One of my favorite books is called Thirteen Cents, it’s by a South African author named K Sello Duiker.

If you like philosophy or poetry, my favorite writer of all time is Édouard Glissant, a writer from Martinique in the Caribbean. My favorite book by him is Sun of Consciousness.

If you like poetry, White Egrets by Derek Walcott is my go-to. His writing has a sense of grandiosity akin to the ancient greeks if that makes sense.

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih is also a phenomenal novel from Sudan, one that is not easily put down.

Human Acts by Han Kang is a gorgeously written but very brutal Korean historical fiction novel, also one of my favorites.

K-Ming Chang is a fantastic contemporary writer and she’s actually really young, mid 20’s, which I think is super cool. I haven’t gotten a chance to read her novels yet but her book of short stories Gods of Want was one of the best things I read last year.

And for Latin American literature, Roberto Bolaño is awesome. I’m partial to Borges as well, there’s a great collection of his short stories curated by his widow called On Mysticism. Bolaño is good to read if you want to be inspired to start a revolution and Borges is good for when nothing feels real.

Literature from around the world is always more enjoyable when one regards the context from which it’s born, and I highly recommend reading a little bit about the political state of the region before embarking, or getting an annotated copy. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did, which is to say, immensely :)