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Any Asian, Middle Easter, or Spanish authors/poets you could possibly recommend? I would love to start reading outside of my comfort zone this year.
  • soracities

    I don’t know if you had any specific country or culture in mind so I’m just going to include all of my favourites across the whole, plus what’s been recommended to me (I’ve included some diasporic authors and a few anthologies too)

    Asian (East, South-East and South):

    • Arundhati Roy
    • Andal 
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Kiran Desai
    • Agha Shahid Ali
    • Faiz Ahmed Faiz
    • Han Kang
    • Banana Yoshimoto
    • Haiku by Basho, Buson and Issa
    • Kenji Miyazawa
    • Takuboku Ishikawa
    • Li Po
    • Yu Xuanji
    • Can Xue
    • Eileen Chang
    • Xiaolu Guo
    • Viet Thanh Nguyen

    EDIT: More South Asian writers, courtesy of anon:

    • Mirza Ghalib
    • Nazir Akbarabadi
    • Hasan Manto
    • Premchand
    • Adi Shankara
    • Chanakya
    • Kalidasa

    Middle Eastern (and some North African):

    • Rumi
    • Mahmoud Darwish
    • Saadi Youssef
    • Maram al-Masri
    • Hafez
    • Forough Farrokhazad
    • Sinan Antoon
    • Nathalie Handal
    • Etel Adnan
    • Nawal El Sadawi
    • Marjane Satrapi
    • Ahdaf Soueif
    • Dunya Mikhail
    • Khaled Hosseini
    • Amal el-Mohtar
    • Adonis (would start with Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, or The Pages of Day and Night)
    • Nizar Qabbani
    • Khaled Mattawa (not just for his poems, but his tireless translations which honestly, are a gift beyond measure)

    Spanish / Spanish-language

    • Homero Aridjis
    • Octavio Paz
    • Alejandra Pizarnik
    • Julio Cortázar
    • Eduardo Galeano
    • Andres Neuman
    • Enrique Vila-Matas
    • Silvina Ocampo
    • Norah Lange
    • Dulce Maria Loynaz
    • Gabriela Mistral 
    • Valeria Luiselli 
    • Isabel Allende 
    • Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
    • Rosario Castellanos
    • Josefina Vicens 
    • Alejandro Zambra 
    • Lorca
    • Julia de Burgos

    Additional Anthologies:

    • The Colombian Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
    • The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu / Women Poets of Japan: An Anthology
    • Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology
    • We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Poetry
    • Breaking The Silences: an Anthology of 20th-century Poetry by Cuban Women.
    • ÜL: Four Mapuche Poets / Poetry of the Earth: Trilingual Mapuche Anthology
    • Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
    • Inside / Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
    • #would also add: (for spansih) #ernesto sabato #(he wrote the tunnel which was pretty sexy) #carlos fuentes #(writer of aura which is a magical realism story that will blow ur brais off) #and 4 poetry roque vallejos #his stuff HITS
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