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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Jane Austen wrote more than 30 years ago.
Also, sorry I discovered that Dickens was on the list.
The announcement I read didn't state that the books had to be written in English, but I guess they need to be available in English. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote in Spanish as an example.
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Forgive me, I was referring to what I see as a strong bias in the list towards more recent works, and works written in English as opposed to translated. I'm not saying that there should be a quota for translated/older literature but surely there is a lot of fluff on the list that could have been left off.