Crime dagger Translation and the Queens jubilee read projects

I am best when I have an idea or  a project to make me blog.  but sometimes as it has happened with what should off been Archipelago books week which I missed. Anyway I have two personal projects I am keener on my own individual projects so when I got a email for the Crime dagger awards on the short list for the awards. Which features the Award for crime novels in Translation which had two books I had one I had read Bullet train and the other The rabbit factor.

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER

• Hotel Cartagena, Simone Buchholz translated by Rachel Ward (Orenda Books)
• Bullet Train, Kōtarō Isaka translated by Sam Malissa (Penguin Random House; Harvill Secker)
• Oxygen, Sacha Naspini translated by Clarissa Botsford (Europa Editions UK Ltd; Europa Editions)
• People Like Them, Samira Sedira translated by Lara Vergnaud (Bloomsbury Publishing; Raven Books)
• The Rabbit Factor, Antti Tuomainen translated by David Hackston (Orenda Books)

So I order two from the net and one from the library and will read them over the next few weeks. I’m not timetabling myself it features two books from Orenda books who had sent me a lot of books in the past and have always been great promoters of crime in translation. Have you read any of the books on the list.

The complete Big Jubilee Read list

From 1952 to 1961

• The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)
• The Hills Were Joyful Together – Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)
• In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming (1953, Barbados)
• My Bones and My Flute – Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)
• The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
• The Guide – RK Narayan (1958, India)
• To Sir, With Love – ER Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)
• One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)
• A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
• Sunlight on a Broken Column – Attia Hosain (1961, India)

From 1962 to 1971

• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962, England)
• The Interrogation – JMG Le Clezio (1963, France/Mauritius)
• The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland)
• Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria)
• Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland)
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales)
• A Grain of Wheat – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967, Kenya)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia)
• The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana)
• When Rain Clouds Gather – Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)

From 1972 to 1981

• The Nowhere Man – Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre (1974, England)
• The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)
• The Crow Eaters – Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)
• The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (1978, England)
• Who Do You think You Are? – Alice Munro (1978, Canada)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979, England)
• Tsotsi – Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)
• Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai (1980, India)
• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)

• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)

• Beka Lamb – Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)
• The Bone People – Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada
• Summer Lightning – Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)
• The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)
• Omeros – Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)
• The Adoption Papers – Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)
• Cloudstreet – Tim Winton (1991, Australia)

From 1992 to 2001

• The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)
• The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (1993, Canada)
• Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)
• Salt – Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997, India)
• The Blue Bedspread – Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)
• Disgrace – J M Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)
• White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000, England)
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2001, Canada)

From 2002 to 2011

• Small Island – Andrea Levy (2004, England)
• The Secret River – Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)
• Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)
• A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)
• The Boat – Nam Le (2008, Australia)
• Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (2009, England)
• The Book of Night Women – Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)
• The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)
• Chinaman – Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)

From 2012 to 2021

• Our Lady of the Nile – Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)
• The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)
• Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)
• The Bone Readers – Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)
• How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)
• Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)
• The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)
• Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)
• A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)
• The Promise – Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)

Then we have this list which I intend to try and read over the next 12 months it is the Queens Jubilee and this list has come out of a book a year and from around the commonwealth. It has a lot of books  that I have been reader favourites and I may have passed over the years.Now I am keen on the list as it has a few old favourites there is a few books on the list `I have reviewed over the time I have blogged which I will mark uo when I make a page for this project. . There is also six countries which I haven’t read books from so when I was in Bakewell today it was great to find two books from the list I had read disgrace pre blog times and I had a copy of stone diaries which I had but think I long since gave away. I have strarted on the list with To sire with love, but won’t be following an order as in years I’ll just jump from book to book. It will just be as I feel which books appeal over the next year. Which books I have at hand I need to get a most of the books on the list but I feel most my library will have or I can buy second hand. So I will try and read all seventy of the books from this may to next May. Anyone any favourites on this list?