National Lists: UNESCO Culture Sector

You are viewing an archived web page, collected at the request of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) using Archive-It. This page was captured on 23:44:16 Oct 21, 2016, and is part of the UNESCO collection. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page.

Loading media information hide

| | |

Literature & Translation

		Associate Translators
		Guide Lists

			Historical Collection
			The LITPROM List
			National Lists
			The ABC list

		Our Associates
		Publishers
		Scholars Network
		Linguistics
		Help and Subsidies

National Lists

guest (Read)

National Lists

In April 2003, the Clearing House for Literary translation launched a first survey among the National Commissions for UNESCO with a view to identifying great philosophical and literary works which countries would particularly like to see translated and published. This survey focused in particular on the category of modern novel.
Click on the world map (on the left) to see the lists of the selected titles.

The book selected had to present the following characteristics:

1. They should already have been published in the original language;
2. They should be unknown or not very well known beyond the language and country of its origin;
3. They should be representative, in some exceptional way, of the culture of its country and time;
4. They should be worthy of translation by virtue of its universal value;
5. Their contents should not offend the sensitivities of other countries and cultures;
6. Their contents should be devoid of any intolerant xenophobic or discriminatory belief, attitude or ideology.

Those lists also include works recommended after the survey by National Commissions for UNESCO.

Resources

Publications

Features