Translated fiction: 5 recommendations!

[@elliewiltshire7001]

Please please please make some more videos. You're content is fantastic, inspiring and refreshing.

[@JeansThoughts]

The description of the translator chose to translate the last book is fascinating and makes me want to read it all the more! Great video :D.

[@bibliophilereads]

I love it when books include translator notes! Thanks :)

[@KnowledgelostOrgOnline]

as a big advocate of translated fiction, this video pleases me. I'm happy to see you mentioning the translator and also pronouncing Nabokov correctly :)

[@bibliophilereads]

I tried hard to pronounce Nabokov correctly but I still slipped up a couple of times! Do you have any translated fiction recommendations? :)

[@KnowledgelostOrgOnline]

I read so much translated fiction, it is hard to recommend just one. However this year I've enjoyed A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Submission by Michel Houellebecq, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos

[@bibliophilereads]

+Knowledge Lost I'm hoping to read The Vegetarian soon! Thanks for the recommendations!

[@scsreads]

Thanks so much for these recommendations! I'm trying to read at least 2 translated works this year, and now I have some books to check out :)

[@bibliophilereads]

I can't wait to see which ones you pick!

[@laurasegal4965]

I actually had no idea Nabokov ever wrote in English himself, and I think it's really cool that the original author would aid in the translation of his/her own writings! :)

[@bibliophilereads]

I know, right? It's actually a thing, my mom was learning about self-translation in one of her courses and it's pretty interesting because some people wonder if it really is translation, or if it's just rewriting the novel in another language!

[@MlleBonbonViolette]

Hi ! I also like to read foreign literature (except that for me anything not in French is foreign literature ^^) so I'm glad you made this video. I hope you'll record more videos on this subject later on.

[@bibliophilereads]

I definitely will!

[@evahoo7134]

I read "the Clown" (Ansichten eines Clowns in German) in high school and really liked it. Would be interesting to read the translated version =). Nice video and good idea =)

[@bibliophilereads]

Have you read anything else by Böll? I can't wait to read more by him!

[@evahoo7134]

+TheBibliophile Yes, I have read: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (in English probably: The lost honour of Katharina Blum). I can only recommend this novel =). I also want to read some of his satirical short stories!

[@Bookupied]

Interesting! I still have not read Nabokov.

[@bibliophilereads]

I hope you do! Read Pnin :)

[@brittabohlerthesecondshelf]

Great list of books! I love all of the writers you've mentioned & Heinrich Böll's Clown is one of my favorites (well, I am German, so ... :-)). And Claire Lispector is such an underrated writer. And because you enjoy reading translated fiction: there is a goodreads reading group called 'manbookering', run by Max from @welldonebooks. We read the Man booker nominees ofcourse but currently we are invested in the Man Booker International books. I've sent you an invite, maybe you are interested...

[@bibliophilereads]

What other German books would you recommend? I'll make sure to join that group!

[@brittabohlerthesecondshelf]

TheBibliophile Well, I don't know your literary taste that well (always good to start recommendations with a disclaimer :-)) but if you are interested in fiction set during the Holocaust then maybe check out Erich Maria Remarque's Spark of Life and Night in Lisbon. And from a contemporary writer, Bernhad Schlink, The Reader. Other contemporary German who might be worth having a look: Julie Zeh, Jenny Erpenbeck and Daniel Kehlmann. All of their books have been translated into English.

[@bibliophilereads]

+Britta Böhler thanks for the recommendations!