One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962)ģ. Rayyan Al-Shawaf, novelist and critic, Germanyġ. Is The Odyssey the greatest tale ever told? The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark, 1961) The Corpse Washer (Sinan Antoon, 2014)ĭebra Adelaide, novelist, International Sydney PEN, AustraliaĢ. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958)Ģ. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera, 1984 – translated by Michael Henry Heim, 2009)ĥ. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967)Ĥ. Fictions (Jorge Louis Borges, 1940 – translated by Paul Bowles, 1946)ģ. Children of Gebelawi (Naguib Mahfouz, 1967 – translated by Philip Stewart, 1981)Ģ. Marie Thérèse Abdelmessih, Kuwait University and Cairo University, Egyptġ. These critics, scholars and journalists who voted were 59% female, 40% male. The book lovers who contributed to BBC Culture's poll hail from 35 different countries – from Uganda and Pakistan to Colombia and China – and only 51% claim English as their ‘mother tongue’. To assemble a list of the 100 stories that shaped the world you need a global perspective.
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