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| jirpy100 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 6253 days ago 31 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 41 of 63 25 November 2007 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Afrikaans has a very rich literary tradition, especially considering how "new" it is. Only became an official state language in South Africa in 1924.
N.P. van Wyk Louw - Philosopher Eugene Marais - Poet Jan Rabie - Writer (shortlisted a few times I think) Andre P. Brink - Writer (shortlisted for Nobel Prize a few times, translated Le Petit Prince and Don Quixote, amongst others) Karel Schoeman - Writer Dalene Matthee - Writer (Famous book Kringe in 'n Bos aka Circles in a Forest) J.P.J. van Rensburg (translated Antigone by Sophocles) We've also won the Nobel Prize for lit. twice, but only J.M. Coetzee is half Afrikaans (I think). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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Bolesław Leśmaian - a Polish poet.
The greatest poet of the 20th ceturary in the Western hemisphere. | |||
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Perhaps slightly off topic, but it is realy great.
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Keith Allan and Kate Burridge Forbidden Words - Taboo and the Censoring of Language, page 26 CUP Edited by nagisa on 25 November 2007 at 10:19pm | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6894 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 44 of 63 26 November 2007 at 9:43am | IP Logged | ||
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POLISH literature with for Nobel prizes: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Wladyslaw Reymont, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska.
Most famous poets of 19th century (known mostly in Poland): Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid. Interesting poets of 20th/21th century: for example Boleslaw Lesmian, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Rozewicz (many of his poems were translated into German. He knows this language very well and often combines two languages in one poem) There're also interesting novels in the modern Polish literature (some translated into other languages authors: Olga Tokarczuk, Andrzej Stasiuk, Andrzej Sapkowski - fantasy, Jerzy Pilch). Polish literature has a long tradition, first Polish works were written in the Middle Ages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jirpy100 Diglot Newbie South Africa Joined 6253 days ago 31 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Afrikaans*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 45 of 63 26 November 2007 at 11:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Stanislaw Lem was a very good Polish sci-fi writer. I wish I knew Polish so I could read Solaris. I refuse to read the English translation since it is derived from the French. And I can't read French, or Russian, which is also a good translation.
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| Samsara Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6385 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin | Message 46 of 63 17 May 2008 at 10:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately, which is why I searched through the archives to see if anyone had already addressed it.
In the responses, a lot of the writers listed are long dead "classic" authors. My question is, which languages have rich contemporary literature? Which languages, for instance, would be good languages to study with a goal of working in publishing or for translating? French, Japanese, and Spanish are probably the major three that I know of. What about Russian, which was once a literary powerhouse. Does it have any contemporary literary movements worth exporting? What about Mandarin literature? Hindi? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spasty Groupie United States Joined 6860 days ago 92 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French | Message 47 of 63 17 May 2008 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic literature is very rich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_literature I've only read snippets of various poetries, but what I've read has been very beautiful. The Arabic language is very poetry-friendly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sei Diglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5932 days ago 178 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 48 of 63 28 August 2008 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm certainly surprised of the little mention to Portuguese Literature, being it one of the most discussed.
I went and search and some of the earlier texts mentioned are from the XII century. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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