Diane's Challenge

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Another for contemporary fiction: The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar.

Original title: Aýpi hakynda rowaýat
Original language: Turkmen
Translator: W.M. Coulson

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Another for literary fiction: A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov.

Original title: Балада за Георг Хених
Original language: Bulgarian
Translator: Robert Sturm

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Another for short stories: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić.

Original title: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje
Original language: Croatian
Translator: Celia Hawkesworth

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Another for contemporary fiction: A Ballad for Georg Henig by Viktor Paskov.

Original title: Балада за Георг Хених
Original language: Bulgarian
Translator: Robert Sturm

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Another for literary fiction: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić

Original title: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje
Original language: Croatian
Translator: Celia Hawkesworth

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Another for historical fiction: Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross.

Original title: Professor Martensi ärasõit
Original language: Estonian
Translator: Anselm Hollo

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Another for historical fiction: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.

Original title: Austerlitz
Original language: German
Translator: Anthea Bell

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Another for contemporary fiction: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa.

Original title: O Vendedor de Passados
Original language: Portuguese
Translator: Daniel Hahn

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Another for contemporary fiction: Dirty Feet by Edem Awumey.

Original title: Les pieds sales
Original language: French
Translator: Lazer Lederhendler

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Another for classic fiction: Thaïs by Anatole France.

Original title: Thaïs
Original language: French
Translator: Robert Bruce Douglas

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Another for memoir: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.

Original title: Se questo è un uomo
Original language: Italian
Translator: Stuart J. Woolf

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Another for mystery: The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Original title: Der Richter und sein Henker
Original language: German
Translator: Joel Agee

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Another for historical fiction: The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis.

Original title: Η μητέρα του σκύλου
Original language: Greek
Translator: Fred A. Reed

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Another for classic fiction: The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil.

Original title: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß
Original language: German
Translator: Shaun Whiteside

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Another for contemporary fiction: Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi.

Original title: Eve de ses décombres
Original language: French
Translator: Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Another for classic fiction: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

Original title: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Original language: French
Translator: Robin Buss

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Another for contemporary fiction: And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier.

Original title: Il pleuvait des oiseaux
Original language: French
Translator: Rhonda Mullins

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Another for contemporary fiction: Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs by Abdulaziz Al Farsi.

Original title: الأرض يبكي ، يضحك زحل
Original language: Arabic
Translator: Nancy Roberts

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Another for speculative fiction (my wild card category): The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago.

Original title: História do Cerco de Lisboa
Original language: Portuguese
Translator: Giovanni Pontiero

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Another for non-fiction: Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Original title: Biruma Kara no tegami
Original language: Burmese
Translator: Unknown

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Another for non-fiction (essays): The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz.

Original title: El laberinto de la soledad
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Lysander Kemp and Yara Milos

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Another for classic fiction: The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Original title: La ciudad y los perros
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Lysander Kemp

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Another for historical fiction: Your Father's Room by Michel Déon.

Original title: La chambre de ton père
Original language: French
Translator: Julian Evans

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Another for historical fiction: Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xosé Neira Vilas.

Original title: Memorias dun neno labrego
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Camilo Ogando Vázquez

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Another for historical fiction: Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo.

Original title: Au-delà des rizières
Original language: French
Translator: Allison M. Charette

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Another for classic fiction: Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki.

Original title: こころ
Original language: Japanese
Translator: Meredith McKinney

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Another for short stories: A Taste of Ecuador: The Collected Stories of Eugenia Viteri by Eugenia Viteri.

Original title: Unknown
Original language: Spanish
Translator: L.S. Thomas

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Another for classics: The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz.

Original title: Dolina Issy
Original language: Polish
Translator: Louis Iribarne

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Another for contemporary fiction: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke.

Original title: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
Original language: German
Translator: Michael E. Roloff

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Another for contemporary fiction: The Kaffir of the Karthala by Mohamed Toihiri.

Original title: Le Kafir du Karthala
Original language: French
Translator: Anis Memon

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Another for literary fiction: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez.

Original title: El otoño del patriarca
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Gregory Rabassa

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Another for historical fiction: Another Love: A Novel by Erzsébet Galgóczi.

Original title: Törvényen belül
Original language: Hungarian
Translator: Ines Rieder and Felice Newman

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Another for mystery: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov.

Original title: Смерть постороннего
Original language: Russian
Translator: George Bird

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Another for historical fiction: Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende.

Original title: De amor y de sombra
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Margaret Sayers Peden

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Another for classics: The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier.

Original title: Los pasos perdidos
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Harriet de Onís

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Another for historical fiction: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Original title: La fiesta del chivo
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Edith Grossman

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Another for classics: Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Original title: Tres tristes tigres
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine

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Another for short stories: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš.

Original title: Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča
Original language: Serbian
Translator: Duska Mikic-Mitchell

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Another for poetry: Riverbed of Memory by Daisy Zamora

Original title: Unable to find
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Barbara Paschke

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Another for classics: Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann.

Original title: Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde
Original language: German
Translator: John E. Woods

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Another for classics: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

Original title: Отцы и дети
Original language: Russian
Translator: Constance Garnett

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Another for literary fiction: Varamo by César Aira.

Original title: Varamo
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Chris Andrews

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Another for mysteries: The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul.

Original title: Mordet på Halland
Original language: Danish
Translator: Marti Aitken

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16. Horror: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi.

Original title: فرانكشتاين في بغداد
Original language: Arabic
Translator: Jonathan Wright

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Another for history: Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano.

Original title: La caras y las máscaras
Original language: Spanish
Translator: Cedric Belfrage

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Another for historical fiction: Human Acts by Han Kang.

Original title: 소년이 온다
Original language: Korean
Translator: Deborah Smith

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Another for contemporary fiction: Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb.

Original title: Stupeur et tremblements
Original language: French
Translator: Adriana Hunter

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Contemporary fiction: The Laws by Connie Palmen

Original title: De Wetten
Original language: Dutch
Translator: Richard Huijing

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Classics: Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane.

Original title: Effi Briest
Original language: German
Translator: Hugh Rorrison

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Classics: The Red Room by August Strindberg.

Original title: Röda rummet
Original language: Swedish
Translator: Ellie Schleussner