Comments on: International Women’s Day: A Search for Classic International Women Writers

By: oldenglishrose

oldenglishrose — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:38:18 +0000

I’ve never heard of this one before, but it looks really interesting! Thanks for the suggestion.

By: oldenglishrose

oldenglishrose — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:23:06 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve stumbled across references to this one searching Amazon, but it’s always nicer to have a proper recommendation. I’ll add it to my list now.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:24:57 +0000

The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon is absolutely wonderful.

By: FleurFisher

FleurFisher — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:37:14 +0000

I have a lot of women writers on my list and a good few translated works, but there isn’t much overlap between the two.

I can suggest The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette (France, but I suspect that there may be many great works by women still untranslated

By: oldenglishrose

oldenglishrose — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:52:49 +0000

Oh that’s amazingly helpful. Thanks very much! Now off the Amazon to investigate these (and resist ordering some, no doubt).

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:55:24 +0000

I just saw your comment over at Jillian’s and thought I’d see if I could come up with anything. I haven’t read any of these, but most of them come from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list, so someone thinks they’re good!

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – poems (Spanish)
Madame de La Fayette – The Princess of Cleves (French)
Coral Sandel – Alberta trilogy (Norwegian)
Anna Seghers (German)
George Sand (French)
Christa Wolf (German – 1960s – don’t know if that’s too recent for this)
Marguerite Yourcenar – Memoirs of Hadrain (French)
Selma Lagerlof – (Swedish)
Emilia Pardo Bazan – The Manors of Ulloa (Spanish)

Also, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) was a Danish writer who wrote in English, so I don’t know how you would categorize her.

I hope these help!