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1 January – 31 December 2019
A Literary Voyage Through Twelve Decades
in Ten Plunges and Two Extra Deep Dives
The Two Extra Deep Dives |
1900-09: | Victor Català: Solitude (1905), original Catalan title: Solitud |
1910-19: | Mori Ōgai: The Wild Geese (1911-13), original Japanese title: 雁 |
The Ten Plunges |
1920-29: | Clara Viebig: The Golden Hills (1927), original German title: Die goldenen Berge |
1930-39: | Samuel Beckett: Murphy (1938) |
1940-49: | Natalie Sarraute: Portrait of a Man Unknown (1948), original French title: Portrait d'un inconnu |
1950-59: | Per Olov Enquist: The Magnetist's Fifth Winter (1954), original Swedish title: Magnetisörens femte vinter |
1960-69: | Pak Kyongni: The Curse of Kim's Daughters (1962), original Korean title: 김약국의 딸들 |
1970-79: | Francisco Umbral: A Mortal Spring (1975), original Spanish title: Mortal y rosa |
1980-89: | Nélida Piñon: The Republic of Dreams (1984), original Brazilian-Portuguese title: A República dos Sonhos |
1990-99: | Gao Xingjian: One Man's Bible (1999), original Chinese title: 一個人的聖經 |
2000-09: | Domnica Radulescu: Train to Trieste (2008), original Romanian title: Trenul de Trieste |
2010-19: | Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetary (2011), original Italian title: Il cimitero di Praga |