I've been thinking about a fun 'challenge': Read one book from every country.What are some good books (if possible translated into english) from countries that are not traditionally talked about when it comes to literature. If you are from the underrepresented regions, what would be the one book to represent your country?Skip these regions (everyone has read a book from these): North America, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Zimbabwe, NigeriaRegions I am interested in: Baltics, Balkans, Middle East, South-East Asia, Central America, Carribean, North Africa, Subsaharan Africa, Eastern Africa.This is not thread to talk about what is the singular book to represent USA, France or Britain.
>>25358219>Skip these regions (everyone has read a book from these): North America, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Zimbabwe, NigeriaLol lmao
>>25358223what's funny about that
>>25358234What's the Zimbabwe book? I guess Achebe would be most obvious for Nigeria
I just posted a few hours ago about a great book from Thailand I found>>25357772
>>25358219A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon Brown for Caribbean
>>25358248Works by NoViolet Bulawayo are world famous. Glory is basically Zimbabwean combo of 1984 and Animal Farm.Nigeria you got Achebe, Wole Basedinka and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Kenya got Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (A Grain of Wheat).>>25358269Interdasting. That could be a Thailand pick, for Vietnam I got Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (The Mountains Sing).
>>25358287Why would you assume everyone has read some obscure authors from Zimbabwe or Kenya who appear to just write the same Black nationalist racial grievance slops as every other contemporary Black author
>>25358369I think you dont realize how retarded you are. Funnier for the fact that you are some pajeetka from mumbai.
>>25358433Why would you assume I'm Indian? I'm a White American. You make a lot of assumptions, you should assume less and try to develop your sense of empathy further so that your assumptions are less off base.
>>25358626gooooooooood moooooooorning sir
>>25358633>you don't know the number one author in Zimbabwe? must be a jeet
>>25358287>Works by NoViolet Bulawayo are world famousare you literally zimbabwean
>>25358856Idk, are you? Becouse she is receiving awards everywhere. Even in eastern europe. This will shock you, so you better sit down, but your dumbass not knowing something doesn't mean it isn't true (hard to explain to brownoid, sorry, but gooooooooood mooooooooorning)
is the OP like AI or something? don't understand the logic here, basically calling everyone Indian because they don't know a brown author? It doesn't even make sense it's like simulacrum of a 4chan post
>>25358901Those are the awards they hand out like candy to Indians using AI. Why would anyone serious care about them?
>>25358969>AI in 2014
>>25359041The AI scandals are the latest humiliations but the tastes of literary prizes being shit has been going on for a long time.
>>25358219Not sure if you count Wales as simply part of "British" literature, although likely you have only read English literature, but I would argue it's underrepresented, and English language Welsh literature is underrepresented, popular ones are "How Green Was My Valley" and "Rape of the Fair Country"If you prefer something from a different language translated to English you could try "Y Mabinogion"
