Here is a list of all the translated historical fiction I have reviewed on my blog so far. In 2024 I am hoping to add a lot more books to this list – any recommendations are welcome!
Catalan to English:
Rafel Nadal Farreras – The Last Son’s Secret (translated by Mara Faye Lethem)
Dutch to English:
Hella S Haasse – In a Dark Wood Wandering (translated by Lewis C Kaplan)
Simone van der Vlugt – Midnight Blue (translated by Jenny Watson)
French to English:
Olivier Barde-Cabuçon – Casanova and the Faceless Woman (translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie)
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers and sequels (translated by William Barrow); The Black Tulip (Franz Demmler); The Red Sphinx (Lawrence Ellsworth)
Maurice Druon – The Accursed Kings series: The Iron King; The Strangled Queen; The Poisoned Crown; The Royal Succession; The She-Wolf (translated by Humphrey Hare)
Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (translated by Isabel F. Hapgood); Les Miserables (Norman Denny)
Madame de Lafayette – The Princess of Cleves (unknown translator)
Robert Merle – The Brethren (translated by T Jefferson Kline)
George Sand – Mauprat (translated by Stanley Young)
Leïla Slimani – The Country of Others (translated by Sam Taylor)
German to English:
Oliver Pötzsch – The Beggar King (translated by Lee Chadeayne)
Italian to English:
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose (translated by William Weaver)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard (translated by Archibald Colquhoun)
Oriana Ramunno – Ashes in the Snow (translated by Katherine Gregor)
Japanese to English:
Shūsaku Endō – Silence (translated by William Johnston)
Norwegian to English:
Lars Mytting – The Bell in the Lake; The Reindeer Hunters (translated by Deborah Dawkin)
Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter (translated by Tiina Nunnally)
Russian to English:
Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago (translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace (translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky)
Spanish to English:
Isabel Allende – The Japanese Lover (translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson); A Long Petal of the Sea (Caistor and Hopkinson)
Turkish to English
Orhan Pamuk – Nights of Plague (translated by Ekin Oklap)