English Lit.
This is the name of the main character in Catcher in the Rye
Houlden Caufield
This type of Japanese poetry has seasonal words.
Haiku
“I think Therefore I am” or “je pense, donc je suis”
Renee Descartes
This is the most translated book globally.
The Bible
This person wrote Hamlet.
Shakespeare
Animal Farm by George Orwell was famously an allegory for this government and country.
The Russian Revolution (1917) / the fall of Czarist Russia
Mahmoud Darwish uses a kite as a literary device in this poem.
If I must die
This book has the quote: “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Name a famous written before 1700 text that has been translated and published by more than five people
(excluding religious doctrine)
(again open, Tale of Genji, The Iliad, etc., countless myths)
This writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024
Han Kang
These are three Toni Morrison books with female protagonists published before 2000.
(somewhat open but Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, etc.)
This Disney-adapted story is inspired by this tale from A Thousand and One Nights that was not part of the original manuscript.
Aladdin
This novel has the famous opening line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Pride and Prejudice
What is one major responsibilities of a literary translator besides accuracy?
Preserving the cultural connotations, etc.
This Spanish-language writer is known as the father of magical realism.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Donna Tartt famously based The Secret History on her experience studying at this university.
Bennington College
Name a literary-specific tradition from each continent. Ex. poetic Forms, rhythms, literature movements (not Antarctica duh)
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This 2022 novel has the quote: “English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
Babel by R.F. Kuang
This is the name of the English translator of The Vegetarian
Deborah Smith
A BU professor translates this popular Japanese contemporary author into Polish.
Haruki Murakami
This is the title of Samuel Beckett’s most infamous body of work.
Waiting for Godot
The protagonist of this Spanish epic is known as one of the earliest examples of an unreliable narrator.
Don Quixote
"Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo
Name 3 of the least translated languages spoken in North America (this includes Canada)
Theres quite a few but we cant accept spanish, french, mandarin, english
This British author went into hiding for ten years after publishing his highly controversial novel, The Satanic Verses (and had a brief cameo in Bridget Jones’s Diary).
Salman Rushdie