GeorgeP's 2023 Translated challenge

[George P.]

I will try for 11 different languages. I have 2 finished already and 2 more in-progress.

[George P.]

January: French: The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac of France and Farsi: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat of Iran.

[George P.]

February and March:
German: Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht and Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann.
Russian: Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
More French: The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge and Happening by Annie Ernaux.
I seem to be reading too many German and French translations and not enough variety.
4 languages so far.

[George P.]

April and May:
Arabic: The The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi of Kuwait.
Spanish: El Señor Presidente by Miguel Ángel Asturias of Guatemala (Nobel Prize).
This makes six languages. I'm working on Greek and Korean now.

[George P.]

June: Greek - Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou and Korean - Human Acts by Kang Han.
That makes 8 languages and I'm working on a ninth one for July- Portuguese.
I've read novels by two Nigerian writers but they were both written in English.

[Mome_Rath]

Those are some good books you’ve read. I’m a particular fan of Buddenbrooks. Hope you enjoy Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon as you close in on a ninth language this year!

[George P.]

#9, Portuguese: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado a couple weeks ago. Very good.
Working on an Italian now.

[George P.]

In 2023 I read books translated from 13 languages, so exceeded my goal by 2.
The languages were: French, Farsi (Iranian), German, Russian, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Chinese, Czech.
A couple of these were the first I ever read translated from those languages (Farsi, Korean).
The language from which I read the most translated books was French, with seven, followed by German with six.
40 of the 74 books I read in 2023 were by writers not from the U.S., U.K. or Canada (I'm in the U.S.). I think I did a good job traveling the world through reading.