Europe through literature discussion

Well I never could stay away from a good bingo challenge, even if I dislike the genre categories, but hey, I can wiggle :)
23/25 read

B1 = a fantasy novel Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der by Knud Sørensen (Denmark)
B2 = from a country in the Alps S. S. Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy (Switzerland)
B3 = originally written in a Finno-ugrian language (Ideas: Finland: Oksanen, Sweden, but in finnish: Niemi. Estonian, Hungarian: Kertész)
B4 = a title written by a Nobel Prize winner Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
B5 = a group read Daniel Stativ aka Danilo Stackpole: The Fool Who Outwitted the Devil

I1 = a crime novel Jar City (Nordmosen) by Arnaldur Indriðason (Iceland)
I2 = free choice Foster by Claire Keegan (Ireland)
I3 = from a country with shores along the Atlantic Ocean Dominga by Agustina Bessa-Luís (Portugal)
I4 = originally written in a Scandinavian language Natsangersken by Ulla Ryum (Denmark)
I5 = a title second in the polls of 2021 The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk

N1 = originally written in a Slavic language Onkel Vanja by Anton Chekhov (Russia)
N2 = a poetry collection The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats (Ireland)
N3 = a non-fiction title Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (France)
N4 = a science fiction novel The Catalyst 33 by Ирена Јорданова (Macedonia)
N5 = from the Balkans Torso by Ivo Andrić

G1 = a(n) (auto)biography Orlando by Virginia Woolf (UK)
G2 = originally written in a Roman / Romance language Memory Lane by Patrick Modiano (France)
G3 = a book with a reference to a European island Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton (Scotland: Island of Stoirm)
G4 = from a country with shores along the North Sea De voksne by Tove Ditlevsen (Denmark)
G5 = a historical novel Elegy for Kosovo: Stories by Ismail Kadare (Kosovo/Albania)

O1 = a non-fiction referring to European history The Successor by Ismail Kadare
O2 = from a country along the shores of the Danube (yes! Slovakia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine)
O3 = originally written in a minority language (e.g. in Gaelic) Tritonus by Kjell Westö (Finnish, but part of the Swedish speaking minority)
O4 = a children's book The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings (England/UK)
O5 = a graphic novel Kvinder i kamp: 150 års kamp for frihed, lighed, søsterskab! aka Women in Battle by Marta Breen (Norway)

Thoughts and ideas:
I read a lot of European, so It shouldn't be too hard. Except for the genres (I don't read Sci-fi or fantasy if I can avoid it - this has both :( Crime however I'm fine with, and I love the Scottish crime, so that's easy! And I'll feel free to count magic realism as one of those and so on, I'll wiggle...
Here's a few I have lined up anyway:
Kejseren af Portugalien by Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden, Nobel)
S. S. Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy (written in Italian, author is Swiss)

I wonder if one could do this with authors/books from 25 different countries?? We'll see how it goes, I still have some unread countries behind the former iron curtain I haven't read for my world reading https://ucph.padlet.org/anetq/world
So I'll try to use this challenge to cover those if possible:
Lithuania
North Macedonia The Catalyst 33 by Ирена Јорданова
Moldova
Bulgaria
Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Albania The Successor by Ismail Kadare
Slovenia
Kosovo

Oh, and of course I'm missing Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra & Monaco as well, but there might not be much.
I am definitely taking recommendations, if you have any!

Okay quick wiggle to get out of fantasy: B1 = a fantasy novel Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der by Knud Sørensen (Denmark) - It's a story about a convent that disappears one night, I'll count that as fantasy :)

I've also covered Crime with Icelands reportedly first crime writer:
Jar City (Nordmosen) by Arnaldur Indriðason

And the Swedish skærgård (archipelago but close to land) I've covered with Tritonus by Kjell Westö

And though I usually don't count the brits, Orlando by Virginia Woolf should fit in there somewhere as well

Anetq wrote: "Okay quick wiggle to get out of fantasy: B1 = a fantasy novel Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der by Knud Sørensen (Denmark) - It's a story about a convent that disappears one..."

Hahaha! Happy wiggling!

For Moldova I have Bessarabian Stamps: Stories on my TBR, this is the only author so far that I have heard of from this country.
For Albania there are the novels by Elvira Dones and Ornela Vorpsi, that I can recommend.
From Bulgaria I have only read The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov so far.
From Lithuania there is a relatively recently published author in English available: Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė and there are Romualdas Granauskas, Kęstutis Navakas and Giedra Radvilavičiūtė just to name a few more.

I have not yet read the other countries on your list either but am pretty sure we will dig up some great titles!

Orgeluse wrote: Hahaha! Happy wiggling!"
Thanks :) And thank you very much for the suggestions, for some of these countries I have no ideas. I have Ismail Kadare on my list for Albania, but that's about it :)

My ideas for filling in my missing European countries:
Lithuania - Birute Putrius (amazon), Breathing into Marble by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, https://knygynas.biz/collections/lith...
(North) Macedonia: - Irena Jordanova: The Catalyst 33 (Kindle Unlimited) Lidija Dimkovska: A Spare life (Amazon), Nikola Madzirov: Remnants of Another Age (Amazon) 104s,
Moldova: The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov (Kindle unlimited)
Bulgaria - Georgi Gospodinov: En naturlig roman
Montenegro - Tanja Bakić: poetry (Kindle unlimited)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ivo Andrić (Nobel 1961)
Albania - Ismael Kadaré: Elegi for Kosovo (50 s), Broken April 216s, Agamemnons datter 226s.
Slovenia - Goran Vojnovic: Yugoslavia, My Fatherland, SOUTHERN SCUM GO HOME!,
Drago Jančar The Day Tito died : contemporary Slovenian short stories (Engelsk) (152s. KB)
Kosovo - Min kat Jugoslavien by Pajtim Statovci (currently in Finland) or Ismael Kadaré: Elegi for Kosovo

My personal 'read the rest of Europe' challenge is moving along nicely, I've finished two new countries:

Albania: The Successor by Ismail Kadare
(North) Macedonia: The Catalyst 33 by Irena Jordanova:

Status 6/8 I haven't made as much progress on eastern Europe (Balkan mostly) as I'd hoped, but I still have hopes to fill this in with only one book pr. country (one can hope!), but until I read more to substitute some of the 3 Danes, 2 Brits and 3 Irish authors in there so far, I've filled in the categories...

Since I last updated I've read:
B4 = a title written by a Nobel Prize winner Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
I2 = free choice Foster by Claire Keegan (Ireland)
I3 = from a country with shores along the Atlantic Ocean Dominga by Agustina Bessa-Luís (Portugal)
N1 = originally written in a Slavic language Onkel Vanja by Anton Chekhov (Russia)
N2 = a poetry collection The Great Poets: W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats (Ireland)
N3 = a non-fiction title Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (France)
G2 = originally written in a Roman / Romance language Memory Lane by Patrick Modiano (France)
G3 = a book with a reference to a European island Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton (Scotland: Island of Stoirm)
G4 = from a country with shores along the North Sea De voksne by Tove Ditlevsen (Denmark)
G5 = a historical novel Elegy for Kosovo: Stories by Ismail Kadare (Kosovo/Albania)


I am still missing:
B3 = originally written in a Finno-ugrian language (Ideas: Finland: Oksanen, Estonian, Hungarian: Kertész)
B5 = a group read
I5 = a title second in the polls of 2021 (The Family of Pascual Duarte? It was third, but hey I actually want to read it, unlike the ones that came in second, so I'll wiggle for 'second or worse') OR I'll read The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk - which actually came in second!
N5 = from the Balkans
O2 = from a country along the shores of the Danube (yes! Slovakia, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine)

You're making excellent progress! A few of these look interesting. I'll keep them in mind.

I've been reading new countries between the Black sea and the Caspian sea - but I have no categories to add the to :(
But I've covered Georgia, Azerbaijan & Armenia with short stories from 5 annual collections of Best European Fiction 2013 (2013-2019) - so that's 3 more countries on the world map, yay!

Group read plan: Danilo Stackpole: The Fool Who Outwitted the Devil

Anetq wrote: "I've been reading new countries between the Black sea and the Caspian sea - but I have no categories to add the to :(
But I've covered Georgia, Azerbaijan & Armenia with short stories from 5 annual..."

Thanks for pointing out the "Best European Fiction" series!! It's a good way of getting to know lesser known authors from smaller European countries! As the series also seems to cover the Caucasian countries, it fits nicely to this group's list of countries :)).
Apart from that, you are really making good progress with the Bingo!!

Ah I wondered why I ordered this one: Daniel Stativ aka the group read Danilo Stackpole: The Fool Who Outwitted the Devil READ!
I've also been read some poets of the European variety, so adding them somewhere if they fit in:
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1975 Eugenio Montale

2 to go!
B3 = originally written in a Finno-ugrian language (Ideas: Finland: Oksanen, Estonian, Hungarian: Kertész)
O2 = from a country along the shores of the Danube (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.)

Well done, Anetq!