Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Translated Books Completed in 2022:

Arabic:
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems by Maayaa Abau Al-Ohayyaat, trans. by Fady Joudah

Bulgarian:
Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva, trans. by Izidora Angel
Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov, trans. by Zornitsa Hristova

Chinese:
Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang, trans. by Roddy Flagg

French:
Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop, trans. by Bhakti Shringarpure & C. Hanaburgh
Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon, trans. by Jean Stewart
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas, trans. by Siân Reynolds
Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Melanie L. Mauthner

Icelandic:
Red Milk: A Novel by Sjón, trans. by Victoria Cribb

Japanese:
My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura, trans. by Sam Bett
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, trans. by Ho-Ling Wong

Korean:
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah, trans. by Deborah Smith

Persian:
Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, trans. by Sassan Tabatabai

Russian:
Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov, trans. by Hugh Aplin
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov, trans. by James Riordan

Spanish:
The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo, trans. by Isabelle Kaufeler
Call Me Cassandra: A Novel by Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner
Bezoar & Other Unsettling Stories by Guadalupe Nettel, trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine
Yesterday by Juan Emar, trans. by Megan McDowell
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal, trans. by Nick Caistor
When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán, trans. by Sophie Hughes
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, trans. by Lawrence Schimel
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers), edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles & Graciela Montaldo, parts trans. by various translators
Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. by Alfred Mac Adam
The Forgery by Ave Barrera, trans. by Ellen Jones

Tegulu (a Dravidian language used in some parts of southern India):
Father May Be An Elephant and Mother a Small Basket, But… by Gogu Shyamala, trans. by Diia Rajan, Sashi Kumar, A. Suneetha, N. Manohar Reddy, R. Srivatsan, Gita Ramaswamy, Uma Bhrugubanda, P. Pavana, & Duggirala Vasanta

Yoruba:
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D.O. Fagunwa, trans. by Wole Soyinka

My Translated Book Challenges for Previous Years:
2021 (Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, Gikuyu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nuer, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish).

Finished 2022 with translations from 12 different languages. (Interpreter: Read translated books from 11-15 different languages.)

Total of 27 translated books read (from an overall total of 53 books read) in 2022.

From books read in 2022, places visited: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, England, Equatorial Guinea, France, Ghana (Gold Coast), Iceland, India, Iran, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Make believe or unknown place, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine/West Bank, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Uruguay, USA.