Born in Brno, Milan Kundera is Czech. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984.

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) is a one-sentence novel by Hrabal. The rest are titles by the Czech writer Milan Kundera. The Joke was published in 1969. Immortality was published in 1990. Life is Elsewhere was published in 1969. The Festival of Insignificance was published in 2015.

United States of Banana is a 2011 work by Giannina Braschi. It is an experimental hybrid work, with elements of play, essay, and prose poetry. The other titles are works by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago. When I was Puerto Rican was published in 1994. The Turkish Lover was published in 2005. Almost a Woman was published in 1999. América’s Dream was published in 1997.

Like Water For Chocolate is a 1989 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. Of Love and Other Demons was published in 1994, One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967, Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, Love in the Time of Cholera was published in 1985, and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” was published in 1955 – all by Gabriel García Márquez.

The poet, playwright, and fiction writer Halldór Laxness (née Halldór Guðjónsson) wrote the novel Independent People (1934), a two-volume work about the difficult lives of impoverished Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s.

Tove Jansson wrote Kometjakten (Comet in Moominland) (1946), Stieg Larsson wrote Män som hatar kvinnor (literally translated as "Men Who Hate Women," published in English under the title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (2005), Karl Ove Knausgård wrote Min Kamp (My Struggle) (2009-2011), and Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt (1867).

Landscape Painted with Tea is a 1988 novel by Pavić. The rest of the titles are by the German author Herta Müller. The Hunger Angel was published in 2009. The Land of Green Plums was published in 1994. Traveling on One Leg was published in 1989. _The King Bows and Kills_was published in 2003.

The Death of Artemio Cruz was first published in 1962, making it one of Fuentes’ earlier works.

Since 1975, Kundera has lived and written in France.

Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) is the famous first novel by Milorad Pavić (1929-2009).

Fernando Pessoa wrote Always Astonished (1988). Jefimija wrote Lament for a Dead Son (1400). Imre Kertész wrote _The Pathseeker (1977). Antal Szerb wrote Journey by Moonlight (1937).

Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959.