Read work by the 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award winners in PEN America 6. Home > Translation > PEN Recommends > List PEN RECOMMENDS What are we missing? What important books written in other languages are not available in English? In 2002, PEN members sent in answers that were subsequently published in the PEN America 2: Home & Away. Not surprisingly, the responses were numerous. An NEA study found that out of more than 10,000 works of fiction and poetry published in the United States in 1999, only 300 were works in translation. UNESCO figures showed that while 50 percent of all translations published worldwide are translated from English, only 6 percent are translated into English. Clearly, in the dialogue with the world's non–English-speaking majority, we are not very good listeners. UPDATE THE LIST & NOMINATE BOOKS PEN members: Help update our list and nominate books you consider to be of great merit that are not currently in print in the United States in English. Books once translated but now out of print, or books published in English but outside the United States are eligible. ARABIC The Book of Ruses: The Political Strategy of the Arab World By Anonymous BENGALI Selected Short Stories of Shahed Ali By Shahed Ali Anti-stories By Subimal Misra BOSNIAN Kad su narodi nestali (after the nations have disappeared) By Nihad Hasanovic CHINESE Four Generations One Roof By Lao She DANISH Lykke-Per By Henrik Pontoppidan DUTCH Selected Works By Nescio FINNISH The forest of hanged foxes By Arto Paasilinna FRENCH Selected Works By Jules Valle Selected Works By Gustave Le Rouge Le Garcon Savoyard By Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Theatre BY Radovan Ivsic Private Property By Paule Constant Pedigree By Simenon Pas un jour By Anne Garréta Les Combustibles By Amelie Nothamb Le théâtre des opérations By Maurice Dantec La Décomposition By Anne Garréta L'abolition By Robert Badinter L'herbe rouge By Boris Vian L'amour les yeux fermés By Michel Henry Une tenebreuse affaire By Balzac La vie de Marianne By Marivaux Selected Works By Edmonde Charles-Roux Talismano By Abdelwahab Meddeb Moi, l'aigre By Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine Lyon Trilogy By René Belletto La compagnie des eaux By Jean-Luc Outers Le voyage en France By Benoît Duteurtre Carl Th. Dreyer, né Nilsson By Maurice Drouzy Quartier perdu By Patrick Modiano Ciels liquides By Anne Garréta GERMAN The Serapion Brotherhood By E. T. A. Hoffman Johann Fatzer By Heiner Muller Heliopolis By Ernst Jünger Selected Works By Hans Henny Jahnn Amsterdam, Keizersgrachet 333: Querido Verlag By Fritz H. Landshoff Spazieren in Berlin By Franz Hessel Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee By Thomas Brussig Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht By Karl Kraus Jacob Schllaeft By Klaus Merz Die Sonne scheint uns By Georg Klein HEBREW Days of Ziklag By S. Yizhar Death in the Family By Dahlia Ravikovitch The Street of Sand By S. Shifra HUNGARIAN Satantango By Laszlo Krasznahorkai ITALIAN Novelle per un anno By Luigi Pirandello The Diaries of Cesare Pavese By Cesare Pavese Piccolo Mondo Antico By Antonio Fogazzaro MALAY Hikayat Hang Tuah By Anonymous NORWEGIAN Det har ventet på deg By Nils Johan Rud PERSIAN Scheherazade and Her Novelist By Reza Baraheni POLISH Summa technologiae By Stanislaw Lem PORTUGUESE Grande Sertão: Veredas By João Guimarães Rosa Terra Sonâmbula By Mia Couto Os Lusíadas By Luís de Cam es Jubiabá By Jorge Amado Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo and Madeira Feita Cruz By Nélida Piñon Fogo Morto By José Lins do Rêgo Crônica da Casa Assassinada By Lúcio Cardoso Amor de Perdição By Camilo Castelo Branco RUSSIAN The Death of the Vizhir Muktar By Yuri Tynianov White Horse By Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko SPANISH El Criticón By Baltasar Gracián Cuentos Completos By Cristina Peri Rossi Todos se van By Wendy Guerra Ronda naval sota la boira By Pere Calders Poesia reunida By Cristina Peri Rossi Pobrecito poeta que era Yo... By Roque Dalton Pobre Negro By Rómulo Gallegos Halma By Benito Pérez Galdós Gracias por el Fuego By Mario Benedetti General History of Drugs By Antonio Escohotado El Monte By Lydia Cabrera Selected Works By David Rosenmann-Taub García Márquez, Historia de un Deicidio By Mario Vargas Llosa Selected Works By Joaquín Pasos Los Detectives Salvajes By Roberto Bolaño Historia de las Literaturas By Guillermo de Torres The Magic Labyrinth By Max Aub Adan Buenosayres By Leopoldo Marechal Selected Works By Ramón María del Valle-Inclán Selected Works By Fanny Rubio Selected Works By Héctor Aguilar Camín Castigo Divino By Sergio Ramírez El Crótalon By Cristóbal de Villalón SWEDISH Selected Works By Göran Sonnevi Slottet By Anders Ehnmark Samhället Som Teater, Estetik Och Politic I Tredje Riket By Ingemar Karlsson and Arne Ruth Kanelbiten (Cinnamoncandy) By Lars Ahlin TURKISH Selected Works By Suzan Samanci Canguncem By Küçük Iskender Selected Works By Sami Bayd Gül Ve Telve By Seyhan Erozçelik Selected Works By Lale Müldür UKRAINIAN A Field Guide to Ukrainian Sex By Oksana Zabuzhko Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2008 PEN American Center. 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