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2022/02/27

うたたね

soracities

i'm a simple girl: i see sunlight on the water, i find god

soracities

“I don’t remember how to say home in my first language, or lonely, or light I remember only delam barat tang shodeh, I miss you, and shab bekheir, goodnight.”

Kaveh Akbar, ‘Do You Speak Persian?’

“I can’t speak my own language - Iesu, All those good words; And I outside them.”

R.S. Thomas, ‘Welsh’

“It’s an ancient story from yesterday evening called “Patterns of Love in Peoples of Diaspora,” called “Loss of the Homeplace and the Defilement of the Beloved,” called “I Want to Sing but I Don’t Know Any Songs”.”

Li-Young Lee, ‘Immigrant Blues’

“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else.”

Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues

soracities

“English is my native anguish”

Amit Majmudar, “Vocative”

latex-salesman

laisla-estudia

me at my phil prof whenever he looks in my direction with those discussion questions

disc80s

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7sXZ6MtWv

museenkuss

So as a continuation of this post I made in frustration about how anglo-centric most “must-read” book lists are, I went and found a few lists with a focus on non-English speaking authors (sorted by number of books listed):

8 Must-Read Foreign Books Translated Into English (Babbel)

The non-western books that every student should read (The Guardian)

10 best translated fiction (Independent - has suggestions regarding editions + prices)

49 Incredible Books From 49 Different Countries (Huffpost - has amazon links to all the books, which is great to find the editions but please please please support your local bookstores!!!!)

100 Must-Read Classics in Translation (BookRead - Amazon links again. Most bookstores will offer to order books for you if they don’t have them, please utilise their services and support local shops whenever possible!)

All these lists have reviews and feature books from a wide range of countries. I haven’t read every single review but I browsed the lists to make sure they wouldn’t all just name the same books and they don’t!!

I hope you’ll find inspiring new reads on those lists! :)

miracleessentialoils

How do you like your tea?

ryebreadgf

bloomingsalma

let's just stay at home. susan ryder / anna valdez / karoliina hellberg / lachlan goudie

wild-gastronomy

Dreaming of pomegranate seeds, pomegranate molasses and blossom. Dolmas, big block of feta, salted lemon, and shawarma. Persian walnut stew with fresh herbs. Aubergine and spiced lentils with sumac tahini dressing, fresh dates, crunchy pine nuts and black currants and dried fish. Slow roasted rack of lamb. Sweet milk pudding in the Summer forever