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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:China.png]] China </h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Kingdoms.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms ]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>by Luo Guanzhong </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dream of the Red Chamber|Story of the Stone]]''<br/>(18th century)<br/>by Cao Xueqin </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio| Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio]]''<br/>(1740)<br/>by Pu Songling </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: The_Real_Story_of_Ah-Q_and_Other_Tales_of_China.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The True Story of Ah Q|The Real Story of Ah Q]]''<br/>(1922)<br/>by Lu Xun </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File: Camel_Xiangzi.jpg |80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Camel Xiangzi|Camel Xiangzi]]''<br/>(1937)<br/>by Lao She </small>
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| |rowspan=12 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tang Dynasty|The Dragon King's Daughter]]'' (Tang dynasty) by </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Yuan Dynasty|Six Yuan Plays]]'' (Yuan dynasty) by </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Outlaws of the Marsh|Outlaws of the Marsh]]'' (14th century) by Shi Nai'an </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Romance of the West Chamber|The Story of the Western Wing]]'' (14th century) by Wang Shifu </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Journey to the West|Journey to the West]]'' (16th century) by Wu Cheng'en </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Creation of the Gods|Creation of the Gods]]'' (16th century) by Xu Zhonglin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Peony Pavilion|The Peony Pavilion]]'' (1598) by Tang Xianzu </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Feng Menglong|Stories Old and New]]'' (1620) by Feng Menglong </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jin Ping Mei|The Plum in the Golden Vase]]'' (17th century) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Carnal Prayer Mat|The Carnal Prayer Mat]]'' (1657) by Li Yu </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Scholars (novel)|The Scholars]]'' (1750) by Wu Jingzi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1808) by Shen Fu </small>
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| |rowspan=21 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Family (Ba Jin novel)|Family]]'' (1933) Ba Jin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Lin Yutang|The Importance of Living]]'' (1937) by Lin Yutang </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |My Country and My People]]'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Wild Grass]]'' ( ) by Lu Xun </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Rainbow]]'' ( ) by Mao Dun </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fortress Besieged|Fortress Besieged]]'' (1947) by Qian Zhongshu </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Border Town]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Selected Stories]]'' ( ) by Shen Congwen </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Teahouse]]'' ( ) by Lao She </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love in a Fallen City]]'' ( ) by Eileen Chang </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The King of Trees]]'' ( ) by Ah Cheng </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Red Sorghum]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Life and Death are Wearing Me Out]]'' ( ) by Mo Yan </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Three-Inch Golden Lotus]]'' ( ) by Feng Jicai </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Brothers]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |To Live]]'' ( ) by Yu Hua </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Soul Mountain]]'' ( ) by Gao Xingjian </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Waves]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The August Sleepwalker]]'' ( ) by Bei Dao </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Five Spice Street]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vertical Motion]]'' ( ) by Can Xue </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Czech.png]] Czech Republic </h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:May.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Máj|May]]''<br/>(1836)<br/>by Karel Hynek Macha </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Good_Soldier_Svejk.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Good Soldier Svejk|The Good Soldier Svejk]]''<br/>(1923)<br/>by Jaroslav Hasek </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Three_Novels.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hordubal|Three Novels]]''<br/>(1933)<br/>by Karel Capek </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Served_the_King_of_England.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Served the King of England|I Served the King of England]]''<br/>(1983)<br/>by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''<br/>(1984)<br/>by Milan Kundera </small>
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| |rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Pre-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sorrowful Eyes]]'' ( ) by Ivan Olbracht </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hidden History]]'' ( ) by Otokar Brezina </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Grandmother]]'' ( ) by Bozena Nemcova </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch]]'' ( ) by Ladislav Klima </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |R.U.R.]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |War With the Newts]]'' ( ) by Karel Capek </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Antilyrik & Other Poems]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Valerie and Her Week of Wonders]]'' ( ) by Vitezslav Nezval </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Prague Tales]]'' ( ) by Jan Neruda </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Arsonist]]'' ( ) by Egon Hostovsky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Poetry]]'' ( ) of Jaroslav Seifert </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Vanishing Lung Syndrome]]'' ( ) by Miroslav Holub </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Narrative Poems]]'' ( ) by Vladimir Holan </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Dreams at the End of the Night]]'' ( ) by Ewald Murrer </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |How I Came to Know Fish]]'' ( ) by Ota Pavel </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else]]'' ( ) by Daniela Fischerova </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |White Book]]'' ( ) by Pavel Kohout </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Saturnin]]'' ( ) by Zdenek Jirotka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Summer of Caprice]]'' ( ) by Vadislav Vancura </small>
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| |rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post-WW2||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Closely Watched Trains]]'' ( ) Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Too Loud a Solitude]]'' ( ) by Bohumil Hrabal </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Love and Garbage]]'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Immortality]]'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Garden Party and Other Plays]]'' ( ) by Vaclav Havel </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Questionnaire]]'' ( ) by Jiri Grusa </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Guinea Pigs]]'' ( ) by Ludvik Vaculik </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Cremator]]'' (1967) by Ladislav Fuks </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova]]'' ( ) by Arnost Lustig </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Bohemian Youth]]'' ( ) by Josef Hirsal </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |City Sister Silver]]'' ( ) by Jachym Topol </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Engineer of Human Souls]]'' ( ) by Josef Skvorecky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Other City]]'' ( ) by Michal Ajvaz </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Europeana]]'' ( ) by Patrik Ourednik </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Seven Churches]]'' ( ) by Milos Urban </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Of Kids & Parents]]'' ( ) by Emil Hakl </small>
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| |rowspan=13 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|German-language||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Golem]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Green Face]]'' ( ) by Gustav Meyrink </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Trial]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Metamorphosis]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Hunger Artist]]'' ( ) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Blaugast]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Severin’s Journey into the Dark]]'' ( ) by Paul Leppin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Raging Reporter]]'' ( ) by Egon Erwin Kisch </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Tycho Brahe’s Path to God]]'' ( ) by Max Brod </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Maimed]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Boys & Murderers]]'' ( ) by Hermann Ungar </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge |The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]'' ( ) by Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Selected Poetry]]'' ( ) of Rainer Maria Rilke </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Germany.png]] Germany</h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''<br/>(1774)<br/>by Goethe </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thus_Spake_Zarathustra.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Thus Spake Zarathustra|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''<br/>(1885)<br/>by Friedrich Nietzsche </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Magic_Mountain.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Magic Mountain|The Magic Mountain]]''<br/>(1912)<br/>by Thomas Mann </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Man_Without_Qualities.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Man Without Qualities|The Man Without Qualities]]''<br/> (1942)<br/>by Robert Musil </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tin_Drum.gif|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tin Drum|The Tin Drum]]''<br/>(1959)<br/>by Gunter Grass </small>
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| |rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Robbers|The Robbers and Wallenstein]]'' (1781) by Friedrich Schiller </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Marquise of O|the Marquise of O and Other Stories]]'' (1808) by Heinrich von Kleist</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Jug|The Broken Jug]]'' (1806) by Heinrich von Kleist </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' (1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Danton's Death|Danon's Death]]'' (1835) George Buchner </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der_Schimmelreiter|The Rider on the White Horse]]'' (1888) by Theodor Storm </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Effi Briest|Effi Briest]]'' (1895) by Theodor Fontane</small>
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| |rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Buddenbrooks|Buddenbrooks]]'' (1901) by Thomas Mann </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Der Untertan|The Loyal Subject]]'' (1914) by Heinrich Mann</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' (1915) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'' (1925) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'' (1926) by Franz Kafka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' (1922) by Hermann Hesse</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' (1927) by Hermann Hesse</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Berlin Alexanderplatz|Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929) by Alfred Doblin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Visit |The Visit]]'' (1956) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Physicists|The Physicists]]'' (1961) by Friedrich Durrenmatt </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Flounder|The Flounder]]'' (1977) by Gunter Grass </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Cassandra (novel)|Cassandra]]'' (1984) Christa Wolf </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (1985) by Patrick Suskind</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Christoph Ransmayr|The Last Word]]'' (1988) by Christoph Ransmayr </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Iran.png]] Iran </h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The_Conference_of_the_Birds.JPG|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>by Farid ud-Din Attar </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Rubaiyat.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]''<br/>(12th century)<br/>of Omar Khayyam </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Essential_Rumi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rumi|The Essential Works]]''<br/>(13th century)<br/>by Rumi </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Gulistan.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gulistan of Sa'di|The Rose Garden]]''<br/>(1259)<br/>by Sa'di </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Divan-i.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hafiz Shirazi|The Divan-i]]''<br/>(14th century)<br/>of Hafiz </small>
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| |rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shahnameh|Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings]]'' (~1000)</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Vis and Rāmin|Vis and Ramin]]'' (11th century) by Asad Gorgani </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shusha Guppy|The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia]]'' edited by Shusha Guppy </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Haft Paykar]]'' (1197) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Persian literature#Poetry|Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams]]'' edited by Dick Davis </small>
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| |rowspan=4 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Asadi Tusi|Garshaspnama]]'' (11th century) by Asadi Tusi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nizami Ganjavi|Chosrow and Shirin]]'' (1180) by Nizami Ganjavi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Francois Petis de la Croix|1001 Days]]'' (1712) by Francois Petis de la Croix </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Japan.png]] Japan</h3>
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| |colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Tale_of_Genji.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]''<br/>(11th century)<br/>by Murasaki Shikibu</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Kokoro.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kokoro|Kokoro]]''<br/>(1914)<br/>by Natsume Soseki</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Rashomon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Rashōmon_(short_story)|Rashomon]]''<br/>(1915)<br/>by Akutagawa</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Naomi.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Naomi (novel)|Naomi]]''<br/>(1924)<br/>by Junichiro Tanizaki</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Snow_Country.jpg|80px]] <br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Snow Country|Snow Country]]''<br/>(1947)<br/>by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
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| |rowspan=6 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classical Literature (until 1600's)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Gossamer Years | The Gossamer Years]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book | The Pillow Book]]'' (1002) by Sei Shonagon</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tales of Ise | The Tales of Ise]]'' by Anonymous</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Hojoki | Hojoki]]'' (1212) by Kamo no Chomei</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Essays in Idleness | Essays in Idleness]]'' (1330) by Yoshida Kenko</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Heike | The Tale of Heike]]'' (1371) by Anonymous</small>
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| |rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Edo Period (1603-1868)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Life of an Amorous Woman | The Life of an Amorous Woman]]'' (1686) by Saikaku Ihara</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hagakure | Hagakure: the Book of the Samurai]]'' (1716) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu | Four Major Plays]]'' (~1720) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Chushingura | Chushingura]]'' (1748) by Takedo Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Namiki Senryuu </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Tales of Moonlight and Rain |Tales of Moonlight and Rain]]'' (1776) by Ueda Akinari</small>
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| |rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Modern Literature (1868-1945)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ukigumo | Ukigumo]]'' (1887) by Futabatei Shimei </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Koda Rohan|Pagoda, Skull and Samurai]]'' (1889) by Koda Rohan</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Higuchi Ichiyo|In the Shade of Spring Leaves]]'' (1892-6) by Higuchi Ichiyo </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' (1900) by Izumi Kyoka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Broken Commandment|The Broken Commandment]]'' (1906) by Toson Shimazaki</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Katai Tayama|The Quilt and Other Stories]]'' (1907) by Katai Tayama </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenji Miyazawa|The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa]]'' (1924) by Kenji Miyazawa</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Botchan|Botchan]]'' (1906) by Natsume Soseki </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: I am a Cat|I Am a Cat]]'' (1905) by Natsume Soseki </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Geese (novel)|The Wild Geese]]'' (1913) by Mori Ogai </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Shiga Naoya|The Paper Door and Other Stories]]'' (1927) by Shiga Naoya </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Kafu Nagai|During the Rain & Flowers in the Shade]]'' (1930) by Kafu Nagai </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Musashi| Musashi]]'' (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Makioka Sisters|The Makioka Sisters]]'' (1943) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' (1940) by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
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| |rowspan=23 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Post War (1946-present)||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Inoue Yasushi | The Counterfeiter and Other Stories]]'' by Yasushi Inou </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories]]'' by Yasunari Kawabata</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Master of Go|The Master of Go]]'' (1954) by Yasunari Kawabata </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Setting Sun|The Setting Sun]]'' (1947) by Osamu Dazai </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fires on the Plain|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1951) by Shohei Ooka </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Waiting Years|The Waiting Years]]'' (1957) by Fumiko Enchi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of a Mask|Confessions of a Mask]]'' (1948) by Yukio Mishima </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Temple of the Golden Pavilion|The Temple of the Golden Pavilion]]'' (1956) by Yukio Mishima </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Spring Snow|Spring Snow]]'' (1963) by Yukio Mishima </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ]]'' (1958) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A Personal Matter|A Personal Matter]]'' (1964) by Kenzaburo Oe </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Black Rain|Black Rain]]'' (1966) by Masuji Ibuse </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Box Man|The Box Man]]'' (1973) by Kobo Abe </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Woman in the Dunes |The Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1962) by Kobo Abe </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Silence (novel)|Silence]]'' (1966) by Shusaku Endo </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Samurai (novel)|The Samurai]]'' (1980) by Shusaku Endo </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Twilight Years|The Twilight Years]]'' (1972) by Sawako Ariyoshi </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: Almost Transparent Blue|Almost Transparent Blue]]'' (1976) by Ryu Murakami</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (1988) by Banana Yoshimoto </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Norwegian Wood|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) by Haruki Murakami </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Elephant Vanishes|The Elephant Vanishes]]'' (1991) by Haruki Murakami</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle|The Wind-up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1995) by Haruki Murakami </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Housekeeper and the Professor|The Housekeeper and the Professor]]'' (2003) by Yoko Ogawa</small>
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| |colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Recommendation images'''
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| |width="120" align="center"|[[File:1276577235824.jpg|80px]]
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| |width="120" align="center"|[[File:1298503721666.jpg|100px]]
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| |width="120" align="center"|[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|100px]]
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| |width="120" align="center"|[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|100px]]
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Mexico.png]] Mexico </h3>
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| |colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Cantares_Mexicanos.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Cantares Mexicanos]]''<br/>( )<br/> </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poems_Protest_and_a_Dream.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Poems, Protest, and a Dream]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Sor Juana </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Pedro_Paramo.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Pedro Paramo|Pedro Paramo]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Juan Rulfo</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Death_of_Artemio_Cruz.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Death of Artemio Cruz|The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Carlos Fuentues </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Confabulario.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Confabulario and Other Inventions]]''<br/>( )<br/>by Juan Jose Arreola </small>
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| |rowspan=14 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Florentine Codex|Florentine Codex]]'' ( ) </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Broken Spears]]'' ( ) Miguel Leon-Portilla </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The History of the Indies of New Spain]]'' ( ) by Fray Diego Duran </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Memoirs]]'' ( ) of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Bandits from Rio Frio]]'' ( ) by Manuel Payno </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |El Zarco]]'' ( ) by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Santa]]'' ( ) by Federico Gamboa </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Anthology]]'' ( ) by Alfonso Reyes </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Song of the Heart: Poems]]'' ( ) by Ramon Lopez Velarde </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Nostalgia for Death: Poetry]]'' ( ) by Xavier Villaurrutia </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Underdogs]]'' ( ) by Mariano Azuela </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Burning Plain and Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Juan Rulfo </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Labyrinth of Solitude]]'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Battles in the Desert & Other Stories]]'' ( ) by Jose Emilio Pacheco </small>
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| |rowspan=7 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Comedias Escogidas]]'' ( ) by D. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Relampagos de Agosto]]'' ( ) by Jorge Ibarguengoitia </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Muerte sin fin]]'' ( ) by Jose Gorostiza </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Dias Terrenales]]'' ( ) by Jose Revueltas </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Farabeuf]]'' ( ) by Salvador Elizondo </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Los Cuervos Estan de Luto]]'' ( ) by Hugo Arguelles </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: |Cronica de la Intervencion]]'' ( ) by Juan Garcia Ponce </small>
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| |width="120" align="center"|[[File:Mexicancanon.jpg|80px]]
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Netherlands.png]] Netherlands </h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Multatuli.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Max Havelaar|Max Havelaar]]''<br/>(1860)<br/>by Multatuli</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Amsterdam_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nescio|Amsterdam Stories]]''<br/>(1910s)<br/>by Nescio </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Beyond_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Beyond Sleep|Beyond Sleep ]]''<br/>(1966)<br/>by Willem Hermans</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Parents_Worry.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|Parents Worry]]''<br/>(1988)<br/>by Gerard Reve</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Discovery_of_Heaven.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Discovery of Heaven|The Discovery of Heaven ]]''<br/>(1992)<br/>by Harry Mulisch </small>
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| |rowspan=19 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Translated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Joost van den Vondel|Lucifer]]'' ( ) by Joost van den Vondel </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|A Posthumous Confession]]'' ( ) by Marcellus Emants </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In Praise of Folly]]'' ( ) by Erasmus </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|In a Dark Wood Wandering]]'' ( ) by Hella S. Haasse </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Waning of the Middle Ages]]'' ( ) by J. Huizinga </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Letters]]'' of Vincent van Gogh </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Ten Thousand Things]]'' ( ) by Maria Dermout </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Eline Vere]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Chapel Road]]'' ( ) by Louis Paul Boon </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|I Dreamed in the Cities at Night]]'' ( ) by Remco Campert </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Omega Minor]]'' ( ) by Paul Verhaeghen </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Cheese]]'' ( ) by Willem Elsschot </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Turkish Delight]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Darkroom of Damocles]]'' ( ) by Willem Frederik Hermans </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Wonder]]'' ( ) by Hugo Claus </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Following Story]]'' ( ) by Cees Nooteboom </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Character]]'' ( ) by F. Bordewijk </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|The Twin]]'' ( ) by Gerbrand Bakker</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:|Tomorrow Pamplona]]'' ( ) by Jan van Mersbergen </small>
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| |rowspan=5 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Untranslated||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hildebrand|Camera Obscura]]'' ( ) by Hildebrand </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Louis Couperus|De Stille Kracht]]'' ( ) by Louis Couperus</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Frederik van Eeden|Van De Koele Meren des Doods]]'' ( ) by Frederik van Eeden</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Gerard Reve|De Avonden]]'' ( ) by Gerard Reve </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Wolkers|Terug naar Oegstgeest]]'' ( ) by Jan Wolkers </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:No.png]] Norway</h3>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:A-Doll-s-House-and-Other-Plays.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Doll's House|A Doll's House]]''<br/>(1879)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Thewildduck.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Wild Duck|The Wild Duck]]''<br/>(1884)<br/>by Henrik Ibsen</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Hunger.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Hunger (novel)|Hunger]]''<br/>(1890)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Growthofthesoil.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Growth of the Soil|Growth of the Soil]]''<br/>(1917)<br/>by Knut Hamsun</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:The wreath.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Kristin Lavransdatter (novel)|The Wreath]]''<br/>(1920)<br/>by Sigrid Undset</small>
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| |rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Classic||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Brand (play)|Brand]]'' (1866) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Hedda Gabler|Hedda Gabler]]'' (1891) by Henrik Ibsen</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Pan (novel)|Pan]]'' (1894) by Knut Hamsun</small>
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| |rowspan=3 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Beatles (novel)|Beatles]]'' (1984) by Lars Saabye Christensen</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Naïve. Super|Naïve. Super]]'' (1996) by Erlend Loe</small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Out Stealing Horses|Out Stealing Horses]]'' (2003) by Per Petterson</small>
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| {|{{Prettytable}}
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:Russia.png]] Russia</h3>
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| |colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:a_Hero_of_Our_Time.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Hero of Our Time|A Hero of Our time]]''<br/>(1841)<br/>by Mikhail Lermontov </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:War_and_Peace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:War and Peace|War and Peace]]''<br/>(1869)<br/>by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Brothers_Karamazov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Brothers Karamazov|The Brothers Karamazov]]''<br/>(1880)<br/>by Fyodor Dostoevsky</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Plays_of_Anton_Chekhov.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Plays of Anton Chekhov]]''<br/>by Anton Chekhov</small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Master_and_Margarita.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Master and Margarita|The Master and Margarita ]]''<br/>(1967)<br/>by Mikhail Bulgakov</small>
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| |rowspan=16 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|19th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Dead Souls |Dead Souls]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Diary of a Madman|Diary of a Madman and Other Stories ]]'' (1842) by Nikolai Gogol </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Oblomov |Oblomov ]]'' (1859) by Ivan Goncharov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sketches From a Hunter's Album |Sketches From a Hunter's Album ]]'' (1852) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fathers and Sons |Fathers and Sons ]]'' (1862) by Ivan Turgenev </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golovlyov Family |The Golovlyov Family ]]'' (1876) by Mikhail Saltykov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy|Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy]]'' by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]'' (1877) by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Notes From Underground |Notes From Underground ]]'' (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Idiot |The Idiot ]]'' (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Crime and Punishment |Crime and Punishment ]]'' (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Demons (novel)|Demons ]]'' (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Woe from Wit)|Woe from Wit ]]'' (1823) by Aleksandr Griboyedov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|The Collected Stories]]'' by Anton Chekhov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Alexander Pushkin)|The Collected Stories]]'' by Alexander Pushkin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Nikolai Leskov|Lady McBeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories]]'' (1865) by Nikolai Leskov </small>
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| |rowspan=15 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|20th Century||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Life and Fate|Life and Fate]]'' (1959) by Vasily Grossman </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Heart of a Dog|Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by Boris Pasternak </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Bunin|The Collected Stories]]'' by Ivan Bunin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Petersburg (novel)|Petersburg]]'' (1913) by Andrei Bely </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Foundation Pit|The Foundation Pit]]'' (1930) by Andrey Platonov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Envy (novel)|Envy]]'' (1927) by Yuri Olesha </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:A School for Fools|A School for Fools]]'' (1960s) by Sasha Sokolov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Invitation to a Beheading|Invitation to a Beheading]]'' (1936) by Vladimir Nabokob </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Bable|The Complete Works]]'' by Isaac Babel </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kolyma Tales|Kolyma Tales]]'' (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Today I Wrote Nothing|Today I Wrote Nothing]]'' by Daniil Kharms </small>
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| |colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Roadside Picnic |Roadside Picnic]]'' (1971) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky </small>
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| |colspan=5|<h3>[[File:South_Africa.png]] South Africa</h3>
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| |colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Disgrace.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Disgrace (novel)|Disgrace]]''<br/>(1999)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:I_Write_What_I_Like.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:I Write What I Like|I Write What I Like]]''<br/>(1978)<br/>by Steve Biko </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|
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| [[File:Nadinegordimerjuly'speople.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:July's People|July's People]]''<br/>(1981)<br/>by Nadine Gordimer </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Waiting for the Barbarians|Waiting for the Barbarians]]''<br/>(1980)<br/>by J.M. Coetzee </small>
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| |style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Ways_of_Dying.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ways of Dying|Ways of Dying]]''<br/>(1995)<br/>by Zakes Mda </small>
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| |rowspan=2 style="background:#C6D9F0;"|Contemporary||colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Zoo City|Zoo City]]'' (2010) by Lauren Beukes </small>
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| |colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Marlene van Niekerk|The Way of the Women]]'' (2004) by Marlene van Niekerk </small>
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