PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

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World Literature Resources

Library Print Materials

Fiction books by world authors have a round orange label on the spine

LIBRARY CATALOG

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century   803 Enc

Funk & Wagnalls Guide to Modern World Literature  809 Sey

Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature  REF 803 Cas

Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form  REF 808.8 Mag

Latin American Literature and Its Times  REF 860.9 Mos

Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times  REF 860.9 MOS v. 6

Lists of World Authors (Classic and Contemporary)

Latin and South America

 Gabriel Garcia Marquez-novels, short stories

 Jose Marti-short stories

 Isabelle Allende-novels

Jacqueline Balcells-novels, short stories

Julio Cortazar-novels, short stories

Laura Esquival-novels

Juan Rulfo-short stories

Hernando Tellez-short stories

Borges-short stories

Pablo Neruda-poetry

Rodolfo Anaya -novels

Italy

Umberto Eco-novels

Italo Calvino-short stories, novels

Elsa Morante-novels, short stories

Natalia Ginzburg-novels, short stories,plays

Giovanni Verga-short stories, novels

Spain

Miguel Cervantes - novels

Federico Garcia Lorca -plays

Ana Maria Matute- novels

Triso de Alolina -plays

Japan

Banana Yoshimoto

Kyoko Mori

Akira Yoshimura

Mori Ogai-novels

Kawabata Yasunari-short stories

Central and East Europe

Endre Ady-short stories

Nina Cassian –poetry

Franz Kafka-novels

Isaac Bashevis Singer-short stories, novels

Eli Weisel-novels

Ferenc Molnar-short stories, novels

Herman Hesse-novels

France

Voltaire-essays, short stories

Moliere

Albert Camus-essays, novels

Simone de Beauvoir

 Marguerite Duras

Victor Hugo-novels

Alexandre Dumas

Jean-Paul Sartre-essays, short stories

Jules Verne

Racine-plays

Russia

Leo Tolstoy-novels

Fydor Dostoevsky-novels, short stories

Ivan Turgenev

Boris Pasternak-novels

Anton Chekhov

Alexander Pushkin-plays, novels, poetry

Nikolai Gogol-short stories, novels, plays, poetry

India

Keron Bhattacharya

Gita Mehta

Kamala Markandaya

Arundhati Roy

Akhil Sharma

Danish

Isak Dinesen-novels

Norwegian

Henrick Ibsen-plays

Vietnamese

Vo Phien

Le Ly Hayslip

Chinese

Gao Xingjian

Ha Jin

Lu Hsun

Africa

Chinua Achebe-novels

Bryce Courtenay-novels

Andre Phillipus Brink

Nadine Gordimer

Source:  http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/jking/research%20paperpres.html

Databases

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Ask Ms. Strauss or your teacher for the password.  Then choose by author or country.

PHS LIBRARY CATALOG

Novelist - Ask Ms. Strauss for a password.

Internet Resources

dmoz Open Directory Project:  World Literature - an A to Z listing of authors and websites for 64 nations.

World Authors Online- Winthrop University

Noble Prize in Literature Winners

Book Reporter.com

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

Info Please- notable writers

Multicultural and World Literature Anthologies

The Literary Encyclopedia

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org