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📕 Novels

The best books of 2023 according to Folha de S.Paulo

1 The Desert and Its Seed, Jorge Barón Biza
2 The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills
3 Orlando Furioso, volume II, Ludovico Ariosto

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Barack Obama's favourite books of 2018

1 Becoming — Michelle Obama
2 An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
3 Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela

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📜 Poetry

Cemal Süreya's most beautiful lines

1 Kiss me, then give birth to me.
2 You are beautiful, my love, / but only up close!
3 On the day freedom comes, / dying is forbidden that day!

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📜 Poetry

Yun Dong-ju's most famous lines (with the poem)

1 They say life is hard to live; / that a poem should be written so easily / is a shameful thing.
2 Until the day I die, looking up at the sky, / I hope to have no speck of shame. / Even the wind stirring the leaves / has troubled me.
3 The sky where the seasons pass / is filled with autumn.

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💥 Comics & manga

Fujiko F. Fujio's most popular works

1 Pokonyan
2 Doraemon
3 Perman

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✒️ Authors

The Cervantes Prize winners of the 1990s

1 Adolfo Bioy Casares
2 Dulce María Loynaz
3 Francisco Ayala

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📚 Books

Every play by Henrik Ibsen, from Catiline to When We Dead Awaken

1 St. John's Eve (1852)
2 Love's Comedy (1862)
3 The Pretenders (1863)

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📜 Poetry

Czesław Miłosz's best-known poems and quotes

1 There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world.
2 What is poetry which does not save / nations or people?
3 I said so little. / Days were short.

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📕 Novels

The best historical novels of all time

1 The Feast of the Goat
2 The Name of the Rose
3 War and Peace

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Time's best books of 2020

1 Caste — Isabel Wilkerson
2 Minor Feelings — Cathy Park Hong
3 The Dragons, the Giant, the Women — Wayétu Moore

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The Hugo Award winners for Best Novel of the 2000s

1 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
2 A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J. K. Rowling

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📜 Poetry

Nichita Stănescu's most beautiful lines

1 Young lioness, love, / you leapt at me. / She had been lying in wait for me, tense, / for a long time.
2 Autumn has come, cover my heart with something, / with the shadow of a tree, or better, with your shadow.
3 Sometimes I fear I will not see you again, / that sharp wings will grow on me up to the clouds.

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📕 Novels