Geography Challenge
Below
is a list of (mostly sovereign) countries and, in gray, their local names in
alphabetical order. (Disclaimer: I am not a political scientist so I
may have made some mistakes here and there. Plus
some of the local names have characters I don't know how to render
on my Western keyboard.)
Next
to the countries, in greenish, are the names of authors I have read
who are from that country. I focus primarily on the birthplaces of authors. Many authors, like Nabokov, write in exile or move because life
is like that; they're listed with their birthplace. Some
authors are from
historical localities which no longer exist: some like Kafka
(Austria-Hungary) have been placed according to the modern country that
holds their city (in order to aid in mapping my data), some have
been omitted.
The
UK and Ireland are over represented in my reading habits and have not
been listed. Other countries like the USA, Australia, and Canada are
also over represented in my
reading habits but I list any native authors. Authors have been entered with most recently read closest to the country name. Only authors I have read since 2006 are included.
At
the bottom are Iberian minority language authors.
Recommendations are welcome! There are many countries I've not heard from directly...
Recommendations are welcome! There are many countries I've not heard from directly...
A
Afghanistan (Afghanestan) Osman Yousefzada, Qais Akbar Omar, Atiq Rahimi
Albania (Shqiperia) Gazmend Kapllani, Ismail Kadare
Algeria (AlJaza'ir) Ghania Mouffok, Assia Djebar, Albert Camus
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola Eduardo Agualusa
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina many but listed, see here
Armenia (Hayastan)
Aruba
Australia/Aboriginal Tara June Winch, Doris Kartinyerig
Austria (Österreich)
Peter Handke, Harry Seidler, Verena
Stefan, Bachmann, Arthur Schnitzler
Azerbaijan (Azarbaycan)
B
Bahamas Cholet Kelly Josue
Bahrain (Al
Bahrayn) Ali Aldairy
Bangladesh Taslima Nasrin
Barbados Glenville Lovell
Belarus (Byelarus)
Belgium (Belgique/Belgie) Katherine Angel, Pieter Aspe, Paul Emond
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia Edmundo Paz Soldán
Bosia and Herzegovina (Bosnia
i Hercegovina) Saša Stanišić, Meša Selimović, Aleksandar Hemon
Botswana
Brazil (Brasil) Adriana Lisboa, Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Gabriela Alemán, Luiza Sauma, Hilda Hilst, Paulo Coelho,
Brunei Darussalam (Negara
Brunel Darussalam)
Bulgaria Kapka Kassabova
Burkina Faso
Burundi
C
Cambodia (Kampuchea) Vaddey Ratner, Putsata Reang
Cameroon Mutt-Lon, Imbolo Mbue
Canada/First Nation Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Terese Marie Mailhot, Michelle Good, Tasha Spilett, Katherena Vermette, Richard Wagamese, Catherine Knutsson
Cape Verde (Cabo
Verde)
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic (Republique
Centrafricaine)
Chad (Tchad)
Chile Alia Trabucco Zerán, Mónica Ramón Ríos, Isabel Allende, Ramón Díaz Eterovic, Antonio Skámeta, Roberto
Bolaño, Pablo
Neruda
China (Zhong Guo) many but listed, see here
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia Pilar Quintana, Juan Cárdenas, Jorge Franco, Anika Fajardo, Tomás González, Laura Restrepo, Gabriel
García Márquez
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Kinshasha) Dambisa Moyo
Republic of Congo (République
du Congo) Alain Mabanckou
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Ivory Coast (Cote
d'Ivoire) Ahmadou Kourouma
Croatia (Hrvatska) Miljenko Jergović
Curaçao
Cyprus (Kibris (Turkish) Kypros (Greek))
Cyprus (Kibris (Turkish) Kypros (Greek))
Czechia Bohumil Hrabal, Madeleine Albright, Egon Hostoský, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Dominika
Dery
D
Denmark (Danmark) Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, Ida Jessen, Søren Sveistrup, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Anne Fortier, Sandi Toksvig
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
(La Republica
Dominicana) Julia
Alvarez, Junot Diaz
E
East Timor (Timor)
Ecuador
Egypt (Misr) André Aciman,Sonallah Ibrahim, Omar Robert Hamilton, Yasmine El Rashidi, Yousseff Ziedan, M.M. Tawfik, Ahdaf Soueif, Lucette
Lagnado
El Salvador Horacio
Castellanos Moya, Manlio Argueta
Equatorial Guinea
(Guinea Ecuatorial) Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Trifonio Melibea Obono
Eritrea (Hagere
Ertra) Haji Jabir
Estonia (Eesti
Vabariik)
Kalle Lasn
Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)
Abraham
Verghese
F
Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
(Foroyar)
Fiji
Finland (Suomen
Tasavalta) Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Arto Paasilinna, Tove Jansson
France many but listed, see here
French Guiana
(Guyane)
French Polynesia
(Polynésie
Française)
G
Gabon Justine Mintsa
Gambia
Georgia
(Sak'art'velo)
Ghana Yaa Gyasi
Gibraltar
Great Britain
(United Kingdom)
Greece (Ellada) Lena Manta, Christos Ikonomou,Ioanna Karystiani, Amanda Michalpoulou, Panos Karnezis, Nikos Kazantzakis
Greenland (Kalaallit
Nunaat) Niviaq Korneliussen
Grenada
Guadeloupe Gerty Dambury, Maryse Condé
Guam
Guatemala Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Guinea (Guinee)
Guinea-Bissau
(Guine-Bissau)
Guyuana
H
Haiti Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat
Honduras
Hong King
(Xianggang) Kai-Cheung Dung, Chan Ho-Kei, Dorothy Tse
Hungary
(Magyarorszag) Arthur Koestler, Countess Emmuska Orczy
I
Iceland (Lyoveldio
Island) Sjón,Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Yrsa Sigurðóttir
Indonesia
Ireland (Éire) overrepresented-unlisted
J
Jamaica Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, Staceyann Chin, Nalo Hopkinson
Jordan (Al
Urdun) Rabih Alameddine, Pierre Jarawan
K
Kazakhstan
(Qazaqstan)
Kenya Ndirangu Githaiga, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kiribati
Democratic People's
Republic (N) Korea (Choson) Bandi, Kang Kwi-mi, Hong Seok-jung, Lim Hwa-won, Byungu Chon
Republic of (S)
Korea (Han-guk) Jang Sung-Lak, Singshong, Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Un-su Kim,You-jeong Jeong, Han Kang, Jung Yun, Kyung-Sook Shin
Kosovo Pajtim Statovci
Kuwait (Al
Kuwayt) Saud Alsanousi, Saleem Haddad
Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz
Respublikasy)
L
Lao
Latvia (Latvija) Irina Vladimirovna Odoevtseva
Lebanon (Lubnan) Nada Awar Jarrar, Lamia Ziadé, Charles Chahwan, Hanan Al-Shaykh
Lesotho Olive
Schreiner
Liberia Helene Cooper
Libya (Libiyah) M Kamel al-Maghur, Ashur Etwebi, Mohamed Mesrati
Liechtenstein
Lithuania (Lietuva)
Luxembourg
(Letzebuerg)
M
Macau (Aomen)
Macedonia (FYROM,
Makedonija)
Madagascar Johary Ravaloson
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives (Dhivehi
Raajje)
Mali
Malta Joe Sacco
Marshall Islands
Martinique Patrick Chamoiseau
Mauritania
(Muritaniyah)
Mauritius Nathacha
Appanah
Mayotte
Mexico (Estados
Unidos Mexicanos) Jennifer Clement, Fernanda Melchor, Cristina Rivera Garza, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Sofía Segovia, Martín Solares, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Guadalupe Nettel, Valeria Luiselli
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia (Mongol
Uls)
Montenegro (Crna
Gora)
Montserrat
Morocco
(Al Maghrib) Abdellah Taïa, Laila Lalami
Mozambique
(Mocambique)
Mia Couto
Myanmar, Burma
(Myanma Naingngandaw)
N
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal Samrat Upadhyay
Netherlands
(Nederland/Holland) Marijke Schermer, Anna Enquist, Willem Frederik Hermans, Gerard Reve, Hendrik Groen, N.S.
Köenings, Bert Teunissen, Frank Westerman
New Caledonia
(Nouvelle-Calédonie)
New Zealand
(Aotearoa) Emma Timpany, Anna Smaill, Alex Adams, Witi Ihimaera, Dylan
Horrocks
Nicaragua Gioconda Belli
Niger
Niue
Northern Mariana
Islands
O
Oman (Saltanat
Umar)
P
Pakistan Dur e Aziz Amna, Bina Shah, Nadeem Aslam, Roopa Farooki, Kamila Shamsie, Tariq Ali, Mohsin Hamid
Palau (Belau)
Palestine
(Dawlat Filastin)
Anton Shammas, Mourid Barghouti
Panama
Papua New Guinea
(Papua Niu Gini)
Paraguay
Peru
Mario Vargas Llosa, Santiago Roncagliolo, Edgar Prado, Daniel
Alarcón
Philippines
(Pilipinas) Jose Antonio Vargas (USA)
Pitcairn Island
Poland (Polska) Wioletta Greg, Tomasz Jedrowski, Józef Wittlin, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Marzena Sowa, Ania Ahlborn, Marek Krajewski, Bruno Schultz, Helga
Schneider
Portugal Gonçalo M. Tavares, José Saramago
Puerto Rico Eduardo Lalo, Esmeralda Santiago
Q
Qatar (Dawlat
Qatar)
R
Reunion Island (Ile
de la Réunion)
Romania
Herta Müller, Elie
Wiesel
Rwanda Scholastique Mukasonga
S
Saint Kitts and
Nevis Caryl Phillips
Saint Lucia
Saint Maarten
Saint Maarten
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
Samoa Lani Wendt Young
San Marino
Sao Tome e Principe
Saudi Arabia (Al
Arabiyah as Suudiyah) Rajaa Alsanea, Eman Quotah, Raja Alem, Zeba Talkhani, Safa Al Ahmad
Senegal
Serbia (Srbija) Dejan Tiago-Stanković, Charles Simic
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore Thea Lim, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Ovidia Yu
Sint Maarten
Slovakia (Slovensko) Uršuľa Kovalyk
Slovakia (Slovensko) Uršuľa Kovalyk
Slovenia (Slovenija) Lojze Kovačič, Slavoj Žižek
Soloman Islands
Somalia Nuruddin Farah
South Africa Masande
Ntshanga, J.M. Coetzee, Chanette Paul, Kenneth Bonert, Henrietta
Rose-Innes, Alan Paton, Karel Schoeman, André Carl van der Merwe,
Deborah Levy
South Sudan
Sri Lanka Mary Anne Mohanraj, Nayomi Munawaera, Romesh Gunesekera, Roma Tearne, Ru Freeman, Shyam Selvadurai
Sudan (As
Sudan) Tarek Eltayeb, Leila
Aboulela
Suriname
Swaziland
Switzerland
(Schweiz, Suisse,
Svizzera) Richard Weihe, Bernadette Calonego, Emily Esfahani Smith, Alain
de Botton
Syria (Suriyah) Hanna Mina, Salim Barakat, Khawla Dunia, Samar Yazbek
T
Tahiti Célestine Hitiura Vaite
Taiwan (T'ai-wan) Qi You,Kotomi Li
Taiwan (T'ai-wan) Qi You,Kotomi Li
Tajikistan
(Jumhurii Tojikiston)
Tanzania Abdulrazak Gurnah
Thailand (Prathet
Thai)
Tibet (Bod)
Togo (Republique
Togolaise) Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago Ian Williams, Krystal A. Sital, V.S. Naipaul, Elizabeth Nunez
Tunisia (Tunis) Malek Sghiri
Turkey (Turkiye) Elif Shafa, Sabahattin Ali
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos
Islands
Tuvalu
U
Uganda Moses Isegawa
Ukraine (Ukrayina) Markiyan Kamysh, Eugene Vodolazkin, Oksana Zabuzhko, Marina
Lewycka, Irene Zabytko, Nikolai Gogol, Svetlana Alexievich
United Arab Emirates
(Al Imarat al
Arabiyah al Muttahidah) A.M. Kherbash
United Kingdom overrepresented
United States/Native Traci Sorell, Peter Razor, Joy Harjo, Kawai Strong Washburn, Kelli Jo Ford, Tommy Orange, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Erika T. Wurth, Janet Campbell Hale, James Welch, Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich
United States/Native Traci Sorell, Peter Razor, Joy Harjo, Kawai Strong Washburn, Kelli Jo Ford, Tommy Orange, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Erika T. Wurth, Janet Campbell Hale, James Welch, Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich
Uruguay (Republica
Oriental del Uruguay) Eduardo Galeano
Uzbekistan Hamid Ismailov
V
Vanuatu
Venezuela Karina Sainz Borgo, Alberto
Barrera Tyszka
Viet Nam Jolie Hoang, Phuc Tran, Ocean Vuong, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Virgin Islands
W
Wallis and Futuna
Islands
Western Sahara
(As-Sahrā'
al-Gharbīyah)
Y
Yemen
(Al Yaman) Jamal Jubran
Z
Zambia Gaile Parkin
Zimbabwe Andrew Chatora, NoViolet Bulawanyo, Taona D. Chiveneko, Alexandra Fuller
Minority
Languages of Iberia
Since I have a
vested interest in minority Iberian cultures here are authors who
write in their native languages.
This list of languages is by no means comprehensive and some are controversial items. Some of these, like Extremaduran, do not actually have official recognition. Others, like Fala, may be dialects. I just keep in mind the long battle Galician had for official linguistic recognition and then for political recognition and keep them on because of my own personal interest. For this last reason (my own interest), no languages currently classified as dialects of Castellano are on here.
This list of languages is by no means comprehensive and some are controversial items. Some of these, like Extremaduran, do not actually have official recognition. Others, like Fala, may be dialects. I just keep in mind the long battle Galician had for official linguistic recognition and then for political recognition and keep them on because of my own personal interest. For this last reason (my own interest), no languages currently classified as dialects of Castellano are on here.
Catalan
(Catalá/Valencià) Milena Busquets, Albert Espinosa, Josep Pla, Manuel Vázquez
Montalbán, Esther
Tusquets, Mercé
Rodoreda, Maria Antonia Olíver,
Ana María
Moix,
Galician (Galego)
Manual Rivas, Antonio Jímenez-Landi,
Camilo José
Cela
Basque (Euskara) Herkaitz Cano, Bernardo
Atxaga, Mari Jose Olaziregi, Arantxa Iturbe, Xabier Montoia
Aragonese (Fabla
Aragonés)
Occitan
(Aranés/Lenga d'òc)
Asturian (Bable)
Cantabrian
(Montañés)
Leonese (Llionés)
Extremaduran
(Estremeñu)
Fala
Caló
Mirandese (Mirandés)
Judeo-Spanish
(Ladino)
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