GadjoSufus Worldbibliography Index

Nizami Ganjavi  ( 1141)  Layla and Majnun  /  Mirza Fatali Akhundov / Mirza Fatali Akhundzade /Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (1812)  Kurban Said  (1900!?)  is the pseudonym of the author of  Ali and Nino , a novel originally published in 1937  a romance between a  Muslim   Azerbaijani  boy and  Christian   Georgian  girl in  Baku  in the years 1914–1920.   Mir Jalal Pashayev   ( 1908)  Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff / Banine  (1905-1992) was a French writer of  Azerbaijani .  Days in the Caucasus  /  Mir Jalal Pashayev   ( 1908)  Akram Najaf oglu Naibov   ( 1937)  stone dreams   The novel tells the story of the Azerbaijani actor Saday Sadykhly and his efforts to protect his  Armenian  neighbors during the  Sumgait  and  Baku Pogroms  in the closing years of the Soviet Union.   The novel begins as the severely b...

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch   (1836) Venus in Furs  Leopold Weiss /  Muhammad Asad   (1 900 -1992)  The Unromantic Orient ,  Islam at the Crossroads   (1934), The Road to Mecca   (1954),  The Principles of State and Government in Islam   (1961),  The Message of The Qur'an   (1980), Sahih Al-Bukhari: The Early Years of Islam   (1981),  This Law of Ours and Other Essays   (1987).  Elfriede Jelinek  (1946)   The Piano Teacher   a piano teacher in her late thirties who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and still lives in an apartment with her very controlling elderly mother, with whom Erika shares her parents' marriage bed. The very strained relationship between Erika and her mother is made clear in the opening scene, in which Erika rips out some of her mother's hair when her mother attempts to take away a new dress that Erika has purchased for herself. Erika's mother wishes the ...

Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912) was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until death, he published twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, and also non-fiction. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.  Nicholas Edward Cave  (1957)  And the Ass Saw the Angel   (1989) related :  Winter Wanderings: Being an Account of Travels in Abyssinia, Samoa, Java, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, South America and Other Interesting Countries   by  Abraham Per Lee Pease   Jupiter's Travels by  Ted Simon

  Sayat-Nova  ( Harutyun Sayatyan)   (  1712) was an  Armenian  poet, musician and  ashi k , who had compositions in a number of languages.   Kostan Zarian  ( 1885 –1969)  the traveller and his road  Picasso and Marc Chagall illustrated his works, Respighi set his poems to music, Lawrence Durrell called him "a wild and roguish literary man of almost mythological quality." Armenian literary scholars and critics are unanimous in regarding him as a unique phenomenon in modern Armenian literature. Gostan Zarian (1885-1969) was born in the Caucasus, educated in Paris, Brussels, and Venice, and was a poet, editor, journalist, teacher, and bon vivant in nearly all the population centers of Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and the Soviet Union. He produced works of an astonishing variety in French, Russian, Italian, and Armenian.  

Hilario Ascasubi  (1807) Juan Álvarez  (1878) José Arce  (1881) Carlos Astrada  (1894) J orgeFrancisco Isidoro Luís Borges Acevedo  (1899) Diego Abad de Santillán  (1897) Roberto Arlt  (1900) Mario Amadeo  (1911) Eduardo Angeloz  (1931) Marcos Aguinis  (born 1935) Andrés J. d'Alessio  (1940) César Aira  (1949) Juan Argerich  (1862) Federico Andahazi  (1963)   Mariana Enríquez   ( 1973 )  Camila Sosa Villada  (1982) is a  transgender  Argentine writer and theatre, film, and television actress.

  Jamaica Kincaid  /  Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson ( 1949)  Annie John , a novel written  in 1985, details the growth of a girl in  Antigua , an island in the  Caribbean . It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, same-sex attraction, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".

  Agostinho Neto (1922) ( Caminho do mato ,  1988)   José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha  (1960)    Ndalu de Almeida   Ondjaki  ( 1977 )  Transparent City   It is written as a series of vignettes into the life of the many people who inhabit the Maianga building (a residential building in the Maiainga district of Luanda) in which the protagonist lives, providing perspectives from across age and experience as to the current state of a degraded and modern  Luanda . A common thread tying many of these stories together is that the characters are doing what they can to survive in a broken city. This is shown throughout novel but specifically in this moment.

Albert Salvadó i Miras  (1951)   Albert Villaró i Boix   ( 1964 )  Teresa Colom i Pich   (1973) ) Shirley Deane  - The Road to Andorra There are few blithe spirits left in this burdened world, but Shirley Deane is one of them. Who else would find herself in Andorra, a small republic high in the Pyrenees, because her son's eye was caught by a minute and unlettered spot on a map? And, who, at the summons of her artist husband, would pick up and head for the sun-drenched Balearics (Ibiza to be exact) because of the chance offer to run a pig farm? The answer can be found in this entertaining and perceptive book which is a glowing account of two different ways of life, Andorran and Ibizercan. It is in Ibiza that the author learns she and her family have been expelled from Spain because her book "Tomorrow is Manana" had displeased the authorities there. So once again they are on the road to Andorra with the tacit understanding that one in flight becomes one of An...

Albert Camus (1913)    Fatima-Zohra Imalayen / Assia Djebar (1936) Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Mohammed Dib (1920)  La grande maison   (1952)  L'incendie   (1954)  Au café ...

Gjergj Fishta  ( 1871–1940)  The Highland Lute    ( Lahuta e Malcís)    JolandaKodra  (1910) (poetry)   was an Albanian writer and translator, one of the first woman writers in the Albanian language, as well as a translator into the Italian language of the works of Albanian writers, such as  Ndre Mjeda ,  Migjeni ,  Petro Marko , and  Sterjo Spasse .  Ismail Kadare  (1936)  Fatos Kongoli (1944)   Elvira Dones   (1960)  Luljeta Lleshanaku (born 1968)  Ornela Vorpsi  (1968) ,  left her home country at the age of 22, lived in Milan for six years and finally moved to Paris in 1997. The prose author, fine artist, photographer and video artist studied at the colleges of art in Tirana, Milan and Paris. She has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently "The Balkans crossroad the future" (2004, Bologna), "Blood & Honey" (2003, Vienna) and "Politique d'intérieur" (20...

Rudaki   ( 858 –940)   Rabia  Balkhi   ( 850 –940)   Ferdowsi   (940-1025)  book  Shahnameh   Abdullah Ansari of Herat   (1006–1089)   Rumi   (1207–1273)  Jāmī   ( 1414-1492)  Khushal Khan Khattak  ( 1613– 1689)  Khalilullah   Khalili     (1907–1987)  Spôjmaï Raouf Zariâb   ( 1949/ 52 )  Ces murs qui nous écoutent   (2000)  La plaine de Caïn   (1988, 2001)  The man from Kabul  (2008)  Babylon reconquered  (2009)  Dessine-moi un coq   (2003)  Les demeures sans nom   (2010)  Atiq Rahimi   (1962) is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker. Syngué Sabour ( Earthand Ashes ) 2002. Pierre de patience ; A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear , 2007/8. Maudit soit Dostoïevski , ( Curse on Dostoevsky ) 2011. Our Lady of the Nile , 2019. Les porteurs d'eau , 2019.    Khalid Husseini   ( 1965) ...