2005 Translation of Literature

Author: Han Zhongliang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The works selected for the "Translation Literature Volume" this year include three major categories: fiction, essays, and poetry. In the fiction category, eleven works were chosen, including three love novels by Russian writer Petr Alekseyevich, the novel The Sky by Irish writer Flann O'Brien, the novel Survivor of the Smiling Forest by Vietnamese writer Vu Thi Hoa, the works Python Dog and Birthday by Australian and Chinese-American writers, Animal Stories by American writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, Why Was It Me? by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, Tongue-Tied by Japanese female writer Kimiko Hara, The Mad Philosopher by Russian postmodernist writer Tolstoy, Lucy's Death by Canadian female writer Margaret Atwood, and the novel What Happened to the Man in the Elevator? by Korean writer Kim Young-ha. In the essays category, works by French writer Michel Tournier and two American writers, Oliver and Jean Sibelius, were selected. The poetry category includes novels such as Lolita by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, as well as a series of poems by Portuguese female poet Andre Azoulay, hailed as the "Queen of Portuguese Poetry."