WLT's 40 Most Important Books, 1927-2001

Utdelare: World Literature Today

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In celebration of its 75th anniversary, World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma has selected a list of the 40 most important books of the last 75 years. It includes works by writers from visa mer 29 countries. visa färre
År:
Alla, 1987 (1), 1978 (1), 1974 (1), 1972 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (4), 1961 (2), 1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1956 (2), 1953 (1), 1952 (4), 1950 (1), 1948 (1), 1945 (1), 1944 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1), 1935 (1), 1934 (1), 1933 (1), 1931 (1), 1929 (1), 1928 (2), 1927 (1)
VerkÅr
Det röda fältet av Mo Yan
1987
Bells in Winter av Czesław Miłosz
1978
Bevararen : [roman] av Nadine Gordimer
1974
De osynliga städerna av Italo Calvino
1972
House Made of Dawn av N. Scott Momaday
1968
Hundra år av ensamhet av Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 av W. H. Auden
1966
Mardrömmen av Kenzaburō Ōe
1964
Den femte sanningen av Doris Lessing
1962
Blek låga av Vladimir Nabokov
1962
Diamanttorget av Mercè Rodoreda
1962
En dag i Ivan Denisovitjs liv av Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1962
A House for Mr Biswas av V. S. Naipaul
1961
Orons bok av Fernando Pessoa
1961
Blecktrumman : roman av Günter Grass
1959
Allt går sönder av Chinua Achebe
1958
Guiden av R. K. Narayan
1958
Voss av Patrick White
1957
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street av Naguib Mahfouz
1956
Livet är farligt, senhor : banditen Riobaldos äventyr av João Guimarães Rosa
1956
Den förlorade porten av Alejo Carpentier
1953
I väntan på Godot av Samuel Beckett
1952
Osynlig man av Ralph Ellison
1952
Den gamle och havet av Ernest Hemingway
1952
In Country Sleep av Dylan Thomas
1952
Ensamhetens labyrint av Octavio Paz
1950
Snöns rike av Yasunari Kawabata
1948
Only Yesterday av S. Y. Agnon
1945
Fiktioner av Jorge Luis Borges
1944
Fyra kvartetter av T. S. Eliot
1943
Främlingen av Albert Camus
1942
Mother Courage and Her Children av Bertolt Brecht
1941
Requiem av Anna Akhmatova
1935
Fria män av Halldór Laxness
1934
Residence on Earth av Pablo Neruda
1933
Στροφή av Γιῶργος Σεφέρης
1931
Stormen och vreden av William Faulkner
1929
Gypsy Ballads av Federico García Lorca
1928
The Tower av W. B. Yeats
1928
Mot fyren av Virginia Woolf
1927

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