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This is a list for books of literary or cultural significance that have not yet been fully translated into English. It includes works readers wish were available, books untranslated in whole or in part, and voices overlooked in global literary exchange.
Please feel free to contribute. This list is about honoring what we don’t yet know (and hoping some publisher will take note).
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54 books · 3 voters · list created May 9th, 2025 by Erin (votes) .
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message 1: by Erin (last edited May 12, 2025 09:57PM) (new)

Erin See my personal list, if interested, for comments on why each book should be translated.

Exception: Tutunamayanlar by Oğuz Atay does by all accounts have an excellent English translation (The Disconnected) BUT ONLY 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED! I have no words for that…
I’ll just take a number and await my hand-copied illuminated manuscript…


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