Five classic books that started life in another language.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement next month, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.
Here are five classic books that started life in another language, you may have read them or you may have not... but chances are you will have heard of them...

Five books in translation that made it on to our screens.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.

So in the first of our themed booklists, here are five translated fiction novels that have been adapted for the screen.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.

When we talk about 'State-of-the-nation' novels, we tend to mean books that are British or American, approximately the size of breezeblocks and terribly, terribly Serious – like Jonathan Franzen's Freedom or George Eliot's Middlemarch. What we tend to forget is that the Russians have been doing this for ever, and usually better - and far more entertainingly - than us Anglophones.

Here is the Booktrust's list of 5 great State-of-Russia novels

Chosen by our translated fiction reviewers, Nikesh Shukla, Catherine Mansfield and Pete Mitchell, here are our five translated books of the year...

Our choice of novels from mainland Europe.

Norway, Sweden and Finland

Mankell, Larsson, Nesbo may all be the current spearheads of the translated crime fiction revolution, but what about the macabre goings-on in Reykjavik, Paris, Havana, Breslau...?

Crime novels the world over have the universal appeal of macabre murders, grizzly policemen who won't play by the rules, clues and engaging readers in the problem-solving.

With Henning Menkell, Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo all flying the flag for Scandanavian crime, we thought we would celebrate the expanse of novels available internationally... so here are ten of our favourite translated crime authors, and some of their books.

From Havana to Tokyo, from Oslo to Alexandria, from Lahore to Paris, these 10 books (8 in translation and 2 about far-off cities) are a good introduction to the world of international fiction and translated fiction, to different cities around the world and their offerings of danger, edge, vice and energy.