2008 Country Nominations

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Originally Posted by Pensive

Now, what should I nominate? Russia has already been nominated. So has been Ireland (which would have been my third and fourth choices). Maybe Persia and Turkey? I have read a little bit of translated poetry and some short stories from both countries and I liked some of them. (Rumi's poetry can be really interesting!) but I don't know anything about prose really...well except some short stories as I have mentioned before.

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I was considering both but wasn't sure if there were any/enough translations.

Nominations so far:

1. Japan

2. Italy

3. USA

4. India

5. South Africa

6. Australia

7. Finland

8. France

9. Ireland

10. China

11. UK

12. Germany

13. Russia

14. Pakistan

15. Egypt

16. Czech Republic

17. Portugal

18. New Zealand

19. Mexico

20. Canada

21. Peru

22. Greece

23. Spain

24. Turkey

Pensive> By Persia, you mean today's Iran, right? (Persian is spoken in Afganistan, too :))

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Pensive> By Persia, you mean today's Iran, right? (Persian is spoken in Afganistan, too :))

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Yes, it should be Iran.

Croatia and Germany.

What about Cuba? :( (Is there such a thing as Cuban literature anyway?)

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Originally Posted by Bakiryu

What about Cuba? :( (Is there such a thing as Cuban literature anyway?)

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Why don't you nominate Cuba?

I nominate Sweden. :)

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Pensive> By Persia, you mean today's Iran, right? (Persian is spoken in Afganistan, too :))

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Yes, I meant Iran of the modern day. It was known as Persia in ancient times. Actually, there was a time when Persian was quite prevalent in Indian subcontinent as well...but Persian is a language and so it can be spoken anywhere even though it originated from the present Iran while Persia (Iran) is a country.

Thank you Pensive. Now that we have agreed that it is Iran that you want to nominate(since there is no country called Persian today), the nominations so far are:

1. Japan

2. Italy

3. USA

4. India

5. South Africa

6. Australia

7. Finland

8. France

9. Ireland

10. China

11. UK

12. Germany

13. Russia

14. Pakistan

15. Egypt

16. Czech Republic

17. Portugal

18. New Zealand

19. Mexico

20. Canada

21. Peru

22. Greece

23. Spain

24. Turkey

25. Iran

26. Croatia

27. Germany

28. Sweden

Okay so i'll take we are going with Ireland as a whole and not as two separate countries.:)

Sorry Niam. I must have overlooked your question earlier; yes, I think it might be a good idea to keep it as a whole. :)

Thats fair enough. Only problem now is that if Ireland is voted, theres too many good writers to choose from!:p ;)

Scher i think you have Germany twice on the list..

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Originally Posted by Bakiryu

(Is there such a thing as Cuban literature anyway?)

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Yes. Enough to have a movie based on one author: Before Night Falls.

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Originally Posted by Niamh

Thats fair enough. Only problem now is that if Ireland is voted, theres too many good writers to choose from!:p ;)

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I am proud to be a part of that lineage.:D

Lots of counties. Should be an interesting vote.

I was going to nominate Mexico, but that's already up there so...

Dang! Greece is already up as well! I guess I'll just wait for the voting to start....