Who's your favorite international author?

[Harvee Lau]

there are a lot of well known and not-so-well-known writers now who have been translated into English or who have written in English. Wonder which authors or books you would recommend.....

[Book Calendar]

Jonathan Carroll who is a supernatural modern fantasy author has been translated into many different languages. I really like his writing. I enjoyed reading his latest novel The Ghost In Love. There is also Ngugi Wa Thiong'o who wrote The Wizard of the Crow, a kind of satirical African political novel with strong magical realist and fantasy elements.

[Harvee Lau]

That African novel sound very interesting. Even though I am not much of a fantasy reader, (I did enjoy a few books by Ursula Le Guin (spelling?), I do like politics and Africa seems to be very much in the news these days. .

[Book Calendar]

Another author who I very much like is Naguib Mahfouz who won the Nobel Prize for literature. His work is very beautiful. He is an Egyptian writer. The poetry of Bei Dao is also good.

[Kristen M.]

I think right now it's Boris Akunin (Russia) and Arturo Perez-Reverte (Spain). Both have mystery/suspense stories and also adventure/war stories. Akunin's books are mostly set in Tsarist Russia and A P-R writes about modern day and also old Spain/Europe.

[pussreboots]

I like Vladimir Nabokov's works which were translated by his son. I also adore Jules Verne's adventures. Then there's Michael Ende who wrote The Neverending Story and Momo (among others).

[Harvee Lau]

The Spanish, Russian and Egyptian authors sound fascinating and well worth while reading. May I add the name of award winning Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami, whose After Dark is a revealing and telling look at Tokyo after hours, or another side of Tokyo. His most famous work, however, is Kafka on the Shore.,

[Mary K. from L.A.]

I discovered Isabel Allende just last year and have fallen in love with her writing. And to think I avoided her for so many years because I thought she was another Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose Hundred Years of Solitude failed to charm.

[Valerie Russo]

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, José Saramago, Paulo Coelho, Majgull Axelsson...

[Anne with an E]

Jaan Kross,author of The Czar's Madman is one of my favorite international authors. He was an Estonian writer who wrote in the 70's.

[M.D. Griffith]

It would have to be Rowlings. She's more successful than all the rest combined.

[Barbara Rockwell]

I would probably go with Italo Calvino, Italian author of Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and more.

[Joan Peck]

My favorite Nigerian/African authors:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
--Half of a yellow sun
--Purple Hibiscus

Nona David
--Feddie Girl

Chukwuemeka Ike
--Bottled Leopard
--Potters Wheel

Elechi Amadi
--The Concubine

Chinua Achebe
--Things Fall Apart