Historical Fiction in Translation

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)