Best Books by Country

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Originally Posted by Amoxcalli

Uruguay
The Truce, Benedetti
Tan triste como ella y otros cuentos, Onetti

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Onetti has wonderful novels ('Corpse Collector', 'Let the Wind Speak', 'The Shipyard').

'The Truce' is about the best thing Benedetti wrote. The work of his last years is essentially negligible.

I would add (as a starting-point and in no way a complete list) the following authors, some at least of which have been translated into English:

FICTION: Horacio Quiroga, Jules Supervielle, Felisberto Hernández, Anderssen Banchero, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Francisco Espínola, Armonía Somers, Tomás de Mattos, Antonio Larreta.

POETRY: Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Julio Herrera y Reissig, Líber Falco, Idea Vilariño, Pedro Piccatto, Marosa di Giorgio.

DRAMA: Florencio Sánchez, Ernesto Herrera.

Australia

I agree with Sixsmith (and Jazz)....especially about Cloudstreet by Tim Winton and Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (later filmed as Schindlers List)

but I would add:

Marcus Clarke: For The Term Of His Natural Life
Thomas Keneally: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life
Nam Le: The Boat
John Marsden: Tomorrow When The War Began

Moby-Dick, Merving

wat

nice list :)

The italian list is depressingly dry. It skips six centuries of literary history, at least a couple of which of outstanding quality. TWO books by Umberto Eco are honestly quite a lot, considering that Boccaccio and Ariosto have none.

If Latin classics are included (which they should not), limiting them to Ovid is at least brutal.

Even if we merely stick to literary relevance and influence, there is absolutely no ignoring Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto.