, The Day of the Owl, To Each His Own. See films: Open Doors (1990), Cadaveri Eccellenti (1976) and Il giorno della civetta

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Cesare Pavese (Italia)|

The Moon and the Bonfires, see translated poems.

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Natalia Ginzburg (Italia)|

L’inserzione, Family sayings (Lessico famigliare),  Caro Michele (film Caro Michele, 1976)

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Georges Simenon (Belgium)|

Creator of detective Jules Maigret. Maigret and the Yellow Dog, Dirty Snow, Red Lights 

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Milan Kundera (Czech)|

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke,The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) |

Things Fall Apart,No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, An Image of Africa (lecture on Heart of Darkness) 

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Muriel Spark (Scotland)|

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Driver’s Seat, Memento Mori

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Philip Roth (US)|

The Ghost Writer,American Pastoral, Sabbath’s Theater

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