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133 Cards in this Set
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1958; Russian
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Boris Pasternak
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USSR forced him to decline the Prize
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Boris Pasternak
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Doctor Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak
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(Kolya, Lara, & Yury)
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Doctor Zhivago
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My Sister
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Boris Pasternak
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Life
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Boris Pasternak
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Lt. Schmidt
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Boris Pasternak
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1959; Italian
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Salvitore Quasimodo
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To Give and to Have
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Debit and Credit
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Salvitore Quasimodo
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Life is Not a Dream
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Salvitore Quasimodo
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1964; French
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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declined the 1964 Prize
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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studied under the philosophers Husserl and Heidegger
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nausea
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Being and Nothingness
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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No Exit
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Flies
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Dirty Hands
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Respectful Prostitute
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Roads to Freedom
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Saint Genet
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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1965; Russian
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Mikhail Sholokov
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The Quiet Don
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Mkhail Sholokov
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(Gregor Melekhov)
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The Quiet Don
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Virgin Soil Upturned
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Mikhail Sholokov
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1968; Japanese (first)
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Yasunari Kawabata
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first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Thousand Cranes
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Yasunari Kawabata
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Snow Country
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Yasunari Kawabata
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The Old Capital
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Yasunari Kawabata
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1970; Russian
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Cancer Ward
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Gulag Archipelago
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The First Circle
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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August 1914
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Oak and the Calf
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Red Wheel
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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1971; Chilean
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Pablo Neruda
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Ricardo Neftali Reyes (pen name)
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Pablo Neruda
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Pablo Neruda
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The Captain's Verses
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Pablo Neruda
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Residence on Earth
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Pablo Neruda
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Extravagaria
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Pablo Neruda
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1982; Colombian
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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created the mythical town of Macondo
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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Leaf Storm
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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No One Writes to the Colonel
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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(Buendias family)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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(Fermina Daza, Juvenal Urbino, Florentino Ariza)
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The General in His Labyrinth
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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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1986; Nigerian
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Wole Soyinka
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Season in Anomy
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Wole Soyinka
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The Interpreters
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Wole Soyinka
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Death and the King's Horseman
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Wole Soyinka
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The Lion and the Jewel
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Wole Soyinka
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The Swamp Dwellers
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Wole Soyinka
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A Dance of the Forests
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Wole Soyinka
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Poems from Prison
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Wole Soyinka
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Idanre and other Poems
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Wole Soyinka
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1988; Egyptian
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Naguib Mahfouz
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stabbed in 1994 by Islamic fundamentalists as a result of a fatwa
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Cairo Trilogy
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Between the Palaces
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Palace of Longing
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Sugarhouse
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Autumn Quail
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Palace Walk
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Sugar Street
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Miramar
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Naguib Mahfouz
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The Children of Gebelawi
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Naguib Mahfouz
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1990; Mexican
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Octavio Paz
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Labyrinth of Solitude
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Octavio Paz
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(essay on Mexican history)
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Labyrinth of Solitude
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The Bow and the Lyre
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Octavio Paz
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Luna Silvestre / Wild Moon
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Octavio Paz
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Eagle or Sun?
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Octavio Paz
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1991; South African
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Nadine Gordimer
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The Soft Voice of the Serpent
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Nadine Gordimer
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The Conservationist
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Nadine Gordimer
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Burger's Daughter
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Nadine Gordimer
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A Guest of Honor
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Nadine Gordimer
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July's People
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Nadine Gordimer
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None to Accompany Me
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Nadine Gordimer
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1992; West Indies (St. Lucia)
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Derek Walcott
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Omeros
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Derek Walcott
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Another Life
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Derek Walcott
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Henri Christophe
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Derek Walcott
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The Star-Appled Kingdom
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Derek Walcott
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Sea Grapes
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Derek Walcott
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The Arkansas Testament
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Derek Walcott
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1994; Japanese (second)
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Kenzaburo Oe
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Father of a brain-damaged child, which is reflected in his later works
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Kenzaburo Oe
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The Catch
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Kenzaburo Oe
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The Silent Cry
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Kenzaburo Oe
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A Personal Matter
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Kenzaburo Oe
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1997; Italian
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Dario Fo
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The Tale of a Tiger
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Dario Fo
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The Pope and the Witch
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Dario Fo
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Acting Diana
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Dario Fo
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The Peasants Bible
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Dario Fo
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Trumpets and Raspberries
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Dario Fo
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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Dario Fo
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1998; Portuguese
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Baltasar and Blimunda
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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Jose Saramago
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The Stone Raft
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Jose Saramago
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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Jose Saramago
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1999; German (born in Danzig)
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Gunter Grass
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Danzig Trilogy
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Gunter Grass
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Name the three books that comprise the Danzig Trilogy
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The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years
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The Tin Drum
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Gunter Grass
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(first novel; Oskar Matzerath)
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Gunter Grass
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Cat and Mouse
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Gunter Grass
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Dog Years
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Gunter Grass
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Local Anesthetic
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Gunter Grass
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The Flounder
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Gunter Grass
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(main character married to the cook Ilsebil; 4000 years of women in history)
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The Flounder
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The Flood
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Gunter Grass
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The Rat
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Gunter Grass
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From the Diary of a Snail
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Gunter Grass
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2003; South African
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J.M. Coetzee
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Dusklands
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J.M. Coetzee
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(first book; contained the novella "The Vietnam Project")
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J.M. Coetzee
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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J.M. Coetzee
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Life & Times of Michael K
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J.M. Coetzee
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The Master of Petersburg
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J.M. Coetzee
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(Dostoyevsky is the main character)
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The Master of Petersburg
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