reading a book from every country in the world

September 11, 2014 6:10 AM

Ann Morgan's Year of Reading the World Ann Morgan has read one book from each of 196 countries in the world In 2012, the world came to London for the Olympics and I went out to meet it. I read my way around all the globe’s 196 independent countries – plus one extra territory chosen by blog visitors – sampling one book from every nation. I read a story from Swaziland, a novel from Nicaragua, a book from Brunei, a… well, you get the picture. It wasn’t easy — according to the Society of Authors, only 3 per cent of the books published in the UK each year are translations. There are plenty of languages that have next to nothing translated into English. Then there are all the tiny tucked away places like Nauru and Tuvalu (I know, I hadn’t either), where not much is written down at all.
posted by robbyrobs (2 comments total)

Took a cue from this Ask, perhaps? :)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:13 AM on September 11, 2014

Um, checking Google for the off chance she might've actually linked to Ask MeFi I discovered it was posted before.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:18 AM on September 11, 2014