World authors (YA)

Contributor's Form (list #185)

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Non-U.S. World Authors:

• Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria)
• Allende, Isabel (Chile)
• Atwood, Margaret (Canada)
• Beckett, Samuel (Ireland)
• Doyle, Roddy (Ireland)
• Esquivel, Laura (Mexico)
• Fuentes, Carlos (Latin America)
• Gordimer, Nadine (South Africa)
• Hesse, Herman (Germany)
• Ishiguro, Kazuo (Japan, England)
• Joyce, James (Ireland)
• Kincaid, Jamaica (West Indies)
• Lessing, Doris (Rhodesia)
• Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt)
• Marquez, Gabriel Gracia (Colombia)
• McCourt, Frank (Ireland)
• Naipaul, V. S. (Trinidad, India)
• Narayan, R. K. (India)
• Ondaatje, Michael (Canada)
• Paton, Alan (South Africa)
• Paz, Octavio (Mexico)
• Roy, Arundhati (India)
• Rushdie, Salmon (India)
• Saramago, Jose (Portugal)
• Weisel, Elie (Ukraine, Jewish)

 

 

Classic World Authors:

• Ibsen, Henrik (Scandinavian)
• Kafka, Franz (German)
• Remarque, Erich Maria
• Sartre, Jean Paul (French)
• Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
• Sophocles

• Alexie, Sherman (Spokane Indian)
• Anaya Rudolpho (Latino)
• Angelou, Maya (African American)
• Cisneros, Sandra (Latino)
• Dorris, Michael (Native American)
• Erdrich, Louise (Native American)
• Morrison, Toni (African American)
• Santiago, Esmeralda (Latino)
• Tan, Amy (Chinese American)
• AUSTRALIA

Anna Fienberg
Sonya Hartnett  (may be too old, her stuff is high school level)
  Sleeping Dogs
  Princes
  Thursday's Child
  Forest
  What the Birds See (latest)
Elizabeth Honey
  Fiddleback (G5-9) (203 pp.)
  Remote Man (G5-9) (250 pp.)
John Marsden - Australia - Tomorrow, when the war began series, Checkers,
Letters from the Inside,
Jaclyn Moriarty
Garth Nix (very readable!) Sabriel, Lireal, Abhorsen, Seventh Tower series
Wendy Orr
   Peeling the Onion (G6-12) (166 pp.)
Isabelle Carmody (author of
the Obernewtwyn series, now being reprinted) is Australian.
Sonya Hartnett is Australian (author of Thursday's Child,
What the Birds See, etc.)
Gillian Rubenstein - Australia
 

BELGIUM
Jan Simoen
  What About Anna? (G7-12) (254 pp.)
 

CANADIAN
Farley Mowat (Canadian)--these are older titles, but still very readable
Margaret Atwood (Canadian, I believe)
Canadian Iain Lawrence is perfect for this age . . . THE BUCCANEERS; LORD OF
THE NUTCRACKER MEN; GHOST BOY
Teresa Toten
(author of The Game, 208 p and another great novel for teens) was born in
Croatia, is now a Canadian citizen.  I think you might find some great
Canadian authors.
Tim Wynne-Jones (Canadian, I believe)
Charles de Lint - Canada - urban fantasies- Spirits in the Wires, Onion
Girl, Waifs and Strays, many more
Martha Brooks - Canada - True Confessions of a Heartless Girl, Being with
Henry, Bone Dance
Michael Bedard - Canada - Stained Glass
Robert Sawyer - Canada - End of an Era, Hominid,  more
 

CHILE
Isabel Allende: Chile
Daughter of Fortune
Portriat of Sepia
City of the Beasts
 

CUBA
Alma Flor Ada: Cuba
Under the Royal Palms
 

ENGLAND
See United Kingdom below
 

FRANCE
Suzi Morgenstern (France although originally US) The Secret Letters from 0
to 10
 

FRANCE & GERMANY
Eli Wiesel: France and Germany
Night
 

GERMANY
Cornelia Funke (author of THE THIEF LORD)
 

IRELAND
Diane Duane (lots)
Kate Thompson
  Switchers (G5-8) (220 pp.)
  Midnight's Choice (G5-9) (236 pp.)
  Wild Blood (G6-9) (261 pp.)
John Connolly, Mystery/Thriller writer (Irish)--but books are set in the
U.S.
 

ISRAEL
Uri Orlev (Israel),
 

JAPAN
Kyoko Mori - Shizuko's Daughter - Japan (lives in US)
Yumoto, Kazumi (Japan).
 

KOREA
Sook Nyul Choi - Year of Impossible Goodbyes - Korea (lives in US)
 

NETHERLANDS
Another excellent YA book by a foreign author is "Baboon King" by Anton
Quintana, who is from the Netherlands.  It is set in Kenya and is about 190
pages long.
Anne Frank: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diary of Anne Frank
The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss -- Holocaust related books
continue to be of interest with my students.
 

NEW ZEALAND
Joy Cowley
  Starbright and the Dream Eater (G5-8) (199 pp.)
Margaret Mahy
 

NIGERIA
Chinua Achebe: Nigeria
A Man of His People
Things Fall Apart
 

POLAND
Opdyke, Irene Gut: Poland
In My Hands: memories of a holocaust rescuer
The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig
 

PUERTO RICO
Esmeralda Santiago: Puerto Rico
When I was Puerto Rican
Almost a Woman
 

SCOTLAND
Catherine MacPhail
  Dark Waters (G5-12) (175 pp.)
  Missing (G5-8) (191 pp.)
 

SOUTH AFRICA & ENGLAND
Beverly Naidoo: England and South Africa
Other Side of Truth
Chain of Fire
 

SYRIA
Rafik Schami wrote one book, A Handful of Stars, set in Syria, which was
translated from German I think.
 

UNITED KINGDOM
Martyn Pig, by Kevin Brooks (just checked our copy to be sure -- UK citizen,
lives in Essex)
louise rennison (british)
Diana Wynne Jones - England
Clive Barker, Fantasy/Horror (British)
Hilary McKay
Brian Jacques (still popular w/middle school kids) - Redwall series
Jenny Nimmo (Wales)
  The Rainbow and Mr. Zed (G5-9) (192 pp.)
  Griffin's Castle (G5-7) (198 pp.)
  Midnight for Charlie Bone (G4-6)( pp.)
  More
Louise Rennison - England - Angus, thongs and full frontal snogging
David Almond - England - Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes
Philip Pullman - England - His Dark Materials series
Jaclyn Moriarty - England - Water, Eva, Tears of the Salamander, Ropemaker
Aiden Chambers - England - Postcards from a No Man's Land
David Almond (Kit's Wilderness among
others) is English,
Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubenstein) - Otari series
 

VIETNAM
The Land I lost - Quang Nhuong Huynh - Vietnam (lives in US)
 

YUGOSLAVIA
Zalta Filipovic: Sarajevo or Bosnia or Croatia or the former Yugoslavia

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