A (non-exhaustive) list of books translated into English from languages that are less commonly translated. Taking a fairly broad approach to ‘lesser translated’.
created by slwrthanever
last updated August, 2026
People and Trees: A Trilogy
Akram Aylisli
A Short Tale of Shame
Angel Igov
Karaoke Culture
Dubravka Ugrešić
High Tide
Inga Ābele
Andhar Bil
Kalyani Thakur Charal
A Book, Untitled
Shushan Avagyan
Elevator in Sài Gòn
Thuận
Again I Hear These Waters
Shalim M. Hussain
To Hell with Poets
Baqytgul Sarmekova
A Life In Trans Activism
A. Revathi
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
Jayant Kaikini
Happy Stories, Mostly
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime
رضا قاسمی
Dictionary of Midnight
Abdulla Pashew
The Potato Eaters: Stories
Farhad Pirbal
Motherfield
Julia Cimafiejeva
The Tale of the Nišan Shamaness: A Manchu Folk Epic
Margaret & Durrant Nowak
Saanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing : Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks, Vol 23) (Volume 23)
Luci Tapahonso
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (Volume 32) (Sun Tracks)
Ofelia Zepeda
Cobalt Blue
Sachin Kundalkar
Moustache
S. Hareesh
Phoolsunghi
Pandey Kapil
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga
D.O. Fagunwa
Flowers of Lhasa
Tsering Yangkyi
The Blue Sky
Galsan Tschinag
Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, 3)
Skaay
Short ― Poto: The big book of small stories ― Iti te kupu, nui te korero (Maori Edition)
Michelle Elvy
Red Ants
Pergentino José
Like A New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry
Víctor Terán
White Elephant: A Novel
Jeyamohan
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