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FROM: "Chapple Langemack" <[removed]@kcls.org>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 10:35 AM

Greetings,

I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
rather than exhaustively inclusive.

If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.

Many thanks,

Chapple Langemack
Reader's Services Coordinator
King County Library System
960 Newport Way NW
Issaquah, WA 98027
425.369.3318
[removed]@kcls.org
www.kcls.org

FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 11:15 AM

Chapple, have you tried searching using the term "multicultural"? This may
prove helpful. If you have access to it, Gale has "What multicultural
fiction [or something like that] do I read next?"

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 11:23 AM

Mexico... Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Kelly Marszycki <[removed]@rcn.com>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 11:47 AM

I would think that in this instance you may want to check with a
college/university library whose holdings would include extensive foreign
language literature and reference works; also, they tend to carry subscriptions
to journals such as "World Literature Today." Here are a few sites I've found
that may be helpful --

http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/stu/vkonoval/RussianLiterature.html
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/africov.html
http://www.horagai.com/english.html
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zenzen/jlit.htm
http://www.info-france-usa.org/
http://www.kalin.lm.com/author.html
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/

Good luck -- what a great subject area!

Kelly Marszycki


Chapple Langemack wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
> avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
> collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
> Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
> the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
> rather than exhaustively inclusive.
>
> If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
> I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chapple Langemack
> Reader's Services Coordinator
> King County Library System
> 960 Newport Way NW
> Issaquah, WA 98027
> 425.369.3318
> [removed]@kcls.org
> www.kcls.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:08 PM

Brazil--Jorge Amado
Japan--Yasunari Kawabata
........................................................................
Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:49 AM
To: Fiction_L
Cc: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Global Fiction


Mexico... Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Saricks <[removed]@sls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:12 PM

Boy, Chapple, this is your day for obscure questions! We just got The
Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide by Linda Parent Lesher (pub:
McFarland 0786407425). The chapter on Geographical Identification has
most of the areas you mentioned. Good descriptions of best books by
authors, excerpts from reviews. We think this will be useful. If you
don't have access to it, let me know and I'll share more specific
information.

Joyce

Joyce Saricks
Downers Grove Public Library

Wer immer strebend sich bemueht, den koennen wir erloesen.
Goethe's Faust, Part 2, Act 5

FROM: "Melissa Rice" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:29 PM

Julia Alvarez - Dominican Republic (one of my all time favorite authors)

Isabelle Allende - Chile

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Columbia (long time resident of Mexico City)

Laura Esquivel - Mexico

Melissa Rice
Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
[removed]@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

----------
>From: "Chapple Langemack" <[removed]@kcls.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Global Fiction
>Date: Thu, Jan 4, 2001, 10:38 AM
>

> Greetings,
>
> I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
> avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
> collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
> Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
> the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
> rather than exhaustively inclusive.
>
> If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
> I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chapple Langemack
> Reader's Services Coordinator
> King County Library System
> 960 Newport Way NW
> Issaquah, WA 98027
> 425.369.3318
> [removed]@kcls.org
> www.kcls.org
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Anne Marquis <[removed]@publib.edmonton.ab.ca>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:35 PM

Chapple:
Do you have access to Bowker's six volume set The Reader's Adviser? Volume
2 is "The Best in World Literature."

Anne Marquis
Fiction Librarian
Information Services
Edmonton Public Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2V4
Canada

[removed]@publib.edmonton.ab.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Chapple Langemack [[removed]@kcls.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:39 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Global Fiction


Greetings,

I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
rather than exhaustively inclusive.

If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.

Many thanks,

Chapple Langemack
Reader's Services Coordinator
King County Library System
960 Newport Way NW
Issaquah, WA 98027
425.369.3318
[removed]@kcls.org
www.kcls.org

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:38 PM

Gabriel Garcia Marquez... .. the following is from the Encyclopedia
Britannica
"Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the
so-called magic realism movement in Latin-American literature. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982."

Hope this helps
Tom Barton

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 12:53 PM

Africa: Chinua Achebe.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of course.

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FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 3:07 PM

Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the Nobel Prize (not always a
recommendation for gripping reading in my opinion). His book Palace Walk,
story of devout but restless middle-class mother and daughters in modern
Cairo, is really good.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: "Katherine Merrill" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/4/01, 3:10 PM

I would have to recommend Jose Saramago's BLINDNESS -- one of the best books
published (anywhere in the world!) in 1998. Saramago is from Portugal.

Kate

******************************************
Katherine Merrill
Reference Librarian
Social Sciences and Job Information Center
Rochester Public Library
Rochester, NY 14604
******************************************

>From: "Chapple Langemack" <[removed]@kcls.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Global Fiction
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:38:35 -0800
>
>Greetings,
>
>I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
>avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
>collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from
>Africa,
>Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
>the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
>rather than exhaustively inclusive.
>
>If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this
>material,
>I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Chapple Langemack
>Reader's Services Coordinator
>King County Library System
>960 Newport Way NW
>Issaquah, WA 98027
>425.369.3318
[removed]@kcls.org
>www.kcls.org
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


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FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <[removed]@mediaone.net>
REC'D: 1/5/01, 10:10 AM

BlankAnd don't forget the Japanese author Shusaku Endo, especially his
wonderful, thought-provoking book "Silence." Oh, and has anyone mentioned
Vargas Llosa yet?

Linda Lundquist
Youth Services Librarian
Bartlett Public Library

FROM: "Steven A. Roman" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/6/01, 9:31 AM

What about:

Louise Erdrich: Native American
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: South American

S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chapple Langemack [[removed]@kcls.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:39 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Global Fiction


Greetings,

I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
rather than exhaustively inclusive.

If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.

Many thanks,

Chapple Langemack
Reader's Services Coordinator
King County Library System
960 Newport Way NW
Issaquah, WA 98027
425.369.3318
[removed]@kcls.org
www.kcls.org

FROM: "Steven A. Roman" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/6/01, 10:27 AM

Then there is Salman Rushdie, especially his brilliant _Midnight's
Children_. (India)

-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Merrill [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 3:07 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Global Fiction


I would have to recommend Jose Saramago's BLINDNESS -- one of the best books

published (anywhere in the world!) in 1998. Saramago is from Portugal.

Kate

******************************************
Katherine Merrill
Reference Librarian
Social Sciences and Job Information Center
Rochester Public Library
Rochester, NY 14604
******************************************

>From: "Chapple Langemack" <[removed]@kcls.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Global Fiction
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:38:35 -0800
>
>Greetings,
>
>I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
>avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
>collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from
>Africa,
>Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
>the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
>rather than exhaustively inclusive.
>
>If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this
>material,
>I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Chapple Langemack
>Reader's Services Coordinator
>King County Library System
>960 Newport Way NW
>Issaquah, WA 98027
>425.369.3318
[removed]@kcls.org
>www.kcls.org
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


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FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/8/01, 2:00 PM

If American Indian authors are of interest, what about Sherman Alexie?

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

** All opinions are personal. **

FROM: Pamela M Weinberg <[removed]@chipublib.org>
REC'D: 1/8/01, 2:04 PM

The Readers Catalog (ed. by Geoffrey O'Brien) seems to do this - part I is
"Literature of Europe, Africa, and Asia" and other parts deal with British
Isles and the Americas.

Pam Weinberg
Oriole Park Br/CPL

xx
x~x
`

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Kathleen Stipek wrote:

> Brazil--Jorge Amado
> Japan--Yasunari Kawabata
> ........................................................................
> Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
> Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
> [removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
> 352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)
>
> "Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Cc: Fiction_L
> Subject: Re: Global Fiction
>
>
> Mexico... Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.
>
>
>
> Karen Keller
> Brighton (MI) District Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/8/01, 4:28 PM

I haven't seen God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy mentioned yet. I believe she now lives in the US....does that still count?

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@rcn.com 01/04/01 10:49AM >>>
I would think that in this instance you may want to check with a
college/university library whose holdings would include extensive foreign
language literature and reference works; also, they tend to carry subscriptions
to journals such as "World Literature Today." Here are a few sites I've found
that may be helpful --

http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/stu/vkonoval/RussianLiterature.html
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/africov.html
http://www.horagai.com/english.html
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zenzen/jlit.htm
http://www.info-france-usa.org/
http://www.kalin.lm.com/author.html
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/

Good luck -- what a great subject area!

Kelly Marszycki


Chapple Langemack wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've checked the archives under 'global', 'international' and 'world' to no
> avail, so I turn to you all in the flesh, so to speak. I'm interested in
> collecting your suggestions of major works and authors by folks from Africa,
> Mexico, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Russian, Iran, India... in other words, not
> the European/North American 'dead white guys'. I'm looking for 'best of'
> rather than exhaustively inclusive.
>
> If you have recommendations of web sites or other sources for this material,
> I'd be glad of that information as well. I will post to the list.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chapple Langemack
> Reader's Services Coordinator
> King County Library System
> 960 Newport Way NW
> Issaquah, WA 98027
> 425.369.3318
> [removed]@kcls.org
> www.kcls.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Joan Reddy <[removed]@siouxland.lib.sd.us>
REC'D: 1/12/01, 9:35 AM

One publisher's catalog that is helpful for global fiction is Interlink Books. We receive the hard copy of the catalog, it is also available on the net. Look at www.interlinkbooks.com.
This is a commercial site, unlike the reader's advisory sites recommended earlier, but the fiction is interesting and goes beyond European fiction. There are descriptions of the titles, you will need to look elsewhere for reviews.
(This response is late because I was off on the other side of the globe - Taiwan. Just catching up on e-mail and listservs.)

Joan Reddy
Siouxland Libraries
201 N. Main Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
(605) 367-8721

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/15/01, 10:13 AM

>From: "Steven A. Roman" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Global Fiction
>Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:21:14 -0600
>
>Then there is Salman Rushdie, especially his brilliant _Midnight's
>Children_. (India)
>


To say nothing of Kamala Markandaya and the Mehta's, R. K. Narayan, and V.
S. Naipaul!
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