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The document provides a list of over 200 works from different regions around the world that are part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The works span different genres including novels, short stories, folktales, poems, plays and include translations into English and other languages.

The collection includes novels, short stories, folktales, poems, plays and other works such as essays, chronicles and philosophy/religion works spanning different regions around the world.

Many of the works are translated into English as well as other languages like French, Spanish, Italian and others to help promote global cultural understanding.

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44 Hungarian Short Stories


Europe & North America, Hungary
Trans. from the Hungarian by a board of scholars; selection by Lajos Illés; preface
by C. P. Snow
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : English
Corvina Kiadó/UNESCO, 1979. 733 p.
Short stories

A Certain Woman [Aru onna]


Takeo, Arishima (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Kenneth Strong
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kenneth Strong
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1978. 382 p.
Novel

A Collection of Tales from Uji [Uji Shui Monogatari]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
A study and trans. from the Japanese by D. E. Mills
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. E. Mills
Cambridge University Press/UNESCO, 1970. 459 p., illus.
Folk-tale, legend

A Dark Night's Passing [Anya koro]


Shiga, Naoya (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
test
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edwin McClellan
Kodanska International/UNESCO, 1976. 408 p.
Novel

A Death in Delhi. Modern Hindi Short Stories


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted 1973
Edited by G. C. Roadarmel
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by G. C. Roadarmel
UNESCO/University of California Press, 1972. 211 p.
Short stories

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A Discourse of Three Drunkards on Government [Sansuijin Keirin Mondo]


Nakae, Chomin (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Nobuko Tzukui and Jeffrey Hammond
Edited by Jeffrey Hammond; Nobuko Tzukui
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Nobuko Tsukui
UNESCO/Weatherhill, 1984. 138 p.
Novel

A Gamble with Death [Jocul cu moartea]


Stancu, Zaharia (Europe & North America, Romania)
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. A. Hillard
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1969. 201 p.
Novel

A Pilgrimage to the Himalayas and Other Silhouettes from Memory [Smriti ki


Rekhyan]
Varma, Mahadevi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Radhika Prasad Srivastava and Lillian Srivastava
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Lillian Srivastava - Radhika Prasad Srivastava
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1975. 127 p.
Novel

A Portion in Paradise and Other Jewish Folktales


Europe & North America
Compiled by H. M. Nahmad
Published language(s) : English
The Viking Press/UNESCO, 1973. 170 p.
Folk-tale, legend

A Remarkable Aerial Voyage and Discovery of a New Planet [Kort verhaal van
eene aanmerklijke luchtreis en nieuwe planeetontdekking]
Bilderdijk, Willem (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
Introduction by Paul Vincent; afterword by Luk de Vos
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Paul Vincent
UNESCO/Wilfion Books, 1987. 88 p.
Novel

A Season on the Earth. Selected Poems


Nirala (Asia & the Pacific, India)

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Original language : Hindi


Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Rubin
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1976. 152 p.
Poetry

A Strange Attachment and Other Stories


Bibhutibhusan, Bandyopadhyay (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Phyllis Granoff
Mosaic Press/UNESCO, 1984. 277 p.
Short stories

A Tagore Reader
Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Beacon Press/UNESCO, 1966
Edited by Amiya Chakravarty
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Amiya Chakravarty
Macmillan/UNESCO, 1961. xiv + 401 p., facs., illus.
Play, poetry, prose

A Turn of the Wheel [L-Istramb]


Friggieri, Oliver (Europe & North America, Malta)
Introduction by Grazio Falzon and Konrad Hopkins
Original language : Maltese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Grazio Falzon
UNESCO/Wilfion Books, 1987. 77 p.
Novel

A Visit to Spain and North Africa, 1862 [I Spanien]


Andersen, Hans Christian (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Introduction and notes by Grace Thornton
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Grace Thornton
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1975. 198 p.
Theater

A la recherche des esprits (Récits tirés du Sou Shen Ji)


Gan Bao (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Edited by Rémi Mathieu
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French

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Translated by Rémi Mathieu


Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. 360 p.
Folk-tale, history, legend

A tenger törvénye [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Hungarian
Translated by Berta Philipp
Európa Könyvkiadó/UNESCO, 1969. 222 p.
Novel

Adriana Buenos Aires


Fernández, Macedonio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marianne Millon
José Corti/UNESCO, 1996. 313
Novel

Adán Buenosayres
Marechal, Leopoldo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Preface by Julio Cortázar
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Patrice Toulat
Bernard Grasset/UNESCO, 1995. 610 p.
Novel

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic [Estetica come


scienza dell'espressione e linguistica generale]
Croce, Benedetto (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Douglas Ainslie
Peter Owen/UNESCO/Vision Press, 1967. xxx + 503 p.
Aesthetics

Al athâr ash-shi'riyya [Oeuvres poétiques]


Rimbaud, Arthur (Europe & North America, France)
Prefaces by Alain Jouffroy and Alain Borer
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Kadhim Jihad
Al-Moutanabbi/UNESCO, 1996. 472 p.
Poetry

Al-'aqd ul-igtima' iyyu aw mabadi' ul-huquq is-siyasiyyah [Du contrat social

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ou principes du droit politique]


Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Europe & North America, France)
Reprinted by Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-
d’œuvre/UNESCO, 1972
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Boulos Ghanem
Editions Dar-el-Maaref, 1954. 218 p.
Philosophy

Al-Mazini's Egypt. Midu and his Accomplices. Return to a Beginning. The


Fugitive.
Al-Mazini, Ibrahim Abd al-Qadir (Arab States, Egypt)
Introduction by William Hutchins
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by William Hutchins
Three Continents Press/UNESCO, 1983. 244
Novel

Al-Sirun-Ashiq [Un captif amoureux]


Genet, Jean (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Kadhim Jihad Hassan
Editions Chaqiyyat/UNESCO, 1997. 432 p.
Novel

Al-Tatawur al-mubdi' [L'évolution créatrice]


Bergson, Henri (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Djémil Saliba
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1981. 332
p.
Philosophy

Al-i'tirafat [Les confessions]


Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Europe & North America, France)
Introduction by Khalil Ramez Sarkis
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Khalil Ramez Sarkis
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1982. 625
p.
Biography/memoirs

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Al-munadulugiya
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (Europe & North America, Germany)
Trans. from the French [La monadologie] by Albert Nasri Nader. Reprinted 1965
Published language(s) : Arabic
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1956.
xxxv + 72 p.
Philosophy

Alexander the Great [Megas Alexandros]


Kazantzakis, Nikos (Europe & North America, Greece)
Preface by Theodora Vasils
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Theodora Vasils
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1983. 232 p.
Novel

Amegbetoa ou les aventures d'Agbezuge [Amegbetoa]


Obianim, Sam (Africa, Ghana)
Introduction and translation by Agbeko Amegbleame, with the collaboration of
Yawovi Ahiavee and Agbota Zinzou
Original language : Ewe
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Agbeko Amegbleame
Karthala/UNESCO, 1990. 141 p.
Novel

Ames masquées [Sjarlanas maskerad]


Lagerkvist, Pär (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Pierre Jean Oswald/UNESCO, 1974. 126 p.
Short stories

Amita
Yashpal (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Corinne Friend
Arnold Heinemann/UNESCO, 1977. 208 p.
History, novel

An Anthology
Hedayat, Sadeq (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Edited by Ehsan Yarshater

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Original language : Persian


Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/Westview Press, 1979. 223 p.
Short stories

An Anthology
Sunthorn Phu (Asia & the Pacific, Thailand)
Original language : Thai
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Montri Umavijani
Office of National Culture Commission/UNESCO, 1990. 88 p.
Poetry

An Anthology of Chuvash Poetry


Europe & North America, Russian Federation
Comp. and introduction by Guennady Aygi
Original language : Russian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Peter France
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1991. 220 p.
Poetry

An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted by Oxford University Press/ UNESCO, 1965
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Daniel H. H. Ingalls
Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1965. 611 p.
Poetry

An Anthology of Sinhalese Literature of the Twentieth Century


Asia & the Pacific, Sri Lanka
Selected by the National Commission of Sri Lanka for UNESCO; introduction by
C. H. B. Reynolds
Original language : Sinhalese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by C. H. B. Reynolds
Paul Norbury/UNESCO, 1987. 333 p.
Poetry, prose

An Elusive Eagle Soars - Anthology of Modern Albanian Poetry


Europe & North America, Albania
Introduction by Rober Elsie
Edited by Robert Elsie
Original language : Albanian
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Rober Elsie


Forest Books/UNESCO, 1993. 213 p.
Poetry

An Introduction to Persian Literature


Levy, Reuben (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1969. 194 p.
Literary criticism

An Outline of a Theory of Civilization [Bummeiron no Gairyaku]


Fukuzawa, Yukichi (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. A. Dilworth - G. Cameron Hurst
Sophia University Press/UNESCO, 1973. 205 p.
Essay

Ancient Monuments [Vem älskar Yngve Frej?]


Claesson, Stig (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Irène Scobbie
Thule Press/UNESCO, 1980. 142 p.
Novel

And Then [Sorekara]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Afterword and selected bibliography by Norma Moore Field
Reprinted by University of Tokyo Press/UNESCO, 1978
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Norma Moore Field
Louisiana State University Press/UNESCO, 1978. 280 p.
Novel

Andrés Bello : naissance d'une pensée latino-américaine


Bello, Andrés (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Foreword by Paul Verdevoye
Edited by François Delprat; Paul Verdevoye
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Christiane Pierre
Editions caribéennes/UNESCO, 1986. 301
Literary critic

Angels on the Head of a Pin [Angely na Konchike igly]

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Yuri Druzhnikov (Europe & North America, Russian Federation)


Translated from the Russian by Thomas Moore
Original language : Russian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Thomas Moore
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 2003. 568 p.
Novel

Angoisse [Angústia]
Ramos, Graciliano (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Geneviève Leibrich - Nicole Biros
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992
Novel

Anthem of the Decades. A Zulu Epic [iNhlokomo yeMinyaka]


Kunene, Mazisi (Africa, South Africa)
Original language : Zulu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kunene, Mazisi
Heinemann/UNESCO, 1981. 312 p.
Epic

Anthologie de la nouvelle latino-américaine


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean)
Edited by Olver Gilberto de Léon; Rubén Barreiro-Saguier
Original language : Portuguese - Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Belfond/UNESCO, 1991. 425
Short stories

Anthologie de la poésie biélorusse. Au pays des poètes


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Belarus)
Foreword by Ouladzimir Gnilamedav
Original language : Belarusian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Méridien Editeur/UNESCO, 1982. 284
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie chinoise classique


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Selection by A. d'Hormon ; foreword by Paul Demiéville
reprinted
Edited by A. d'Hormon; Paul Demiéville

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Original language : Chinese


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1962. 576
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie coréenne


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Selection by Peter Hyun et Hisik Mine
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Hisik Mine - Peter Hyun
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1972. 200
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie ibéro-américaine


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean)
Foreword by Ventura Garcia Calderón
Edited by Federico de Onis
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Nagel/UNESCO, 1956. 674
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie japonaise classique


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Foreword and commentaries by G. Renondeau
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by G. Renondeau
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1971. 259
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie mexicaine


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Selection, commentaries and foreword by Octavio Paz
Edited by Paul Claudel
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Guy Lévis Mano
Nagel/UNESCO, 1952. 175
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie nordique ancienne, des origines à la fin du Moyen Age


Multiple authors (Europe & North America)
Foreword by Renauld-Krantz

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Original language : Norse, Old


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Renauld-Krantz
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 276
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie persane - XIe - XXe siècle


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Selection, foreword and notes by Z. Safâ
reprinted in 1987, 1997 and 2003.
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by G. Lazard - H. Massé - R. Lescot
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1970. 434
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie romantique brésilienne


Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil
Introduced by Didier Lamaison and preface by Alexei Bueno
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : Portuguese
Translated by Adrienne Alvares de Azevedo Macedo - Cécile Tricoire - Didier
Lamaison
Editions Eulina Carvalho/UNESCO, 2002. 256 p.
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie suédoise


Europe & North America, Sweden
Selection, introduction and notes by Jean-Clarence Lambert
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Clarence Lambert
Le Seuil/UNESCO, 1971. 332 p.
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie tchèque et slovaque


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Czech Republic)
Foreword by Jacques Gaucheron
Edited by Jacques Gaucheron
Original language : Czech - Slovak
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Messidor/UNESCO, 1987. 417
Poetry

Anthologie de la poésie vietnamiennne. Le chant vietnamien - dix siècles de


poésie

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Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)


Original language : Vietnamese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Françoise Corrèze - Huu Ngoc - Le Van Chat - Mireille Gansel -
Nguyen Khac Vien - Pham Huy Thong - Xuan Dieu
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1981. 234
Poetry

Anthologie de la prose finlandaise


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Finland)
Foreword by Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
Edited by Jaako A. Ahokas
Original language : Finnish - Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jaakko A. Ahokas
Seghers/UNESCO, 1973. 570
Prose

Anthologie de la prose yougoslave contemporaine


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Yugoslavia)
Foreword by Jean Cassou
Original language : Macedonian - Slovenian - Serbo-Croat
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vera Naumov - Zoritsa Hadji-Vidoïkovitch
Seghers/UNESCO, 1959. 285
Prose

Anthologie de nouvelles biélorusses


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Belarus)
Foreword by Ivan Navoumenka
Original language : Belarusian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Editions Naaman/UNESCO, 1983. 217
Short stories

Anthologie de nouvelles bulgares


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Foreword by Ilia Volène
Edited by Commission nationale bulgare pour l'UNESCO
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Commission nationale bulgare pour l'UNESCO
UNESCO/les Editeurs français réunis, 1972. 330
Short stories

Anthologie de nouvelles du Bangladesh - Dans le sang et la rosée

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Asia & the Pacific, Bangladesh


Introduction by Noëlle Garnier
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : Bengali - French
Translated by Noëlle Garnier
Langues & Mondes L'Asiathèque/UNESCO, 2002. 224 p.
Short stories

Anthologie de nouvelles du Bangladesh. Dans le sang et la rosée


Asia & the Pacific, Bangladesh
Introduction by Noëlle Garnier
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : Bengali - French
Translated by Noëlle Garnier
Langues & Mondes L'Asiathèque/UNESCO, 2002. 224 p.
Short stories

Anthologie des chansons populaires grecques


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Greece)
Notes by Jean-Luc Leclanche ; foreword by Georges C. Spyridakis and Dimitri A.
Petropoulos
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Luc Leclanche
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1967. 340
Legend, poetry

Anthologie nahuatl : témoignages littéraires du Mexique indigène


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Original language : Nahuatl
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Birgitta Leander - Miguel León-Portilla
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1996. 221
Poetry, prose

Anthologie personnelle, 1950-1980


Sopov, Aco (Europe & North America, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of)
Introduction by Ante Popovski; adaptation and postface by Edouard J. Maunick
Original language : Macedonian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jasmina Sopova
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1994. 148 p.
Poetry

Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the Fourteenth Century


Asia & the Pacific, China
Edited by Cyril Birch; Donald Keene (associate editor)

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Original language : Chinese


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Cyril Birch
Grove Press/UNESCO, 1965. xxxiv + 492 p.
Poetry, prose

Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry


Europe & North America, Romania
Edited by R. MacGregor-Hastie
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. MacGregor-Hastie
Dufour/Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1969. 166 p.
Poetry

Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-nineteenth


Century
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1971. 442 p., illus.
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. Keene
Grove Press/UNESCO, 1956. 444 p.
Poetry, prose

Anthology of Korean Literature. From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Edited by Peter H. Lee
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Peter H. Lee
UNESCO/University Press of Hawaii, 1981. 313 p.
Poetry, prose

Anthology of Korean Poetry


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Selected by Peter Lee; foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Peter Lee
John Day/UNESCO, 1964. 196 p.
Poetry

Anthology of Mexican Poetry


Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico
Comp. by Octavio Paz; preface by C. M. Bowra
Original language : Spanish

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Samuel Beckett
Indiana University Press/Thames & Hudson/UNESCO, 1958. 213 p.
Poetry

Anthology of Sinhalese Literature up to 1815


Asia & the Pacific, Sri Lanka
Preface by E. F. C. Ludowyk
Original language : Sinhalese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by C. H. B. Reynolds
Allen & Unwin/Crane, Russak/UNESCO, 1972. 377 p.
Poetry, prose

Anthology of Sorbian Poetry from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day.
A Rock Against These Alien Waves
Europe & North America, Germany
Edited by Robert Elsie
Original language : Serbian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Elsie
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1990. 84 p.
Poetry

Antología de la Paz. 1948-1998 Quincuagésimo Aniversario de la Declaración


Universal de los Derechos Humanos
Latin America & the Caribbean, Bolivia
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Editorial Ánfora Nova/UNESCO, 1998. 150 p.
Poetry

Antología de la poesía húngara desde el siglo XIII hasta nuestros días


Europe & North America, Hungary
Selection and introduction by Eva Toth
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Eva Toth
Corvina Kiadó/UNESCO, 1981. 346 p.
Poetry

Antología de la poesía italiana contemporánea


Europe & North America, Italy
Selection and introduction by Horacio Armani
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Horacio Armani

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Litoral/UNESCO, 1994. 368 p.


Poetry

Antología poética
Seferis, George (Europe & North America, Greece)
Selection and introduction by P. Ignacio Vicuña
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by P. Ignacio Vicuña
UNESCO/Visor, 1989. 205 p.
Poetry

Antología poética. Cultura francesa y culturas hispánicas/Anthologie


poétique. Cultures hispaniques et culture française
Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe & North America, France, Spain)
Selection by Bernardo Schiaretta
Original language : Catalan - French - Gallegan - Nahuatl - Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Multiple translators
Noésis/UNESCO, 1988. 214 p.
Poetry

Apples of Immortality; Folk-Tales of Armenia


Europe & North America, Armenia
Reprinted by Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1968
Edited by Leon Surmelian
Original language : Armenian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leon Surmelian
UNESCO/University of California Press, 1968. 319 p., illus.
Folk-tale, legend

Arde el mar/Mer embrasée. Choix de poèmes de 1963 à 1973


Gimferrer, Pere (Europe & North America, Spain)
Introduction by Roger Noël-Mayer
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Roger Noël-Mayer
Seghers/UNESCO, 1981. 171 p.
Poetry

Ariadne's Thread: Polish Women Poets: K. Illakowiczówna, A. Kamie§ska, U.


Koziol, E. Lipska, M. Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, H. Poéwiatowska, A.
Swirszczy§ska, W. Szymborska
Europe & North America, Poland
Introduction by Susan Bassnett and Piotr Kuhiwczak
Original language : Polish

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Piotr Kuhiwczak - Susan Bassnett
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1988. 74 p.
Poetry

Ars Amandi d'un Morisque de Tunis


Arab States
Edited by Luce López-Baralt
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Gamal Abderrahman
FTERSI/UNESCO/Université de Porto Rico, 1995. 133 p.
Prose

Arte de la lengua mexicana


Olmos, Fray Andrés de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
introduction by Asención Portilla and Miguel León Portilla
Facsimile edition; transliteration by Asención Portilla and Miguel León Portilla
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana/UNESCO, 1993. 215 p.
Linguistics

Arte y vocabulario de la lengua guarani


Ruiz de Montoya, Antonio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Paraguay)
Introduction, transliteration and notes by Silvio M. Liuzzi
Facsimile edition
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional/UNESCO, 1994. 91 p. & 234 p.
Linguistics

As-siyasiyyat [Politica]
Aristote (Europe & North America, Greece)
Introduction and notes by Augustin Barbara
Reprinted 1980
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Augustin Barbara
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1957. 574
p.
Philosophy

Asl ut-taf awut baïn an-nas [Origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes]
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Europe & North America, France)
Reprinted by Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-
d’œuvre/UNESCO, 1972

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Original language : French


Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Adil Zuayter
Editions Dar-el-Maaref, 1954. 190 p.
Philosophy

Atheis
Mihardja, Achdiat (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. J. Maguire
UNESCO/University of Queensland Press, 1972. 180 p.
Novel

Atipa
Parepou, Alfred (Latin America & the Caribbean, French Guiana)
Introduction by Lambert Félix Prudent
Original language : Creole
Published language(s) : French - Creole
Translated by Michel Lohier
Editions caribéennes/UNESCO, 1980. 128 p.
Novel

Au cabaret de l'amour. Paroles


Kabir (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Preface and notes by Charlotte Vaudeville
reprinted
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charlotte Vaudeville
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1960. 239 p.
Poetry

Au coeur du vent, le mystère des chants bâuls. Les Bâuls du Bengale


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Texts collected and introduced by Aurore Gauer ; foreword by Jean-Claude Marol
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Claude Marol
Editions Accarias L'Originel/UNESCO, 1997. 160
Poetry

Au-delà du Nil
Hussein, Taha (Arab States, Egypt)
reprinted
Edited by Jacques Berque
Original language : Arabic

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by André Miquel - Anouar Louca - Jacques Berque - Michel Hayek
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1978. 288 p.
Biography/memoirs, essay

Aus dem Diwan [Diwan]


Rumi, Jalal-Al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Anne-Marie Schimmel
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1964. 79 p.
Philosophy, poetry, religion

Aus dem Diwan


Saadi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Friedrich Rücker
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1971. 93 p.
Poetry

Autobiographie du voleur de feu


Al Bayati, Abdelwahab (Arab States, Iraq)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Abdellatif Laâbi
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1984. 140
Poetry

Avec cette neige grise et sale [Hoesaek nunsaram]


Ch'oe Yun (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Patrick Maurus
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1994. 78
Novel

Aventures de voyage en pays Maya : 2. Palenque, 1840 [Incidents of travel in


Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan]
Stephens, John Lloyd (Europe & North America, United States)
Notes by Claude Baudez
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Philippe Babo
Pygmalion/UNESCO, 1993. 319 p., ill.
Travelogue

Aventures de voyage en pays maya. Copan, 1839 [Incidents of travel in

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Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan]


Stephens, John Lloyd (Europe & North America, United States)
Preface and notes by Claude Baudez
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Philippe Babo
Pygmalion/UNESCO, 1991. 306 p., ill.
Theater

Aventures merveilleuses sous terre et ailleurs de Er-Töshtük, le géant des


steppes
Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Kyrgyzstan)
Foreword and notes by Pertev Boratav and Louis Bazin
reprinted
Original language : Kirghiz
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Pertev Boratav
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 308
Epic

Avimaraka. Love's Enchanted World


Bhasa (attributed to) (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Lawrence Verry/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. D. Kosambi - J. L. Masson
Motilal Banarsidass, 1970. 151 p.
Play

Back to Heaven. Selected Poems


Ch'on Sang Pyong (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé - Young-Moo Kim
Cornell East Asia Program/UNESCO, 1995. 122 p.
Poetry

Bandarshah
Salih, Tayeb (Arab States, Sudan)
Notes by Denys Johnson-Davies
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Kegan Paul International/UNESCO, 1996. 126 p.
Novel

Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu and Han Fei Tzu

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Asia & the Pacific, China


Edited by Burton Watson
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. 452 p.
Philosophy

Bengalische Erzählungen
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Asit Datta - M. Feldsieper
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1971. 103 p.
Short stories

Book of My Mother [Le livre de ma mère]


Cohen, Albert (Europe & North America, Switzerland)
Foreword by David Coward
Original language : French
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Bella Cohen
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1997. 128 p.
Novel

Botchan
Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Alan Turney
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1973. 163 p.
Novel

Buddhist Legends [extracted from Dhammapada commentary]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Eugene Watson Burlingame
Luzac & Co. for the Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1969. 3 vols.
Legend, philosophy, religion

Buddhist Mahayana Texts


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. B. Cowel - F. Max Müller - J. Takakusu
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1958. 208 p.
Philosophy, religion

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Buddhist Suttas
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1968. xlviii + 320 p.
Philosophy, religion

Burmese Proverbs
Asia & the Pacific, Myanmar
Original language : Burmese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hla Pe
Grove Press/John Murray/UNESCO, 1962. ix + 114 p.
Folk-tale, legend

By-yän-lu Meister Yün-Wu's Niederschrift von der Smaragdenen Felswand


[Hekigamoku]
Asia & the Pacific, China
Published 1960. (Vol. I); 1967 (Vol. II)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by W. Gundert
Karl Hanser Verlag/UNESCO, 1960. 2 vols.
Legend

Cantaclaro : cavalier errant [Cantaclaro]


Gallegos, Rómulo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by François Delprat
Indigo & Côté-femmes Editions/UNESCO, 1996. 287 p.
Novel

Canti. Oeuvres morales [Operette morali]


Leopardi, Giacomo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction by J.-M. Gardair
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by F.-A. Aulard - G. Nicole - J. Bertrand - P. Jaccottet
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1982. 248 p.
Poetry

Carnet de femme
Al'Othman, Layla (Arab States, Lebanon)
Original language : Arabic

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Published language(s) : Arabic - French


Translated by Odette Petit - Wanda Voisin
Editions Publisud/UNESCO, 1997. 285 p.
Short stories

Cartas de una peruana [Lettres d'une péruvienne]


Grafigny, Françoise de (Europe & North America, France)
Postface and bibliographic notes by Colette Piau-Gillot
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Milagros Palma
Indigo Ediciones/UNESCO, 1995. 177 p.
Correspondence, prose

Cent deux poèmes indonésiens (1925-1950)


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Foreword by R. Prijono
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis-Charles Damais
Adrien Maisonneuve/UNESCO, 1965. 166, ill.
Poetry

Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology


Ch'u Tz'u (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted by Beacon Press/UNESCO, 1962
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Hawkes
Clarendon Press/UNESCO, 1959. 229 p.
Poetry

Chansonnier des preux albanais


Europe & North America, Albania
Foreword by Zihni Sako
Original language : Albanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Institut de folklore de Tirana
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1967. 143
Oral tradition, poetry

Chants mystiques de Mirabai [Mirabai ki padavali]


Mirabai (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Commented by Nicole Balbir
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nicole Balbir

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Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1979. 60 p.


Poetry, religion

Chants à Kali
Ramprasad (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and notes by Michèle Lupsa
Edited by Jean Filliozat
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michèle Lupsa
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1982. 303 p.
Poetry

Chants-poèmes des monts et des eaux. Anthologie des littératures orales des
ethnies du Viêtnam
Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam
Translated and adapted by Mireille Gansel ; foreword by Georges Condominas
Original language : Vietnamese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mireille Gansel
Sudestasie/UNESCO, 1994. 406
Oral tradition, poetry

Chemmeen
Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Santha Rama Rau
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Narayana Menon
Gollancz/UNESCO, 1962. ix + 228 p.
Novel

Chevaux blancs dans la nuit [Nochtem s belite kone]


Vejinov, Pavel (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Kiril Todorov
Seghers/UNESCO, 1978. 366 p.
Novel

Childhood [Infáncia]
Ramos, Graciliano (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Introduction by Ashley Brown
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Celso de Oliveira
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1979. 174 p.
Novel

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Children in the Wind [Kaze no naka no kodomo]


Tsubota, Jôji (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
Kegan Paul International/UNESCO, 1991. 89 p.
Novel

Chinesische Dichter der Tang-Zeit


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Günter Debon
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1964. 86 p.
Poetry

Chinesische Geschichten aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Liao-Chai Chih-i


P'u Sung-Ling (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Kai Yeh - Werner Eichhorn
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1965. 103 p.
Short stories

Chiquinho
Lopes, Baltasar (Africa, Cape Verde)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Laban
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1990. 253 p.
Novel

Choix de Jâtaka. Extraits des vies antérieures du Bouddha


Asia & the Pacific, India
reprinted
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Ginette Terral
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1958. 204
Philosophy, religion, tales

Choix de nouvelles
Djamalzadeh, Mohammad-Ali (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction by Henri Massé
Edited by André Chamson
Original language : Persian

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Stella Corbin & Hassan Lotfi
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1959. 150
Short stories

Choix de poèmes
Ady, Endre (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Introduction by György Rónay
Edited by Eugène Guillevic; László Gara
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Seghers/UNESCO, 1967. 192
Poetry

Choix de poèmes
Chevtchenko, Tarass (Europe & North America, Ukraine)
Introduction by Alexandre Deitch and Maxime Rylski
Edited by Eugène Guillevic
Original language : Ukrainian
Published language(s) : French
Seghers/UNESCO, 1964. 180
Poetry

Choix de poèmes
Grimsson, Stefan Hördur (Europe & North America, Iceland)
Introduction by Régis Boyer
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : French - Icelandic
Translated by Régis Boyer
La Barbacane/UNESCO, 1996. 170 p.
Poetry

Chronique d'une cité [To chroniko mias politias]


Prévélakis, Pandélis (Europe & North America, Greece)
Introduction by André Chamson
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Lacarrière
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1960. 108 p.
Novel

Chronique du chercheur/Tarikh-el-Fettach
Mahmoud Kati Ben El-Hadj El-Motaouakkel Kati (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by M. Delafosse - O. Houdas

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Adrien Maisonneuve/UNESCO, 1964. xx + 562 p.


History

Chronique indiscrète des mandarins [Jou-lin wai-che]


Wou King-tseu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by André Lévy
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Tchang Fou-jouei
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1976. 2 vol.
Literary criticism

Chuang Tzu. Basic Writings


Chuang Tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted 1967
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1964. ix + 148 p.
Philosophy

Chushingura. The Treasury of Loyal Retainers


Miyoshi Shoraku; Namiki Senryu; Takeda Izumo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1971. 183 p.
Play

Cinq amoureuses [Koshoku gonin onna]


Ihara, Saikaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface and notes by Georges Bonmarchand
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Bonmarchand
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1959. xviii + 287 p.
Short stories

Cinq cents contes et apologues extraits du Tripitaka chinois [Tripitaka]


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edouard Chavannes
Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien Maisonneuve/UNESCO, 1962. 3 vol.
Legend, tales

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Cinq tragédies : Gisbert d'Amstel, Joseph à Dothan, Lucifer, Jephté, Adam


exilé
Vondel, Joost van den (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
Biography and notes by Jean Stals
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Stals
Didier/UNESCO, 1969. 467 p.
Play

Cinq villes : Istanbul - Bursa - Konya - Erzurum - Ankara [Bech Chehir]


Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi (Europe & North America, Turkey)
French edition established, introduced and annotated by Paul Dumont
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul Dumont - René Giraud - Veda Z. Örs
Publisud/UNESCO, 1995. 355 p.
Essay

Citadelle de lumière, Anthologie personnelle de poèmes 1956-1997


Ôoka, Makoto (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Dominique Palmé
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 2002. 170 p.
Poetry

Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan


Han-shan (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by Burton Watson
Reprinted by Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Jonathan Cape/UNESCO, 1970. 76 p.
Poetry

Cold Water Shielded: Selected Poems


Stétié, Salah (Arab States, Lebanon)
Edited by Michael Bishop
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michael Bishop
Bloodaxe/UNESCO, 2000. 224 p.
Poetry

Collection de sable et de pierre [Shasekishû]


Mujû, Ichien (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)

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Preface and commentaries by Hartmut O. Rotermund


Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Hartmut O. Rotermund
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1980. 360 p.
Religion, short stories

Comment aimer un enfant


Korczak, Janusz (Europe & North America, Poland)
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Ahmed Lamihi
Dergham/UNESCO, 2002. 220 p.
Essay

Commentaires royaux sur le Pérou des Incas [Comentarios Reales]


Garcilaso de la Vega, Inca (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Introduction by Marcel Bataillon; notes by René L. F. Durand
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René L. F. Durand
François Maspero/UNESCO, 1982. 3 vol.
Chronicle, history

Complainte du sentier (La) [Pather panchali]


Banerji, Bibhouti Bhousan (Asia & the Pacific)
Roman traduit du bengali par France Bhattacharya
Réimprimé par la suite
Edited by Paris, Gallimard; UNESCO
Published language(s) : Bengali - French
1969. 256
Complete Poetical Works of Lucian Blaga, 1895-1961
Europe & North America, Romania
Foreword by Mircea Borcila and introduction by Keith Hitchins
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Brenda Walker - Stelian Apostolescu
The Center for Romanian Studies/UNESCO, 2001. 624 p.
Poetry

Complete Poetical Works of Lucian Blaga, 1895-1961


Europe & North America, Romania
Forword by Mircea Borcilà and introduction by Keith Hitchins
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Brenda Walker - Stelian Apostolescu

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The Center for Romanian Studies/UNESCO, 2001. 624 p.


Poetry

Comédies
Akhundov, Mirza Fath-Ali (Europe & North America, Azerbaijan)
Foreword by F. Kasimzade
Original language : Azerbaijani
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Bazin
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1967. 265
Theater

Condamné à vivre [No morirás]


Santamaría, Germán (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Preface by Fernando Ainsa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Gilard
Amérique Latine Editions/UNESCO, 1996. 215 p.
Novel

Configuration de la terre [Kitab surat al-ard]


Ibn Hauqal (Arab States)
Introduction by J. H. Kramers and Gaston Wiet
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gaston Wiet - J. H. Kramers
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/Maisonneuve et
Larose/UNESCO, 1965. 2 vol.
Theater

Configurations
Paz, Octavio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. Rukeyser
Jonathan Cape/UNESCO, 1970
Poetry

Constantino Cavafis
Cavafis, Constantino (Europe & North America, Greece)
Published language(s) : Spanish
Litoral/UNESCO, 1999. 184 p.
Poetry

Contes [Cuentos]
Unamuno, Miguel de (Europe & North America, Spain)
Original language : Spanish

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Raymond Lantier
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 335 p.
Short stories

Contes d'Ise [Ise monogatari]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Preface and comments by G. Renondeau
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by G. Renondeau
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1969. 182 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

Contes d'amour, de folie et de mort [Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte]


Quiroga, Horacio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Postface by Victor Fuenmayor
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Frédéric Chambert
A. M. Métailié/UNESCO, 1984. 193 p.
Short stories

Contes de pluie et de lune [Ugetsu monogatari]


Akinari, Ueda (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Commentaries by René Sieffert
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1956. 216
Short stories

Contes du Prince Marzbân [Marzbân-Nâmeh]


Varâvini, Sa'd al-Dîn (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction and notes by Marie-Hélène Ponroy; preface by C.-H. de Fouchécour
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marie-Hélène Ponroy
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. 255 p.
Folk-tale

Contes du pays des Moose


Sissao, Alain-Joseph (Africa, Burkina Faso)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Editions Karthala/UNESCO, 2002. 160 p.
Folk-tale

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Contes du sud du Cameroun, Beme et le fétiche de son père


Abega, Séverin Cécile (Africa, Cameroon)
Postscript by Jacques Fédry
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Editions Karthala/UNESCO, 2002. 232 p.
Folk-tale

Contes du vampire [Vetala-pancavimsatika]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Notes by Louis Renou
reprinted
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Renou
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1963. 236 p.
Folk-tale

Contes du vampire [Vetala-pancavimsatika"]


Somadeva, Bhatta (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduced by Louis Renou and Colette Caillat; annotated by Louis Renou
published in Ocean des rivières de contes, Flots 8-32, p. 900-1034, notice et notes
élargies p. 1451-1479. Paris, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Renou
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1997
Folk-tale

Contes et pièces de théâtre


Tchekov, Anton (Europe & North America, Russian Federation)
Original language : Russian
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by R. Arbad
Imprimerie de l'Université/UNESCO, 1962
Play, short stories

Contes extraordinaires du pavillon du loisir


P'ou Song-ling (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by Yves Hervouet
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1970. 224 p.
Folk-tale

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Contos da chuva e da lua [Ugetsu-Monogatari]


Akinari, Ueda (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Japanese original ; French version by R. Sieffert
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Portuguese
Translated by Manuel João Gomes
Editorial Estampa/UNESCO, 1979. 197 p.
Short stories

Contos do vampiro [Vetala-pancavimsatika]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original sanskrit ; French version by L. Renou.
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : Portuguese
Translated by Luis Claudio de Castro e Costa
Martins Fontes/UNESCO, 1986. 207 p.
Folk-tale

Crépitant tropique [Triquitraques del trópico]


Romero de Nohra, Flor (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Antoine Berman
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1978. 322 p.
Novel

Cuentos completos/1 (1945-1966)


Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Alfaguara/UNESCO, 1994. 606 p.
Folk-tale

Cuentos completos/2 (1969-1982)


Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Alfaguara/UNESCO, 1994. 509 p.
Folk-tale

Cuentos de Ise [Ise monogatari]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Japanese original. Translated in French by G. Renondeau, and from French by J.
N. Solomonoff
Original language : Japanese

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Published language(s) : Spanish


Ediciones Paidos/UNESCO, 1980. 196 p.
Folk-tale

Cuentos del vampiro [Vetala-pancavimsatika]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Sanskrit original; translated in French by L. Renou and from the French by
Alberto Luis Bixio
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : Spanish
Ediciones Paidos/UNESCO, 1980. 203 p.
Folk-tale

Cuentos ecológicos: hilos secretos de la naturaleza


Europe & North America, Latin America & the Caribbean
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Ediciones Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos/UNESCO, 1996. 126 p.
Short stories

Cuore. The Heart of a Boy


Amicis, Edmondo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Foreword by Desmond Hartley
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Desmond Hartley
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1986. 253 p.
Novel

Curial and Guelfa


Europe & North America, Spain
Original language : Catalan
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Pamela Waley
George Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1982. 287 p.
Novel

Cygne [Balâkâ]
Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Kàlidàs Nàg - Pierre-Jean Jouve
Stock/UNESCO, 1961. 157 p.
Poetry

Célébration de la grande déesse [Devi-Mahatmya]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Commentaries by Jean Varenne

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Original language : Sanskrit


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Varenne
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1975. 200
Poetry, religion

Céramiques [Ceramicà]
Sorescu, Marin (Europe & North America, Romania)
Preface by Nicolae Balota
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Françoise Cayla
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1984. 186 p.
Poetry

Damas téléférique [Kulub 'ala l'aslak]


Al-Ujayli, Abdel Salam (Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic)
Foreword by Jacques Berque
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Odette Petit
Publisud/UNESCO, 1984. 312
Novel

Dans le silence le plus tendu [Nel silenzio piú teso]


Marin, Biago (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Laïla Taha-Hussein
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 1983. 97 p.
Poetry

Daredevils of Sassoun
Europe & North America, Armenia
Illus. by Paul Sagsoorian
Reprinted by Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1966
Original language : Armenian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leon Surmelian
Alan Swallow/UNESCO, 1965. 256 p.
Epic

David de Sassoun
Europe & North America, Armenia
Introduced and annotated by Frédéric Feydit ; foreword by Joseph Orbéli
reprinted in the coll. "Connaissance de l'Orient"
Original language : Armenian

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Frédéric Feydit
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 406
Epic

De America
Montaigne, Michel de (Europe & North America, France)
Preface by Ruggiero Romano
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
UNESCO/Utz, 1991. 140 p.
Essay

De Avonturen van de Tien Prinsen [Dasakumaracarita]


Dandin (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Erik Maten
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1981. 196 p.
Folk-tale, legend

De Redder der Armen. Koreaanse verhalen


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by B. C. A. Walraven
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1980. 227 p.
Folk-tale, legend

De Ring van de Duif [Tawq al-Hamama. Fi'l-Ulfa wa'l-Ullaf]


Ibn Hazm (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by J. J. Witkam - Remke Kruk
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1977. 286 p.
Philosophy

De Schending van Soebadr


Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia
Original language : Javanese
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Ki Kodiron
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1976. 271 p.
Play

De Weg naar het Inzicht [Bodhicaryavatara]


Antideva (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit

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Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish


Translated by Ria Kloppenborg
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1980. 152 p.
Philosophy, poetry

De geschiedenis van Hayy ibn Yaqzan [Risalat Hayy ibn Yaqzan]


Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr Muhammad (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Remke Kruk
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1985. 132 p.
Novel, philosophy

Death in Beirut [Tawahin Beïrut]


Awwad, Tawfiq Yusuf (Arab States, Lebanon)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leslie McLoughlin
Heinemann/UNESCO, 1976. 190 p.
Novel

Den Hemmelige Tradition i Nô [Nôsakusho]


Zeami (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original Japanese; trans. by M. Berg from the French version by R. Sieffert
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Danish
Translated by R. Sieffert
Odin Teatrets Forlag/UNESCO, 1971. 244 p.
Play

Der Heilige See der Taten Ramcaritmanas. Ramas


Tulsidas (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Peter Gaeffke
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1975. 120 p.
Epic, poetry

Der Herr von Sin-Ling. Reden aus dem Chan-Kuao-Tsé und Biographien aus
dem Shi-Ki
Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Erich Haenisch
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1965. 79 p.
Biography/memoirs

Der Kirschblütenzweig. Japanische Liebesgeschichten aus tausend Jahren

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Asia & the Pacific, Japan


Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Oscar Benl
Nymphenburger Verlag/UNESCO, 1965. 454 p.
Short stories

Der Wille zur Macht


Nietzsche, Friedrich (Europe & North America, Germany)
Original language : German
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by B. Hushyar
Imprimerie de l'Université/UNESCO, 1956. 110 p.
Philosophy

Der müde Mond und andere Marathi Erzählungen


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Georg Buddruss - Raghunath Paranjpe
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1969. 95 p.
Short stories

Dhammapada. El camino del Dharma


Asia & the Pacific, India
Introduction and notes by C. Dragonetti de Coni-Molina
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by C. Dragonetti de Coni-Molina
UNESCO/Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1964. 290 p.
Philosophy, religion

Dialogues et lettres choisies


Galilée (Europe & North America, Italy)
Selection and introduction for the Dialogues by Paul-Henri Michel; Selection and
introduction for the Letters by Giorgio di Santillana
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul-Henri Michel
Hermann/UNESCO, 1966. 340 p.
Correspondence

Diary of a Mad Old Man [Futen rojin no nikki]


Tanizaki, Junichirô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1977
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Howard Hibbett


Knopf/UNESCO, 1965. 180 p.
Novel

Die Verwandlungen des Abu Seid von Serug [Maqamat]


Al-Hariri (Arab States, Iraq)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Anne-Marie Schimmel - Friedrich Rücher
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1966. 222 p.
Philosophy

Discours des lumières suivi de Discours des seigneurs


Briceño Guerrero, J. M (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Foreword by François Delprat
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nelly Lhermillier
Editions de l'Aube/UNESCO, 1997. 200
Philosophy

Discours sur l'histoire universelle [Al-Muqaddima]


Ibn Khaldûn (Arab States)
Introduction and notes by Vincent Monteil
reprinted
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vincent Monteil
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1967. 3
vol.
History, philosophy

Diwan [Diwan]
Hafez, Mohammad Shamsoddin (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : Japanese
Translated by T. Kuroyanagi
Heibonsha/UNESCO, 1977. 407 p.
Poetry

Diwan. Poetas de lenguas africanas Tomo I (Siglo IX-XIX) et Tomo II (Siglo XX)
Africa
Selection, prologue and notes by Rogelio Martínez Furé
482 p. and 462 p.
Original language : multilingual
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Rogelio Martínez Furé

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Editorial Arte y Literatura/UNESCO, 1996. 2 vol.


Poetry

Dolly City
Castel-Bloom, Orly (Europe & North America, Israel)
Original language : Hebrew
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Loki Books/UNESCO, 1997. 182 p.
Novel

Don Segundo Sombra


Güiraldes, Ricardo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Edited by Gwen Kirkpatrick
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Patricia Owen Steiner
Colección Archivos/UNESCO/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 303 p.
Novel

Du paysage à l'idiome : anthologie poétique 1951-1986/Dal paesaggio all'


idioma : antologia poetica 1951-1986
Zanzotto, Andrea (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French - Italian
Translated by Philippe Di Meo
Maurice Nadeau/UNESCO, 1994. 313 p.
Poetry

Dulcinée [Dulcinea encantada]


Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Preface by Fernando Ainsa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Florence Baillon
Indigo & Côté-femmes Editions/UNESCO, 1995. 193 p.
Novel

Dustur Al-Athiniyin [Politeia ton Athineon]


Aristote (Europe & North America, Greece)
Notes by Augustin Barbara
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Augustin Barbara
Commission internationale pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO,
1967. 190 p.
Philosophy

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Déluge de Soleil. Nouvelles contemporaines du Costa Rica


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean, Costa Rica)
Short stories selected by María Lourdes Cortés and Fernando Ainsa ; introduction
by Flora Ovares and Margarita Rojas
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Julián Garavito - Nicole Cantó
UNESCO/Vericuetos, 1997. 136
Short stories

Egg in my Palm. Selected Poetry


Tsuboi, Shigeji (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
UNESCO/Yakusha, 1993. 278 p.
Poetry

El Dorado [The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana,
with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa (wich the Spaniards
call El Dorado), Performed in the Year 1595]
Raleigh, Sir Walter (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Edited by A. Cioranescu; R. Schomburgk
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Chabert
UNESCO/Utz, 1993. 252 p., ill., maps
Theater

El Halcón [Ince Memed]


Kemal, Yasar (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Rafael Carpintero Ortega
Ediciones B/UNESCO, 1997. 368 p.
Novel

El Lazarillo; A Guide for Inexperienced Travellers between Buenos Aires and


Lima [Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes]
Concolorcorvo (Alonso Carrió de la Vandera) (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Walter D. Kline
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1965. 315 p.
Theater

El conclave de las lloronas [Le conclave des pleureuses]

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Mellah, Fawzi (Arab States, Tunisia)


Original language : French
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Mariana Vlahussich
Ediciones Trilce/UNESCO, 1993. 147 p.
Novel

El cuento del cortador de bambú


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Kayoko Takagi
Trotta/UNESCO, 1988. 115 p.
Folk-tale

El descubrimiento de las fuentes del Nilo. [Richard F. Burton, The Lake


Regions of Central Africa (1860), John H. Speke, Journal of the Discovery of
the Source of the Nile (1863)]
Burton, Richard F.; Speke, John H (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Ana Atorresi
Ediciones del Sol/UNESCO, 1996. 320 p.
Theater

El día en que asesinaron al líder [Yawm qutila az-zaim]


Mahfuz, Naguib (Arab States, Egypt)
Preface by María Luisa Prieto
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by María Luisa Prieto
Ediciones Libertarias/UNESCO, 1994. 133 p.
Novel

El honesto dependiente Chang


Ling Mong-'ou (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Illustrations by Bruno Pilorget
Chinese original; translated into French by A. Lévy and R. Goldman, and from the
French by C. de Santiago Gaviña
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Ediciones Altea/UNESCO, 1984. 150 p.
Folk-tale

El árbol de la cruz
Asturias, Miguel Ángel (Latin America & the Caribbean, Guatemala)
Facsimile of an unpublished manuscript established by Aline Janquart et Amos

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Segala
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Colección Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 330 p.
Essay

Elucidation of the Intrinsic Meaning so named the Commentary on the Peta-


Stories [Paramatthadipaninama Petavatthu-atthakatha]
Dhammapala (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Annotated by Peter Masefield
Edited by Peter Masefield
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by U Ba Kyaw
The Pali Society/UNESCO, 1980. 318 p.
Philosophy, religion

Emperor Shaka the Great. A Zulu Epic


Kunene, Mazisi (Africa, South Africa)
Original language : Zulu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kunene, Mazisi
Heinemann/UNESCO, 1979. 438 p.
Epic

Enriquillo
Galván, Manuel de Jesús (Latin America & the Caribbean, Dominican Republic)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marcelle Auclair
Nagel/UNESCO, 1952. 383 p.
Novel

Entering the Path of Enlightenment


Santideva (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Macmillan/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. L. Matics
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1971. 318 p.
Philosophy, poetry

Entre les murailles et la mer. Trente-deux poètes turcs contemporains


Multiple authors (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Edited by Guzine Dino; Michèle Aquien; Pierre Chuvin
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French

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Translated by Guzine Dino - Michèle Aquien - Pierre Chuvin


François Maspero/UNESCO, 1982. 158
Poetry

Erreur et délivrance/Al-Munqid Min Adalal


Al-Ghazali (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Foreword and notes by Farid Jabre
reprinted
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by Farid Jabre
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1959. 122
Philosophy, religion

Erzählungen des alten Japan aus dem Konjaku-monogatari


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Horst Hammitzsch - Ingrid Schuster - Klaus Müller
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1965. 80 p.
Folk-tale, legend

Escritos
Nehru, Jawaharlal (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Luisa Futoransky
Litoral/UNESCO, 1991. 267 p., ill.
History, philosophy, religion

Essay on Human Understanding


Locke, John (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by R. Z. Chafagh
Imprimerie de l'Université/UNESCO, 1959
Philosophy

Essays in Idleness [Tsurezuregusa]


Kenkô, Urabe (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. xxii + 213 p.
Philosophy, religion

Et si ton nom sauvait. Anthologie bilingue de la poésie salvadorienne/Quizas


tu Nombre Salve. Antología bilingüe de la poesía salvadoreña

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Latin America & the Caribbean, El Salvador


Selection by Maria Poumier; preface by Matilde Elena López; prologue by Roberto
Armijo
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Maria Poumier
Editorial Universitaria/UNESCO, 1992. xxiii + 452
Poetry

Eyrbyggja Saga
Europe & North America, Iceland
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Pálsson - P. Edwards
UNESCO/University of Toronto Press, 1973. 198 p.
Folk-tale, legend

Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems


Hagiwara, Sakutaro (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Graeme Wilson
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1969. 83 p., illus.
Poetry

Facundo
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Edited by E. Susana Speratti Piñero
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marcel Bataillon
La Table Ronde/UNESCO, 1964. viii + 261 p.
Epic

Feuer und Eis. Anthologie mit Beiträgen von Autoren aus den
Entwicklungsländern
Europe & North America, Germany
Edited by Lev Detela; Wolfgang Mayer
Original language : German
Published language(s) : German
UNESCO/Verlag der Zeitschrift für Internationale Literatur Log, 1989. 142 p.
Poetry

Feux sur la ligne. Vingt nouvelles portoricaines (1970 -1990)


Multiple authors (Latin America & the Caribbean, Puerto Rico)
Selection by Robert Villanua ; foreword by Juan G. Gelpí
Original language : Spanish

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Corinne Étienne - Robert Villanua
Alfil Editions/L'Instant même/UNESCO, 1997. 336
Short stories

Fi taqsim al-'amal al-ijtima'i [De la division du travail social]


Durkheim, Émile (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Hafez Jamali
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1982. 459
p.
Philosophy

Fiebre y curación del icono. [Fièvre et Guérison de l'Icône]


Stétié, Salah (Arab States, Lebanon)
Preface by Yves Bonnefoy
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Evelio Miñano
UNESCO/Visor, 2000. 96 p.
Poetry

Fifty Songs from the Yüan. Poetry of 13th Century China


Asia & the Pacific, China
Introduction, appendixes and notes by R. F. Yang and Charles R. Metzger
Reprinted by Hillary/UNESCO, 1967
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Charles R. Metzger - R. F. Yang
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1967. 161 p.
Poetry

Fil-huqm al-madani [Two Treatises on Civil Government]


Locke, John (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Majid Fakhry
Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/UNESCO, 1959. 290 p.
Philosophy

Fièvre et Guérison de l'Icône


Stétié, Salah (Arab States, Lebanon)
Introduction by Yves Bonnefoy
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Imprimerie nationale/UNESCO, 1998. 160 p.
Poetry

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Flower and Song. Poems of the Aztec Peoples


Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico
Introduction by Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt
Original language : Nahuatl
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edward Kissam - Michael Schmidt
Anvil Press Poetry/UNESCO, 1977. 143 p.
Poetry

Flowers in the Mirror [Ching Hua Yüan]


Li Ju-chen (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted by Anchorbooks, Doubleday/UNESCO, 1971
Edited by Lin Tai-yi
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Lin Tai-yi
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1965. 310 p.
Poetry

Foam upon the Stream. A Japanese Elegy [Malagiya Ätto & Malavunge
Avurudu Da]
Sarachchandra, Ediriwira (Asia & the Pacific, Sri Lanka)
Original language : Sinhalese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Sarachchandra, Ediriwira
Heinemann/UNESCO, 1987. 190 p.
Short stories

Folk Tales of Ancient Persia


Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Illus. by Muhammad Bahrami
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Forough Hekmat
Caravan Books/UNESCO, 1974. 119 p.
Folk-tale

Footprints in the Snow. A Novel of Meiji Japan [Omoide no ki]


Tokutomi, Kenjiro (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kenneth Strong
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1970. 373 p.
Novel

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Four Major Plays


Chikamatsu, Monzaemon (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1964. 220 p.
Play

Fredman's Epistles & Songs


Bellman, Carl Michael (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Paul Britten Austin
Proprius Förlag AB/UNESCO, 1999. 198 p. including a CD-Rom
Poetry

From the Soul of Nomads: Proverbs and Sayings of the Somalis/Murtidu Waa
Hodantinnimo: Maahmaahyada iyo Oraahda Soomaaliyeed /Aus der Seele der
Hirten: Sprichwörter und Spruchweisheiten der Somali
Arab States, Somalia
Collected by Abdurahman H. H. Aden in collaboration with Irene Aden. Trans.
from the Somali; English version by Cristina Krippahl; German editing by Jörg
Berchem.
Original language : Somali
Published language(s) : English - German - Somali
Omimee International Publishers/UNESCO, 1995. 159 p.
Oral tradition

Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of our Time. A Thirteenth-Century Poetic


Treatise and Sequence [Kindai Shuka]
Fujiwara, Teika (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction and notes by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner
Reprinted by University of Tokyo Press/UNESCO, 1967
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Earl Miner - Robert H. Brower
Stanford University Press/UNESCO, 1967. ix + 148 p., illus.
Poetry

Futon. Nouvelles
Kataï, Tayama (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Amina Okada
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1986. 134 p.
Short stories

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Gedichte aus dem Diwan [Diwan]


Hafis, Muhammad Schams ad-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Johann Christoph Bürgel
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1972. 118 p.
Poetry

Gedichte aus dem Rig-Veda


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Paul Thieme
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1964. 80 p.
Philosophy, poetry, religion

Geisha in Rivalry [Udekurabe]


Nagaï, Kafû (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted 1981
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kurt Meissner - Ralph Friedrich
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1961. 206 p.
Novel

Gemmo [Cemo]
Bilbasar, Kemal (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Esin B. Rey - Mariana Fitzpatrick
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1976. 223 p.
Novel

Gengis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror [Ta'rikh-i-Jahan Gusha]


Juvaini, 'Ata-Malik (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction by S. Runciman
Introduction to the second edition by David O. Morgan (1997)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John Andrew Boyle
Manchester University Press/UNESCO, 1958. 2 vols.
Epic, history

Ghalib, 1797-1869. I: Life and Letters


Ghalib (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Harvard University Press/UNESCO
Edited by Khurshidul Islam; Ralph Russell

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Original language : Urdu


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Khurshidul Islam - Ralph Russell
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1969. 404 p.
Correspondence, poetry

Gheel, la ville des fous [Gheel, de galnas stad]


Odensten, Per (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Arcane 17/UNESCO, 1991. 397 p.
Novel

Gipsy Wharf [Sojan Badiar Ghat]


Uddin, Jasim (Asia & the Pacific, Bangladesh)
Illus. by Hashem Khan
Reprinted by Pegasus Bobbs-Merrill/UNESCO, 1969
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Barbara Painter - Yann Lovelock
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1969. 195 p.
Poetry

God's Own Land. A Novel of Pakistan [Khuda ki Basti]


Siddiqi, Shaukat (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. J. Mattheus
Paul Norbury/UNESCO, 1991. 245 p.
Novel

Gora
Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marguerite Gloz - Pierre Fallon
Laffont/UNESCO, 1961. 524 p.
Novel

Grammatica o arte de la lengua general de los indios de los reynos del Perú
Santo Tomás, Fray Domingo de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Introduction and transliteration by Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino
Facsimile edition
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish

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Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional/UNESCO, 1994. lxxvii + 152 p.


Linguistics

Grass on the Wayside [Michikusa]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Edwin McClellan
Reprinted by University of Michigan/UNESCO, 1990
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edwin McClellan
UNESCO/University of Chicago Press, 1969. xi + 169 p.
Novel

Gîta-Govinda
Jayadeva (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Jean Varenne
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Varenne
Editions du Rocher/UNESCO, 1991. 205 p.
Poetry

Göngu-Hrolfs Saga
Europe & North America, Iceland
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hermann Pálsson - Paul Edwards
Canongate/UNESCO, 1980. 128 p.
Epic, folk-tale, legend

Hamlet Pangeran Denmark [Hamlet]


Shakespeare, William (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Trisno Sumardjo
Pustaka Jaya/UNESCO, 1975. 208 p.
Play

Haut est le Pérou [Alto el Perú]


Cortázár, Julio; Offerhaus, Manja (Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe & North
America, Argentina, Netherlands)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Javier García Méndez
UNESCO/VLB Editeur, 1994. 69
Prose

Haut le coeur [Iya na Kanji]

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Takami, Jun (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)


Preface by Yasunari Kawabata
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marc Mécréant
Le Calligraphe/UNESCO, 1985. 427 p.
Novel

Hawagisu Al Mutanazzah Al Munfaridu Bi Nafsihi [Les rêveries du promeneur


solitaire]
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Boulos Ghanem
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1983. 146
p.
Biography/memoirs

Het epos van Lianja. Epiek en lyriek van de Mongo


Africa
Preface by G. Hulstaert
Original language : Mongo
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by G. Hulstaert
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1985. 260 p.
Epic, folk-tale, poetry

Hiltu et Ragnar. Histoire de deux enfants des hommes [Hiltu ja Ragnar]


Sillanpää, Frans Eemil (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Finnish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Luc Moreau
Pierre Jean Oswald/UNESCO, 1974. 134 p.
Novel

Histoire de Dame Pak. Histoire de Suk-Hyang. Deux romans coréens du XVIIIe


siècle [Pak-ssi djôn et Suk-hyang djôn]
Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Kim Su-chung - Marc Orange
L'Asiathèque/UNESCO, 1982. 196 p.
Novel

Histoire de Kieu/Truyên Kiêu


Nguyên Du (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)
Notes end commentaries by Lê Cao Phan

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Original language : Vietnamese


Published language(s) : French - Vietnamese
Translated by Lê Cao Phan
Editions des Sciences sociales/UNESCO, 1994. 298 p.
Epic

Histoire de l'Europe au XIXe siècle [Storia d'Europa nel secolo decimonono]


Croce, Benedetto (Europe & North America, Italy)
reprinted
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Bédarida
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1959. 355
Essay, history

Histoire secrète des Mongols : chronique mongole du XIIIe siècle [Mongghol-


un ni'uca tobciyan]
Asia & the Pacific, Mongolia
Preface by Roberte N. Hamayon; introduction and notes by Marie-Dominique
Even and Rodica Pop
Original language : Mongolian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marie-Dominique Even - Rodica Pop
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1994. 350 p.
Chronicle, epic, history

Histoires qui sont maintenant du passé [Konjaku monogatari shû]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Preface and commentaries by Bernard Frank
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Bernard Frank
Gallimard, 1968. 344 p.
Legend, short stories

History of Persia under Qajar Rule [Farsnama-ye Naseri]


Fasa'i's, Hasan-E. (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Herbert Busse
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1972. 494 p.
History

History of Shah ?Abbas the Great [Tarik-e 'Alamara-ye 'Abbasi]


Monshi (Eskandar Beg) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Roger M. Savory
UNESCO/Westview Press, 1978. 2 vols.
Chronicle, history

Homecoming [Kikyo]
Osaragi, Jiro (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Harold Strauss
Reprinted 1980
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Brewster Horwitz
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1973. 303 p.
Novel

Homenajes [Ihtifaan bil ashuya l-gamidat al-wahidat]


Adonis (Ali Ahmad Saïd Esber) (Arab States, Lebanon)
Notes by María Luisa Prieto
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by María Luisa Prieto
Ediciones Libertarias/UNESCO, 1995. 105 p.
Poetry

Horloge à jaquemart
Banus, Maria (Europe & North America, Romania)
Foreword by Alain Bosquet
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Alain Bosquet - Andrée Fleury - Annie Bentoiu - Claude Sernet -
Eugène Guillevic - Maria Banus
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1987. 254
Poetry

Howlin' Marie
Andersen, Maria (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Elin Elgaard
Penumbra Press/UNESCO, 1985. 140 p.
Biography/memoirs

Hrolf Gautreksson. A Viking Romance


Europe & North America, Iceland
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Pálsson - P. Edwards

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UNESCO/University of Toronto Press, 1972. 150 p.


Folk-tale, legend

Hunters and Crocodiles: Narratives of a Hunters' Bard


Africa, Gambia
Edited by Bakari Sidibe; Gordon Innes
Original language : Mandinka
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Bakari Sidibe - Gordon Innes
Paul Norbury/UNESCO, 1990. 123 p.
Oral tradition

Hymnes spéculatifs du Véda


Asia & the Pacific, India
Notes by Louis Renou
reprinted
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Renou
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1957. 276 p.
Philosophy, poetry, religion

Hymns of the Atharva-veda


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit - Pakrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. Bloomfield
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1964. lxxxiv + 716 p.
Philosophy, religion

I Am a Cat [Wagahai wa neko de aru]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Katsue Shibata - Motonari Kai
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1971. 431 p., illus.
Novel

Ideales viejos e ideales nuevos/Stare i nowe idealy


Ingenieros, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : Polish - Spanish
Translated by Janusz Wojcieszak
CESLA/UNESCO, 1996. 77 p.
Essay

Idées des habitants de la cité vertueuse/Kitab Ara' Ahl Al-Madinat al-Fadilat


Al-Farabi (Arab States, Lebanon)

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Introduction and notes by Youssef Karam, J. Chlala and A. Jaussen


Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by A. Jaussen - J. Chlala - Youssef Karam
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1980. 286
Philosophy

Ignorance is the Enemy of Love [Aqoondarro waa u nacab jacayl]


Cawl, Faarax M. J. (Arab States, Somalia)
Introduction and notes by B. W. Andrzejewski
Original language : Somali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by B. W. Andrzejewski
UNESCO/Zed Press, 1982. 104 p.
Novel

Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology. A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan
[Kyounshu]
Ikkyu, So-Jun (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Sonja Arntzen; foreword by Shuichi Kato
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Sonja Arntzen
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1985. 197 p.
Poetry

Il libro degli eroi. Legende sui Narti [Nartsky epos]


Europe & North America, Georgia
Introduction by Georges Dumézil
Original translated into French by G. Dumézil
Original language : Ossetian; Ossetic
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Bianca Canadian
Adelphi/UNESCO, 1969. xxiv + 272 p., ill., map.
Epic, legend

Il paese delle nevi [Yukiguni]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
original translated into English by E. Seidensticker
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Luca Lamberti
Giulio Einaudi/UNESCO, 1959. 199 p.
Novel

Il segreto del teatro No [Nôsakusho]


Seami, Motokiyo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)

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Original Japanes; translated from the French


Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Fisèle Bartoli
Adelphi/UNESCO, 1966. 722 p.
Literary criticism

Il était plusieurs fois... contes populaires palestiniens [Speak bird, speak


again]
Muhawi, Ibrahim and Kanaana, Sharif (Arab States, Palestinian Territory, Occupied)
Original language : Arabic - English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Leïla Al-Masri
Arcantère/UNESCO, 1997. 586 p.
Folk-tale

In Praise of Krishna. Songs from the Bengali


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Denise Levertov - Edward C. Dimock
Doubleday/UNESCO, 1967. xxii + 95 p., illus.
Poetry, religion

Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings


Wang Yang-ming (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Notes by Wing-tsit Chan
Reprinted by Hillary/UNESCO, 1967
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1967. 161 p.
Philosophy, religion

Inter Ice Age 4 [Dai Yon Kampyo-ki]


Abé, Kôbô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Jonathan Cape/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Dale Saunders
A. Knopf/UNESCO, 1970. 228
Novel

Introduction à la littérature arabe


Wiet, Gaston (Arab States)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French

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Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1966. 337 p.


Literary criticism

Introduction à la littérature persane


Levy, Reuben (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Jabalé
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1973. 151 p.
Literary criticism

Introduction à la littérature vietnamienne


Durand, H.; Nguyen-Tran-Huan (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1969. 254
Literary critic

Ion
Rebreanu, Liviu (Europe & North America, Romania)
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. Hillard
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1965. 410 p.
Novel

Iphigénie [Ifigenia]
Parra, Teresa de la (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Preface by Maria Poumier
reprinted
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Yves Coleman
Indigo & Côté-femmes Editions/UNESCO, 1995. 441 p.
Novel

Iracéma, Légende du Céara


Alencar, José de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe & North America, Brazil,
Portugal)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Inès Oseki Depré
Alinéa/UNESCO, 1985. 124
Novel

Iskandarnamah. A Persian Medieval Alexander-Romance


Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Original language : Persian

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Minoo S. Southgate
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1978. 237 p.
Epic

It's Only Spring and Thirteen Years [Zhe buguo shi chuntian. Shisan nian]
Li Jianwu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Afterword and notes by Tony Hyder
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Tony Hyder
Bamboo Publishing/UNESCO, 1989. 159 p.
Play

Itinéraire de Buenos Aires à Lima [Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes]


Concolorcorvo (Alonso Carrió de la Vandera) (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Introduction by Marcel Bataillon
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Yvette Billod
Institut des hautes études de l'Amérique latine/UNESCO, 1962. 294
Theater

Izumo Fudoki
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction by Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki
Sophia University/UNESCO, 1971. 173 p.
History, religion

Jaina Sutras
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Prakrit languages - Sanskrit
Translated by H. Jacobi
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1968. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Japan's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo


Futabatei, Shimei (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Critical commentary by Marleigh Grayer Ryan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Marleigh Grayer Ryan
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. xvi + 381 p.
Novel

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Japanese Folk-plays: The Ink-smeared Lady and Other Kyogen


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Illus. by Yoshie Noguchi
Reprinted 1973
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Shio Sakanishi
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1960. 150 p.
Legend, play

Jardins et autres récits


Iwaszkiewicz, Jaroslaw (Europe & North America, Poland)
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Lisowski - Paul Cazin
Belfond/UNESCO, 1993. 295 p.
Short stories

Javid-Nama
Iqbal, Mohammad (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Introduction and notes by A. J. Arberry
Reprinted by Hillary House/UNESCO, 1966
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Arberry
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1966. 151 p.
Philosophy, poetry

Je suis un chat [Wagahai wa neko de aru]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Edited by Jean Cholley
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Cholley
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1978. 448 p.
Novel

Je t'aime au gré de la mort [ouhibouki Kama Yachtahi Al Mawt]


Al Qassim, Samih (Arab States, Jordan)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Abdellatif Laâbi
Editions de Minuit/UNESCO, 1988. 221
Poetry

Je t'aime, vent noir/Rakastan sinua, musta tuuli

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Lahtela, Markku (Europe & North America, Finland)


Foreword by Mirja Bolgar
Original language : Finnish
Published language(s) : Finnish - French
Translated by Eugène Guillevic - Lucie Albertini - Pertti Laakso
Obsidiane/UNESCO, 1982. 88 p., ill.
Poetry

Jinâlankâra or Embellishments of Buddha


Buddharakkhita (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James Gray
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1981. 112 p.
Philosophy, religion

Jnaneshvari [Bhavarthadipika]
Asia & the Pacific, India
Introduction by H. M. Lambert. Incorporating the text of the Bhagavad Gita trans.
by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Reprinted by Blackie & Son Publishers/UNESCO, 1979
Edited by H. M. Lambert
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by V. G. Pradhan
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1967. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Jouer avec le feu


Jo, Jong-nae (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Byeon Jeong-won - Georges Ziegelmeyer
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1998. 230 p.
Novel

Journal [Murasaki-Shikibu nikki]


Murasaki, Shikibu (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1978. 87 p.
Biography/memoirs

Journal de Sarashina [Sarashina nikki]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese

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Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1978. 107 p.
Biography/memoirs, poetry, travelogue

Journal de la félicité [Jurnalul fericirii]


Steinhardt, Nicolae (Europe & North America, Romania)
Notes by Marily Le Nir; preface by Olivier Clément
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marily Le Nir
Arcantère/UNESCO, 1996. 567 p.
Biography/memoirs, history, religion

Journaux de voyage [Nozarashi Kikô]


Matsuo, Bashô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1976. 122 p.
Theater

Kabuki. Five Classic Plays


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James R. Brandon
Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1975. 377 p.
Play

Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu (1879-1959). The
River Sumida [Sumida Gawa and Other Stories]
Nagaï, Kafû (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Biography by E. Seindensticker
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Stanford University Press/UNESCO, 1968. vi + 360 p., illus.
Biography/memoirs, short stories

Kalevipoeg. An Ancient Estonian Tale


Europe & North America, Estonia
Compiled by Fr. R. Kreutzwald; notes and afterword by Jüri Kurman
Original language : Estonian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Jüri Kurman
Symposia Press/UNESCO, 1982. 301 p.
Folk-tale, legend

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Kalindi. The Caprice of the River and the Greed of Men


Banerjee, Tarasankar (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Preface by Leila L. Javitc
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leila L. Javitch
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers/UNESCO, 1978
Novel

Kamayani
Shankar Prasad, Jay (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Preface by Nicole Balbir; introduction and commentaries by J. K. Balbir; foreword
by J. S. Prasad
Allegorical epic in modern Hindi
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jagbans Kishore Balbir
Langues & Mondes/UNESCO, 1997. 258 p.
Epic

Karoethamma en de Zee [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original Malayalam; English version by N. Menon
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by J. F. Brouwer
Gottmer/UNESCO, 1964. 230 p.
Novel

Kavitavali
Tulsi Das (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Critical introduction by F. R. Allchin
Reprinted by A. S. Barnes/UNESCO, 1966
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by F. R. Allchin
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1964. 229 p., illus.
Poetry

Khawater [Les pensées]


Pascal, Blaise (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Edouard Boustani
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1972. v +
320 p.
Philosophy

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Khusraw u shirin [Khusraw u shirin]


Nizami (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : Japanese
Translated by Emiko Okada
Heibonsha/UNESCO, 1977. 376 p.
Novel

Kim Vân Kiêu


Nguyên Du (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)
Translated and novelised by Xuân-Phuc and Xuân-Viet
reprinted
Original language : Vietnamese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Xuân-Phuc - Xuân-Viet
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1987. 200 p.
Epic, novel

Kokoro
Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Foreword by Edwin McClellan
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edwin McClellan
Henry Regnery/UNESCO, 1957. 248 p.
Novel

Krishnakanta's Will [Krsnakânter Uil]


Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by J. C. Ghosh
New Directions/UNESCO, 1962. xiv + 172 p.
Novel

Krisis Kebebasan
Camus, Albert (Europe & North America, France)
Introduction by Goenawan Mohamad
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Edhi Martono
UNESCO/Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1988. 135 p.
Essay

Krutama i Parikuti [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)

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Original Malayalam; English version by N. Menon


Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Macedonian
Translated by Liljana Calovska
Koco Racin/UNESCO, 1965. 139 p.
Novel

Kurzgeschichten der Gegenwart


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Lothar Lutze
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1975. 95 p.
Short stories

Két szerelem
Faiz, Ahmed Faiz (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original Urdu; trans. by Garai Gábor from the English version by V. G. Kiernan
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : Hungarian
Translated by Garai Gábor
Európa Könyvkiadó/UNESCO, 1979. 76 p.
Poetry

L'Eléphant du vizir. Récits de Bosnie et d'ailleurs.


Andritch, Ivo (Europe & North America, Yugoslavia)
Foreword by Predrag Matvejevitch
Original language : Serbo-Croat
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Janine Matillon
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1977. 182
Tales

L'aile de Gabriel [Bâl-é-Djîbrîl]


Iqbal, Mohammad (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mirza Saïd-Uz-Zafar Chaghtaï - Suzanne Bussac
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1977. 159 p.
Poetry, religion

L'amour de la renarde. Marchands et lettrés de la vieille Chine. Douze contes


du XVIIe siècle
Ling Mong-'ou (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Preface and notes by André Lévy
reprinted
Original language : Chinese

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by André Lévy
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1970. 285 p.
Folk-tale

L'amour, l'amant, l'aimé. Cent ballades de Hâfez Shirâzi


Hâfez, Shirâzi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Edited by Vincent Mansour Monteil
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French - Persian
Translated by Vincent Mansour Monteil
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1989. 308 p.
Poetry

L'antre aux fantômes des collines de l'Ouest. Sept contes chinois anciens
(XIIe - XIVe siècle)
author(s) unknown (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Chinese tales from the King-pen t'song-sou siao-chouo. Foreword, notes and
commentaries by André Lévy.
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Lévy - René Goldman
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1972. 176
Tales

L'art et la vie
Czapski Joseph (Europe & North America, Poland)
Selection and preface by Wojciech Karpinski
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Julia Jurys - Lieba Hauben - Thérèse Douchy
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 2002. 320 p.
Biography/memoirs

L'endroit et l'envers : essais de littérature et de sociologie


Candido, Antonio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Edited by Howard S. Becker
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Thiériot
Editions Métailié/UNESCO, 1995. 362
Essay, literary critic, sociology

L'espadon [Kiliç uykuda vurulur]


Gürmen, Osman Necmi (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Preface by V. Vassilikos

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Original language : Turkish


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne Courcelle
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1979. 215 p.
Novel

L'exclu [Galeria cu vita salbatica]


Toiu, Constantin (Europe & North America, Romania)
Edited by Georges Barthouil
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Barthouil - Ilinca Barthouil-Ionesco
Nagel/UNESCO, 1981. 136 p.
Novel

L'exil de la terre [Gast hos verkligheten]


Lagerkvist, Pär (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Preface by Vincent Fournier
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vincent Fournier
Stock/UNESCO, 1977. 192 p.
Novel

L'herbe folle et autres récits [Luda tréva]


Raditchkov, Yordan (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Preface by Ivaylo Ditchev; postface by Stanislav Stratiev
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Bernard Lory - Marie Vrinat - Roumiana Tatarova-Demange
Editions Est-Ouest Internationales/UNESCO, 1994. 207 p.
Prose

L'homme de l'eau [De Waterman]


Schendel, Arthur Van (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by S. Margueron
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1984. 210 p.
Novel

L'honnête commis Tchang


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Lévy - René Goldman
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1982
Folk-tale

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L'inquiétude du Coeur
Rufus, Milan (Europe & North America, Slovakia)
Introduction by Yves Bergeret
Original language : Slovak
Published language(s) : French - Slovak
Translated by Arlette Cornevin
La Différence/Le fleuve et l'écho/UNESCO, 2002. 192 p.
Poetry

L'odyssée de Lao Ts'an [Lao Ts'an Yeou Ki]


Lieou Ngo (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Foreword by Jacques Reclus
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Cheng Tcheng
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 282 p.
Biography/memoirs, novel

L'oeil des champs : anthologie de la poésie tchouvache


Europe & North America, Russian Federation
Edited by Guennadi Aïgui
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Dalmas - Claude Mouchard - Louise Herlin - Léon Robel -
Marc Bodin - Marcelle Fonfreide - Michel Deguy - Pierre Pachet
Circé/UNESCO, 1996. 302 p.
Poetry, religion

L'écume des rapides [Juha]


Aho, Juhani (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Finnish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Lucie Thomas
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1978. 181
Novel

L'épopée de Samba Gueladjégui


Africa, Senegal
Oral version from Pahel collected by Amadou Ly ; foreword by Lilyan Kesteloot
Original language : Peul
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Amadou Ly
IFAN/Nouvelles du Sud/UNESCO, 1991. 199
Epic, oral tradition

L'épître du pardon [Risâlat-Al-Ghofrân]

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Al-Ma'arri, Abû-l-'Alâ (Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic)


Foreword by Étiemble
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vincent Mansour Monteil
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1984. 318
Philosophy

L'étranger [Yaban]
Karaosmanoglu, Yakup Kadri (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Preface by Nedim Gürsel
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Ferda Fidan
Cent Pages/UNESCO, 1989. 215 p.
Novel

L'été [Natsu, tiré de la tétralogie Shiki]


Nakamura, Shin'ichirô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Edited by Dominique Palmé
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Dominique Palmé
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 1993. 571 p.
Novel

L'éventail [Il ventaglio]


Goldoni, Carlo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Arnaud
L'Arche/UNESCO, 1958. 94 p.
Play

L'île au rhum. D'après le manuscrit de Richard Beckford relatant ses


aventures en l'île de la Jamaïque de 1737 à 1738 [Rumeiland]
Vestdijk, Simon (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Jacques Villard
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1963. 341 p.
Novel

La Araucana : le cycle de Lautaro [La Araucana]


Ercilla, Alonso de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Chile)
Edited by Michel Host
Original language : Spanish

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Alexandre Nicolas
UNESCO/Utz, 1993. 302
Epic

La Carthagénoise [La tejedora de coronas]


Espinosa, Germán (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vincent Nadeau
La Différence/UNESCO, 1995. 440
Novel

La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Kadhim Jihad
Arab Institute for Research and Publishing/UNESCO, 2002. 1036 p.
Poetry

La Prose géorgienne des origines à nos jours


Europe & North America, Georgia
Selection and translation by Gaston Bouatchidzé; revised by Dominique Palmé
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gaston Bouatchidzé
L'Esprit des Péninsules/UNESCO, 1998. 550 p.
Prose

La Quête en épouse, The Quest for a Wife, une épopée palawan chantée par
Mäsinu
Asia & the Pacific, Philippines
Preface by Jean Leclant
Palawan text transcribed and translated into French by Nicole Revel
Original language : Palauan
Published language(s) : English - French - Palauan
Translated by Nicole Revel - Patricia Railing
L'Asiathèque/UNESCO, 2000. 432 p. + CD
Epic

La Sumida [Sumida gawa]


Nagaï, Kafû (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Pierre Faure

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Gallimard/UNESCO, 1975. 160 p., ill.


Novel

La centurie : poèmes amoureux de l'Inde ancienne [Amarusataka]


Amaru (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Alain Rebière
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1993. 121
Poetry

La chanson de Lawino [Wer pa Lawino]


P'Bitek, Okot (Africa, Uganda)
Original language : Acholi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Frank and Henriette Gauduchon
Présence africaine/UNESCO, 1983. 222 p.
Poetry

La chanteuse de P'ansori. Prose coréenne contemporaine


Multiple authors (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Edited by Patrick Maurus
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Patrick Maurus
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1997. 336
Short stories

La cité d'or et autres contes tirés du "Kathâsaritsagara"


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Léon Verschaeve
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1979. 178 p.
Tales

La cité des césars : une utopie en Patagonie


Burgh, James (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
[An account of the first settlement, laws, form of government, and police of the
Cessares, a people of South America: in nine letters, from Mr. Vander Neck, one
of the Senators of that nation, to his friend in Holland] ; foreword by Fernando
Ainsa
Edited by Martine Azoulai
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Martine Azoulai
Editions Utz/UNESCO, 1996. 158
Essay

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La cité inique [Qariatun dhalima]


Hussein, Kamel (Arab States, Egypt)
Introduction by Roger Arnaldez; preface by Jean Grosjean
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Roger Arnaldez
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1973. 159 p.
Novel, philosophy

La cloche d'Islande [Islands-klukkan]


Laxness, Halldor Kiljan (Europe & North America, Iceland)
Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Aubier Montaigne/UNESCO, 1979. 510 p.
Novel

La combe aux mauvaises herbes ou histoire du philanthrope naïf et du


bouilleur de cru paresseux [Putkinotko]
Lehtonen, Joël (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Finnish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jaakko A. Ahokas
Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1962. 510 p.
Novel

La convocation d'Alamût : somme de philosophie ismaélienne [Rawdat al-


taslîm]
Tûsi Nasîroddin (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction and notes by Christian Jambet
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Christian Jambet
Editions Verdier/UNESCO, 1996. 374 p.
Philosophy, religion

La femme, le héros et le vilain [Khun Chang, Khun Phèn]


Asia & the Pacific, Thailand
Original language : Thai
Published language(s) : French
Translated by J. Kasem Sibunruang
Presses universitaires de France/UNESCO, 1986. 160
Poetry

La littérature en dentelles [Huabian wenxue]

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Luxun (Asia & the Pacific, China)


Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by le groupe Luxun de l'Université de Paris-VIII
Acropole/UNESCO, 1987. 214 p.
Essay

La longue nuit [Chang Ye]


Yao Xueyin (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacqueline Alézais - Li Tche-houa
Flammarion/UNESCO, 1984. 341 p.
Novel

La légende immémoriale du Dieu Shiva [Shiva-purana]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Introduction and notes by Tara Michaël
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Tara Michaël
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1991. 276 p.
Legend, philosophy, religion

La mission d'Ibiapaba
Le droit des Indiens; Le père António Vieira (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Essay and notes by João Viegas; preface by Eduardo Lourenço
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by João Viegas
Chandeigne/UNESCO, 1998. 240 p.
Chronicle

La montre en or et autres contes


Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Preface by Antonio Candido de Melo e Souza
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Maryvonne Lapouge
A. M. Métailié/UNESCO, 1987
Short stories

La naissance de Kumara [Kumârasambhava]


Kalidasa (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Bernadette Tubini
reprinted
Original language : Sanskrit

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Translated by Bernadette Tubini
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1958. 176 p.
Poetry, religion

La parole sans limites (Une didactique de l'invention)


Manoel de Barros (Latin America & the Caribbean)
Recueil de poèmes traduit par Celso Libânio
Edited by Paris, Jangada
Published language(s) : French - Portuguese
2003. 120
La pierre ôtée du coeur
Under, Marie (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Foreword by Michel Dequeker
Original language : Estonian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Dequeker
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1970. 134 p.
Poetry

La pointe ou l'art du génie [Agudeza y arte de ingenio, 1648]


Gracián, Baltasar (Europe & North America, Spain)
Preface by Marc Fumaroli; introduction and notes by Michèle Gendreau-Massaloux
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michèle Gendreau-Massaloux - Pierre Laurens
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 1983. 403 p.
Essay

La postmodernité au Brésil
Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil
Drawings and illustrations by Lena Bersgtein
Edited by Dionysio Toledo
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
CREPAL-Université Paris III/Chemins Scabreux/UNESCO, 1998. 210 p.
Essay

La poupée [Lalka]
Prus, Boleslaw (Europe & North America, Poland)
Preface by Jean Fabre
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Marcq - Simone Deligne - Wenceslas Godlewski
Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1962. 3 vol.

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Novel

La poésie arabe
Arab States
Selection and preface by René R. Khawam
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René R. Khawam
Seghers/UNESCO, 1960. 282 p., ill.
Poetry

La tombe [Fen]
Luxun (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michelle Loi
Acropole/UNESCO, 1981. 348 p.
Short stories

La tombe des lucioles [Hotaru no haka, Amerika hijiki]


Nosaka, Akiyuki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne Gossot - Patrick de Vos
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 1988. 140 p.
Novel

La tradition secrète du Nô. Une journée de Nô


Zeami (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Commentaries by René Sieffert
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1960. 384 p.
Play

La traversée intérieure [Al-Ayyam]


Hussein, Taha (Arab States, Egypt)
Preface by Étiemble
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Guy Rocheblave
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. 210 p.
Biography/memoirs

La utopía de América/Utopia naszej Ameryki

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Ureña, Pedro Henríquez (Latin America & the Caribbean, Dominican Republic)
Introduction by Anna Housková
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Polish - Spanish
Translated by Marzena Adamczyk
CESLA/UNESCO, 1995. 50 p.
Essay

La vengeance de l'arbre et autres contes [Urupes]


Monteiro Lobato, José Bento (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Introduction by Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georgette Tavares Bastos
Editions universitaires/UNESCO, 1967. 258 p.
Short stories

La vida de una mujer intocable: nuestra existencia


Kamble, Baby (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and postface by Guy Poitevin, translator of the Marathe original into
French
Translated from the French by Milagros Palma. Reprinted
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : Spanish
Indigo Ediciones/UNESCO, 1996. 166 p.
Biography/memoirs

La vie d'un idiot et autres nouvelles [Aru aho no issho]


Akutagawa, Ryûnosuke (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Foreword by Jeannine Kohn-Étiemble
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edwige de Chavanes
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1987. 190
Poetry

La vérité du mensonge
Orbeliani, Soulkhan-Saba (Europe & North America, Georgia)
Preface by Gaston Bouatchidzé; illustrations by Lado Goudiachvili
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gaston Bouatchidzé
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1984. 238 p.
Folk-tale

Land
Park, Kyong-ni (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)

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Introduction and index of main characters by Agnita Tennant


Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Agnita Tennant
Kegan Paul International/UNESCO, 1996. 617 p.
Novel

Land of Exile - Contemporary Korean Fiction


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Edited by Bruce Fulton; Ju-Chan Fulton; Marshall R. Pihl
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Bruce Fulton - Ju-Chan Fulton - Marshall R. Pihl
M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO, 1993. 285 p.
Short stories

Later Poems
Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Aurobindo Bose
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1974. 142 p.
Poetry

Le Bouddhisme japonais (Textes fondamentaux de quatre moines de


Kamakura : Hônen, Shinran, Nichieren et Dôgen)
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Foreword by G. Renondeau
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by G. Renondeau
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1965. 316
Philosophy, religion

Le Cid. Cinna. Suréna


Corneille, Pierre (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by Issa Sépahbodi
Imprimerie de l'Université/UNESCO, 1956. 118 p.
Play

Le Fantang : poèmes mythiques des bergers peuls


Africa, Arab States, Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal
Original language : Peul
Published language(s) : French - Peul

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Translated by Siré Mamadou Ndongo


IFAN/Khartala/UNESCO, 1986. 204
Oral tradition

Le Ramayan
Tulsi-das (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charlotte Vaudeville
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1977. 211 p.
Poetry

Le baron - Les mains froides - L'involontaire. Nouvelles [O Barao, As maos


frias, O involuntário]
Fonseca, Branquinho da (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Foreword by José Augusto França
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Arlette Lévy-Zlotowski
José Corti/UNESCO, 1990. 117
Short stories

Le barrage [As-Sudd]
Messadi, Mahmoud (Arab States, Tunisia)
Introduction by Azzedine Guellouz; preface by Jacques Berque
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Azzedine Guellouz
Editions Arcantère/UNESCO, 1994. 171 p.
Philosophy, play

Le barrage. Drame en huit tableaux [As-Soud]


Messadi, Mahmoud (Arab States, Tunisia)
Introduction by Azzedine Guellouz; preface by Jacques Berque
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Azzedine Guellouz
Editions Naaman/UNESCO, 1981. 91 p.
Philosophy, play

Le bel épouvantail
Mileva, Leda (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jordanka Bossolova
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1979. 60 p.
Poetry

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Le cadran solaire [Zegar sloneczny]


Parandowski, Jan (Europe & North America, Poland)
Introduction by Maxime Herman
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Marcq - Paul Cazin - Simone Deligne
Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1961. 238 p.
Biography/memoirs

Le chant mélodieux des âmes [Arumdaun Yongaa]


Han, Mahlsook (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jeong Byon-Ziegelmeyer - Lee Mijeong - Mine Hisik
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1995. 351 p.
Novel

Le chevalier à la peau de tigre [Vep'khistqaosani]


Roustaveli, Chota (Europe & North America, Georgia)
Introduction and notes by Serge Tsouladzé
reprinted
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Serge Tsouladzé
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 280 p.
Epic

Le corps à corps [The Wrestling Match]


Emecheta, Buchi (Africa, Niger)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Olivier Barlet
Jeunesse L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1999. 90
Novel

Le cousin Bazilio. Episode domestique [O primo Bazilio]


Eça de Queiros, José Maria (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Introduction and notes by Lucette Petit
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Lucette Petit
La Différence/UNESCO, 1989. 423
Novel

Le dieu volé
Sionil José, Francisco (Asia & the Pacific, Philippines)
Original language : English

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Amina Saïd
Critérion/UNESCO, 1996. 313 p.
Short stories

Le dit des Heiké. Le cycle épique des Taïra et des Minamoto


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1976. 546 p.
Epic

Le dit du Genji [Genji monogatari]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1977. 2 vol.
Novel

Le divan
Emre, Younous (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Foreword by Yves Régnier
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Yves Régnier
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1963. 127
Poetry

Le droit de l'enfant au respect. Quand je redeviendrai petit. Journal du


Ghetto [Pisma wybrane]
Korczak, Janusz (Europe & North America, Poland)
Preface by S. Tomkiewicz; postface by Igor Newerly
reprinted
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Zofia Bobowicz
Robert Laffont/UNESCO, 1979. 301 p.
Biography/memoirs, essay

Le départ de l'enfant prodigue [Hilanglah sianak hilang]


Djamin, Nasjah (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Farida Soemargono
Puyraimond/UNESCO, 1976. 270
Novel

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Le fléau et la pierre [O fiel e a pedra]


Lins, Osman (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Maryvonne Lapouge
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1989. 406 p.
Novel

Le frère de Cendrillon. Contes populaires géorgiens


Europe & North America, Georgia
Selection and preface by Gaston Bouatchidzé; illustrations by Roussoudane
Pétiachvili
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gaston Bouatchidzé
Editions Radouga/Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1988. 175 p.
Folk-tale

Le golfe et le fleuve
As-Sayyâb, Badr Châker (Arab States, Iraq)
Edited by André Miquel
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Miquel
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1977. 94
Poetry

Le grand appareillage [Megalo salparisma]


Myrivilis, Stratis (Europe & North America, Greece)
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mary Vriacos
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1984. 250 p.
Short stories

Le hachereau [Baltagul]
Sadoveanu, Mihail (Europe & North America, Romania)
Introduction by Pierre Abraham
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by A. Duiliu Zamfiresco
Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1965. 244 p.
Novel

Le livre de Abdullah [Kitab Abdulah]


Ghattas Karam, Antoun (Arab States, Lebanon)

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Foreword by Georges Corm, preface by Jacques Berque


Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Azzedine Guellouz
Arcantère/UNESCO, 1993. 127 p.
Novel

Le livre de Babur. Mémoires de Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur de 1494 à 1529


Babur, Zahiruddin Muhammad (Asia & the Pacific)
Annotated by Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont and Mohibbul Hasan
Original language : Turkish - Tchagatay
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1980. 478
Biography/memoirs, history

Le livre de Humâyûn [Humâyûn-nama]


Baygam, Gul-Badan (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Notes and extracts from persian chronicles added and translated by Jean-Louis
Bacqué-Grammont
Edited by Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Pierre Piffaretti
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1996. 275
Biography/memoirs, chronicle

Le livre de l'Inde [Tahqiq mâ li-I-Hind]


Bîrûnî, Abû-Rayhân (Asia & the Pacific)
Extracts selected and annotated by Vincent-Mansour Monteil
Edited by Vincent Mansour Monteil
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vincent Mansour Monteil
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1996. 366
Chronicle, history

Le livre de l'amour [Kamattupal]


Tiruvalluvar (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and notes by François Gros
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : French
Translated by François Gros
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. 168 p.
Philosophy

Le livre de l'éternité [Djâvid-Nâma]

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Iqbal, Mohammad (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)


Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eva Meyerovitch - Mohammad Mokri
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1962. 178 p., ill.
Philosophy, poetry

Le livre de la couronne [Kitab At-Tag. Fi Akhlaq Al-Muluk]


Gahiz (attributed to) (Arab States, Iraq)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charles Pellat
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1954. 221 p.
Philosophy

Le livre de la migration [Kitab al-tahawoulat wal hijrat fi aqalim an-nahar


wal-laïl]
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Saïd Esber) (Arab States, Lebanon)
Foreword by Salah Stétié
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Martine Faideau
Luneau Ascot Editeurs/UNESCO, 1982. 277
Poetry

Le livre de science [Danesh-Nameh]


Avicenne (Ibn Sina) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
reprinted
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Massé - Mohammad Achena
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1955. 2 vol.
Philosophy

Le livre des avares de Gahiz [Kitab al-bukhala]


Gahiz (Arab States, Iraq)
Introduction and notes by Charles Pellat
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charles Pellat
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1951. ix + 366 p.
Philosophy

Le livre des héros [Nartskij epos]


Europe & North America, Georgia
Introduction and notes by Georges Dumézil
reprinted

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Original language : Ossetian; Ossetic


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Dumézil
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 266 p.
Epic, legend

Le livre des rois [Shâhnâmè]


Ferdowsi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
reprinted
Edited by Gilbert Lazard
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jules Mohl
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1979. 309
Epic

Le livre des sept vizirs [Sendbâdnameh]


Zahiri de Samarkand (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Dejan Bogdanovic
Sindbad/UNESCO, 1975. 294 p.
Folk-tale, philosophy

Le livre des villes


Adonis (Ali Ahmad Saïd Esber) (Arab States, Lebanon)
Silk-screen printings and drawings by Dalloul
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne Wade Minkowski - Jacques Berque
La Teinturerie, galerie/UNESCO, 1999. 400
Poetry

Le livre divin [Elahi-Nâmeh]


Attar, Fariddudine (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Foreword by Louis Massignon
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Fuad Rouhani
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1961. 478
Religion

Le livre du dedans [Fihi-ma Fihi]


Rumî, Mawlânâ Djalâl Od-Dîn (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch

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Sindbad/UNESCO, 1975. 315 p.


Philosophy, religion

Le masque des eaux vives : danses et chorégraphies traditionnelles d'Afrique


noire [Källvattnets mask]
Åkesson, Birgit (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Malou Höjer
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1994. 351
Aesthetics, religion, travelogue

Le miroir de l'autre
József, Attila (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Selection and introduction by Gábor Kardos
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French - Hungarian
Translated by Gábor Kardos
La Différence/Orphée/UNESCO, 1997. 194 p.
Poetry

Le mulâtre [O mulato]
Azevedo, Aluizio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Foreword, notes and glossary by Michel Simon
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Manoel Gahisto
Plon/UNESCO, 1961. 326
Novel

Le navire
Jabrâ, Jabrâ Ibrâhîm (Arab States, Palestinian Territory, Occupied)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jamal Chehayed - Michel Buresi
Arcantère/UNESCO, 1997. 220 p.
Novel

Le palais des fêtes [Rokumeikan]


Mishima, Yukio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Neyrand
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1983. 127 p.
Play

Le pauvre coeur des hommes [Kokoro]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)

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reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Bonneau - Horiguchi Diagaku
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1957. 308 p.
Novel

Le pavillon d'or [Kinkakuji]


Mishima, Yukio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface by Marc Mécréant
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marc Mécréant
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1961. xx + 265 p.
Novel

Le peintre. Fragments du journal


Chevtchenko, Tarass (Europe & North America, Ukraine)
Adapted by Eugène Guillevic and Jacqueline Lafond
Original language : Ukrainian
Published language(s) : French
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 195
Short stories

Le prétendant [The Intended]


Dabydeen, David (Latin America & the Caribbean, Guyana)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marie-Christine Perrin
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 2001. 264 p.
Novel

Le retour du mort/O regresso do morto


Cassamo, Suleiman (Africa, Mozambique)
Foreword by Robert Bréchon
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French - Portuguese
Translated by Isabel Vale Ferreira & Annick Moreau
Editions Chandeigne/UNESCO, 1994. 150
Short stories

Le riz [Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan]


Shanon, Ahmad (Asia & the Pacific, Malaysia)
Original language : Malay
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nicole Biros

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Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1987. 251 p.


Novel

Le roman de Chosroès et Chîrîn [Khusraw u Shirin]


Nizâmi 'Aruzi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Massé
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1970. 254 p.
Novel

Le roman de Wîs et Râmîn [Vis va Ramin]


Gorgâni, Fakhr-od-Dîn As'ad (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Massé
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1959. 481 p.
Epic

Le roman de l?anneau [Shilappadikâram]


Adigal, Ilangô (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Alain Daniélou
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1961. 260
Novel

Le royaume de Congo et les contrées environnantes (1591)


Duarte Lopes; Filippo Pigafetta (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduced and annotated by Willy Bal
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Willy Bal
Chandeigne/UNESCO, 2002. 384 p.
Epic

Le récit de Hayy ibn Yaqzan


Avicenne (Ibn Sina) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction and notes by Henri Corbin
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Corbin
Institut franco-iranien/Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1953. xii + 115
Philosophy

Le rêve dans le pavillon rouge [Hong lou meng]


Cao Xueqin (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Translation, introduction, notes and et variations by Li Tche-houa and Jacqueline

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Alézaïs
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacqueline Alézais - Li Tche-houa
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1981. 2 vol.
Novel

Le rêve du papillon
Pham, Quat Xa (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)
Published language(s) : French
Editions Sudestasie/UNESCO, 1997. 267 p.
Novel

Le samouraï [Akanishi Kakita]


Shiga, Naoya (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Marc Mécréant
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marc Mécréant
Gérard/UNESCO, 1970. 375 p.
Short stories

Le saule aux dix mille rameaux [Le Saule aux dix mille rameaux]
Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-François Baron - OK-sung Ann-Baron
Langues & Mondes L'Asiathèque, 2005. 540
Poetry

Le sette principesse [Haft Peikar]


Nizami, Ganjavi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Alessandro Bausani
Leonardo da Vinci Editrice/UNESCO, 1967. 265 p.
Epic

Le signe de patience et autres pièces du théâtre des Yuan [Jen Tseu Ki, K'an
Ts'ien Nou, P'o Kia Tseu Ti]
Tcheng T'ing Yu; Ts'in Kien-Fou (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction and notes by Li Tche-houa
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Li Tche-houa
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 380 p.
Play

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Le suaire. Récits d'une autre Inde


Premchand, Dhanpat Raî (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Catherine Thomas
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1975. 137 p.
Short stories

Le temps des villes


Adonis (Ali Ahmad Saïd Esber) (Arab States, Lebanon)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne Wade Minkowski - Jacques Berque
Mercure de France/UNESCO, 1990. 233
Poetry

Le temps et l'eau [Timinn og vatnidh]


Steinarr, Stein (Europe & North America, Iceland)
Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1984. 119 p.
Poetry

Le testament de Krishnokanto [Krsnakânter Uil]


Chatterji, Bankim Chandra (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Foreword, translation and notes by Nandadulal Dé
reprinted
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nandadulal Dé
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1988. 207
Novel

Le troisième livre du Denkart


Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Original language : Pahlavi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by J. de Menasce
Klincksieck/UNESCO, 1973. 465 p.
Philosophy, religion

Le tueur de serpents [Bwana Myombekere na Bibi Bugonoka na Ntulanalwo


na Bulihwali]
Kitereza, Aniceti (Africa, Tanzania, United Republic Of)

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Original language : Kiswahili


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Olivier Barlet - Simon Baguma Mweze
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1999. 352 p.
Novel

Le upanisad dello yoga


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original translated into French by J. Varenne
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Flavio Poli
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore/UNESCO, 1988. 179 p.
Philosophy, poetry, religion

Le vagabond et autres histoires tirées du Galpaguccha


Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Somnath Maitra; preface by Christine Bossenec
reprinted
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Christine Bossenec - Kamaleswar Bhattacharya
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1962. 259 p.
Short stories

Le vent du Nord-Est [Angin Timur Laut]


Kelantan, S. Othman (Asia & the Pacific, Malaysia)
Foreword by Vincent Monteil
Original language : Malay
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Laurent Metzger
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1982. 138 p.
Novel

Le voleur de Bible [Tjuven]


Tunström, Göran (Europe & North America, Sweden)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Lena Grumbach - Marc de Gouvenain
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1988. 480 p.
Novel

Le voleur de pêches. Par un soir calme [Kradetzad na praskovi. V tiha


vetcher]
Stanev, Emilian (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French

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Translated by Roger Bernard - Élisabeth Grégoire


Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1962. 200 p.
Short stories

Le vrai classique du vide parfait [Tchoung hiu-tchen king]


Lie-Tseu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted in: Le Taoïsme. Paris, Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. p. 473-638
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Benedykt Grynpas
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1961. 228 p.
Philosophy, religion

Leopard among the Women [Shabeelnaagood]


Sheikh Mumin, Hassan (Arab States, Somalia)
Introduction by B. W. Andrzejewski
Original language : Somali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by B. W. Andrzejewski
Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1974. 230 p.
Play

Les Maia
Eça de Queiros, José Maria (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul Teyssier
Editions Chandeigne/UNESCO, 1996. 797
Novel

Les ballades de Petritsa Kerempuh [Balade Petriçe Kerempuha]


Krleza, Miroslav (Europe & North America, Yugoslavia)
Original language : Kaïkavian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Janine Matillon
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1975. 182 p.
Poetry

Les chants de Nezahualcoyotl


Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico
Foreword by J. M. G. Le Clézio ; introduction by Pascal Coumes.
Original language : Nahuatl
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-claude Caër - Pascal Coumes
Obsidiane/UNESCO, 1970. 113
Poetry

Les contes du perroquet [Sukasaptati]

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Asia & the Pacific, India


Introduction by Amina Okada
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Amina Okada
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1985. 194 p.
Short stories

Les derniers jours de la colonie dans le Haut-Pérou [Ultimos días coloniales


en el Alto-Perú]
Moreno, Gabriel René (Latin America & the Caribbean, Bolivia)
Introduction by Francis de Miomandre
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Francis de Miomandre
Nagel/UNESCO, 1954. 351 p.
Chronicle, history

Les enfants du faiseur de pluie [Bwana myombekere na bibi bugonoka na


ntulanalwo na bulihwali]
Kitereza, Aniceti (Africa, Tanzania, United Republic Of)
Original language : Kiswahili
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Olivier Barlet - Simon Baguma Mweze
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1996. 324 p.
Novel

Les grands maîtres algériens du Cha?bi et du Hawzi : diwân arabe et kabyle


Arab States, Algeria
Preface and notes by Rachid Aous
Original language : Arabic - Kabyle
Published language(s) : Arabic - French - Kabyle
Translated by Rachid Aous
Editions El Ouns/UNESCO, 1996. 530 p.
Oral tradition

Les heures oisives [Tsurezure-gusa]


Kenkô, Urabe (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface and notes by Charles Grosbois and Tomiko Yoshida. Followed by "Notes
de ma cabane de moine [Hôjô-ki]" by Kamo no Chômei
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charles Grosbois - R. P. Sauveur Candau [Hôjô-ki] - Tomiko
Yoshida
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1968. 288 p.
Essay, philosophy, religion

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Les lusiades [Os Lusíades]


Camoes, Luis de (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Roger Bismut
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1980. 391
Epic

Les murs [Kabé]


Abé, Kôbô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Piquier poche/Éditions UNESCO
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marc Mécréant
Le Calligraphe/UNESCO, 1985. 302
Novel

Les mémoires historiques de Se-Ma Ts'ien [Che Ki]


Se-Ma Ts'ien (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Notes by Édouard Chavannes
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edouard Chavannes
Adrien Maisonneuve/UNESCO, 1967. 6 vol.
Biography/memoirs, history

Les oiseaux [Fuglane]


Vesaas, Tarjei (Europe & North America, Norway)
Edited by Régis Boyer
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Pierre Jean Oswald/UNESCO, 1975. 241 p.
Novel

Les quatre discours [Tchanar-Maqale]


Nizâmi 'Aruzi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Isabelle de Gastines
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1968. 165 p.
Philosophy

Les ruines de Ninive [Nineveh and its Remains]


Layard, Henry Austen (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Preface by Jean-Louis Huot

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Original language : English


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Philippe Babo
Editions Errance/UNESCO, 1999. 216 p.
Theater

Les tambours noirs. La saga du nègre brésilien [Os tambores de São Luis]
Montello, Josué (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Thiériot - Marie-Pierre Mazeas - Monique Le Moing
Flammarion/UNESCO, 1987. 515 p.
Novel

Les travaux et les nuits. Oeuvre poétique 1956-1972


Pizarnik, Alejandra (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claude Couffon - Silvia Baron Supervielle
Granit/UNESCO, 1986. 264 p.
Poetry

Les trois mondes [Traibhumi Brah R'van]


Asia & the Pacific, Thailand
Original language : Thai
Published language(s) : French
Translated by C. Archaimbault - G. Coedès
UNESCO/École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1973. 294 p.
Philosophy

Les trois royaumes [San Kouo tche yen yi]


Louo Kouan-tchong (attributed to) (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Notes and commentaries by Nghiêm Toan and Louis Ricaud; introduction by
Robert Ruhlmann
Vol. 1-3 reprinted. Vol. 4-7 : trans. and notes by Louis Ricaud, Jean Lévi and
Angélique Lévi. Paris, Flammarion/UNESCO, 1988-1991.
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Ricaud - Nghiêm Toan
Société des études indochinoises, 1960. 3 vol.
Chronicle, history

Les vainqueurs et autres nouvelles [Los ganadores]


Uslar Pietri, Arturo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Philippe Dessommes Flórez

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Critérion/UNESCO, 1995. 279 p.


Short stories

Les visages du temps [Os pareceres do tempo]


Sales, Herberto (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Geneviève Leibrich
A. M. Métailié/UNESCO, 1991. 380 p.
Novel

Les éperons d'argent [El día señalado]


Mejia Vallejo, Manuel (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Rauda Jamis
Editions caribéennes/UNESCO, 1986. 248 p.
Novel

Les épopées d'Afrique noire


Dieng, Bassirou; Kesteloot, Lilyan (Africa)
Preface by François Suard
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Karthala/UNESCO, 1997. 630 p.
Epic

Les étapes mystiques du shaykh Abu Sa'id [Asrar Al Tawhid fi Maqâmàt e al


shaykh Abu Sa'id]
Monawwar, Mohammad Ebn E. (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Notes by Mohammad Achena
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mohammad Achena
Desclée de Brouwer/UNESCO, 1974. 411 p.
Philosophy, religion

Lessons from History [Tokushi Yoron]


Hakuseki, Arai (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Commentary by Joyce Ackroyd
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joyce Ackroyd
UNESCO/University of Queensland Press, 1982. 417 p.
History

Letters of a Jawanese Princess [Door Duisternis tot Licht]


Kartini, Raden Adjeng (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)

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Introduction by Hildred Geertz; preface by Eleanor Roosevelt


Edited by Hildred Geertz
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Agnes Louise Symmers
Norton/UNESCO, 1964. 246 p.
Correspondence

Lettres de Raden Adjeng Kartini. Jawa en 1900 [Door duisternis tot licht]
Kartini, Raden Adjeng (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Selection by Louis-Charles Damais; introduction and notes by Jeanne Cuisinier;
preface by Louis Massignon
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis-Charles Damais
Mouton/UNESCO, 1960. 149 p.
Correspondence

Leyla and Mejnun [Lejli i Med©nun]


Fuzuli, Mehmet (Arab States, Iraq)
History of the poem, notes and bibliography by Alessio Bombaci
Reprinted by Crane, Russak/UNESCO, 1972
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Sofi Huri
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1970. 350 p.
Poetry

Licht und Reigen


Rumi, Jalal-Al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Johann Christoph Bürgel
Herbert Lang/UNESCO, 1974. 191 p.
Philosophy, poetry, religion

Liefde Rond. Liefde Vierkant. Bloemlezing uit de Sijopoëzie


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Frits Vos
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1981. 135 p.
Poetry

Light and Darkness, an Unfinished Novel [Meian]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Critical essay by V. H. Viglielmo

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Reprinted by University of Hawaii Press/UNESCO, 1971


Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by V. H. Viglielmo
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1971. 397 p.
Novel

Lillelord
Borgen, Johan (Europe & North America, Norway)
reprinted
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eric Eydoux
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1985. 426
Novel

Literatures of Central Asia


Asia & the Pacific
pp. 489–648; illus. (World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 3, Summer 1996.)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/University of Oklahoma, 1996
Essay, literary criticism

Livre des directives et remarques [Kitab al-Isarat wa L-tanbihat]


Avicenne (Ibn Sina) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Annotated by A. M. Goichon
reprinted
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by A. M. Goichon
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO/Vrin,
1999. 553
Philosophy

Livre des religions et des sectes. I


Shahrastani (Arab States)
Introduction and notes by Daniel Gimaret and Guy Monnot
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Daniel Gimaret - Guy Monnot
Peeters/UNESCO, 1986. 727 p.
Religion

Livre des religions et des sectes. II. [Kitab al-milal wa l-nihal]


Shahrastani (Arab States)
Introduction and notes by Jean Jolivet and Guy Monnot

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Original language : Arabic


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Guy Monnot - Jean Jolivet
Peeters/UNESCO, 1993. 578 p.
Religion

Los Capítulos Interiores


Zhuang Zi (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Jean Claude Pastor-Ferrer - Pilar González España
Trotta/UNESCO, 1998. 148 p.
Philosophy, poetry

Los amantes suicidas de amijima


Monzaemon, Chikamatsu (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Jaime Fernandez
Trotta/UNESCO, 2001. 132 p.
Play

Los amantes suicidas de amijima


Monzaemon, Chikamatsu (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Jaime Fernandez
Trotta/UNESCO, 2001. 132 p.
Play

Los hermosos días/Les jours heureux


Wilcock, Juan Rodolfo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Introduction by Silvia Baron-Supervielle
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Silvia Baron Supervielle
La Différence/UNESCO, 1994. 124 p.
Poetry

Love Poems/Sujanhit
Ghananand (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. P. Bahadur
Motilal Barnasidass/UNESCO, 1977. 202 p.
Poetry

Love Song of the Dark Lord [Gitagovinda]

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Jayadeva (Asia & the Pacific, India)


Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1977. 230 p.
Poetry

Love Songs of Chandidas. The Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal


Chandidas (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and notes by Deben Bhattacharya
Reprinted by Grove Press/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Deben Bhattacharya
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1967. 172 p., illus.
Poetry

Love Songs of Vidyapati


Vidyapati (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction, notes and comments by W. G. Archer
Reprinted by Grove Press/UNESCO, 1970
Edited by W. G. Archer
Original language : Maithili
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Deben Bhattacharya
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1963. 148 p., illus.
Poetry

Love and War. Adventures from the Firuz Shah Nama of Sheikh Bighami
Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by William L. Hanaway Jr
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints/UNESCO, 1974. 208 p.
Epic

Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture


Sharar, Abdul Halim (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Edited by E. S. Harcour; Fakhir Hussain
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. S. Harcourt - Fakhir Hussain
Paul Elek/UNESCO, 1974. 295 p.
History

Lumière du monde [Heimsljos]

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Laxness, Halldor Kiljan (Europe & North America, Iceland)


Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Aubier/UNESCO, 1989. 644 p.
Novel

Léonard de Vinci par lui-même


Vinci, Leonardo da (Europe & North America, Italy)
Prefaced by "La vie de Léonard de Vinci", by Giorgio Vasari
Edited by André Chastel
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Chastel
Nagel/UNESCO, 1952. 204 p.
Biography/memoirs

Ma hïa Alfalafa ? [Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?]


Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Mutah Safadi
Centre de développement national/Les Editions de Minuit/UNESCO, 1997. 224
p.
Philosophy

Macounaïma, ou le héros sans aucun caractère [Macunaíma. O heroi sem


nenhum caracter]
Andrade, Mario de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Thiériot
Flammarion/UNESCO, 1979. 249
Novel

Macounaïma. Le héros sans aucun caractère


De Andrade, Mário (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Thiériot
ALLCA XX/Stock/UNESCO, 1997. 349 p.
Novel

Maestro Don Gesualdo


Verga, Giovanni (Europe & North America, Italy)
Preface by Luigi Rosso

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reprinted
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michel Arnaud
Plon/UNESCO, 1960. xxxvii + 339 p.
Novel

Mahesh et autres nouvelles


Chatterji, Saratchandra (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Forewords by Prithwindra Mukherjee and Jean Filliozat
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Prithwindra Mukherjee
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1988. 142
Short stories

Major Plays
Chikamatsu, Monzaemon (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1961. xvi + 485 p., illus.
Play

Major Works
Kukai (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Yoshito S. Hakeda
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1972. 303 p.
Philosophy

Mama Blanca's Memoirs [Memorias de Mama Blanca]


Parra, Teresa de la (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Edited by Frederick H. Fornoff (critical edition)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Harriet de Onís
Colección Archivos/UNESCO/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. 183 p.
Novel

Mama Blanca's Souvenirs [Memorias de Mama Blanca]


Parra, Teresa de la (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Harriet de Onís
Organization of American States/UNESCO, 1959. xix + 129 p.
Novel

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Man. Yôshû
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduced and commented by René Sieffert
Vol. I, books I to III, Vol. II, books IV to VI. (1997, 402 p.; 1998, 380 p.)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
POF/UNESCO, 1997. 2 vol.
Poetry

Manichaean Literature
Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Selected and introduced by Jes P. Asmussen
Reprinted 1977
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Jes P. Asmussen
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints/UNESCO, 1975. 148 p.
Philosophy, religion

Mantramahodadhi. With ?Nauka' Commentary


Mahidhara (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Sri Satguru Publications/UNESCO, 1985. 583 p.
Philosophy, religion

Maqalat al-tariqah [Discours de la méthode]


Descartes, René (Europe & North America, France)
Reprinted 1970
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Djémil Saliba
Commission internationale pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO,
1953. 176 p.
Philosophy

Marche forcée. Le mois des gémeaux [Eröltett menet. Az ikrek hava]


Radnóti, Miklós (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Selection and foreword by Jean-Luc Moreau
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Luc Moreau
Pierre Jean Oswald/UNESCO, 1975. 179 p.
Poetry

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Maria Calleja's Gozo. A Life History


Calleja, Maria; Galley, Micheline (Europe & North America, France, Malta)
Ed. and introduced by Micheline Galley
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/Utah State University Press, 1994. 245 p.
Biography/memoirs

Marko the Prince. Serbo-Croat Heroic Songs [Marko Kraljevich]


Europe & North America, Yugoslavia
Original language : Serbo-Croat
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ann Pennington - Peter Levi
Duckworth/UNESCO, 1984. 173 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

Martin Coucou [Kakuk Marci]


Tersánszky, Józsi Jenö (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Foreword by Aurélien Sauvageot
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Roger Richard
Editions Corvina/UNESCO, 1968. 252 p.
Novel

Martin Fierro
Hernández, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Introduction and notes by Paul Verdevoye
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul Verdevoye
Nagel/UNESCO, 1955. 270 p.
Poetry

María
Isaacs, Jorge (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Preface by Edmond Vandercammen
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mathilde Pomès
Plon/UNESCO, 1959. 283 p.
Novel

Masnavîs : poèmes d'amour de l'Inde moghole [Masnavîs]


Mîr Taqî Mîr (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Introduced and annotated by Denis Matringe
Original language : Urdu

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Denis Matringe
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1993. 95 p.
Poetry

Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant!


Basheer, Vaikom Muhammad (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Achamma Coilparampil Chandersekaran - R. E. Asher
Edinburgh University Press/UNESCO, 1980. 204 p.
Short stories

Melog [Melog]
Morgan, Mihangel (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : Welsh
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Meredith Christopher
Seren (Poetry Wales Press Ltd), 2005. 240
Novel

Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant [Memórias de um sargento de milícias]


Almeida, Antônio Manuel de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Linton L. Barrett
Organization of American States/UNESCO, 1959. xvi + 244
Novel

Memoria de América en la poesía. Antología 1492-1992


Latin America & the Caribbean
Comp. by Fernando Ainsa and Edgar Montiel
Original language : Portuguese - Spanish
Published language(s) : Portuguese - Spanish
UNESCO, 1992. 313 p.
Poetry

Memories of Altagracia [Memorias de Altagracia]


Garmendia, Salvador (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Introduction by Fernando Ainsa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Jeremy Munday
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1998. 206 p.
Novel

Men of Maize [Hombres de maíz]


Asturias, Miguel Ángel (Latin America & the Caribbean, Guatemala)

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Original language : Spanish


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Gerald Martin
Colección Archivos/UNESCO/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. 466 p.
Novel

Mencius
Mencius (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Arranged and annotated by W. A. C. H. Dobson
Reprinted by University of Toronto Press/UNESCO, 1966
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by W. A. C. H. Dobson
Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1963. xviii + 215 p.
Philosophy

Mensagem : poemas esotéricos


Pessoa, Fernando (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Edited by José Augusto Seabra
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : Portuguese
Coleção Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 541 p.
Poetry

Message de l'Orient [Payâm-i-Mashriq]


Iqbal, Mohammad (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eva Meyerovitch - Mohammad Achena
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1956. 195 p.
Poetry

Message/Mensagem
Pessoa, Fernando (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Preface by José Augusto Seabra; bibliography by José Blanco
reprinted
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French - Portuguese
Translated by Bernard Sesé
José Corti/UNESCO, 1988. 171 p.
Poetry

Mijnheer Dong - Het Verhaal van de Wester-Kamers in alle Toonaarden [Si


Siang Ki]
Wang Che-Fou (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish

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Translated by W. L. Idema
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1984. 384 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

Milinda's Questions [Milindapanha]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted by Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by I. B. Horner
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1964. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Modern Brazilian Poetry


Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John Nist
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1962. 175 p.
Poetry

Modern Hindi Poetry. An Anthology


Asia & the Pacific, India
Edited by Vidya Niwas Misra
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leonard Nathan
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1967. 126 p.
Poetry

Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1981
Edited by Donald Keene
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
Grove Press/UNESCO, 1956. 444 p.
Poetry, prose

Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction by Ivan Morris; woodcuts by Masakazu Kuwata
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1980
Edited by Ivan Morris
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Edward Seidensticker


Eyre & Spottiswoode/UNESCO, 1961. 528 p.
Short stories

Mon
Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by F. Mathy
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1972. 217 p.
Novel

Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned [Bustan]


Sa'di (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by G. M. Wickens
UNESCO/University of Toronto Press, 1974. 316 p.
Poetry

Morceaux choisis de poètes romantiques français


Europe & North America, France
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by N. Falssafi
Imprimerie de l'Université/UNESCO, 1962
Poetry

More Tales from the Masnavi


Rumi, Jalal-Al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Edited by A. J. Arberry
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Arberry
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1963. 252 p.
Folk-tale

Motifs de Protée [Motivos de Proteo]


Rodó, José Enrique (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Preface by Claude Couffon
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Victor Crastre
Institut des hautes études de l'Amérique latine/UNESCO, 1966. 303 p.
Essay

Moïse, le benjamin de la Bible [Mojzesz, benjamin Biblii]

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Korczak, Janusz (Europe & North America, Poland)


Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Zofia Bobowicz
Librairie bleue/UNESCO, 1988. 127 p.
Novel

Mr Basket Knife and Other Khmer Folktales


Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia
Illus. by Sisowath Kulachad
Original language : Khmer
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. R. Milne
George Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1972. 72 p.
Folk-tale

Multiculturalism in Contemporary German Literature


Europe & North America
Introduction by Paul Michael Lützeler
in World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, Summer 1995, pp. 453–660.
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/University of Oklahoma, 1995
Essay, literary criticism

Muralla de redes [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Malayalam original; translated into French by H. Menon and from the French by
Juan Fonseca
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Spanish
UNESCO/Vergara, 1965. 223 p.
Novel

Murmullos del silencio/Murmures du silence


Manzur, Gregorio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Preface by Bernard Outtier
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Manzur, Gregorio
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1985. 103 p.
Poetry

Musamarat Al-Amwat wa Istifta'u mayt [Nekrikoi dialogoi]


Lucien de Samosate (Europe & North America, Greece)
Introduction and notes by Elias Saad Ghali
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)

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Published language(s) : Arabic


Translated by Elias Saad Ghali
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1967. 185
p.
Philosophy

Museo de la novela de la eterna


Fernández, Macedonio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Foreword by Gerardo Mario Goloboff
Edited by Adolfo de Obieta; Ana Camblong
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Colección Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 616 p.
Essay, short stories

Musique d'un puits bleu [Musikk fra en blå brønn]


Nedreaas, Torborg (Europe & North America, Norway)
Preface by Régis Boyer
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Editions Pandora/UNESCO, 1982. 307 p.
Novel

Muslim Saints and Mystics. Episodes of the Tadhkirat al-Auliya' (Memorial of


the Saints)
Attar, Farid al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Reprinted by Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO, 1976
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Arberry
UNESCO/University of Chicago Press, 1966. xii + 287 p.
Religion

My Brother Sebastian [Veljeni Sebastian]


Idström, Annika (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joan Tate
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1991. 130 p.
Novel

My Voice because of You [La voz a ti debida]


Salinas, Pedro (Europe & North America, Spain)
Introduction by Willis Barnstone; preface by Jorge Guillén
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Willis Barnstone


State University of New York Press/UNESCO, 1976. 110 p.
Poetry

Mystical Poems of Rumi. First Selection: Poems 1-200


Rumi, Jalal-Al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Arberry
UNESCO/University of Chicago Press, 1968. 203 p.
Poetry

Mystical Poems of Rumi. Second Selection: Poems 201-400


Rumi, Jalal-Al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Arberry
UNESCO/Westview Press, 1979. 187 p.
Poetry

Mythes et légendes extraits des Brahmana


Asia & the Pacific, India
Notes by Jean Varenne
reprinted
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Varenne
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1967. 204 p.
Legend

Mèmed le mince [Ince Memed]


Kemal, Yasar (Europe & North America, Turkey)
reprinted
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Guzine Dino - Louis Bazin
Editions mondiales, 1961. 359 p.
Novel

Mémoires d'un Italien. Confessions d'un octogénaire [Memorie di un Italiano.


Confessioni di un ottuagenario]
Nievo, Ippolito (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction by Paul Bédarida; original drawings by Claude Verlinde
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henriette Valot
Klincksieck/UNESCO, 1968. 655 p., ill.
Biography/memoirs

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N'y touchez pas [Noli me Tangere]


Rizal, José (Asia & the Pacific, Philippines)
Preface by Étiemble
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jovita Ventura Castro
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1980. 448 p.
Novel

Nala und Damayanti [Mahabharata]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Albrecht Wezler
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1965. 87 p.
Philosophy

Narayaniya Parvan du Mahabharata. Un texte Pañcaratra


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne-Marie Esnoul
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1979. 242 p.
Epic

Naufrage en Patagonie
Byron, John (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
[The Narrative of the honorourable John Byron, commodore in a late expedition
round the world, containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself
and his companions on the coasts of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their
arrival in Engla
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André-Samuel Cantwell
Editions Utz/UNESCO, 1994. 173
Travelogue

Negeri salju [Yukiguni]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original Japanese; trans. by Anas Ma’ruf from the English version by E.
G. Seidensticker
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Anas Ma'ruf
Pustaka Jaya/UNESCO, 1972. 147 p.
Novel

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Nepali Visions, Nepali Dreams


Devkota, Laxmiprasad (Asia & the Pacific, Nepal)
Original language : Nepali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Rubin
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1980. 175 p.
Poetry

Netto pierde su alma [Netto perde sua alma]


Ruas, Tabajara (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Pablo Rocca
Ediciones de la Banda Oriental/UNESCO, 1997. 112 p.
Novel

Nineteen Poems
Vaptsarov, Nikola (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Illus. by Roumen Skorchev; introductory poem by Yannis Ritsos
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ewald Osers
Journeyman/UNESCO, 1984. 69 p.
Poetry

Nippon. Erzählungen
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Monique Humbert
Diogenes Verlag/UNESCO, 1965. 564 p.
Short stories

Northern Voices. Five Contemporary Iceland Poets: S. Hjartarson, O. J.


Sigurosson, H. Sigfússon, H. Pétursson, T. Frá Hamri
Europe & North America, Iceland
Foreword by Magnus Magnusson; introduction by Oskar Halldórsson
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Alan Boucher
UNESCO/Wilfion Books, 1984. 63 p.
Poetry

Nos lo contó Abu Hurayra [Haddaza Abu Huraira Qala]


Al-Masadi, Mahmud (Arab States, Tunisia)
Prologue by Santiago Martinez de Francisco

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Original language : Arabic


Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Santiago Martinez de Francisco
Huerga & Fierro Editores/UNESCO, 1996. 124 p.
Novel

Notas sobre la inteligencia americana/Uwagi o amerykanskiej inteligencji


Reyes, Alfonso (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Introduction by Liliana Weinberg de Magie
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Polish - Spanish
Translated by Janusz Wojcieszak
CESLA/UNESCO, 1994. 60 p.
Essay

Notes de chevet [Makura no soshi]


Sei Shonagon (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Commented by André Beaujard
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Beaujard
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1966. 326 p.
Novel

Notes de voyage dans l'Amérique du Sud - Argentine, Uruguay, Brésil


Clémenceau, Georges (Europe & North America, France)
Foreword by Jean-Louis Marfaing
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
UNESCO/Utz, 1991. 256
Theater

Nouvelles 1945-1982
Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Françoise Campo-Timal - Françoise Rosset - Laure Guille-Bataillon
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1993. 1030 (édition intégrale)
Short stories

Nouvelles grecques
Europe & North America, Greece
Selection and introduction by Octave Merlier
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : French

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Translated by Multiple translators


Klincksieck/UNESCO, 1972. 320 p.
Short stories

Nouvelles hongroises. Anthologie des XIXe et XXe siècles


Europe & North America, Hungary
Preface by András Diószegi
Edited by Aurélien Sauvageot
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Commission nationale hongroise pour l'UNESCO
Seghers/UNESCO, 1961. 383 p.
Short stories

Nouvelles néerlandaises des Flandres et des Pays-Bas


Europe & North America, Belgium, Netherlands
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Liliane Wouters
Seghers/UNESCO, 1965. 354 p.
Short stories

Nouvelles roumaines. Anthologie des prosateurs roumains


Europe & North America, Romania
Foreword by Jean Boutière; preface by Tudor Vianu
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Commission nationale roumaine pour l'UNESCO
Seghers/UNESCO, 1962. 374 p.
Short stories

Nouvelles slovènes
Europe & North America, Yugoslavia
Preface by Mitja Mejak; biographies by Zlata Cognard
Original language : Slovenian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Seghers/UNESCO, 1969. 326 p.
Short stories

Nouvelles tchèques et slovaques


Europe & North America, Czech Republic
Preface by Adolf Hoffmeister
Original language : Czech - Slovak
Published language(s) : French
Translated by François Kérel
Seghers/UNESCO, 1965. 352 p.
Short stories

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Nuit obscure - Cantique spirituel [Noche oscura - Cántico espiritual]


Jean de la Croix (Europe & North America, Spain)
Preface by José Angel Valente; foreword by Jacques Ancet
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Jacques Ancet
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1997. 240 p.
Poetry

Nuququn muqaddasatun wa nuququn dunyawiyyatun min Misr al-qadimah.


Al-muGalladu al-awwal [Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'ancienne
Égypte. I - Des pharaons et des hommes]
Arab States, Egypt
Translated from the French version by Claire Lalouette (texts and commentaries)
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Maher Juaïjati
Al Fikr/UNESCO, 1995. 397 p.
Folk-tale, poetry, religion

Nuququn muqaddasatun wa nuququn dunyawiyyatun min Misr al-qadimah.


Al-muGalladu at-tani [Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'ancienne Égypte.
II - Mythes, contes et poésie]
Arab States, Egypt
Translated from the French version by Claire Lalouette (text and commentaries)
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Maher Juaïjati
Al Fikr/UNESCO, 1996. 391 p.
Folk-tale, poetry, religion

Nô et kyôgen
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Edited by René Sieffert
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1979. 2 vol.
Play

O Disciple!/Ayyuha l-walad
Al-Ghazali (Abu Hamid Muhammad) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - English
Translated by George H. Scherer
Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/UNESCO, 1951. xxvi
+ 28 p. + 30 p.
Philosophy, religion

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O Jeune homme/Ayyuha-I-walad
Al-Ghazali (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Foreword by Georges H. Sherer
reprinted
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by Toufic Sabbagh
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1951
Philosophy, religion

O hijo !/Ayyuha l-walad


Al-Ghazali (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - Spanish
Translated by Estebán Lator
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1951. xxii
+ 63 p.
Philosophy

Obra completa I: el concejo y consejeros del príncipe; bononia


Furió Ceriol, Fadrique (Europe & North America, Spain)
Preface by Federico Mayor ; introduction by Pedro Ruiz Torres
Translation of Bononia from the Latin : M. Almenara, M. A. Coronel, J. M.
Estellés, C. Ferragut, X. Gómez, F. Grau et J. Pérez Durà
Edited by Henry Mechoulan; Jordi Pérez Durà
Original language : Latin
Published language(s) : Spanish
Edicions Alfons el Magnànim/UNESCO, 1996. 621 p.
Philosophy

Obra crítica/1
Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Selection and introduction by Saúl Yurkievich
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Alfaguara/UNESCO, 1994. 137 p.
Literary criticism

Obra crítica/2
Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Selection and introduction by Jaime Alazraki
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Alfaguara/UNESCO, 1994. 385 p.
Literary criticism

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Obra crítica/3
Cortázár, Julio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Selection and introduction by Saúl Sosnowski
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Alfaguara/UNESCO, 1994. 361 p.
Literary criticism

Ocean of Story [Katha Sarit Sagara]


Somadeva, Bhatta (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction, notes and terminal essay by N. M. Penzer
2nd ed. rev. and enl.; Reprinted by Lawrence Verry/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by C. H. Tawney - N. M. Penzer
Motilal Barnasidass/UNESCO, 1968. 10 vols.
Folk-tale, legend

Odes mystiques [Dîvân-e Shams-e Tabrîzi]


Rumî, Mawlânâ Djalâl Od-Dîn (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Notes by Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch and Mohammad Mokri
In 2003, new edition with Editions du Seuil (Paris)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch - Mohammad Mokri
Klincksieck/UNESCO, 1973. 327 p.
Philosophy, poetry

Oeuvre complète
Tchouang-Tseu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted. also printed in : Le Taoïsme. Paris, Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992, p. 115-
471.
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Liou Kia-hway
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1969. 388 p.
Philosophy, religion

Oeuvres
Asunción Silva, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Forewords by Gabriel García Márquez and Alvaro Mutis
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claire Pailler - Jacques Gilard
ALLCA XX/CNRS/Stock/UNESCO, 1996. 516
Poetry

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Oeuvres choisies
Montalvo, Juan (Latin America & the Caribbean, Ecuador)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gabriel Judde
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1997. 309 p.
Chronicle, history

Oeuvres complètes [Memorie del primo amore, Ricordi d'infanzia e


d'adolescenza, Storia di un'anima, Operette morali, Zibaldone, Canti]
Leopardi, Giacomo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction by Giuseppe Ungaretti; followed by a study from Sainte-Beuve
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by F.-A. Aulard - G. Nicole - J. Bertrand - P. Jaccottet
Del Duca/UNESCO, 1964. 1917 p.
Biography/memoirs, poetry, prose

Offrandes. Poèmes 1946-1989


Anday, Melih Cevdet (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Edited by Timour Muhidine
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French - Turkish
Translated by Multiple translators
Editions Publisud/UNESCO, 1998. 316
Poetry

Old Czech Legends


Jirásek, Alois (Europe & North America, Czech Republic)
Introduction and glossary by M. K. Holecek
Original language : Czech
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. K. Holecek
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1992. xiv + 199 p.
Folk-tale, legend

On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy [Kitab fas Al-Maqal]


Averroës (Ibn Rushd) (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by George F. Hourani
Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/Luzac &
Co./UNESCO, 1961. 126 p.
Philosophy, religion

One Hundred Poems of Kabir


Kabir (Asia & the Pacific, India)

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Original language : Hindi


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Macmillan/UNESCO, 1961. xlvi + 105 p.
Poetry

One Hundred Rural Songs of India


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. P. Bahadur
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1978. 198 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

One Hundred and One Chinese Poems


Asia & the Pacific, China
Preface by Shi Shun Liu; introduction by Edmund Blunden; foreword by John
Cairncross with seven additional translations
Reprinted by Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1967
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Shi Shun Liu
Hong Kong University Press/UNESCO, 1967. xxxiv + 173 p.
Poetry

One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems


Asia & the Pacific, China
Illus. by Madeleine Pearson
Reprinted 1977
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Arthur Waley
Constable/UNESCO, 1962. 129 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

Ongrijpbaar is de Ganges
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Tonny Scherft
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1981. 230 p.
Folk-tale, religion

Padma River Boatman [Padma Nadir Majhi]


Bandopadhyaya, Manik (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Barbara Painter - Yann Lovelock


UNESCO/University of Queensland Press, 1973. xii + 142 p.
Novel

Pages [Shoshin nembutsu-ge. Shozomappo-wasan]


Shinran (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Otani Chojun
Presses universitaires de France/UNESCO, 1969. 131 p., ill., maps
Philosophy

Pages choisies
Martí, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Cuba)
Preface by Max Daireaux
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by José Carner - Max Daireaux - Émile Noulet
Nagel/UNESCO, 1953. 399 p.
Poetry

Pages choisies. Choix de lettres, discours et proclamations


Bolívar, Simón (Latin America & the Caribbean, Venezuela)
Introduction by A. Uslar-Pietri ; foreword by C. Parra-Pérez
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charles V. Aubrun
Institut des hautes études de l'Amérique latine/UNESCO, 1966. 239 p., maps
History, letters

Panic. The Runaway [Panikku & Ruboki]


Kaiko, Takeshi (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Charles Dunn
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1977. 122 p.
Short stories

Paroles dévoilées. Anthologie de nouvelles turques contemporaines écrites


par des femmes
Europe & North America, Turkey
Edited by Nedim Gürsel
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Arcantère/UNESCO, 1993. 278 p.
Short stories

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Pastor Bodvar's Letter [Leynt og Ljost]


Sigurdsson, Olafur Johann (Europe & North America, Iceland)
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by George Johnston
Penumbra Press/UNESCO, 1985. 63 p.
Novel

Pastorales [Soûr-Sâgar]
Soûr-das (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction, notes and glossary by Charlotte Vaudeville
reprinted
Original language : Braj
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Charlotte Vaudeville
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1971. 208 p.
Poetry

Pather Panchali. A Bengali Novel


Banerji, Bibhutibhushan (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Abriged version
Reprinted 1980
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. Roy - Margaret Chatterjee
Allied Publishers/UNESCO, 1976. 166 p.
Novel

Pather Panchali. Song of the Road


Banerji, Bibhutibhushan (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by The Folio Society/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by T. W. Clark - Tarapada Mukherji
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1968. 326 p.
Novel

Pathér Páncsáli. Ének az útról [Pather panchali]


Banerdzsi, Bibhútibhúsan (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original Bengali; trans. by Rozsnyai Bálint from the English version by T. W.
Clark and T. Mukherji
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : Hungarian
Translated by Rozsnyai Bálint
Európa Könyvkiadó/UNESCO, 1980. 584 p.
Novel

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Pattern for a Tapestry [O risco do bordado]


Dourado, Autran (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John M. Parker
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1984. 170 p.
Novel

Pays de neige [Yukiguni]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Armel Guerne - Bunkichi Fujimori
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1960. 253 p., ill.
Novel

Pañcatantra
Asia & the Pacific, India
Notes by Édouard Lancereau; introduction by Louis Renou
reprinted
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Édouard Lancereau
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 383 p.
Legend

Peking Man [Pei-ching jen]


Cao Yu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Don Cohn - Leslie Nai-Kwai Lo - Michelle Vosper
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1986. 181 p.
Play

Pertempuran Penghabisan [A Farewell to Arms]


Hemingway, Ernest (Europe & North America, United States)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Toto Sudarto Bachtiar
Pustaka Jaya/UNESCO, 1975. 502 p.
Novel

Phantasies of a Love-chief/Caucapancasika
Bilhana (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English - Sanskrit

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Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller


Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1971. 233 p.
Poetry

Pictures from a Brewery [Tmounoth Mibeith Mivshal Hachéchar]


Barash, Asher (Europe & North America, Israel)
Introduction by Israel Cohen
Reprinted by Bobbs-Merrill/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Hebrew
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Katie Kaplan
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1972
Novel

Pillar of Fire [Hi no hashira]


Kinoshita, Naoe (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. Strong
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1972. 200 p.
Novel

Plays, Prefaces and Postscripts. Vol. I: Theatre of the Mind


Al-Hakim, Tawfiq (Arab States, Egypt)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by W. M. Hutchins
Three Continents Press/UNESCO, 1981. 351
Play

Plays, Prefaces and Postscripts. Vol. II: Theatre of Society


Al-Hakim, Tawfiq (Arab States, Egypt)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. I. Abulai - M. B. Lawani - W. M. Hutchins
Three Continents Press/UNESCO, 1984. 351
Play

Please Sir! [Tanár úr kérem]


Karinthy, Frigyes (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by István Farkas
Editions Corvina/UNESCO, 1968. 80 p.
Short stories

Poems

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Bharati, Subramania (Asia & the Pacific, India)


Introduction and notes by Prema Nandakumar
new ed., 1982
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Prema Nandakumar
Sahitya Akademi/UNESCO, 1977. 232 p.
Poetry

Poems
Bhartrihari (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. xxix + 156 p.
Poetry

Poems by Faiz
Faiz, Ahmed Faiz (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Introduction and notes by V. G. Kiernan
Reprinted by Vanguard Books/South Publications/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English - Urdu
Translated by V. G. Kiernan
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1971. 288 p.
Poetry

Poems from Black Africa


Africa
Reprinted 1970
Edited by Langston Hughes
Original language : multilingual
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1963. 160 p., illus.
Poetry

Poems from Korea. From the Earliest Era to the Present


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Selected by Peter Lee; foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson.
Rev. ed. of Anthology of Korean Literature. Reprinted by University Press of
Hawaii/UNESCO, 1974
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Peter Lee
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1974. 196 p.
Poetry

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Poems from the Divan


Khushal Khân Khattak (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Reprinted by Crane, Russak/UNESCO, 1965
Original language : Pushto
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. N. Mackensie
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1965
Poetry

Poems of Love and War. From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems
of Classical Tamil
Asia & the Pacific, India
Selected by A. K. Ramanujan
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1985. 338 p.
Poetry

Poems of Solitude: Juan Chi, Pao Chao, Wang Wei, P'ei Ti, Li Ho and Li Yü
Asia & the Pacific, China
Reprinted by Lund Humphries/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Jerome Ch'ên - Michael Bullock
Abelard-Schuman/UNESCO, 1960. 119 p., illus.
Poetry

Poems of the Late T'ang


Asia & the Pacific, China
Introduction by A. C. Graham
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. C. Graham
Penguin Books/UNESCO, 1965. 174 p.
Poetry

Poesía Cubana. Con un mismo fuego


Latin America & the Caribbean, Cuba
Selection by Aitana Alberti
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Litoral/UNESCO, 1997. 224 p.
Poetry

Poesía sueca contemporánea

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Europe & North America, Sweden


Selection by F. J. Uriz
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by F. J. Uriz
Litoral/UNESCO, 1990. 317 p.
Poetry

Poesía ucraniana del siglo XX. Una iconografía del alma


Europe & North America, Ukraine
Selection and introduction by Iury Lech
Original language : Ukrainian
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Iury Lech
Litoral/UNESCO, 1993. 453 p., ill.
Poetry

Poet of the Sikhs


Vir Singh, Bhai (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Harbans Singh and Yann Lovelock
Original language : Panjabi; Punjabi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Harbans Singh - Yann Lovelock
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1976. 155 p.
Poetry

Poetic Heritage - Igbo Traditional Verse


Africa
Introduction by Romanus N. Egudu and Donatos I. Nwoga
Original language : Ibo
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donatos I. Nwoga - Romanus N. Egudu
Nwankwo-Ifejika/UNESCO, 1971. 137 p.
Poetry

Poetry from Bengal. Delta Rising: An Anthology of Modern Bengali Poetry


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. D. K. Banerjee
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1989. 186 p.
Poetry

Poetry of Soviet Ukraine's New World: An Anthology


Europe & North America, Ukraine
Original language : Ukrainian
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Multiple translators


Paul Norbury Publications/UNESCO, 1986. 240 p.
Poetry

Points d'exclamation. Anthologie de la poésie croate contemporaine


Tonko Maroevic (Europe & North America, Croatia)
Original language : Croatian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Vanda Miksic
2003. 432
Poetry

Por debajo del sueño: antología poética (1962-1982)


Bergamín, José (Europe & North America, Spain)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Litoral/UNESCO, 1995. 333 p., ill.
Poetry

Post-scriptum et autres nouvelles


Choukchine, Vassili (Europe & North America, Russian Federation)
Original language : Russian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Brigitte Banquey
Alfil Editions/L'Instant même/UNESCO, 1997. 285
Short stories

Pourquoi le concombre ne chante-t-il pas ? Poésies polonaises pour enfants


Europe & North America, Poland
Selection by Zofia Bobowicz
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Zofia Bobowicz
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1976. 76 p.
Poetry

Poèmes
Faiz, Ahmed Faiz (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Introduction by Laiq Babree
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Laiq Babree
Seghers/UNESCO, 1979. 119
Poetry

Poèmes
Petöfi, Sándor (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Edited by J. Rousselot

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Original language : Hungarian


Published language(s) : French
Translated by F. Kaczander - G. Kassai
Editions Corvina/UNESCO, 1971. 172 p.
Poetry

Poèmes
Rifbjerg, Klaus (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Introduction by Régis Boyer
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Seghers/UNESCO, 1980. 129 p.
Poetry

Poèmes choisis
Pannonius, Janus (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Selection, preface and notes by Tibor Kardos
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Rousselot - Michel Manoll - Paul Chaulot
Editions Corvina/UNESCO, 1973. 135 p.
Poetry

Poèmes choisis
Salamun, Tomaz (Europe & North America, Slovenia)
Preface by Jacques Roubaud
Original language : Slovenian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mireille Robin - Zdenka Stimac
Editions Est-Ouest Internationales/UNESCO, 1994. 101 p.
Poetry

Poèmes d'amour du Kerala (VIe-XVIIIe siècle)


Asia & the Pacific, India
Commented by Paul Martin-Dubost
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul Martin-Dubost
Les Belles Lettres/UNESCO, 1983. 176 p.
Poetry

Poèmes d'un voleur d'amour [Caurapancâsikâ]


Bilhana (attributed to) (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Amina Okada

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Poetry

Poèmes de Turkménie
Makhtoumkouli Firaqui (Asia & the Pacific, Turkmenistan)
Original language : Turkmen
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Louis Bazin - Pertev Boratav
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1975. 131 p.
Poetry

Poèmes de tous les jours [Ori ori no uta]


Ôoka, Makoto (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Anthology commented by Ôoka Makoto
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Yves-Marie Allioux
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 1993. 222 p.
Literary criticism, poetry

Poèmes mystiques bengalis. Chants bâuls [Hárámani]


Asia & the Pacific, Bangladesh
Introduction and notes by Mahmud Shah Qureshi
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Mahmud Shah Qureshi
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1977. 261 p.
Poetry

Poète des deux rives


Stétié, Salah (Arab States, Lebanon)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Mosbah es-Samad
Dar-An-Nahar/UNESCO, 1998. 151 p.
Poetry

Poètes wallons d'aujourd'hui


Europe & North America, Belgium
Selection by Maurice Piron
Original language : Walloon
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Maurice Piron
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1961. 173 p.
Poetry

Poésie 1961-1970. Requiem pour un gentilhomme. La valse des reptiles

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[Requiem para un gentilhombre. El vals de los reptiles]


Scorza, Manuel (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by France Imbert-Bécot - Michèle Leclerc-Olive
Belfond/UNESCO, 1991. 118 p.
Poetry

Poésie complète, poèmes en prose, nouvelles


Obstfelder, Sigbjørn (Europe & North America, Norway)
Edited by Régis Boyer
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Régis Boyer
Pierre Jean Oswald/UNESCO, 1974. 195 p.
Poetry, short stories

Poésie d'Afrique au sud du Sahara 1945-1995


Africa
Edited by Bernard Magnier
Original language : English - Portuguese - Spanish - twenty-two african languages
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1995. 354 p.
Poetry

Poésie d'Afrique du Sud


Africa, South Africa
Edited by Denis Hirson
Original language : Afrikaans - English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges-Marie Lory - Katia Wallisky
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 2001. 256 p.
Poetry

Poésie de Grèce. Anthologie, 1945-1985


Europe & North America, Greece
Edited with the help of Panayotis Moullas, Yannis Dallas and Ératosthène
Capsomenos
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Kedros
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1990. 332 p.
Poetry

Poésie du Mexique
Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico

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Introduction by Jean-Clarence Lambert


Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Clarence Lambert
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1988. 288 p.
Poetry

Poésie espagnole 1945-1990


Europe & North America, Spain
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claude de Frayssinet
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1995. 464 p.
Poetry

Poésie totale
Aleixandre, Vicente (Europe & North America, Spain)
Foreword by Roger Noël-Mayer
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Roger Noël-Mayer
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1977. 252
Poetry

Poésie uruguayenne du XXe siècle


Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay
Introduction by Fernando Ainsa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Marilyne-Armande Renard
Patiño/UNESCO, 1998. 450 p.
Poetry

Poésies
Pascoli, Giovanni (Europe & North America, Italy)
Preface by Edmond Barincou
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edmond Barincou
Librairie Didier/UNESCO, 1965. 190 p., ill.
Poetry

Poésies
Silva, José Asunción (Latin America & the Caribbean, Colombia)
Foreword by Fernando Ainsa
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish

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Translated by Claire Pailler - Jacques Gilard


UNESCO, 1996. 264 p.
Poetry

Prawo morza [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original Malayalam; English version by N. Menon
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Polish
Translated by Przelozyla Zofia Sroczynska
Instytut Wydawniczy/UNESCO, 1970. 223 p.
Novel

Premières histoires [Primeiras estórias]


Guimarães Rosa, João (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Inès Oseki Depré
A. M. Métailié/UNESCO, 1982. 205 p.
Short stories

Prenn Drifting [Prenn Ferenc hányatott élete]


Lengyel, József (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ilona Duczy§ska
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1966. 293 p.
Novel

Principes d'une science nouvelle relative à la nature commune des nations


[La scienza nuova]
Vico, Giambattista (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction, notes and index by Fausto Nicolini
Edited by Benedetto Croce
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Ariel Doubine
Nagel/UNESCO, 1953. 559 p., ill.
Essay

Printemps de cendre
Tamer, Zakarya (Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claude Krul-Attinger
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1982. 147 p.
Short stories

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Prisonniers des glaces : les expéditions de Willem Barentsz (1594-1597)


Veer, Gerrit de (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
French edition established and annotated by Xavier de Castro from Dutch,
English, and French archives.
Published language(s) : French
Editions Chandeigne/UNESCO, 1995. 254 p. cartes, ill.
Theater

Problemski Hotel [Problemski Hotel]


Verhulst, Dimitri (Europe & North America, Belgium)
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Colmer
Marion Boyars, 2005. 160
Chronicle

Psalms of the Early Buddhists [Thera-theri-gatha]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by C. A. F. Rhys Davids
Luzac/UNESCO, 1964. xlii + 446 p.
Philosophy, religion

Psaumes du pèlerin [Toukaramche Abhang]


Toukârâm (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and commentaries by G. A. Deleury
reprinted
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : French
Translated by G. A. Deleury
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1956. 224 p.
Poetry

Psychic Spoor [Psychic Spoor]


Sakutarô, Hagiwara (Asia & the Pacific)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
Yakusha, 2005. 384
Poetry

Puranas
Asia & the Pacific, India
Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology
Agni Purana, 1984–87, vols. 27–30; Bhagavata Purana,
1976–78, vols. 7–11; Brahma Purana, 1985–86, vols.

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33–6; Brahmanda Purana, 1983–84, vols. 22–6; Garuda


Purana, 1978–80, vols. 12–14; Kurma Pur
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1970. 57 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Pérégrination d'un clochard [Lao Ts'an Yeou Ki]


Lieou Ngo (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Preface by Étiemble
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Cheng Tcheng
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1984. 403 p.
Biography/memoirs, novel

Qasa'ed lilhoreya wa elhayat [Poèmes de la liberté et de la vie]


Ritsos, Iannis (Europe & North America, Greece)
Preface by Moncef Ghachem
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : Arabic
Translated by Farouk Farid
Saqi Books Publishers/UNESCO, 1993. 160 p.
Poetry

Quick Quick Said the Bird [Fljótt fljótt, sagói fuglinn]


Vilhjalmsson, Thor (Europe & North America, Iceland)
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John O'Kane
Penumbra Press/UNESCO, 1987. 206 p.
Novel

Quincas Borba
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Introduction by Roger Bastide
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Alain de Acevedo
Nagel/UNESCO, 1955. 270 p.
Novel

Quince siglos de poesía árabe. Antología: Poesía clásica oriental; poesía


arábigo andaluza; poesía árabe actual
Arab States
Selection by P. Martinez Montavez; illustrations by M. Rodriguez Acosta

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Original language : Arabic


Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by P. Martinez Montavez
Litoral/UNESCO, 1988. 445 p.
Poetry

Race de bronze [Raza de bronce]


Argüedas, Alcides (Latin America & the Caribbean, Bolivia)
Foreword by André Maurois
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Clelia Argüedas de Pérez-Luna - Marcelle Auclair - Victor Crastre
Plon/UNESCO, 1960. xii + 298
Novel

Racici [Chemmeen]
Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original Malayalam; English version by N. Menon
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : Serbo-Croat
Translated by Mirjana Stefanovic
Nolit/UNESCO, 1966. 203 p.
Novel

Racines du Brésil [Raizes do Brasil]


Buarque de Holanda, Sérgio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Foreword by Antonio Candido
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marlyse Meyer
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1998. 346
Essay

Raja Lear [King Lear]


Shakespeare, William (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Trisno Sumardjo
Pustaka Jaya/UNESCO, 1976. 180 p.
Play

Randonnée aux sites sublimes [Xu Xiake Youji]


Xu Xiake (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by Jacques Dars
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Dars

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Gallimard/UNESCO, 1993. 392 p.


Poetry, travelogue

Rashomon et autres contes [Rashomon]


Akutagawa, Ryûnosuke (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Forewords by Arimasa Mori and Claude Roy
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Arimasa Mori
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 304
Tales

Rats' Nests
Sakutarô, Hagiwara (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
UNESCO/Yakusha, 1999. 442 p.
Poetry

Reconstruire la pensée religieuse de l'Islam [The reconstruction of religious


thought in Islam]
Iqbal, Mohammad (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Foreword by the author; preface by Francis Lamand
Original language : English
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
Editions du Rocher/UNESCO, 1996. 206 p.
Religion

Records of the Grand Historian of China [Shih Chi]


Ssu-ma Ch'ien (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Selected by Burton Watson
1961, 1969. 2 vols. Vol. I, 543 p.; Vol. II, 563 p.
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1961. 2 vols.
History

Records of the Historian; Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Ssu-ma Ch'ien (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted by Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1969
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson

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Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1969. 356 p.


History

Reflections on Things at Hand. The Neo-Confucian Anthology Compiled by


Chu Hsi and Lü Tsu-Ch'ien [Chin-ssu lu]
Asia & the Pacific, China
Notes by Wing-tsit Chan
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. xli + 441 p., illus., tables.
Philosophy

Regard sur le temps des Soufis : vie des saints du sud marocain des Ve, VIe
siècles de l'Hégire [Al-Tachawwuf ilâ rijâl al-Tas'awwuf]
Al Tâdilî, Ibn al Zayyât (Arab States, Morocco)
Selection, notes and introduction by Ahmed Toufiq
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Maurice de Fenoyl
Editions EDDIF/UNESCO, 1995. 435
History, religion

Relations des ambassadeurs vénitiens [Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti]


Europe & North America, Italy
Selection and introduction by Franco Gaeta
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Chuzeville
Klincksieck/UNESCO, 1969. 384 p.
Chronicle

Rendez-vous avec les années oubliées [Stevnemøte med glemte år]


Hoël, Sigurd (Europe & North America, Norway)
Introduction by Alfred Jolivet
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Alfred Jolivet
Editions mondiales/UNESCO, 1961. 359 p.
Novel

Representative Plays of Florencio Sánchez


Sánchez, Florencio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Willis Knapp Jones
Pan American Union/UNESCO, 1961. 326 p.
Play

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Retour au pays [Kikyo]


Osaragi, Jiro (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by A. Mori - Kikou Yamata - S. Regnault-Gattier
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1962. 293 p.
Novel

Reynart le Goupil [Van den vos Reynaerde]


Europe & North America, Belgium
Introduction by E. Rombauts
Original language : Walloon
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Liliane Wouters
La Renaissance du Livre/UNESCO, 1974. 144 p.
Epic

Rien qu'une autre année. Anthologie poétique 1966-1982


Darwish, Mahmoud (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Abdellatif Laâbi
Editions de Minuit/UNESCO, 1983. 237
Poetry

River Mist and Other Stories [Kawagiri]


Kunikida, Doppo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David G. Chibbet
Paul Norbury Publications/UNESCO, 1983. 151 p.
Short stories

Rocky Shores. An Anthology of Faroese Poetry


Europe & North America, Denmark
Compiled, introduction and notes by George Johnston
Original language : Danish - Faroese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by George Johnston
UNESCO/Wilfion Books, 1981. 124 p.
Poetry

Romeo dan Julia [Romeo and Juliet]


Shakespeare, William (Europe & North America, United Kingdom)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : Indonesian

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Translated by Trisno Sumardjo


Pustaka Jaya/UNESCO, 1976. 159 p.
Play

Rosy Glasses and Other Stories [Nonki Megane]


Ozaki, Kazuo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Robert Epp
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
Paul Norbury Publications/UNESCO, 1988. 150 p.
Short stories

Rubayat/Robaiat
Rumi, Yalal ud-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Selection by Clara Janés and Ahmad Taherí; preface by Clara Janés; calligraphy by
Mehdi Garmrudi
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : Persian
Translated by Ahmad Taherí - Clara Janés
Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo/UNESCO, 1996. 199 p.
Poetry

Rubén Darío
Darío, Rubén (Latin America & the Caribbean, Nicaragua)
Edited by René L. F. Durand
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René L. F. Durand
Seghers/UNESCO, 1966. 191
Poetry

Rue Peña Pobre [De Peña Pobre]


Vitier, Cintio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Cuba)
Introduction by Maria Poumier
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Maria Poumier
Editions L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1995. 317 p.
Novel

Ruh al-Sharai [De l'esprit des lois]


Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de (Europe & North America, France)
New ed.: trans. by A. Kazan., Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-
d’œuvre/UNESCO, 1972. 185 p.
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic

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Translated by Adil Zuayter


Editions Dar-el-Maaref, 1953. 2 vol.
Philosophy

Râdhâ au lotus et autres nouvelles [Râi kamal]


Banerji, Tara Shankar (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by France Bhattacharya
reprinted
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by France Bhattacharya
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1975. 184
Short stories

Récits d'une vie fugitive. Mémoires d'un lettré pauvre [Fou-cheng lieou-ki]
Chen Fou (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Foreword by Paul Demiéville
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Reclus
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1990. 184
Biography/memoirs, novel

Révolution aux Philippines [El Filibusterismo]


Rizal, José (Asia & the Pacific, Philippines)
Preface by Daniel Pageaux
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jovita Ventura Castro
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1984. 344 p.
Novel

Sacred Hope [Sagrada esperança]


Neto, Agostinho (Africa, Angola)
Foreword by Basil Davison; illus. by Henrique Abranches
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Marga Holness
Journeyman/UNESCO, 1988. 143 p.
Poetry

Sadiq aw al-qadar [Zadig ou la destinée]


Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (Europe & North America, France)
Introduction and notes by Joseph Ghossoub
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Arabic

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Translated by Joseph Ghossoub


Commission internationale pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO,
1961. 203 p.
Philosophy

Saiki Koi and Other Stories


Ogai, Mori (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Edited by David Dilworth; J. Thomas Rimers
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/University Press of Hawaii, 1977. 200 p.
Short stories

Saison de fièvre [La Estación de fiebre]


Istarú, Ana (Latin America & the Caribbean, Costa Rica)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gérard de Cortanze
La Différence/UNESCO, 1997. 130 p.
Poetry

Samak-e-Ayyar, tome I
Faramarz, ibn Khodadad (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by F. Razavi
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1972. 230
Novel

Sampár [La peste]


Camus, Albert (Europe & North America, France)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : Indonesian
Translated by Nh. Dini
UNESCO/Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1985. 269 p.
Novel

Sangam - Over Helden en Minnaars. Klassieke poëzie uit Zuid-India


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Herman Tieken
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1979. 240 p.
Poetry

Sanskrit Love Poetry


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by J. Moussaieff Masson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1977. 202 p.
Poetry

Sarashina-Nikki
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction by Horst Hammitzsch
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Ulrich Kemper
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1966. 87 p.
Biography/memoirs, poetry, travelogue

Scavenger's Son [Thottiyude Makan]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. E. Asher
Orient Paperbacks/UNESCO, 1975. 143 p.
Short stories

Schneeland [Yukiguni]
Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Oscar Benl
Carl Hanser Verlag/UNESCO, 1957. 128 p.
Novel

Select Poems of Pak Mogwol


Pak Mogwol (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Introduction by Uchang Kim
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Uchang Kim
Asian Humanities Press/UNESCO, 1990
Poetry

Selected Poems
Takagi, Kyozo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by James Kirkup and Michio Nakano
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James Kirkup - Michio Nakano
Carcanet Press/UNESCO, 1973. 51 p.
Poetry

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Selected Poems and Texts


József, Attila (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Edited by George Gömöri; James Atlas
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John Bátki
Carcanet Press/UNESCO, 1973. 103 p.
Poetry, prose

Selected Poems of Jaime Torres Bodet


Torres Bodet, Jaime (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by S. P. Karsen
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1964. 155 p.
Poetry

Selected Poems of Octavio Paz


Paz, Octavio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. Rukeyser
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1963. 171 p.
Poetry

Selection of African Prose


Africa
Selection and introduction by W. H. Whiteley; preface by Chinua Achebe
Original language : multilingual
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Clarendon Press/UNESCO, 1964. 2 vols.
Oral tradition, prose

Selections from Ramacandrika


Késhavadasa (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. P. Bahadur
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1977. 177 p.
Poetry

Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet


Su Tung-P'o (Su-shih) (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by Burton Watson
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Burton Watson


Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1965. x + 139 p., facs.
Poetry

Selections from the Sacred Writings of the Sikhs [Adi Granth]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Revised by George S. Fraser; introduction by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; foreword
by Arnold Toynbee
New edition: Orient Longman/UNESCO, 2000
Original language : Hindi - Panjabi; Punjabi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1960. 288 p.
Poetry, religion

Seven Works of Vasubandhu. The Buddhist Psychological Doctor


Vasubandhu (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit - Tibetan
Published language(s) : English - Sanskrit
Translated by Stefan Anacker
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1985. 492 p.
Philosophy

Shinkokinwakashu
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Horst Hammitzsch - Lydia Brüll
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1964. 160 p.
Poetry

Shoji: Antologi Cherpen Jepun


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original Japanese; English version by E. Seidensticker
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Malay
Translated by James Kirkup
Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1962. xii + 140 p.
Short stories

Shrikanto
Chatterji, Saratchandra (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Jean Tipy
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Anne-Marie Moulènes - Nandadulal Dé
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1985. 179
Novel

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Siberia: A Poem
Sutzkever, Abraham (Europe & North America)
Introduction by Jacob Sonntag; letter and drawings by Marc Chagall
Original language : Yiddish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Jacob Sonntag
Abelard-Schuman/UNESCO, 1961. 46 p., illus.
Poetry

Sindbad ou la nostalgie [Szindbád]


Krudy, Gyula (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Preface by Jean-Luc Moreau
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Juliette Clancier
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1988. 287 p.
Short stories

Singularité d'une jeune fille blonde et autres contes [Os contos]


Eça de Queiros, José Maria (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Foreword by Jacques Alibert Thiériot
Edited by Howard S. Becker
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Edmond David
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 1983. 247
Short stories

Sipurim Yapaniyim Bnei Zmareinu


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original Japanese; trans. by a board of scholars from the English version by
Edward Seidensticker et al.
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Hebrew
Am-Hassefer/UNESCO, 1963. 314 p.
Short stories

Six Poets of Modern Greece: C. P. Cavafy, Anghelos Sikelianos, George Seferis,


D. I. Antoniou, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos
Europe & North America, Greece
Reprinted by Knopf/UNESCO, 1961
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edmund Keeley - Philip Sherrard
Thames & Hudson/UNESCO, 1960. 192 p.
Poetry

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Sjeik Abdullah en de Bloemen [Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa]


Asia & the Pacific, Malaysia
Preface by H. M. J. Maier
Original language : Malay
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by H. M. J. Maier
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1978. 137 p.
Chronicle

Snow Country [Yukiguni]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1992
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Knopf/UNESCO, 1956. 175 p.
Novel

Snow Country [Yukiguni. Thousand Cranes Senbazuru]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted 1978
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Seidensticker
Knopf/UNESCO, 1969. x + 175 p. + 147 p.
Novel

So That You Can Know Me: An Anthology of Pakistani Women Writers


Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan
Edited by Asif Aslam Farrukhi; Yasmin Hameed
Original language : Panjabi; Punjabi - Pushto - Sindhi - Urdu - Seraiki
Published language(s) : English
Garnet/UNESCO, 1997. 168 p.
Novel

Sois bon jusqu'à la mort [Légy jó mindhalálig]


Móricz, Zsigmond (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Rousselot - Ladislas Gara
Editions Corvina/UNESCO, 1969. 178 p.
Novel

Soleil en instance [As-Shams fi youm ghaim]


Mina, Hanna (Arab States, Syrian Arab Republic)
Original language : Arabic

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Published language(s) : French


Translated by Abdellatif Laâbi
Silex/UNESCO, 1986. 227 p.
Novel

Soleil et vent [Al sole e al vento]


Quarantotti-Gambini, Pier Antonio (Europe & North America, Italy)
Preface by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Laïla Taha-Hussein
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 1982. 136 p.
Poetry

Solo al atardecer
Orten, Jirí (Europe & North America, Czech Republic)
Introduction and notes by Clara Janés
Original language : Czech
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Clara Janés
Editorial Pre-Textos/UNESCO, 1996. 230 p.
Biography/memoirs, poetry

Son visage est patrie


Al-Ali, Fatima (Arab States, Kuwait)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by Asmahane Bdeir - Lucie Albertini
Editions Al-Mutanabbi/UNESCO, 2002. 140 p.
Short stories

Son visage est patrie


Al-Ali, Fatima (Arab States, Kuwait)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by Asmahane Bdeir - Lucie Albertini
Editions Al-Mutanabbi/UNESCO, 2002. 180 p.
Short stories

Song Offering [Gitanjali]


Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by W. B. Yeats
Reprinted by Macmillan/UNESCO, 1965
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by the author
St Martin's Press/UNESCO, 1965. xxii + 101 p.
Poetry

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Songs for the Bride. Wedding Rites of Rural India


Asia & the Pacific, India
Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller; Mildred Archer
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by William Archer
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1985. 188 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

Songs of Krsna (Chandidas, Jayadeva, Vidyapati, Princess Mirabai and others)


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Bengali - Hindi - Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Deben Bhattacharya
Samuel Weiser/UNESCO, 1978. 120 p., illus.
Poetry

Songs of Meera. Lyrics in Ecstasy


Meera (Meera Bai) (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Baldoon Dhingra
Orient Paperbacks/UNESCO, 1977. 136 p.
Poetry

Songs of the Bards of Bengal


Asia & the Pacific, India
Introduction and notes by Deben Bhattacharya
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Deben Bhattacharya
Grove Press/UNESCO, 1970. 120 p., illus.
Poetry

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. A Korean Epic [Yongbi Och'ôn-ga]


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James Hoyt
Korean National Commission for UNESCO, 1971. 188 p.
Epic, poetry

Songs of the Flying Dragons. A Critical Reading [Yongbi Ôch'ôn-ga]


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Peter H. Lee


Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1975. 314 p.
Poetry

Sonorités pour adoucir le souci : poésie traditionnelle de l'archipel malais


Asia & the Pacific, Malaysia
Notes by Georges Voisset
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Voisset
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1996. 242 p.
Poetry

Sourcebook of Korean Civilization


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Printed 1993, 1996. Vol. I, 750 p.; Vol. II, 574 p.
Edited by Peter H. Lee
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1993. 2 vols.
History, philosophy, poetry, religion

Sources of Chinese Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilization


Asia & the Pacific, China
Compiled by T. de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan and Burton Watson
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1966. xxiv + 578 p.
Philosophy, religion

Sources of Japanese Tradition


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Comp. by R. Tsunoda, W. T. de Bary, D. Keene et al.
Published language(s) : English
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1964. 2 vols.
History, legend

South African Literature in Transition


Africa
Preface by Ingrid de Kok
World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter 1996
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/University of Oklahoma, 1996. 156 p., illus.
Literary criticism

South African Short Stories. From 1945 to the Present

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Africa, South Africa


Edited by Denis Hirson; Martin Trump
Original language : Afrikaans
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Heinemann/UNESCO, 1994. 240 p.
Short stories

Souvenirs d'enfance [Chhelebela]


Tagore, Rabindranath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
reprinted
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Christine Bossenec - Rajeshswari Datta
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1964. 160 p.
Biography/memoirs

Souvenirs de misère. Mémoires de la comtesse emprisonnée Léonore


Christine [Jammersminder]
Léonore Christine (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Introduction and notes by Éric Eydoux
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Eric Eydoux
Aubier Montaigne/UNESCO, 1985. 251 p.
Biography/memoirs

Souvenirs de province [Recuerdos de provincia]


Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Introduction by Marcel Bataillon
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Gabrielle Gabrini
Nagel/UNESCO, 1955. 269 p.
Biography/memoirs

Spasmes d'une révolution [Rojan revolusi]


Ramadhan, K. H. (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Preface by Denys Lombard
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Monique Zaini-Lajoubert
Puyraimond/UNESCO, 1977. 470 p.
Novel

Speaking of Siva
Asia & the Pacific, India

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Introduction by A. K. Ramanujan
Reprinted 1979
Original language : Kannada
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Penguin Books/UNESCO, 1973. 200 p.
Poetry

Spiritual Guide to the Jewel Island/Geistiger Führer zur Juweleninsel/Bslab by


nor bu 'igling du bgrod pa'i lamyig
Konchog Tänpä Dönmé (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Tibetan
Published language(s) : English - German - Tibetan
Translated by Blanche C. Olschak - Thupten Wangyal
Buddhist Publications/UNESCO, 1973. 224 p.
Philosophy, religion

Spring Night [Värnatt]


Vesaas, Tarjei (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. G. Chapman
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1972. 167 p.
Novel

Spring Snow [Haru no yuki]


Mishima, Yukio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1974
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michael Gallagher
A. Knopf/UNESCO, 1972. 392 p.
Novel

Stolen Fire. Selected Poems


Levchev, Lyubomir (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Foreword by John Balaban; illus. by Jacqueline Crofton
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ewald Osers
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1986. 105 p.
Poetry

Stories from a Ming Collection. Translations of Chinese Short Stories


Published in the 17th Century [Ku chin hsiao shuo]
Asia & the Pacific, China
Compiled by Fêng Mêng-lung

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Reprinted by Grove Press/UNESCO, 1968


Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Cyril Birch
The Bodley Head/UNESCO, 1958. 205 p., illus.
Short stories

Stories of Osaka Life


Oda, Sakunosuke (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1990. 169 p.
Short stories

Sudha (Nectar): Contemporary Telugu Poetry


Chalam (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Telugu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Roberts - J. S. R. I. Moorty - J. Wellings - S. Pramoda
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1990. 113 p.
Poetry

Sweet Prince [Dyre Prins]


Kihlman, Christer (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Swedish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joan Tate
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1983. 232 p.
Novel

Sweetwater [Uår]
Faldbakken, Knut (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joan Tate
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1994. 184 p.
Novel

São Bernardo
Ramos, Graciliano (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Geneviève Leibrich
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1986. 179 p.
Novel

Tabaré

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Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Adapted by Jules Supervielle
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Jacques Réthoré
Nagel/UNESCO, 1954. 256 p.
Poetry

Tabaré: An Indian Legend of Uruguay


Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Walter Owen
Pan American Union/UNESCO, 1956. 366 p.
Poetry

Taiheiki
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. C. McCullough
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1959
History, novel

Tale of the Disorder in Hogen [Hogen monogatari]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by W. R. Wilson
Sophia University/UNESCO, 1971. 176 p.
History, novel

Tales of Moonlight and Rain [Ugetsu Monogatari]


Akinari, Ueda (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1977
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Leon M. Zolbrod
UNESCO/University of British Columbia Press, 1974. 280
Short stories

Tarikh es-Soudan
Es-Sa'di, Abderrahman Ben Abdallah Ben'Imran Ben'Amir (Arab States)
reprinted
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by O. Houdas

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Adrien Maisonneuve/UNESCO, 1964. 889 p.


History

Temps de sable
Kadiiski, Kiril (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Sylvia Wagenstein
L'Esprit des Péninsules/UNESCO, 2001. 87 p.
Poetry

Textes sacrés d'Afrique noire


Africa
Selection and introduction by Germaine Dieterlen; preface by Amadou Hampaté
Ba
Published language(s) : French
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1965. 277 p.
Oral tradition, religion

Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'ancienne Égypte. I - Des pharaons et des


hommes
Arab States, Egypt
Preface by Pierre Grimal
reprinted
Original language : Egyptian (Ancient)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claire Lalouette
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1984. 352 p.
Folk-tale, poetry, religion

Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'ancienne Égypte. II - Mythes, contes et


poésie
Arab States, Egypt
Preface by Pierre Grimal
reprinted
Original language : Egyptian (Ancient)
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claire Lalouette
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1987. 320 p.
Folk-tale, poetry, religion

That Far-Off Self. The Collected Poetry of Maruyama Kaoru [Amanojaku]


Maruyama, Kaoru (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Robert Epp
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp

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UNESCO/Yakusha, 1994. 365 p.


Poetry

The Actors' Analects [Yakusha rongo]


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction and notes by C. J. Dunn and Bunzo Torigoe
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Bunzo Torigoe - C. J. Dunn
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1969. 306
Play

The Adventures of Hir and Ranjha [Hir Ranjha]


Waris Shah (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Edited by Mumtaz Hassan
Original language : Panjabi; Punjabi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Charles Frederick Usborne
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1973. 201 p.
Epic

The Arsonist [Zhár]


Hostovsky, Egon (Europe & North America, Czech Republic)
Original language : Czech
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Christopher Morris
Twisted Spoon Press/UNESCO, 1996. 165 p.
Novel

The Art of War


Sun Tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction by Samuel B. Griffith; foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart
Reprinted 1971
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Samuel B. Griffith
Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1963. xvii + 197 p., illus.
Essay

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa [Fukuo Jiden]


Fukuzawa, Yukichi (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface by Carmen Blacker
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Eiichi Kiyooka
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1966. xxii + 407 p.
Biography/memoirs

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The Ayodhya Canto of the Ramayana as Told by Kamban


Kamban (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Sahitya Akademi/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1961. 127 p.
Poetry

The Balavariani. Barlaam and Josaphat


Europe & North America, Georgia
Introduction by Ilia V. Abuladze
Reprinted by University of California Press/UNESCO, 1966
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Marshall Lang
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1966. 187 p.
Folk-tale, religion

The Bamboo Grove. An Introduction to Sijo


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Richard Rutt
UNESCO/University of California Press, 1971. 177 p.
Poetry

The Beggar [Ho zetianos]


Karkavitsas, Andreas (Europe & North America, Greece)
Appendix by P. D. Mastrodemetres
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : English
Translated by F. Wyatt, Jr.
Caratzas Brothers/UNESCO, 1982. 191 p.
Novel

The Beginnings of Indian Philosophy


Asia & the Pacific, India
Selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upanisads and Mahabharata.
Introduction, notes and glossarial index by Franklin Edgerton
Reprinted by Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1965
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Franklin Edgerton
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1965. 362 p.
Philosophy

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The Birth-Stories of the Ten Bodhisattvas and the Dasabodhisattuppattikatha


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted by Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO, 1975
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Saddhatissa
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1975. 166 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Bleaching Yard [Bleikeplassen]


Vesaas, Tarjei (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1981. 156 p.
Novel

The Bodhisattva or Samantabhadra [Fugen]


Ishikawa, Jun. (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction and critical essay by William J. Tyler
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by William J. Tyler
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1990. 180 p.
Novel

The Book of Government or Rules for Kings [Siyar al-Muluk, Siyasat-nama]


Nizam Al-Mulk (Abu Ali Hasan ibn Eshagh al-Tusi) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic
Republic Of)
Reprinted 1978
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hubert Darke
Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO, 1960. xi + 259 p.
Philosophy

The Book of Lieh-tzu


Lieh-tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted by Paragon/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. C. Graham
John Murray/UNESCO, 1960. xi + 183 p.
Philosophy

The Book of Lord Shang


Kung-sun Yang (Asia & the Pacific, China)

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Introduction and notes by J. J. L. Duyvendak


Reprinted by University of Chicago Press/UNESCO, 1964
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by J. J. L. Duyvendak
Probsthain/UNESCO, 1963. xiv + 346 p.
Philosophy

The Book of the Discipline [Vinaya-pitaka. Vol. VI: Parivara]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by I. B. Horner
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1966. xxxv + 388 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Broken Commandment [Hakai]


Shimazaki, Toson (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kenneth Strong
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1974. 249 p.
Novel

The Buddha Tree [Bodaiju]


Niwa, Fumio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1979
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kenneth Strong
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1966. xiii + 380 p.
Novel

The Cheapest Nights and Other Stories [Arkhas Layali]


Idris, Yusuf (Arab States, Egypt)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Wadida Wassef
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1978. 196 p.
Short stories

The Clarifer of the Sweet Meaning [Madhuratthavilasini]


Buddhadatta Thera (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by I. B. Horner
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1978. 453 p.
Philosophy, religion

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The Colour of the Weather. An Anthology of Walloon Poetry


Europe & North America, Belgium
Selection by Yann Lovelock
Original language : Walloon
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Yann Lovelock
The Menard Press/UNESCO, 1980. 63 p.
Poetry

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo


Buonarroti, Michel Angelo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Trans. in verse from the Italian, notes and introduction by J. Tusiani
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by J. Tusiani
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1969. 217 p.
Poetry

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu


Chuang Tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Burton Watson
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1968. 397 p.
Philosophy

The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu


Han Fei Tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction, notes and index by W. K. Liao
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by W. K. Liao
Arthur Probsthain/UNESCO, 1959. 2 vols.
Philosophy

The Confederates and Hen-Thorir [Bandamanna Saga and Hænsa-Póris Saga]


Europe & North America, Iceland
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hermann Pálsson
Southside/UNESCO, 1975. 139 p.
Epic, folk-tale

The Confessions of Lady Nijo [Towazugatari]


Nijo (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Karen Brazell
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1975. 288 p.
Biography/memoirs

The Cross and the Sword [Enriquillo]


Galván, Manuel de Jesús (Latin America & the Caribbean, Dominican Republic)
Reprinted by Gollancz/UNESCO, 1956
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Graves
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1954. 366 p.
Novel

The Curly-horned Cow: Anthology of Swiss-Romansh Literature


Europe & North America, Switzerland
Preface, bibliography and notes by Reto R. Bezzola
Original language : Ladin - Sursilvanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Albert Tall-Thöny - Augustin Maissen - Elizabeth Maxfield Miller -
Urban T. Holmes - W. W. Kibler
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1971. 215 p.
Folk-tale, poetry, short stories

The Deadbeats [De Ontaarde Slapers]


Ruyslinck, Ward (Europe & North America, Belgium)
Original language : Flemish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. B. Powel
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1968. 104 p.
Novel

The Decade of Panipat, 1751-1761


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ian Raeside
Popular Prakashan/UNESCO, 1984. 166 p.
Chronicle, history

The Descendants of Cain


Hwang Sun-Won (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Julie Pickering - Suh Ji-moon
M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO, 1997. 182 p.
Novel

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The Devil's Instrument and other Danish Stories


Europe & North America, Denmark
Introduction by Elias Bredsdorff
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1976. 266 p.
Folk-tale, legend

The Devil's Pit and Other Stories [Sub Terra]


Lillo, Baldomero (Latin America & the Caribbean, Chile)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Angel Flores - Esther S. Dillon
Organization of American States/UNESCO, 1959. xxxi + 152 p.
Short stories

The Dhammapada. The Sutta-Nipata


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Max Müller - V. Fausböll
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1968. lx + 90 + xvi + 240 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Early Lyrics, 1941-1960


So Chong Ju (Asia & the Pacific)
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1993. 122 p.
Poetry

The Epic of the Kings [Shah-Nama]


Ferdowsi (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
reprinted
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Reuben Levy
UNESCO/University of Chicago Press, 1967. xxviii + 423 p.
Epic

The Expanse of Green/Hajm-i Sabz


Sepehry, Sohrab (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English - Persian
Translated by David L. Martin

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Kalimat Press/UNESCO, 1988. 203 p.


Poetry

The Factory Ship [Kani kosen. The Absentee Landlord Fuzai jinushi]
Kobayashi, Takiji (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Frank Motofuji
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1973. 185 p.
Novel

The Family [Ie]


Shimazaki, Toson (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Cecilia Segawa Seigle
Reprinted 1978
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1976. 311 p.
Novel

The Fosho-Hing-Tsan-King, a Life of Buddha


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Dharmarakha - Samuel Beal
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1966. xxxvii + 380 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Gaucho Martín Fierro [El gaucho Martín Fierro]


Hernández, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. J. Carlos - F. G. Carrino - N. Mangouni
State University of New York Press/UNESCO, 1974
Poetry

The Gift of a Cow [Godaan]


Premchand, Dhanpat Raî (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Indiana University Press/Lokamaya Press/UNESCO, 1987
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Gordon C. Roadarmel
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1969. xiv + 442 p.
Novel

The Gift of a Cow [Godaan]


Premchand, Dhanpat Raî (Asia & the Pacific, India)

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(Braille edition.)
National Library for the Blind/UNESCO, 1970
Novel

The Gossamer Years. The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan [Kagero-no


Nikki]
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Reprinted 1974
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edward Seidensticker
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1964. 208 p., illus., map.
Biography/memoirs, novel

The Grihya-Sutras; Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Prakrit languages - Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Oldenberg
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1964. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

The Hatched [Baltagul]


Sadoveanu, Mihail (Europe & North America, Romania)
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Eugenia Farca
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1965. 162 p.
Novel

The Hermit and the Love-thief. Sanskrit Poems of Bhartrihari and Bilhana
Bhartrihari; Bilhana (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1978. 127 p.
Poetry

The Hye Ch'o Diary. Memoirs of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India
Hye Ch'o (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Edited by Jan Yün-Hua; Laurence W. Preston; Lida Shotaro; Yang Han-Sung
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Han-Sung - Iida - Jan Yün-Hua - Laurence W. Preston - Shotaro -
Yang
Miller & Schnobrich/UNESCO, 1984. 118 p.
Theater

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The Hymns of Guru Nanak


Nanak (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted 1991
Original language : Panjabi; Punjabi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Khushwant Singh
Orient Longmans/UNESCO, 1969. xv + 192 p.
Poetry, religion

The Ice Palace [Is-slottet]


Vesaas, Tarjei (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1966. 176 p.
Novel

The Ilahi-nama or Book of God


Attar, Farid al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Foreword by Annemarie Schimmel
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John Andrew Boyle
Manchester University Press/UNESCO, 1976. 392 p.
Religion

The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories [Sakai Jiken]


Ogai, Mori (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Edited by David Dilworth; J. Thomas Rimers
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
UNESCO/University Press of Hawaii, 1977. 228 p.
Short stories

The Incoherence of the Incoherence [Tahafut al-Tahafut]


Averroës (Ibn Rushd) (Arab States)
Introduction and notes by Simon van den Bergh
Reprinted 1978
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Simon van den Bergh
Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/Luzac/UNESCO,
1954. 2 vols
Philosophy

The Indian Heritage. An Anthology of Sanskrit Literature


Asia & the Pacific, India

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Selected by V. Raghavan; foreword by Rajendra Prasad


5th ed. rev. and enl., 1980. 494 p.
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by V. Raghavan
Indian Institute of World Culture/UNESCO, 1956. lxxv + 447 p.
Poetry, prose

The Interior Landscape. Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology


[Kuruntokai]
Asia & the Pacific
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1967. 125 p.
Poetry

The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Birth [Jatakas]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. B. Cowel
Luzac/UNESCO, 1969. 6 vols. in 3.
Legend, philosophy, religion

The Korean Approach to Zen. The Collected Works of Chinul


Chinul (Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of)
Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert E. Buswell Jr
UNESCO/University of Hawaii Press, 1983. 468 p.
History, philosophy, religion

The Lake [Mizuumi]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Reiko Tsukimura
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1977. 160 p.
Novel

The Lamplighter [Il-kebbies Tal-Fanali]


Buttigieg, Anton (Europe & North America, Malta)
Introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat
Original language : Maltese
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Francis Ebejer


Aquila/UNESCO, 1977. 90 p.
Poetry

The Land and the Flesh [Na Kmetih]


Potrc, Yvan (Europe & North America, Slovenia)
Original language : Slovenian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Leeming
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1969. 263 p.
Novel

The Last Romantic: Mihail Eminescu


Eminescu, Mihail (Europe & North America, Romania)
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. MacGregor-Hastie
UNESCO/University of Iowa Press, 1972. 129 p.
Poetry

The Lava of this Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996


Africa, South Africa
Edited by Denis Hirson
Original language : Afrikaans - Xhosa - Zulu - Xam (a Bushman linguistic group)
Published language(s) : English
Northwestern University Press/UNESCO, 1997. 330 p.
Poetry

The Laws of Manu


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Prakrit languages - Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by G. Bühler
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1961
Philosophy, religion

The Letter of Tansar


Tansar (attributed to) (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. Boyce
Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente/UNESCO, 1968. xiii + 79 p.
Correspondence

The Life and Teaching of Naropa


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Tibetan
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by H. V. Guenther
Clarendon Press/UNESCO, 1963
Biography/memoirs

The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha. Spina nel Cuore. [O vios tou Ismail Ferik Passa]
Galanaki, Rhea (Europe & North America, Greece)
Foreword by Kay Cicellis
Original language : Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kay Cicellis
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1996. 166 p.
Novel

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings [Koshoku ichidai onna]
Ihara, Saikaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted 1969
Edited by Ivan Morris
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ivan Morris
New Directions/UNESCO, 1963. xii + 402 p., illus.
Novel, short stories

The Living on the Dead [Hahay Al Hamet]


Megged, Aharon (Europe & North America, Israel)
Original language : Hebrew
Published language(s) : English
Translated by M. Louvish
Jonathan Cape/UNESCO, 1970. 251 p.
Novel

The Lord of the Meeting Rivers. Devotional Poems


Basavanna (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction and postscript by Kamil V. Zvelebil
Original language : Kannada
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kamil V. Zvelebil
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1984. 176 p.
Poetry

The Lord of the Panther-Skin. Romance of Chivalry [Vep'khistqaosani]


Rustaveli, Shota (Europe & North America, Georgia)
Original language : Georgian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. H. Stevenson
State University of New York Press/UNESCO, 1977. 239 p.
Epic

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The Makioka Sisters [Sasame yuki]


Tanizaki, Junichirô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1981
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Alfred A. Knopf/UNESCO, 1957. 532 p.
Novel

The Man who Turned into a Stick. Three Related Plays [Bo ni natta otoko]
Abé, Kôbô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Keene
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1977. 84
Play

The Manyoshu
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Foreword by Donald Keene
Reprinted 1969
Edited by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Multiple translators
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1965. lxxxii + 502 p.
Poetry

The Manyoshu
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ian Hideo Levy
Princeton University Press/UNESCO, 1981. 409 p.
Poetry

The Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon. III. Chronicle of Buddhas


[Buddhavamsa. Basket of Conduct Cariyapitaka]
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by I. B. Horner
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1975. 174 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon. IV. Vimanavatthu: Stories of the
Mansions. Petavatthu: Stories of the Departed

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Asia & the Pacific, India


Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. S. Gehman - I. B. Horner
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1974. 170 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Mirror of the Sky. Songs of the Bauls from Bengal


Asia & the Pacific, India
Introduction and notes by Deben Bhattacharya
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Deben Bhattacharya
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1969. 120 p., illus.
Poetry

The Mishnah. Oral Teaching of Judaism [Hamishna Torah Shebeal-pé]


Europe & North America
Selected by Eugene J. Lipman
Original language : Hebrew
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Eugene J. Lipman
The Viking Press/UNESCO, 1973. 318 p.
Religion

The Nazirean Ethics [Akhlaq-i Nasiri]


Tusi Das, Nazir ad-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by G. M. Wickens
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1964. 352 p.
Philosophy

The Noh Drama. Ten Plays


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Selected by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Reprinted 1982
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1960. xvi + 193 p., illus.
Play

The Okagami. Great Mirror. A Japanese Historical Tale


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1977
Original language : Japanese

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by Joseph K. Kamagiwa
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1967. 488 p., tables
Folk-tale, history

The Other Side [De andere kant]


Minco, Marga (Europe & North America, Netherlands)
Original language : Dutch; Flemish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ruth Levitt
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1993. 118 p.
Novel

The Palace of Ice [Is-slottet]


Vesaas, Tarjei (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
UNESCO/William Morrow, 1968. 176 p.
Novel

The Panchatantra
Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted by Hind Pocket Books/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Franklin Edgerton
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1965. 151 p.
Folk-tale, legend

The Parrot and the Starling [ukasaptati]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. P. Bahadur
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1977. 183 p.
Folk-tale, poetry

The Petition to Ram. Devotional Hymns of the 17th Century [Vinaya patrika]
Tulsi Das (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction, notes and glossary by F. R. Allchin
Reprinted by Ben Russak/UNESCO, 1972
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by F. R. Allchin
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1966. 335 p., illus.
Poetry, religion

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The Pillow Book [Makura no Soshi]


Shei Shonagon (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Oxford University Press/UNESCO, 1967
Edited by Ivan Morris
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ivan Morris
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1967. 2 vols., illus.
Novel

The Pitaka-Disclosure [Petakopadesa]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted 1970
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Bhikku Nanamoli
Luzac/UNESCO, 1963. xliv + 402 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Prisoner [Bandi'wan]


Zaman, Fakhar (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Panjabi; Punjabi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Khalid Hasan
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1996. 118 p.
Novel

The Puppet's Tale [Putul Nacher Itikhata]


Bandopadhyaya, Manik (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Edited by Arthur Isenberg
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Sachindralal Ghosh
Sahitya Akademi/UNESCO, 1968. xi + 268 p.
Folk-tale

The Quilt and Other Stories [Futon]


Kataï, Tayama (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Kenneth G. Henshall
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kenneth G. Henshall
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1981. 204 p.
Short stories

The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of

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Introduction and notes by Suh Ji-moon


Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Suh Ji-moon
Onyx Press/UNESCO, 1983. 255 p.
Short stories

The Rainy Spell and other Korean Stories


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Edited by Suh Ji-moon
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Suh Ji-moon
M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO, 1998. 286 p.
Short stories

The Rasikapriya. Modern Hindi Short Stories


Késhavadasa (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Lawrence Verry/UNESCO, 1972
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by K. P. Bahadur
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1972. 248 p.
Short stories

The Renunciation [La renuncia del héroe Baltasar]


Rodríguez Julía, Edgardo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Puerto Rico)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Andrew Hurley
Four Walls Eight Windows/UNESCO, 1997. 138 p.
Novel

The Road to Freedom


Milev, Geo (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Preface by Leda Mileva; introduction by Toncho Zhechev
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ewald Osers
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1988. 66 p.
Poetry

The Romance of the Western Chamber [Hsi-Hsiang Chi]


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by S. I. Hsiung

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Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1968. xliv + 281 p., illus.


Play

The Roof Tile of Tempyo [Tempyo no iraka]


Inoué, Yasushi (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted 1981
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James T. Araki
UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1975. 140 p.
Novel

The Ruba'iyat
Khayyam, 'Umar (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction by Parichehr Kasra
Reprinted 1977
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Parichehr Kasra
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints/UNESCO, 1975. 183 p.
Poetry

The Rules and Regulations of the ?Abbasid Court [Rusum Dar Al-Khilafah]
Al-Sabi' Hilal (Arab States)
Introduction and notes by Elie A. Salem
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Elie A. Salem
Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/UNESCO, 1977. 134
History

The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James Legge
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1966. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

The Saddharma-Pundarika, or the Lotus of the True Law


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Kern
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1968
Philosophy, religion

The Samurai [Samurai]

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Endo, Shusaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)


Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Van C. Gessel
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1982. 272 p.
Novel

The Satapatha-Brahmana According to the Text of the Madhyandina School


Asia & the Pacific, India
Reprinted 1976
Original language : Prakrit languages - Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by J. Eggeling
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1963. 6 vols.
Philosophy, religion

The Satasai
Bihari (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Introduction by Krishna P. Bahadur
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Krishna P. Bahadur
Penguin Books/UNESCO, 1990. 403 p.
Poetry

The Sea and Poison [Umi to dokuyaku]


Endo, Shusaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1973
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michael Gallagher
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1972. 167 p.
Novel

The Sephardic Tradition. Ladino and Spanish-Jewish Literature


[Hammassoret jasséphardith]
Europe & North America
Selected by Moshe Lazar
Edited by Moshe Lazar
Original language : Ladino - Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by D. Herman
UNESCO/W. W. Norton, 1972. 120 p.
Legend

The Seven Madmen [Los siete locos]


Arlt, Roberto (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)

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Original language : Spanish


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Nick Caistor
Serpent's Tail/UNESCO, 1998. 250 p.
Novel

The Sheaf of Garlands of the Epochs of the Conqueror [Jinakalamali


pakaranam]
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by N. A. Jayawickrama
Luzac & Co. for the Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1968. 235 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Ship of Sulaiman [Safina'i Sulaimani]


Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John O'Kane
Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO, 1972. 250 p.
Theater

The Shore and the Wave [Aisi Bulandi Aisi Pasti]


Ahmad, Aziz (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ralph Russell
George Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1971. 167
Novel

The Sijo Tradition


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Edited by Kevin O'Rourke
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kevin O'Rourke
Jung Eum Sa/UNESCO, 1987. 216 p.
Poetry

The Silver Spoon [Gin no saji]


Kansuke, Naka (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Etsuko Terasaki
Chicago Review Press/UNESCO, 1976. 188 p.
Novel

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The Sound of Waves [Shiosai]


Mishima, Yukio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted 1981
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Meredith Weatherby
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1972. 183 p.
Novel

The Sound of the Mountain [Yama no oto]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Knopf/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Seidensticker
Secker & Warburg/UNESCO, 1971. 277 p.
Novel

The Star and Other Korean Short Stories


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Preface and notes by Agnita Tennant
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Agnita Tennant
Kegan Paul International/UNESCO, 1996. 141 p.
Short stories

The Story of Kieu/Truyên Kiêu


Nguyên Du (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)
Notes by Lê Cao Phan; foreword by Pham Quât Xá
Original language : Vietnamese
Published language(s) : English - Vietnamese
Translated by Lê Cao Phan
Literature & Art Publishers/UNESCO, 1996. 294 p.
Epic

The Successors of Genghis Khan [Extracted from Jami' Al-Tawarikh]


Tabib, Rashid al-Din (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John Andrew Boyle
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1971. 372 p.
History

The Swordfish [De Zwaardvis]


Claus, Hugo (Europe & North America, Belgium)
Introduction by Ruth Levitt

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Original language : Flemish


Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ruth Levitt
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1996. 104 p.
Novel

The Tale of Genji [Genji monogatari]


Murasaki, Shikibu (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1980
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Arthur Waley
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1971. 2 vols.
Novel

The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo: A Tenth-Century Japanese Novel [Ochikubo


monogatari]
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Reprinted by Anchorbooks, Doubleday/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Eizo Yanagisawa - Wilfrid Whitehouse
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1970. 287 p.
Novel

The Tales of Marzuban [Marzuban-nama]


Warawini (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Reprinted by Greenwood Press/UNESCO, 1969
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Reuben Levy
Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1959. 254 p.
Folk-tale

The Tarikh-e Sistan


Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Milton Gold
Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1976. 369 p.
History

The Teaching of Vimalakirti [Vimalakírtinirdesa]


Asia & the Pacific, India
Original Pali; trans. from the French by Sara Boin
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English

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The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1976


Philosophy, religion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [Kinkakuji]


Mishima, Yukio (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross
Reprinted 1981
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ivan Morris
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1972. 282 p.
Novel

The Tevye Stories and Others


Aleichem, Cholem (Rabinowitz Shalon) (Europe & North America, Israel)
Original language : Yiddish
Published language(s) : Chinese
Translated by Chen Kaiming
Institute for Jewish Studies of Mitteleuropa/UNESCO, 1999. 250 p.
Short stories

The Three-cornered World [Kusamakura]


Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Alan Turney
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1965. 184 p.
Novel

The Tower at the Edge of the World. A Poetic Mosaic Novel about my Earliest
Youth [Tärnet ved Verdens Ende]
Heinesen, William (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Maja Jackson
The Thule Press/UNESCO, 1981. 183 p.
Novel

The Twilight Years [Kokotsu no hito]


Ariyoshi, Sawako (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Mildred Tahara
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1984. 216 p.
Novel

The Underdogs [Los de abajo]

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Azuela, Mariano (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)


Edited by Seymor Menton
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Frederick H. Fornoff
Colección Archivos/UNESCO/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. 165 p.
Novel

The Uprising [Rascoala]


Rebreanu, Liviu (Europe & North America, Romania)
Original language : Romanian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by P. Granjean - S. Hartauer
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1965. 410 p.
Novel

The Vigil [Jagari]


Bhadhri, Satinath (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Lila Ray
Asia Publishing House/UNESCO, 1965. xii + 212 p.
Novel

The Voices of the Dead [Opera dos mortos]


Dourado, Autran (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John M. Parker
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1980. 248 p.
Novel

The Vortex Family [La famille Vortex]


Métellus, Jean (Latin America & the Caribbean, Haiti)
Introduction by Michael Richardson
Original language : French
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michael Richardson
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1995. 232 p.
Novel

The Way and its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and its Place in Chinese
Thought
Lao-tzu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Reprinted by Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1968
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : English

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Translated by Arthur Waley


Grove Press/UNESCO, 1958. 282 p.
Philosophy

The Weary Generations [Udas Naslein]


Hussein, Abdullah (Asia & the Pacific, Pakistan)
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hussein, Abdullah
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1999. 334 p.
Novel

The Winged Darkness and Other Stories [Det vingede Mørke]


Heinesen, William (Europe & North America, Denmark)
Introduction and notes by Hedin Brønner
Original language : Danish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Hedin Brønner
Irvington Publishers/UNESCO/Wilfion Books, 1983. 220 p.
Short stories

The Wisdom of the Sasanian Sages [Denkard VI]


Aturpat-i Emetan (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Original language : Pahlavi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Shaul Shaked
UNESCO/Westview Press, 1979. 383 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Wisdom of the Tamil People. Translated Selections from their Ancient
Literature
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Emmons E. White
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers/UNESCO, 1975. 130 p.
Poetry, prose

The Wisdom of the Throne [al-Hikmat al-'Arshiya]


Mulla, Sadra (Asia & the Pacific, Iran, Islamic Republic Of)
Introduction by James Winston Morris
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James Winston Morris
Princeton University Press/UNESCO, 1981. 276 p.
Philosophy, religion

The Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna]

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Abé, Kôbô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)


Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1980
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Dale Saunders
Secker & Warburg/UNESCO, 1963. 241
Novel

The World of Premchand. Short Stories


Premchand, Dhanpat Raî (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1969
Original language : Hindi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by David Rubin
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1969. 215 p.
Short stories

The Year of the Hare [Jäniksen Vuosi]


Paasilinna, Arto (Europe & North America, Finland)
Original language : Finnish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Herbert Lomas
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1994. 135 p.
Novel

Theatre of Memory. The Plays of Kalidasa


Kalidasa (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller - David Gitomer - Edwin Gerow
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1984. 392 p.
Play

They Sing Life - Anthology of Oral Poetry of the Primitive Tribes of India
Sitakant Mahapatra
Edited by Inter-India Publications
Published language(s) : English
2003. 170
Oral tradition

They Sing Life. Anthologie of Oral Poetry of the Primitive Tribes of India
Sitakant Mahapatra (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English
2003. 170
Oral poetry

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They Were Counted from The Writing on the Wall [Erdélyi Törtenét The
Transylsvanian Trilogy, Book One]
Bánffy, Miklós (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kathy Bánffy-Jelen - Patrick Thursfield
Arcadia Books/UNESCO, 1998. 602 p.
Novel

Thickhead and Other Stories


Taner, Haldun (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Geoffroy Lewis
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1988. 160 p.
Short stories

Thousand Cranes [Senbazuru]


Kawabata, Yasunari (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by E. Seidensticker
Charles E. Tuttle/UNESCO, 1960. 147 p.
Novel

Three Contemporary Japanese Poets: Anzai Hitoshi, Shiraishi Kazuko,


Tanikawa Shuntaro
Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction by Graeme Wilson and Atsumi Ikuko
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Atsumi Ikuko - Graeme Wilson
London Magazine Editions/UNESCO, 1972. 80 p.
Poetry

Three Days and a Child [Shlosha Yamin Veyeled]


Yehoshua, A. B. (Europe & North America, Israel)
Reprinted by Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1971
Original language : Hebrew
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Miriam Arad
Doubleday/UNESCO, 1970. 260 p.
Short stories

Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan


Asia & the Pacific, India

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Reprinted by Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1968


Edited by Khurshidul Islam; R. Russel
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Khurshidul Islam - R. Russel
Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1968. xxii + 290 p.
Poetry

Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's ?Topics', ?Rhetoric', and


?Poetics'/Scharh
Averroës (Ibn Rushd) (Arab States)
Edited by Charles E. Butterworth
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - English
Translated by Charles E. Butterworth
State University of New York Press/UNESCO, 1977. 206 p.
Philosophy, poetry

Thupavamsa
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by N. A. Jayawickrama
The Pali Text Society/UNESCO, 1971. 286 p.
Philosophy, religion

Théâtre choisi : Grabuge à Chioggia, Les rabat-joie, L'amant militaire, Les


amoureux, L'éventail
Goldoni, Carlo (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction by Silvio d’Amico
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henriette Valot - Michel Arnaud
Nagel/UNESCO, 1956. 381 p.
Play

Théâtre hongrois d'aujourd'hui. Dix pièces - Dix auteurs


E. Illés (tome I); G. Illyés (tome I); G. Páskándi (tome II); I. Sarkadi (tome II); I. Örkény
(tome II); K. Szakonyi (tome II); Karinthy, Frigyes (tome II); L. Gyurkó (tome I); L. Németh
(tome II); M. Hubay (tome I) (Europe & North America, Hungary)
Introduction by P. Nagy
Original language : Hungarian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Editions Corvina/Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1979. 2 vol.
Play

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Théâtre latino-américain contemporain


Asturias, Miguel Ángel; Carlos José Reyes; Egon Wolff; Emilio Carballido; Enrique Solari
Swayne; Griselda Gambaro; José Ignacio Cabrujas; José Triana; Luis Rafael Sánchez; Nelson
Rodrigues; Ricardo Prieto (Latin America & the Caribbean)
Introduction by Osvaldo Obregón, translated from the Spanish by Albert
Bensousan
Edited by Claude Demarigny
Original language : Portuguese - Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Actes Sud/UNESCO, 1998. 672 p.
Play

Tjalong Arang. Volksverhalen en legenden van Bali


Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia
Preface by C. Hooykaas
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by C. Hooykaas
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1979. 224 p.
Folk-tale, legend

Todos los cuentos


Quiroga, Horacio (Latin America & the Caribbean, Uruguay)
Foreword by Abelardo Castillo
Edited by Jorge Lafforgue; Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Colección Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 1462 p.
Folk-tale, legend

Tokyo Express [Ten to sen]


Matsumoto, Seicho (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Rose-Marie Fayolle
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 1989. 189 p.
Novel

Told Round a Brushwood Fire. The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki [Oritaku


Shiba no ki]
Hakuseki, Arai (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction and notes by Joyce Ackroyd
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joyce Ackroyd

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UNESCO/University of Tokyo Press, 1979. 347 p.


Biography/memoirs

Tony the Sailor's Son [Toni tal-Bahri]


Buttigieg, Anton (Europe & North America, Malta)
Original language : Maltese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by William Driscoll
Onyx Press/UNESCO, 1983. 150 p.
Biography/memoirs

Tovar : origines et croyances des Indiens du Mexique


Tovar, Juan de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Mexico)
From the the John Carter Brown Library manuscript, established by Jacques Lafaye
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by C. Aznar de Acevedo
Akademische Druck-u Verlagsanstalt/UNESCO, 1972. 328 p., ill.
Chronicle, history, religion

Tradiciones peruanas
Palma, Ricardo (Latin America & the Caribbean, Peru)
Foreword by Alfredo Bryce-Echenique
Edited by Julio Ortega
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Colección Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 658 p.
Essay, history, poetry

Traditional Korean Theatre


Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Introduction by Oh’kon Cho
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Oh'kon Cho
Asian Humanities Press/UNESCO, 1988. 364 p.
Play

Traditions poétiques et musicales juives en Occident musulman


Zafrani, Haïm (Arab States, Morocco)
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Editions Stavit/UNESCO, 1998. 194 p.
Essay

Trash [A Bagaceira]
Almeida, José Américo de (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese

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Published language(s) : English


Translated by R. L. Scott-Buccleuch
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1978. 134
Novel

Travels in America Deserta and Other Poems/Viajes por América desierta y


otros poemas
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Europe & North America, United States)
Introduction by Esteban Moore
Original language : English
Published language(s) : English - Spanish
Translated by Esteban Moore
Editorial Graffiti/UNESCO, 1996. 75 p.
Poetry

Travels in my Homeland [Viagens na minha terra]


Garrett, Almeida (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Introduction by John M. Parker
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John M. Parker
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1987. 256 p.
Theater

Travels. A Selection [Viajes en Europa, Africa y América]


Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Inés Muñoz
Pan American Union/UNESCO, 1963. xxxii + 297 p.
Theater

Tree without Roots [Lal Shalu]


Waliullah, Syed (Asia & the Pacific, Bangladesh)
Original language : Bengali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Anne-Marie Thibaud - Jeffrey Gibian - Malik Khayyam - Qaisar
Saeed
Chatto & Windus/UNESCO, 1967. 223 p.
Novel

Treelike. The Poetry of Kinoshita Yuji


Yuji, Kinoshita (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface by Ooka Makoto
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp

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Katydid Books/UNESCO, 1982. xxi + 272 p.


Poetry

Trieste et un poète [extraits de Il canzoniere]


Saba, Umberto (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction by Georges Mounin
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Odette Kaan
Seghers/UNESCO, 1977. 159 p.
Poetry

Trésor de la poésie universelle


reprinted
Edited by Jean-Clarence Lambert; Roger Caillois
Published language(s) : French
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1986. 781 p.
Poetry

Twenty Plays of the No Theatre


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Edited by D. Keene; Royall Tyler (with the assistance)
Published language(s) : English
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1970. xvi + 336 p., illus.
Play

Twilight Country [Aftenlandet]


Faldbakken, Knut (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joan Tate
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1993. 216 p.
Novel

Twisted Memories. Collected poetry


Kinoshita, Yûji (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Robert Epp
UNESCO/Yakusha, 1993. 277 p.
Poetry

Two Tamil Folktales: The Story of King Matanakama; The Story of Peacock
Ravana
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kamil V. Zvelebil

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Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1987. 236 p.


Folk-tale

Tèvié le laitier [Tewje der milchiger]


Aleichem, Cholem (Rabinowitz Shalon) (Europe & North America, Israel)
Original language : Yiddish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edmond Fleg
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1962. 186
Tales

Ulysse bras attachés et autres poèmes [Kollari bagli Odysseus]


Anday, Melih Cevdet (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Foreword by Sabahattin Eyuboglu
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Hifzi Topuz - Sabahattin Eyuboglu - Turhan Doyran
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1970. 119
Poetry

Umrao Jan Ada (The Courtesan of Lucknow)


Ruswa, Mirza Mohammad Hadi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Reprinted by Hind Pocket Books/UNESCO, 1970
Original language : Urdu
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Khushwant Singh - M. A. Husaini
Orient Longmans/UNESCO, 1961. xv + 187 p.
Novel

Un amour indien [Chemmeen]


Sivasankara Pillai, Thakazhi (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Original language : Malayalam
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nicole Balbir
Mercure de France/UNESCO, 1965. 221 p.
Novel

Un catalogue de vieilles automobiles [Hojeando un catálogo de viejos


automoviles]
Fernández-Moreno, César (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Foreword by René Depestre
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Depestre
Saint-Germain-des-Prés/UNESCO, 1993. 71
Poetry

Un demi-siècle de poésie

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Europe & North America


Anthology of poetry 1900-1950
Published language(s) : French
La maison du poète/UNESCO, 1956. Vol. 3-6
Poetry

Un monde divisé pour tous. Les pauvres/Un mundo para todos dividido. Los
pobres
Sosa, Roberto (Latin America & the Caribbean, Honduras)
Preface by Joaquin Medina Oviedo
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Joaquin Medina Oviedo
Seghers/UNESCO, 1977. 111 p.
Poetry

Un poème, un pays, un enfant


Lorraine, Bernard (Europe & North America, France)
Preface by Claudie Haigneré
Original language : French
Published language(s) : French
Le Cherche Midi/UNESCO, 2002. 218 p.
Poetry

Un violon sur le toit [Tewje der milchiger]


Aleichem, Cholem (Rabinowitz Shalon) (Europe & North America, Israel)
Original language : Yiddish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Edmond Fleg
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1972. 186
Tales

Un étrange voyage. Poèmes épiques, poèmes lyriques [Saman sarisi]


Hikmet, Nâzim (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Edited by Guzine Dino
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Guzine Dino - Jean Marcenac - Munevver Andaç
François Maspero/UNESCO, 1980. 197 p.
Poetry

Une histoire d'amour [Racconto d'amore]


Quarantotti-Gambini, Pier Antonio (Europe & North America, Italy)
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Laïla Taha-Hussein
L'Age d'Homme/UNESCO, 1984. 166 p.
Poetry

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Une maisonnette au bord de la Vistule et autres nouvelles du monde yiddish


Europe & North America
Edited by Rachel Ertel
Original language : Yiddish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Multiple translators
Albin Michel/UNESCO, 1989. 413 p.
Short stories

Une vie paria : le rire des asservis (Pays tamoul, Inde du Sud)
Viramma (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Texts collected, translated and annotated by Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean-Luc Racine - Josiane Racine
Plon/UNESCO, 1996. 631 p., ill.
Biography/memoirs, chronicle

Upanichaden
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : German
Translated by Paul Thieme
Reclam Jun./UNESCO, 1965. 99 p.
Philosophy, religion

Upanishads du yoga
Asia & the Pacific, India
Notes by Jean Varenne
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jean Varenne
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1990. 182 p.
Philosophy, religion

Vallabhacarya or the Love Games of Krsna; Commentary on Bhagavata Purana


Asia & the Pacific, India
Preface and notes by James D. Redington
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by James D. Redington
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1983. 492 p.
Philosophy, religion

Vaste recueil de légendes merveilleuses [Truyên ky man Luc]


Nguyên Du (Asia & the Pacific, Viet Nam)

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reprinted
Original language : Vietnamese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Nguyen-Tran-Huan
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1962. 273 p.
Legend

Vedic Hymns
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Prakrit languages - Sanskrit
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Oldenberg - Max Müller
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1967. 2 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Vers libres [Versos libres]


Martí, José (Latin America & the Caribbean, Cuba)
Prologue by Cintio Vitier
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : French - Spanish
Translated by Jean Lamore
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1997. 224 p.
Poetry

Vers une éducation de la culture, esthétisme et création d'un esprit éthique


au Brésil
Vieira de Mello, Mário (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Claudia Laux
L'Harmattan/UNESCO, 1999. 366 p.
Essay

Via nova
Dante Alighieri (Europe & North America, Italy)
Introduction, notes and appendix by André Pézard
Original language : Italian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by André Pézard
Nagel/UNESCO, 1953. 253
Poetry

Viajes por América desierta y otros poemas/Travels in America deserta and


other poems
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Europe & North America, United States)
Introduction by Estaban Moore
Original language : English

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Published language(s) : English - Spanish


Translated by Estaban Moore
Editorial Graffiti/UNESCO, 1996. 75 p.
Poetry

Viajes por Europa, África y América, 1845-1847


Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino (Latin America & the Caribbean, Argentina)
Edited by Javier Fernández
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : Spanish
Colección Archivos/UNESCO, 1993. 1108 p.
Theater

Vie d'une amie de la volupté [Kôshoku ichidai onna]


Ihara, Saikaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface and notes by Georges Bonmarchand
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Georges Bonmarchand
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1975. 256 p.
Novel

Vie et chants de ?Brug-pa Kun-legs le yogin


Asia & the Pacific, China
Original language : Tibetan
Published language(s) : French
Translated by R. A. Stein
Maisonneuve et Larose/UNESCO, 1972. 442 p.
Poetry

Vie et passion d'un gastronome chinois [Meishijia]


Lu Wenfu (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Preface by Françoise Sabban
reprinted
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Annie Curien - Feng Chen
Editions Philippe Picquier/UNESCO, 1988. 159 p.
Novel

Vier Upanisaden
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Sanskrit
Published language(s) : Dutch; Flemish
Translated by Ali Beth
Meulenhoff/UNESCO, 1977. 223 p.
Philosophy

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Viga-Glums Saga. With the Tales of Ögmund Bash and Thorwald Chatterbox
Europe & North America, Iceland
Original language : Icelandic
Published language(s) : English
Translated by John McKinnell
Canongate/UNESCO, 1987. 160 p.
Epic, folk-tale

Vinaya Texts
Asia & the Pacific, India
Original language : Pali
Published language(s) : English
Translated by H. Oldenberg - T. W. Rhys Davids
Motilal Banarsidass/UNESCO, 1965. 3 vols.
Philosophy, religion

Viramma: Life of an Untouchable


Racine, Jean-Luc; Racine, Josiane; Viramma (Asia & the Pacific, India)
Texts collected, translated and annotated by Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine.
Original language : Tamil
Published language(s) : English - French
Translated by Will Hobson
UNESCO/Verso, 1998. 312 p., illus.
Biography/memoirs, chronicle

Virtuous Women. Three Masterpieces of Traditional Korean Fiction


[Kuunmong, Inhyôn Wanghu chôn, Ch'unhyang ka]
Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Kim Chong-un - Richard Rutt
Korean National Commission for UNESCO, 1974. 333 p.
Novel

Vis and Ramin


Gurgani, Fakhr ud-Din (Asia & the Pacific)
Original language : Persian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by George Morrison
Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1972. 357 p.
Epic

Vita sexualis [Vita sekusuarisu]


Ogai, Mori (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Preface by Étiemble
reprinted

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Original language : Japanese


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Amina Okada
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1981. 168 p.
Novel

Vita sexualis, El aprendizaje de Shizu


Ogai, Mori (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Fernando Rodríguez-Izquierdo
Trotta/UNESCO, 2001. 184 p.
Novel

Vita sexualis, El aprendizaje de Shizu


Ogai, Mori (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Fernando Rodríguez-Izquierdo
Trotta/UNESCO, 2001. 184 p.
Novel

Voices of the Dawn. A Selection of Korean Poetry from the Sixth Century to
the Present Day
Asia & the Pacific, Korea, Republic Of
Introduction by Peter Hyun
Reprinted by Paragon/UNESCO, n.d.
Original language : Korean
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Peter Hyun
John Murray/UNESCO, 1960. 128 p.
Poetry

Voyage curieux au río de la Plata (1534-1554)


Schmidel, Ulrich (Europe & North America, Germany)
Preface by Juan Archibaldo Lanús
Original language : German
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Ternaux-Compans
UNESCO/Utz, 1998. 160 p.
Chronicle

Voyage de noces [Perdjalan penganten]


Rosidi, Ajip (Asia & the Pacific, Indonesia)
Original language : Indonesian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Henri Chambert-Loir

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Puyraimond/UNESCO, 1975. 277 p.


Novel

Voyages d'Ibn Battûta [Rihla]


Ibn Battûta (Arab States, Morocco)
Preface by Vincent Monteil
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by B. R. Sanguinetti - C. Defremery
Anthropos/UNESCO, 1979. 4 vol.
Theater

Voyages dans mon pays [Viagens na Minha Terra]


Garrett, Almeida (Europe & North America, Portugal)
Introduction and notes by Michelle Giudicelli
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Michelle Giudicelli
La Boîte à Documents/UNESCO, 1997. 288 p.
Biography/memoirs, travelogue

Voyages en Afrique noire (1455 et 1456) [Le navigazioni atlantiche del


veneziano Alvise da Mosto]
Ca'da Mosto, Alvise (Europe & North America, Italy)
Translation and notes by Frédérique Verrier
Original language : Italian, venetian
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Frédérique Verrier
Editions Chandeigne/UNESCO, 1994. 222, cartes, ill.
Theater

War with the Newts [Válka s mloky]


Capek, Karel (Europe & North America, Czech Republic)
Original language : Czech
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ewald Osers
Catbird Press/UNESCO, 1999. 242 p.
Novel

When I Whistle [Kuchibue wo fuku toki]


Endo, Shusaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Van C. Gessel
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1979. 277 p.
Novel

Wild Bapu of Garambi [Garambica Bapu]

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Pendse, Shripad Narayan (Asia & the Pacific, India)


Reprinted 1981
Original language : Marathi
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ian Raeside
Sahitya Akademi/UNESCO, 1969. 256 p.
Novel

Wild Tales [Divi razkazi]


Haitov, Nikolai (Europe & North America, Bulgaria)
Original language : Bulgarian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Michael Holman
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1979. 239 p.
Short stories

Wind Over Romsdal


Odegard, Knut (Europe & North America, Norway)
Original language : Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
Published language(s) : English
Translated by George Johnston
Penumbra Press/UNESCO, 1982. 63 p.
Poetry

Wonderful Fool [Obaka san]


Endo, Shusaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Francis Mathy
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1974. 237 p.
Novel

Words of Paradise. Poetry of Papua New Guinea


Asia & the Pacific, Papua New Guinea
Preface by Ulli Beier; illus. by Georgina Beier
Reprinted by Unicorn Press/UNESCO, 1973
Edited by Ulli Beier
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Ulli Beier
Sun Books/UNESCO, 1972. 107 p.
Poetry

Yaka
Pepetela, (Santos, Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos) (Africa, Angola)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by A. da Costa - C. Virone

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Les Éperonniers/UNESCO, 1992. 534 p.


Novel

Yayá Garcia
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Latin America & the Caribbean, Brazil)
Original language : Portuguese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by R. L. Scott-Buccleuch
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1976. 220 p.
Novel

Years Like Brief Days [Los años pequeños días]


Dobles, Fabián (Latin America & the Caribbean, Costa Rica)
Original language : Spanish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Joan Henry
Peter Owen/UNESCO, 1996. 120 p.
Novel

Yo, el Gato
Natsume, Soseki (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Introduction by Jesús González Valles
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Jesús González Valles
Trotta/UNESCO, 1999. 456 p.
Novel

Yoshitsune. A Fifteenth Century Japanese Chronicle


Asia & the Pacific, Japan
Introduction by Helen Craig McCullough
Reprinted by Tokyo University Press/UNESCO
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Helen Craig McCullough
Stanford University Press/UNESCO, 1966. viii + 367 p.
Chronicle

Young Poets of Germany. An Anthology


Europe & North America, Germany
Introduction by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn
Edited by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn
Original language : German
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Raymond Hargreaves
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1994. 164 p.
Poetry

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Young Poets of a New Poland. An Anthology


Europe & North America, Poland
Original language : Polish
Published language(s) : English
Translated by Donald Pirie
Forest Books/UNESCO, 1993. 254 p.
Poetry

Youssouf le taciturne [Kuycakli Yusuf]


Sabahattin Ali (Europe & North America, Turkey)
Preface by Paul Dumont
Original language : Turkish
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Paul Dumont
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1977. 231 p.
Novel

Zaini barakat
El Guitani, Gamal (Arab States, Egypt)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Spanish
Translated by Milagros Nuin Monreal
Ediciones Libertarias/UNESCO, 1994. 299 p.
Novel

Zene ljubavi [Kôshoku Ichidai nna]


Ihara, Saikaku (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
Original Japanese; English version by I. Morris
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : Serbo-Croat
Translated by Milenko Popoviç
Bratstvo-Jedinstvo/UNESCO, 1978. 191 p.
Short stories

Zhuang-Zi
Zhuang Zi (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Original translated into French by Liou Kia-kway
Original language : Chinese
Published language(s) : Italian
Translated by Carlo Laurenti - Christine Leverd
Adelphi/UNESCO, 1982. 416 p.
Philosophy, religion

Écrits d'un sage encore inconnu [Oianshu]


Tang Zhen (Asia & the Pacific, China)
Introduction and notes by Jacques Gernet
reprinted

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Original language : Chinese


Published language(s) : French
Translated by Jacques Gernet
Gallimard/UNESCO, 1992. 346 p.
Essay

Éloge de l'ombre [In'ei raisan]


Tanizaki, Junichirô (Asia & the Pacific, Japan)
reprinted
Original language : Japanese
Published language(s) : French
Translated by René Sieffert
Publications orientalistes de France/UNESCO, 1977. 114 p.
Aesthetics

Épître morale/Kitab al-akhlaq wa-l-siyar


Ibn Hazm, 'Ali ibn Ahmad (Arab States)
Introduction, index and glossary by Nada Tomiche
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : Arabic - French
Translated by Nada Tomiche
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1961. lv +
232 p.
Philosophy

Épître sur l?amitié [Risalat fi’s-sadaqa]


Abu-Hayyan al-Tawhidi (Arab States)
Original language : Arabic
Published language(s) : French
Translated by Marc Bergé
Commission libanaise pour la traduction des chefs-d'oeuvre/UNESCO, 1960. 45
Philosophy

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