Reading around the world data follows:
White means I have no data yet.
Orange means I have at least one author in mind, and if you click through you’ll go to the book page on Amazon.
Green means I have the country done.
And red means I have the country done but I have at least one more author in mind that seems sweller.
For Brazil, try Jorge Amado. I’d particularly recommend The War of the Saints.
Ooh, thanks for the recommendation!
Here are a few more:
Caribbean writers:
Cuba — Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
Jamaica — Michelle Cliff, Abeng or its sequel No Telephone to Heaven
Antigua — Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, Luch, or The Autobiography of My Mother
Haiti — Edwidge Dandicot, The Dew Breaker, Breath, Eyes, Memory, or The Farming of Bones
Barbabos — George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin
Guatemala — Miguel Angel Asturias, The President
African Writers:
Kenya — Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The River Between or A Grain of Wheat
Senegal — Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter
or
Semlene Ousmane, God’s Bits of Wood (I’ll be posting a review of this novel on “The Compost Heap” in the next day or so, if you’re interested)
Ghana — Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Botswana — Bessie Head, A Question of Power or When Rain Clouds Gather