WLT's 40 Most Important Books, 1927-2001

Given by World Literature Today

40 Works 281,018 Books 4,498 Reviews ½ 4.0
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 vis mere from 29 countries. vis mindre
Years:
Alle, 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)
VærkÅr
Red Sorghum af Mo Yan
1987
Bells in Winter af Czesław Miłosz
1978
Ejerne af Nadine Gordimer
1974
De usynlige byer af Italo Calvino
1972
House Made of Dawn af N. Scott Momaday
1968
Hundrede års ensomhed af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 af W. H. Auden
1966
En privat sag af Kenzaburō Ōe
1964
Den gyldne bog af Doris Lessing
1962
Pale Fire af Vladimir Nabokov
1962
Diamantpladsen af Mercè Rodoreda
1962
En dag i Ivan Denisovitjs liv af Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1962
A House for Mr Biswas af V. S. Naipaul
1961
Rastløshedens bog af Bernardo Soares af Fernando Pessoa
1961
Bliktrommen af Günter Grass
1959
Alt falder fra hinanden af Chinua Achebe
1958
The Guide af R. K. Narayan
1958
Voss af Patrick White
1957
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street af Naguib Mahfouz
1956
Djævelen på vejen af João Guimarães Rosa
1956
De tabte spor af Alejo Carpentier
1953
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts af Samuel Beckett
1952
Usynlig mand af Ralph Ellison
1952
Den gamle mand og havet af Ernest Hemingway
1952
In Country Sleep af Dylan Thomas
1952
The Labyrinth of Solitude af Octavio Paz
1950
Snow Country af Yasunari Kawabata
1948
Only Yesterday af S. Y. Agnon
1945
Fiktioner af Jorge Luis Borges
1944
Fire kvartetter af T. S. Eliot
1943
Den fremmede af Albert Camus
1942
Mutter Courage og hendes børn : en krønike fra Trediveårskrigen af Bertolt Brecht
1941
Requiem af Anna Ahkmatova
1935
Frie mænd af Halldór Laxness
1934
Residence on Earth af Pablo Neruda
1933
Στροφή af Γιῶργος Σεφέρης
1931
Brølet og vreden af William Faulkner
1929
Sigøjnerballader af Federico García Lorca
1928
The Tower af W. B. Yeats
1928
Til fyret : roman af Virginia Woolf
1927

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