TWENTIETH CENTURY
LITERATURE
Rabindranath Tagore, The Broken Nest (1901).
♀ Selma Lagerlöf, Jerusalem (1902).
Gerhart Hauptmann, Rose Bernd (1903).
Luigi Pirandello, The Late Mattia Pascal (1904).
Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat (1905).
Natsume Sōseki, Botchan (1906).
Maxim Gorky, Mother (1907).
E. M. Forster, A Room with a View (1908).
Maurice Barrès, Colette Baudoche (1909).
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910).
George Bernard Shaw, Fanny’s First Play (1911).
Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst (1912).
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (1913).
Ady Endre, Who has seen me? (1914).
Mori Ōgai, Sansho the Bailiff (1915).
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole (1917).
Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrams (1918).
Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor (1919).
Lu Xun, A Storm in a Teacup (1920).
♀ Sigrid Undset, The Wife (1921).
Reşat Nuri Güntekin, The Wren (1922).
Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh (1923).
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924).
André Gide, The Counterfeiters (1925).
♀ Halide Edib Adıvar, Hit the Whore! (1926).
Stefan Zweig, Confusion (1927).
Federico García Lorca, Gypsy Ballads (1928).
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Pather Panchali (1929).
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930).
♀ Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931).
Joseph Roth, Radetzky March (1932).
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, A Portrait of Shunkin (1933).
Fernando Pessoa, Message (1934).
Nâzım Hikmet, Letters to Taranta Babu (1935).
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936).
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937).
Miroslav Krleža, On the Edge of Reason (1938).
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars (1939).
Ba Jin, Autumn (1940).
Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat (1941).
Louis Aragon, Elsa’s Eyes (1942).
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (1943).
Albert Camus, Caligula (1944).
Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina (1945).
Halldór Laxness, Fire in Copenhagen (1946).
Henry de Montherlant, The Master of Santiago (1947).
Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country (1948).
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph (1949).
Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees (1950).
♀ Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (1951).
R. K. Narayan, The Financial Expert (1952).
Boris Vian, Heartsnatcher (1953).
Driss Chraïbi, The Simple Past (1954).
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955).
Mishima Yukio, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956).
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957).
Jorge Amado, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958).
Günter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959).
Alberto Moravia, The Empty Canvas (1960).
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure (1961).
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Ismail Kadare, The General of the Dead Army (1963).
Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade (1964).
Stratis Tsirkas, Drifting Cities (1965).
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Green House (1966).
Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar (1967).
Ahmadou Kourouma, The Suns of Independence (1968).
Rachid Boudjedra, The Repudiation (1969).
Michel Tournier, The Erl-King (1970).
Heinrich Böll, Group Portrait with Lady (1971).
Ōe Kenzaburō, The day he himself shall wipe my tears away (1972).
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Calderón (1973).
Leonardo Sciascia, One Way or Another (1974).
Carlos Fuentes, Terra nostra (1975).
Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves (1976).
Abe Kōbō, Secret Rendezvous (1977).
Georges Perec, Life: A User’s Manual (1978).
V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River (1979).
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (1980).
Patrick Süskind, The Double Bass (1981).
Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark (1982).
Antonio Tabucchi, The Woman of Porto Pim (1983).
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus (1986).
Avraham Yehoshua, Five Seasons (1987).
Milorad Pavić, Landscape Painted with Tea (1988).
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989).
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance (1990).
Rachid Mimouni, A Pain to Live (1991).
Javier Marías, A Heart So White (1992).
Endō Shūsaku, Deep River (1993).
Vasily Aksyonov, Generations of Winter (1994).
Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995).
António Lobo Antunes, The Inquisitors’ Manual (1996).
Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder (1997).
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (1998).
John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace (1999).
Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost (2000).
APPENDIX
Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless (1906).
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925).
Paul Claudel, The Satin Slipper (1929).
♀ Irène Némirovsky, David Golder (1929).
Alain Laubreaux, The Black Corset (1930).
♀ Pearl Buck, The Good Earth (1931).
♀ Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936).
Aimé Césaire, Return to My Native Land (1939).
Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe (1940).
Léopold Sédar Senghor, Songs of Shadow (1945).
Cesare Pavese, The Beautiful Summer (1949).
Kénizé Mourad, Regards from the dead princess (1987).
Tayeb Saddiki, The Seven Beauty Spots (1991).
Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy (1993).
NON-FICTION
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926).
