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Okay, this is a bit different from reading a book set in each country. In this challenge, the book does not need to take place in that country, but the author needs to have actually lived there. The author can be either:
- A native of that country
- A person born in that country and lived there for at least a year
- An expat that has lived in the country for at least 1 year
- An immigrant that has lived in the country for at least a year
- A person who has been a captive or prisoner in the country for at least a year

You can count any authors/books you have already read.

Remember, as always, you can adjust these rules as you see fit to best accommodate your own personal challenge.

Time limit: None
Genre: Any

Okay I have been halfheartedly doing this secondary to reading books set in different countries. I am surprised by how well I have actually done. Now it is time for me to get serious and (try to) fill in the rest.

Here are the countries in which I need to read books written by native or resident authors:

Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Indonesia
Iraq
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
North Korea
Panama
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Vatican City

Here are the native or resident authors I have read (Sorry, the authors are not linked because I don't have enough space in this post):

Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini, Zoya, Farah Ahmedi, Atiq Rahimi
Albania: Ismail Kadare
Algeria: Albert Camus
Andorra: Shirley Deane
Angola: Ondjaki
Anguilla: Melissa Blanchard
Antarctica: Richard Evelyn Byrd
Antigua: Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina: Ernesto Guevara, Eduardo Sacheri, Jorge Luis Borges
Armenia: Bedros Tourian
Aruba: Eric H. Pasley, The Womans� Guild of Lago Community Church
Australia: Markus Zusak, M.L. Stedman, Thomas Keneally
Austria: Adalbert Stifter, Stefan Zweig
Azerbaijan: Kurban Said
Bahrain: Vidya Samson, Katherine Chaudhri
Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus, Monica Ali, Tahmima Anam
Barbados: Karen Lord, Cecil Foster, Austin Clarke, Timothy Callender
Basque Region: Bernardo Atxaga
Belarus: Alexander Bely, Vasil Bykov
Belgium: Georges Simenon, Willem Elsschot
Belize: Rosita Arvigo
Benin: Raouf Mama
Bermuda: Mary Prince
Bhutan: Linda Leaming
Bolivia: Arturo von Vacano, Ronald Haladyna
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Zlata Filipovic
Botswana: Alexander McCall Smith, Robyn Scott
Brazil: Clarice Lispector
British Virgin Islands: Robb White, Kenneth Bain
Brunei: John Onu Odihi
Bulgaria: Kapka Kassabova, Ivan Vazov
Burkina Faso: Norbert Zongo
Burundi: Leopold Nayabagabo, Christel Hann
Cambodia: Somaly Mam, Loung Ung
Cameroon: Ferdinand Oyono, Dieter Lemke, Janvier Chando
Canada: Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Canary Islands: Joe Cawley
Cape Verde: Germano Almeida
Cayman Islands: Gay Morse, Gary M. Montemayor
Central African Republic: Rene Maran
Channel Islands: Mary Ann Shaffer
Chechnya: Khassan Baiev
Chile: Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Luis Sepulveda
China: Sun Tzu, Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Dae Sijie, Anchee Min, J.G. Ballard
Colombia: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Restrepo, Fernando Vellejo
Comoros: Samantha Weinberg
Congo (DRC): Vanessa Woods
Congo (Rep.): Alain Mabanckou, Emmanuel Dongala
Cook Islands: Te Ariki Tara Are
Costa Rica: Luisa Gonzalez
Cote d’Ivoire: Veronique Tadjo
Croatia: Josip Novakovich,Slavenka Drakulic,Miroslav Krleza
Cuba: Ernest Hemingway
Curacao: Patricia Selbert, Menki Rojer
Cyprus: Panos Ionnides
Czech Republic: Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klima, Helen Lewis
Denmark: Lene Kaaberbol, Peter Hoeg
Djibouti: Abdourahman A. Waberi
Dominica: Jean Rhys, Marie-Elena John
Dominican Republic: Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz
East Timor: Luis Cardoso, Jose Ramos Horta
Easter Island: Dario Verdugo-Binimelis
Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi, Lawrence Durrell
England: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, et al
Eritrea: Helen Berhane, Abeba Tesfagiorgis
Estonia: Sergei Dovlatov
Ethiopia: Dinaw Mengestu
Faroe Islands: Jorgen Franz-Jacobsen
Fiji: Jacinta Tonga, Epeli Hau’ofa
Finland: Tove Jansson, Aarto Paasilinna, James Thompson, Sofi Oksanen, Leena Lehtolainen
France: Marcel Proust, Jean-Dominique-Bauby, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Sartre, Gaston Leroux, et al
French Guiana: Henri Charriere
Gambia: Mary E. Trimble
Georgia: Shota Rustaveli, Keke Jughashvili
Germany: Gunther Grass, Hermann Hesse, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann
Ghana: Ama Ata Adoo, Kwei Quartey
Greece: Apostolos Doxiadis, Natalie Bakopoulos, Lawrence Durrell, Nikos Kazantzakis
Grenada: Jean Buffong, Richardo Keens-Douglas
Guadeloupe: Maryse Conde, Aristophane Boulon
Guinea: Camara Laye, Tierno Monenembo, Djibril Tamsir Naine
Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral
Haiti: Edwidge Danticat
Honduras: Elvia Alvarado
Hong Kong: Janice Y.K. Lee
Hungary: Kate Seredy, Géza Gárdonyi
Iceland: Halldor Laxness
India: Vikas Swarup, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie
Iran: Omar Khayyam, Marjane Satrapi, Dalia Sofer, Farnoosh Moshiri, Rumi, Azar Nafisi
Iraq: Zainab Salbi
Ireland: James Joyce, Maeve Binchy, Cecelia Ahern, Oscar Wilde, Niall Williams
Israel: Naomi Ragen
Italy: Umberto Eco, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Antonio Tabucchi
Jamaica: Joyce Palmer
Japan: Yukio Mishima, Banana Yoshimoto, Murasaki Shikibo
Jordan: Norma Khouri
Kashmir: Jaspreet Singh
Kazakhstan: Dana Mazur
Kenya: Wangari Maathai, Karen Blixen
Kiribati: J. Maarten Troost
Kuwait: Yvonne Wakefield, Mona Al-Hajjaj
Kyrgyzstan: Chingiz Aitmatov, Jessica Jacobson
Laos: Colin Cotterill
Latvia: Binjamin Wilkomirski, Janis Ezerins
Lebanon: Anthony Shadid, Kahlil Gibran
Lesotho: Mpho M’Atsepo Nthunya, Thomas Mofolo
Liberia: Helene Cooper
Libya: Hisham Matar, Ibrahim al-Koni, Ahmed Fagih
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Macedonia: Meto Jovanovski, Slavko Janevski, Ewald Osers
Madagascar: Arkady Fielder
Malawi: Jack Mapanje, William Kamkwamba
Malaysia: Tan Twan Eng
Mali: Katherine A. Dettwyler
Marshall Islands: Peter Rudiak-Gould
Martinique: Patrick Chamoiseau
Mauritius: Nathacha Appanah, Lindsey Collen
Mexico: Laura Esquivel
Micronesia: Jonathan Gourlay
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Montenegro: Petar Petrovic Njegos
Montserrat: Dorine S. O’Garro, E.A. Markham
Morocco: Malika Oufkir, Tahir Shah, Peter Mayne
Mozambique: Mia Couto, Lina Magaia
Namibia: Neshani Andreas, Jacqueline Richards
Netherlands: Corrie Ten Boom, Anne Frank, Multituli, J. Slauerhoff
New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, Lloyd Jones, Kenneth Bain
Nicaragua: Eric Timar
Nigeria: Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan
Northern Ireland: Seamus Deane, Christina McKenna, Patrick Taylor
Norway: Knut Hamsun, Asne Seierstad, Jostein Gaarder, Henrik Ibsen, Per Petterson
Oman: Lamees Abdullah Al Taie
Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Jamil Ahmad
Palau: Homer G. Barnett
Palestine: Deborah Kanafani, Ghassan Kanafani, Izzeldin Abuelaish
Papua New Guinea: Kira Salak, Virginia Drew Watson
Paraguay: Nestor Amarilla, Emmy Barth
Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa
Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Miguel Syjuco
Poland: Elie Wiesel, Arkady Fielder
Portugal: Jose Saramago
Puerto Rico: Esmeralda Santiago
Qatar: Tass Saada, Rachel Hajar, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Reunion Island: Yohann Maillot
Romania: Herta Mueller, Elie Wiesel, Eugene Ionesco
Russia: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Boris Pasternak, Mykhail Bulgakov
Rwanda: Immaculee Ilibagiza, Paul Rusesabagina
Saint Kitts & Nevis: Randall Robinson
Saint Lucia: Derek Walcott
Saint Martin: Kim Norris Samuels, Jean Glasscock
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines: Annice Brown, Shirla Philogene
Samoa: Albert Wendt, Lani Wendt Young
Saudi Arabia: Rajaa Alsanea, Carmen Bin Ladin
Scotland: Lillian Beckwith, Walter Scott, Irvine Welsh, James Hogg
Senegal: Ken Bugul, Susan Lowerre, Mariama Ba
Serbia: Tea Obreht, Zeljka Cvjetan Gortiniski, Milorad Pavic
Sierra Leone: Ishmael Beah
Singapore: Ee Line See
Slovakia: Martin M. Simecka, Peter Pišťanek
Somalia: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
South Africa: J. M. Coetzee, Alan Paton, Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer
South Korea: Kim Young-Ha
Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Sri Lanka: Michael Ondaatje. Romesh Gunesekera
Sudan: Tayeb Salih, Daoud Hari, Halima Bashir
Suriname: Ionita Rosila, Mark J. Plotkin, Aphra Behn
Sweden: Stieg Larsson, Linda Olsson, Henning Mankell, Astrid Lindgren, Art Spiegelman, Selma Lagerlof
Switzerland: Johanna Spyri, Hermann Hesse
Syria: Kamil Al-Khatib, Stephanie Saldana
Taiwan: Tung Nien
Tajikistan: Andre Volos, Azamat Sultanov
Tanzania: Jane Goodall, Sara Tucker
Tibet: Alai. Diki Tsering
Tonga: John G. Groberg, Kenneth Bain, Epeli Hau’ofa
Trinidad & Tobago: Earl Lovelace, V.S. Naipaul
Tristan Da Cunha: Katherine Mary Barrow
Turkey: Fa’iz El-Ghusein, Orhan Pamuk, Elif Shafak, Ayse Kulin
Turkmenistan: Sam Tranum
Tuvalu: Neli Lifuka, Keith Chambers
Uganda: Doreen Baingana, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Ukraine: Oksana Zabuzhko, Mykhailo Odrachy
United Arab Emirates: Zvezdana Rashkovich
Uruguay: Carlos Maria Dominguez, Juan Carlos Onetti
US Virgin Islands: Connie Fleenor
Uzbekistan: Leonid Solovyov, Mahmuda Saydumarova
Vanuatu: Hugh Steven, J. Maarten Troost
Venezuela: Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Vietnam: Thich Nhat Hahn
Wales: Saunders Lewis
Western Sahara: James Riley
Yemen: Zayd Mutee� Dammaj, Jennifer Steil
Zambia: Alexandra Fuller, Binwell Sinyangwe
Zimbabwe: Alexandra Fuller, Yvonne Vera, Neely Tucker

Here are the countries in which I need to read books written by native or resident authors:


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesia
Iraq
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
North Korea
Panama
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Vatican City

Here are the countries in which I need to read books written by native or resident authors:


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesia
Iraq
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
North Korea
Panama
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Vatican City

Adding Liechtenstein and Moldova.


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesia
Iraq: Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Kosovo
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
North Korea
Panama
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Vatican City

I've been wanting to do something similar for awhile now. There's something about national voices that can be so interesting, so count me in.

Here's a very preliminary list of books that are on my TBR list.

Chile The Savage Detectives
China The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Columbia The Sound of Things Falling Finished March 4, 2014
Cuba Pig's Foot
India The White Tiger
Ireland Ulysses
Iceland The Blue Fox Finished April 2014
Peru Red April: A Novel Finished June 2014
Mozambique Confession of the Lioness
Sierra Leone Radiance of Tomorrow
Ukraine Dead Souls

Read


To be read

Diane wrote: "Okay I have been halfheartedly doing this secondary to reading books set in different countries. I am surprised by how well I have actually done. Now it is time for me to get serious and (try to)..."

what a resource this is!! thank you for posting, it will be referenced by me often!

I copied and combined your lists of countries, Diane. TY!!

Afghanistan:
Albania:
Algeria:
Andorra:
Angola:
Anguilla:
Antarctica:
Antigua:
Argentina:
Armenia:
Aruba:
Australia:
Austria:
Azerbaijan:
Bahamas:
Bahrain:
Bangladesh:
Barbados:
Basque Region:
Belarus:
Belgium:
Belize:
Benin:
Bermuda:
Bhutan:
Bolivia:
Bosnia-Herzegovina:
Botswana:
Brazil:
British Virgin Islands:
Brunei:
Bulgaria:
Burkina Faso:
Burma:
Burundi:
Cambodia:
Cameroon:
Canada:
Canary Islands:
Cape Verde:
Cayman Islands:
Central African Republic:
Channel Islands:
Chechnya:
Chile:
China:
Colombia:
Comoros:
Congo (DRC):
Congo (Rep.):
Cook Islands:
Costa Rica:
Cote d’Ivoire:
Croatia:
Cuba:
Curacao:
Cyprus:
Czech Republic:
Denmark:
Djibouti:
Dominica:
Dominican Republic:
Easter Island:
Ecuador:
Egypt:
El Salvador:
England:
Equatorial Guinea:
Eritrea:
Estonia:
Ethiopia:
Faroe Islands:
Fiji:
Finland:
France:
French Guiana:
Gabon:
Gambia:
Georgia:
Germany:
Ghana:
Greece:
Greenland:
Grenada:
Guadeloupe:
Guatemala:
Guinea:
Guinea-Bissau:
Haiti:
Honduras:
Hong Kong:
Hungary:
Iceland:
Indonesia:
India:
Iran:
Iraq:
Ireland:
Israel:
Italy:
Jamaica:
Japan:
Jordan:
Kashmir:
Kazakhstan:
Kenya:
Kiribati:
Kosovo:
Kuwait:
Kyrgyzstan:
Laos:
Latvia:
Lebanon:
Lesotho:
Liberia:
Libya:
Liechtenstein:
Lithuania:
Luxembourg:
Macedonia:
Madagascar:
Malawi:
Malaysia:
Maldives:
Mali:
Malta:
Marshall Islands:
Martinique:
Mauritania:
Mauritius:
Mexico:
Micronesia:
Moldova:
Monaco:
Mongolia:
Montenegro:
Montserrat:
Morocco:
Mozambique:
Namibia:
Nauru:
Nepal:
Netherlands:
New Zealand:
Nicaragua:
Niger:
Nigeria:
North Korea:
Northern Ireland:
Norway:
Oman:
Pakistan:
Palau:
Palestine:
Panama:
Papua New Guinea:
Paraguay:
Peru:
Philippines:
Poland:
Portugal:
Puerto Rico:
Qatar:
Reunion Island:
Romania:
Russia:
Rwanda:
Saint Kitts & Nevis:
Saint Lucia:
Saint Martin:
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines:
Samoa:
San Marino:
Sao Tome & Principe:
Saudi Arabia:
Senegal:
Serbia:
Seychelles:
Sierra Leone:
Singapore:
Slovakia:
Slovenia:
Solomon Islands:
Somalia:
South Africa:
South Korea:
South Sudan:
Spain:
Sri Lanka:
Sudan:
Suriname:
Swaziland:
Sweden:
Switzerland:
Syria:
Taiwan:
Tajikistan:
Tanzania:
Thailand:
Tibet:
Togo:
Tonga:
Trinidad & Tobago:
Tristan Da Cunha:
Tunisia:
Turkey:
Turkmenistan:
Tuvalu:
Uganda:
Ukraine:
United Arab Emirates:
Uruguay:
US Virgin Islands:
Uzbekistan:
Vanuatu:
Vatican City:
Venezuela:
Vietnam:
Wales:
Western Sahara:
Yemen:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe:

Adding Iraq.


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesia
Iraq: Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Kosovo
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
North Korea
Panama
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo
Tunisia
Vatican City

I want to do this one! This is going to be so interesting:

Afghanistan:
Albania:
Algeria:
Andorra:
Angola:
Anguilla:
Antarctica:
Antigua:
Argentina:
Armenia:
Aruba:
Australia: Most recently, Patricia Shaw
Austria: Too many to count, since this is where I went to school. Most recently Wolf Haas, I think, horrible experience.
Azerbaijan:
Bahamas:
Bahrain:
Bangladesh: Monica Ali
Barbados:
Basque Region:
Belarus:
Belgium:
Belize:
Benin:
Bermuda:
Bhutan:
Bolivia:
Bosnia-Herzegovina:
Botswana:
Brazil:
British Virgin Islands:
Brunei:
Bulgaria:
Burkina Faso:
Burma:
Burundi:
Cambodia:
Cameroon:
Canada: Yann Martel
Canary Islands:
Cape Verde:
Cayman Islands:
Central African Republic:
Channel Islands:
Chechnya:
Chile:
China: Anchee Min
Colombia:
Comoros:
Congo (DRC):
Congo (Rep.):
Cook Islands:
Costa Rica:
Cote d’Ivoire:
Croatia:
Cuba:
Curacao:
Cyprus:
Czech Republic:
Denmark: Anne Fortier
Djibouti:
Dominica:
Dominican Republic:
Easter Island:
Ecuador:
Egypt:
El Salvador:
England: Plenty. Most recently: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Equatorial Guinea:
Eritrea:
Estonia:
Ethiopia:
Faroe Islands:
Fiji:
Finland:
France: Most recently Marc Levy
French Guiana:
Gabon:
Gambia:
Georgia:
Germany: Also plenty, most recently Jan Winter, I think.
Ghana:
Greece:
Greenland:
Grenada:
Guadeloupe:
Guatemala:
Guinea:
Guinea-Bissau:
Haiti:
Honduras:
Hong Kong:
Hungary: Géza Gárdonyi
Iceland:
Indonesia:
India: Plenty, my favourite being Anita Nair
Iran:
Iraq:
Ireland: Plenty, my favourite being Maeve Binchy
Israel:
Italy:
Jamaica:
Japan:
Jordan:
Kashmir:
Kazakhstan:
Kenya:
Kiribati:
Kosovo:
Kuwait:
Kyrgyzstan:
Laos:
Latvia:
Lebanon:Gibran Khalil
Lesotho:
Liberia:
Libya:
Liechtenstein:
Lithuania:
Luxembourg:
Macedonia:
Madagascar:
Malawi:
Malaysia:
Maldives:
Mali:
Malta:
Marshall Islands:
Martinique:
Mauritania:
Mauritius:
Mexico:
Micronesia:
Moldova:
Monaco:
Mongolia:
Montenegro:
Montserrat:
Morocco:
Mozambique:
Namibia:
Nauru:
Nepal:
Netherlands: Jaap ter Haar
New Zealand:
Nicaragua:
Niger:
Nigeria:
North Korea:
Northern Ireland:
Norway:
Oman:
Pakistan:
Palau:
Palestine:
Panama:
Papua New Guinea:
Paraguay:
Peru:
Philippines:
Poland:
Portugal:
Puerto Rico:
Qatar:
Reunion Island:
Romania:
Russia: Most recently Ilya Ilf
Rwanda:
Saint Kitts & Nevis:
Saint Lucia:
Saint Martin:
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines:
Samoa:
San Marino:
Sao Tome & Principe:
Saudi Arabia:
Scotland:
Senegal:
Serbia:
Seychelles:
Sierra Leone:
Singapore:
Slovakia:
Slovenia:
Solomon Islands:
Somalia:
South Africa:
South Korea:
South Sudan:
Spain: Elisa Vazquez De Gey
Sri Lanka:
Sudan:
Suriname:
Swaziland:
Sweden: Henning Mankell
Switzerland:Werner J. Egli
Syria: Rafik Schami
Taiwan:
Tajikistan:
Tanzania:
Thailand:
Tibet:
Togo:
Tonga:
Trinidad & Tobago:
Tristan Da Cunha:
Tunisia:
Turkey:
Turkmenistan:
Tuvalu:
Uganda:
Ukraine:
United Arab Emirates:
United States of America: Edith Wharton
Uruguay:
US Virgin Islands:
Uzbekistan:
Vanuatu:
Vatican City:
Venezuela:
Vietnam:
Wales:
Western Sahara:
Yemen:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe:

Well, that is all I can think of, off the top of my head. A bit meager, is it not?

Btw, Scotland and the United States needed to be added to the list.

Austria: Elfriede Jelinek
Brazil: Paulo Coelho
Canada: Margaret Atwood
China: Xue Xinran
Colombia: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Czech Republic: Franz Kafka
Denmark: Anne Holm
England: Jane Austen
Finland: Tove Jansson
France: Muriel Barbery
Germany: Charles Bukowski
Iceland: Halldór Laxness
India: Anita Nair
Indonesia: Maria Dermoût
Iran: Mahbod Seraji
Ireland: Cecelia Ahern
Japan: Kazuo Ishiguro
Malaysia: Rani Manicka
Mexico: Laura Esquivel
Mongolia: Galsan Tschinag
New Zealand: Keri Hulme
Nigeria: Lola Shoneyin
Norway: Jostein Gaarder
Peru: Isabel Allende
Russia: Lara Vapnyar
Singapore: Josephine Chia
South Africa: Damon Galgut
Spain: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sudan: John Bul Dau
Syria: Mohja Kahf
Trinidad: Monique Roffey
Turkey: Perihan MaÄŸden
USA: Maya Angelou
Vietnam: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Yugoslavia: Téa Obreht
Zambia: Gaile Parkin

Adding Guinea Bissau, Niger, San Marino, Sao Tome & Principe, South Sudan, and Togo.


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral
Indonesia
Iraq: Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Kosovo
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger: Nouhou Malio
North Korea
Panama
San Marino: Charles de Bruc
Sao Tome & Principe: Gervásio Kaiser
Seychelles
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Sudan: Lopez Lomong
Swaziland
Thailand
Togo: Michael Fortner
Tunisia
Vatican City

This challenge looks interesting. I'll probably do this challenge next year. :-)

Adding Burma (Myanmar), Slovenia, and Swaziland


Antarctica
Bahamas
Burma: George Orwell
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral
Indonesia
Iraq: Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Kosovo
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger: Nouhou Malio
North Korea
Panama
San Marino: Charles de Bruc
Sao Tome & Principe: Gervásio Kaiser
Seychelles
Slovenia: Boris A. Novak, Andrej Blatnik
Solomon Islands
South Sudan: Lopez Lomong
Swaziland: George Hehir
Thailand
Togo: Michael Fortner
Tunisia
Vatican City

Forgot to add Guam


Antarctica: Richard Evelyn Byrd
Bahamas
Burma: George Orwell
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea:
Gabon
Greenland
Guam: Tanya Taimanglo
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral
Indonesia
Iraq: Zainab Salbi
Kosovo
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Maldives
Malta
Mauritania
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Niger: Nouhou Malio
North Korea
Panama
San Marino: Charles de Bruc
Sao Tome & Principe: Gervásio Kaiser
Seychelles
Slovenia: Boris A. Novak, Andrej Blatnik
Solomon Islands
South Sudan: Lopez Lomong
Swaziland: George Hehir
Thailand
Togo: Michael Fortner
Tunisia: Mohamed Bacha
Vatican City

Here is my updated list:

Still need to read authors from:
Bahamas
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Greenland
Guatemala
Indonesia
Kosovo
Maldives
Mauritania
Monaco
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
Panama
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Thailand
Vatican City

Here are the native or resident authors I have read (Sorry, the authors are not linked because I don't have enough space in this post):

Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini, Zoya, Farah Ahmedi, Atiq Rahimi
Albania: Ismail Kadare
Algeria: Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud
Andorra: Shirley Deane
Angola: Ondjaki, Jose Luandino Vieira
Anguilla: Melissa Blanchard
Antarctica: Richard Evelyn Byrd
Antigua: Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina: Ernesto Guevara, Eduardo Sacheri, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Hernandez
Armenia: Bedros Tourian
Aruba: Eric H. Pasley, The Womans� Guild of Lago Community Church
Australia: Markus Zusak, M.L. Stedman, Thomas Keneally
Austria: Adalbert Stifter, Stefan Zweig, Karl Kraus
Azerbaijan: Kurban Said
Bahrain: Vidya Samson, Katherine Chaudhri
Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus, Monica Ali, Tahmima Anam, Farah Ghuznavi
Barbados: Karen Lord, Cecil Foster, Austin Clarke, Timothy Callender
Basque Region: Bernardo Atxaga
Belarus: Alexander Bely, Vasil Bykov
Belgium: Georges Simenon, Willem Elsschot
Belize: Rosita Arvigo
Benin: Raouf Mama, Chris Starace
Bermuda: Mary Prince
Bhutan: Linda Leaming
Bolivia: Arturo von Vacano, Ronald Haladyna
Bonaire: George S. Lewbel
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Zlata Filipovic
Botswana: Alexander McCall Smith, Robyn Scott, Bessie Head, Peter Allison
Brazil: Clarice Lispector, Luiz Ruffato
British Virgin Islands: Robb White, Kenneth Bain
Brunei: John Onu Odihi
Bulgaria: Kapka Kassabova, Ivan Vazov
Burkina Faso: Norbert Zongo, Malidoma Patrice Some
Burma: George Orwell
Burundi: Leopold Nayabagabo, Christel Hann, Marie-Therese Toyi
Cambodia: Somaly Mam, Loung Ung, Vaddey Ratner
Cameroon: Ferdinand Oyono, Dieter Lemke, Janvier Chando, Calixthe Beyala
Canada: Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Ann-Marie MacDonald, etc.
Canary Islands: Joe Cawley
Cape Verde: Germano Almeida, Eleanor Stanford
Cayman Islands: Gay Morse, Gary M. Montemayor
Central African Republic: Rene Maran, Margaret Nicholl Laird
Chad: James Appel
Channel Islands: Mary Ann Shaffer
Chechnya: Khassan Baiev
Chile: Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Luis Sepulveda
China: Sun Tzu, Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Dae Sijie, Anchee Min, J.G. Ballard, Jung Chang, etc.
Colombia: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Restrepo, Fernando Vellejo
Comoros: Samantha Weinberg
Congo (DRC): Vanessa Woods, Tamar Myers
Congo (Rep.): Alain Mabanckou, Emmanuel Dongala
Cook Islands: Te Ariki Tara Are
Costa Rica: Luisa Gonzalez
Cote d’Ivoire: Veronique Tadjo, Marguerite Abouet
Croatia: Josip Novakovich,Slavenka Drakulic,Miroslav Krleza
Cuba: Ernest Hemingway, Enrique Flores-Galbis
Curacao: Patricia Selbert, Menki Rojer
Cyprus: Panos Ionnides, Lawrence Durrell
Czech Republic: Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klima, Helen Lewis
Denmark: Lene Kaaberbol, Peter Hoeg, Karen Blixen
Djibouti: Abdourahman A. Waberi
Dominica: Jean Rhys, Marie-Elena John, Paula A. John
Dominican Republic: Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz
East Timor: Luis Cardoso, Jose Ramos Horta
Easter Island: Dario Verdugo-Binimelis
Egypt: Nawal El Saadawi, Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz
England: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, et al
Eritrea: Helen Berhane, Abeba Tesfagiorgis
Estonia: Sergei Dovlatov
Ethiopia: Dinaw Mengestu, Abraham Verghese
Faroe Islands: Jorgen Franz-Jacobsen
Fiji: Jacinta Tonga, Epeli Hau’ofa
Finland: Tove Jansson, Aarto Paasilinna, Sofi Oksanen, Leena Lehtolainen, Salla Simukka
France: Marcel Proust, Jean-Dominique-Bauby, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Paul Sartre, Gaston Leroux, et al
French Guiana: Henri Charriere
Gambia: Mary E. Trimble, Momodou Sallah
Georgia: Shota Rustaveli, Keke Jughashvili
Germany: Gunther Grass, Hermann Hesse, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann
Ghana: Ama Ata Adoo, Kwei Quartey, Asare Konadu
Greece: Apostolos Doxiadis, Natalie Bakopoulos, Lawrence Durrell, Nikos Kazantzakis
Grenada: Jean Buffong, Richardo Keens-Douglas, Clyde Viechweg
Guadeloupe: Maryse Conde, Aristophane Boulon
Guam: Tanya Taimanglo
Guinea: Camara Laye, Tierno Monenembo, Djibril Tamsir Naine, Williams Sassine
Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral
Guyana: Oonya Kempadoo, Pauline Melville
Haiti: Edwidge Danticat
Honduras: Elvia Alvarado
Hong Kong: Janice Y.K. Lee
Hungary: Kate Seredy, Géza Gárdonyi
Iceland: Halldor Laxness, Vilborg Davidsdottir, Bergsveinn Birgisson
India: Vikas Swarup, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, etc.
Iran: Omar Khayyam, Marjane Satrapi, Dalia Sofer, Farnoosh Moshiri, Rumi, Azar Nafisi, Yasmin Crowther
Iraq: Zainab Salbi, Ahmad Ardalan
Ireland: James Joyce, Maeve Binchy, Cecelia Ahern, Oscar Wilde, Niall Williams, Patrick McCabe, etc.
Israel: Naomi Ragen
Italy: Umberto Eco, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Antonio Tabucchi
Jamaica: Joyce Palmer
Japan: Yukio Mishima, Banana Yoshimoto, Murasaki Shikibo, Yasunari Kawabata
Jordan: Norma Khouri
Kashmir: Jaspreet Singh
Kazakhstan: Dana Mazur, Monica Neboli
Kenya: Wangari Maathai, Karen Blixen, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Kiribati: J. Maarten Troost
Kuwait: Yvonne Wakefield, Mona Al-Hajjaj
Kyrgyzstan: Chingiz Aitmatov, Jessica Jacobson
Laos: Colin Cotterill
Latvia: Binjamin Wilkomirski, Janis Ezerins, Imants Ziedonis
Lebanon: Anthony Shadid, Kahlil Gibran
Lesotho: Mpho M’Atsepo Nthunya, Thomas Mofolo
Liberia: Helene Cooper, Ellen Joseph Sirleaf
Libya: Hisham Matar, Ibrahim al-Koni, Ahmed Fagih
Liechtenstein: Paul Gallico
Lithuania: Tadas Klimas, Kazys Boruta
Luxembourg: Mary Carey, et al
Macedonia: Meto Jovanovski, Slavko Janevski, Ewald Osers
Madagascar: Arkady Fielder
Malawi: Jack Mapanje, William Kamkwamba, Legson Kayira
Malaysia: Tan Twan Eng
Mali: Katherine A. Dettwyler
Malta: Sue Moorcroft
Marshall Islands: Peter Rudiak-Gould
Martinique: Patrick Chamoiseau
Mauritius: Nathacha Appanah, Lindsey Collen
Mexico: Laura Esquivel
Micronesia: Jonathan Gourlay
Moldova: Nicolae Dabija
Montenegro: Petar Petrovic Njegos
Montserrat: Dorine S. O’Garro, E.A. Markham, Olaudah Equiano
Morocco: Malika Oufkir, Tahir Shah, Peter Mayne, Laila Lalami, Paul Bowles
Mozambique: Mia Couto, Lina Magaia
Namibia: Neshani Andreas, Jacqueline Richards
Netherlands: Corrie Ten Boom, Anne Frank, Multituli, J. Slauerhoff
New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, Lloyd Jones, Kenneth Bain
Nicaragua: Eric Timar
Niger: Nouhou Malio
Nigeria: Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, Chris Abani
Niue: Various authors
North Korea: Sook Nyul Choi
Northern Ireland: Seamus Deane, Christina McKenna, Patrick Taylor
Norway: Knut Hamsun, Asne Seierstad, Jostein Gaarder, Henrik Ibsen, Per Petterson, Tarjei Vesaas
Oman: Lamees Abdullah Al Taie
Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Jamil Ahmad
Palau: Homer G. Barnett
Palestine: Deborah Kanafani, Ghassan Kanafani, Izzeldin Abuelaish
Papua New Guinea: Kira Salak, Virginia Drew Watson
Paraguay: Nestor Amarilla, Emmy Barth
Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa
Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Miguel Syjuco
Poland: Elie Wiesel, Arkady Fielder, Wladislaw Szpilman
Portugal: Jose Saramago
Puerto Rico: Esmeralda Santiago
Qatar: Tass Saada, Rachel Hajar, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Reunion Island: Yohann Maillot
Romania: Herta Mueller, Elie Wiesel, Eugene Ionesco
Russia: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Boris Pasternak, Mykhail Bulgakov, etc.
Rwanda: Immaculee Ilibagiza, Paul Rusesabagina
Saint Kitts & Nevis: Randall Robinson
Saint Lucia: Derek Walcott
Saint Martin: Kim Norris Samuels, Jean Glasscock
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines: Annice Brown, Shirla Philogene
Samoa: Albert Wendt, Lani Wendt Young
San Marino: Charles de Bruc
Sao Tome and Principe: Gervasio Kaiser
Saudi Arabia: Rajaa Alsanea, Carmen Bin Ladin
Scotland: Lillian Beckwith, Walter Scott, Irvine Welsh, James Hogg, Grassic Gibbon, etc.
Senegal: Ken Bugul, Susan Lowerre, Mariama Ba, Ousmane Sembene
Serbia: Tea Obreht, Zeljka Cvjetan Gortiniski, Milorad Pavic
Sierra Leone: Ishmael Beah
Singapore: Ee Line See, Kirstin Chen
Slovakia: Martin M. Simecka, Peter Pišťanek
Slovenia: Boris A. Novak, Andrej Blatnik
Somalia: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hawa Abdi
South Africa: J. M. Coetzee, Alan Paton, Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer
South Korea: Young-Ha Kim
South Sudan: Lopez Lomong, Nyuol Lueth Tong
Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Sri Lanka: Michael Ondaatje. Romesh Gunesekera, Ru Freeman, Nayomi Munaweera
Sudan: Tayeb Salih, Daoud Hari, Halima Bashir, Benjamin Ajak
Suriname: Ionita Rosila, Mark J. Plotkin, Aphra Behn
Swaziland: George Hehir
Sweden: Stieg Larsson, Linda Olsson, Henning Mankell, Astrid Lindgren, Art Spiegelman, Selma Lagerlof
Switzerland: Johanna Spyri, Hermann Hesse
Syria: Kamil Al-Khatib, Stephanie Saldana
Taiwan: Tung Nien
Tajikistan: Andre Volos, Azamat Sultanov
Tanzania: Jane Goodall, Sara Tucker
Tibet: Alai, Diki Tsering
Togo: Michael Fortner
Tonga: John G. Groberg, Kenneth Bain, Epeli Hau’ofa
Trinidad & Tobago: Earl Lovelace, V.S. Naipaul
Tristan Da Cunha: Katherine Mary Barrow
Tunisia: Mohamed Bacha
Turkey: Fa’iz El-Ghusein, Orhan Pamuk, Elif Shafak, Ayse Kulin, Perihan Magden
Turkmenistan: Sam Tranum
Tuvalu: Neli Lifuka, Keith Chambers
Uganda: Doreen Baingana, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Shenaaz Naji
Ukraine: Oksana Zabuzhko, Mykhailo Odrachy
United Arab Emirates: Zvezdana Rashkovich
Uruguay: Carlos Maria Dominguez, Juan Carlos Onetti
US Virgin Islands: Connie Fleenor
Uzbekistan: Leonid Solovyov, Mahmuda Saydumarova
Vanuatu: Hugh Steven, J. Maarten Troost
Venezuela: Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Vietnam: Thich Nhat Hahn
Wales: Saunders Lewis, Dylan Thomas
Western Sahara: James Riley
Yemen: Zayd Mutee� Dammaj, Jennifer Steil, Nujood Ali
Zambia: Alexandra Fuller, Binwell Sinyangwe
Zimbabwe: Alexandra Fuller, Yvonne Vera, Neely Tucker

Read books from authors of the following countries:
El Salvador: Claribel Alegría
Guatemala: Eduardo Halfon
Mauritania: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Nepal: Samrat Upadhyay

Still need to read authors from:
Greenland
Maldives
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Vatican City

A suggestion for you from my country of Indonesia :

Has anyone read a book by an author from the Vatican City? Surely that would have to be by the Pope?!

Yes, there are any number of papal books available; I read a book by John Paul II last year for Vatican City.

This sounds interesting. My question is: how far back in time should I go? I've been keeping track of books read since December 1990.

Greg wrote: "This sounds interesting. My question is: how far back in time should I go? I've been keeping track of books read since December 1990."

You can go back as far as you want.

this is really interesting!!

This is perfect, this is basically the challenge that I created for myself. I decided on 195 countries, that is the 193 countries recognized by the UN and 2 that are non-member observed states.

I've decided to attempt to read authors who are natives of each country and I want to read 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction from each country, so a total of 390 books.

I don't normally journal about reading, but I created a journal for this challenge. I broke the countries down by continent and have a full page for each country so I can keep track of suggestions and what I read.