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Overview for 2021:

Arabic:
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, trans. by Sherif Hetata

Arabic (Moghrebi dialect):
A Life Full of Holes: A Novel Recorded and Translated by Paul Bowles by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, trans. by Paul Bowles

Chinese:
Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei, trans. by Canaan Morse
Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi, trans. by Shelly Bryant

Danish:
A Change of Time by Ida Jessen, trans. by Martin Aitken

French:
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faïza Guène, trans. by Sarah Adams
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, trans. by Luc Sante
Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, trans. by Kaiama L. Glover
At Night All Blood is Black: A Novel by David Diop, trans. by Anna Moschovakis
Replay by Marc Levy, trans. by Kate Bignold & Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer
The Infamous Rosalie by Evelyne Trouillot, trans. by M.A. Salvodon
The Beast of the Haitian Hills by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin & Pierre Marcelin, trans. by Peter C. Rhodes
Kaya Days by Carl de Souza, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Ourika by Claire de Duras, trans. by John Fowles

Gikuyu (a Bantu language of Kenya; sometimes written as Kikuyu):
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, trans. by the author himself

Italian:
Bug by Giacomo Sartori, trans. by Frederika Randall

Japanese:
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryū Murakami, trans. by Ralph McCarthy
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, trans. by Alison Watts
The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, trans. by Allison Markin Powell
A Man by Keiichirō Hirano, trans. by Eli K.P. William
Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate, trans. by Kalau Almony
The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy by Shunmyō Masuno, trans. by Allison Markin Powell
In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami, trans. by Ralph McCarthy

Korean:
One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun, trans. by Jung Yewon

Nuer (a Nilotic language of South Sudan):
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth: Nuer Song, compiled & trans. by Terese Svoboda

Portuguese:
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane, trans. by David Brookshaw

Spanish:
Maqroll: Three Novellas : The Snow of the Admiral/Ilona Comes With the Rain/Un Bel Morir by Álvaro Mutis, trans. by Edith Grossman
Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. by Anne McLean
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes, trans. by Julia Sanches
The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa, trans. by Jeffrey Gray
Red Dust by Yoss, trans. by David Frye
Blacksad: Amarillo by Juan Díaz Canales (Writer) & Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator), trans. by Katie LaBarbera & Neal Adams
The Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández, trans. by Frank G. Carrino, Alberto J. Carlos, & Norman Mangouni
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. by Frances Riddle
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. by Sarah Booker
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez, trans. by Edith Grossman

Thai:
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, trans. by Mui Poopoksakul

Turkish:
Divorce Turkish Style by Esmahan Aykol, trans. by Ruth Whitehouse
Dracula in Istanbul: The Unauthorized Version of the Gothic Classic by Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu, trans. by Necip Ates

Yay �� have now reached "Translator" level, 6-10 different languages. (Will count the Arabic books as one language, even with different dialects.)

Hope to continue to read plenty of translated works this year. Not sure yet how much more variety (or not) I'll have among languages.

Have now reached the "Interpreter" level, 11-15 different languages.

Approx. 45% of the books I have read this year have been in translation.

Really pleased with the number & variety of books I read in translation in 2021. Hopefully I can continue the trend in 2022!