Heres reading the World Cup of Literature

June 12, 2014 12:37

For those of you who may not know about it, here's Three Percent, a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester.

What they've done, in keeping with the zeitgeist, is to announce a World Cup of Literature.

'We received way more recommendations than we expected -- along with requests to serve as a judge -- and it was pretty tough narrowing these all down to a mere 32 titles. (Which, incidentally, makes me think that we should do this again next year for the Women's World Cup, but include only books written by women),' say the brains behind this initiative.

And how did they go about finalising the titles vis-a-vis the football playing nation?

'Our criteria shifted based on the country in question, but, if at all possible, we only looked at books written in the original language after 2000 (thus eliminating all the "old guys' like David Beckham), and tried, in some quasi-logical way, to tie each book to its country's actual team,' they say.

But which are the titles against the competing nations, you want to know, right? You can read all about them here. And do write in, in the discussion board below, to tell us how many of the titles you have read, and if you agree with Three Percent jury's decision.

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