Rosemarie Translated Language Challenge

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Level 1: Language Learner
1. I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years (German)
2. The Voyage of Argo (Greek)
3. Judas (Hebrew)
4. Jerusalem: I Dalarne (Swedish)
5. The Bridge on the Drina (Serbo-Croat)

Level 2: Translator
6. Khufu's Wisdom (Arabic)
7. The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting (Chinese)
8. The Uses of Literature (Italian)
9. The Big Green Tent (Russian)
10. Beowulf (Old English)

Level 3: Interpreter
11. They Were Counted (Hungarian)
12. The Sultan of Byzantium (Turkish)
13. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian)
14. The Golden Ass (Latin)
15. Konrad Wallenrod (Polish)

Level 4: Linguist
16. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (French)
17. Independent People (Icelandic)
18. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Korean)
19. The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction (Portuguese)
20. An Enemy of the People (Norwegian)

Level 5: Polyglot
21. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Japanese)
22. My Father's Notebook (Dutch)
23. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Czech)
24. Elegy for Kosovo: Stories (Albanian)

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Language 1: German

I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer


Translated by Martin Chalmers

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Language 2: Greek

The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes


Translated by E.V. Rieu

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Language 3: Hebrew

Judas by Amos Oz


Translated by Nicholas de Lange

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Language 4: Swedish

Jerusalem: I Dalarne by Selma Lagerlöf


Translated by Velma Swanston Howard.

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Language 5: Serbo Croat

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić


Translated by Lovett F. Edwards

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Language 6: Arabic

Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz


Translated by Raymond Stock

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Language 7: Chinese

The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting by Tang Xianzu


Translated by Cyril Birch

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Language 8: Italian

The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino


Translated by Patrick Creagh

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Language 9: Russian

The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya


Translated by Polly Gannon

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Language 10: Old English

Beowulf

Translated by Seamus Heaney

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Language 11: Hungarian

They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy


Translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen.

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Language 12: Turkish

The Sultan of Byzantium by Selçuk Altun


Translated by Clifford Endres and Selhan Endres.

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Language 13: Sumerian

The Epic of Gilgamesh


Translated by various scholars and N.K. Sandars

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Language 14: Latin

Golden Ass by Apuleius


Translated by William Adlington.

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Language 15: Polish

Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz


Translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs

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Language 16: French

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki


Translated by Ian MacLean

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Language 17: Icelandic

Independent People by Halldór Kiljan Laxness


Translated by J. A. Thompson

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Language 18: Korean

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang


Translated by Chi-Young Kim

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Language 19: Portuguese

The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction by Toni Marques


Translated by a different translator for each story

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Language 20: Norwegian

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen


Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp

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Language 21: Japanese

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō

Translated by Noboyuki Yuasa

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Language 22: Dutch

My Father's Notebook by Kader Abdolah


Translated by Susan Massotty

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Language 23: Czech

The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal


Translated by James Naughton

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Language 24: Albanian

Elegy for Kosovo: Stories byIsmail Kadare


Translated by Peter Constantine