{"id":46361,"count":57,"description":"There's nothing better to take you around the world than the literature of different countries. From Italian to Indonesian, Georgian to Japanese, Pakistani to Palestinian, we're gradually covering literature from around the world. If you'd like to read recent novels from around the world, but don't much mind which country, we also cover the International Booker Prize<\/a>, awarded annually for the best novel translated into English. Our list of the best books by Nobel Prize in Literature winners<\/a> is also refreshingly global in scope.\r\n\r\nTurning to specifics, in European literature<\/strong> we have recommendations of: The best classic French novels<\/a>, the best contemporary Scandinavian literature<\/a>, the\u00a0best Italian novels<\/a>, landmark Scottish literature<\/a>, the best Belgian novel<\/a>, and the best literature depicting the real Greece<\/a>. Further east we have the best of Georgian literature<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn Asian literature<\/strong>, we have recommendations of the best modern Japanese literature,<\/a> Indonesian literature<\/a>, some of the classics of Chinese literature<\/a>, as well as Chinese dissident literature<\/a> and contemporary Chinese Fiction<\/a>. We also have the best Indian novels<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn African literature,<\/strong> we have Nigerian novels<\/a>, novels from Francophone Africa<\/a> and the best South African fiction<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn Middle Eastern literature<\/strong> we have the best contemporary Egyptian fiction<\/a> and best Israeli fiction<\/a> as well as the classics of Arabic literature<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn Latin American literature, <\/strong>we have recommendations of the best Cuban novels<\/a>, Mexican novels<\/a>, Colombian novels<\/a>\u00a0as well as the best novels from Latin America<\/a> and Hispanic Authors<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFor Australasia<\/strong>, we have the best Australian novels<\/a> and Australian crime fiction.<\/a>\r\n\r\nWe also have selections specifically on the best of English literature,<\/a> <\/strong>American literature,<\/strong><\/a> and Russian literature<\/strong><\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/world-literature-books\/","name":"World Literature","slug":"world-literature-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/46361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=46361"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=46361"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=46361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}