The Best Books on Lahore

1. City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore by Bapsi Sidhwa

'The ancient whore, the handmaiden of dimly remembered Hindu kings, the courtesan of Mughal emperors', the 'Paris of the East', Lahore is more than the grandeur of Mughal forts and gardens, mosques and mausoleums, the jewel colors of everlasting spring. It is also the city of poets, the city of love, longing, sin and splendour.

This anthology brings together verse and prose: essays, stories, chronicles and profiles by people who have shared a relationship with Lahore. From the mystical poems of Madho Lal Hussain and Bulleh Shah to Iqbal's ode and Faiz's lament, from Maclagan and Aijazuddin's historical treatises and Kipling's chronicles' to Samina Qureshi's intricate portrai5ts of the old city and Irfan Hussain's delightful account of Lahori cuisine, City of Sin and Splendour is a marriage of the sacred and profane. City of Sin and Splendour is a sumptuous collection that reflects the city it celebrates.


2. Beloved City Writings on Lahore by Bapsi Sidhwa

This anthology brings together verse and prose: essays, stories, chronicles, and profiles by people who have shared a relationship with Lahore. From the mystical poems of Madho Lal Hussain and Bulleh Shah to Iqbal’s ode and Faiz’s lament; from McLagan’s and Aijazuddin’s historical treatises and Kipling’s ‘chronicles’ to Samina Quraeshi’s intricate portraits of the Old City and Irfan Husain’s delightful account of Lahori cuisine, Beloved City is a marriage of the sacred and profane. Significant Pakistani writers like Intezar Hussain, Aamer Hussain, Kishwar Naheed, Bapsi Sidhwa, Sara Suleri, and Ashfaq Ahmed have also contributed to this volume. Sidhwa’s introduction to the anthology is a sentimental piece too.



3. Lahore: Portrait of a Lost City by Som Anand

Som Anand spent his childhood and youth in Lahore where his father, Faqir Chand Anand, was a respected banker. Som grew up totally free of religious communalism because he consorted with who shared his world view.

When Partition took place, the Anands decided to stay on in Model Town and Som was a witness of the communal excesses which took place at the time. In this loving and sensitive memoir, which recalls a pre-partition Lahore of harmony and peace, Sam seeks to restore his spiritual link with the great city of his childhood.

In Model Town, the suburban hideout of the wealthy aristocracy, the Hindus and Muslims lived in social isolation from each other but were friendly. In Icchra, Lahore’s suburban village, Som consorted with the followers of Allama Mashriqi.

In the inner city, he mixed with the Fakirs of Fakir Khans. He saw Ataullah Shah Bukhari calm down a crowd that had just broken the head of Zafar Ali Khan, the editor of Zamindar. He was friendly with the Bedis, and knew Englishwoman Freda Bedi who wrote her book about Punjabi women while she waited for her communist husband to be released from prison. The book is full of anecdotes and stories which should both delight and sadden many people across both sides of the historical divide.

4. Illustrated Views of the 19th Century by F.S. Aijazuddin

Pakistan's most important scholar of 19th century imagery shares his often personal collection of engravings, lithographs, paintings and numerous photographs of the old capital of Punjab. Fascinating captions add to an outstanding volume.





5. The Coffee House of Lahore: A Memoir, 1942-57 by K.K. Aziz

The Coffee House of Lahore: A Memoir, 1942-57 was published in 2008 and Aziz, in the opening chapters, tells us about the genesis of his passion to document this memorable phase of our contemporary history.

Whenever an intellectual, cultural and literary history of Lahore (or the Punjab and Pakistan) is written, the diverse circles which met and discoursed in the Coffee House will have to be described in detail and the ever-widening waves of their influence recorded. As nothing has been written so far on the subject and I don’t see anything in the offing, I give below a list of the important persons who I can recall.


6. Lahore: A Sentimental Journey by Pran Neville

Lahore, first published in 1993, is Pran Nevile’s tribute to the land of his birth. Grounded in memory and redolent with nostalgia, Nevile’s reminiscences transport the reader into the heart of Lahore as it was in the 1930s and 40s”a city bustling with activity where people coexisted harmoniously, unfettered by considerations of religion, region or caste. From the riotous seasonal festivities of kite-flying to clandestine love-affairs upon rooftops, from matinee shows at the cinema to twilight hours spent amongst the bejeweled dancing girls of Hira Mandi, Lahore emerges as a city of mesmerizing contradictions and chaotic splendor. The author underscores the contrast between pre- and post-Partition Lahore, and the sense of pain, loss and longing for one’s homeland experienced by the displaced millions in India and Pakistan is palpable. Evocative and informative, Lahore is at once social commentary, historical documentation and memoir.

7. Old Lahore by H.R. Goulding

Old Lahore , a book published in 1924, made up of “the reminiscences of a resident” by the name of Colonel H.R. Goulding ISO, VD, late ADC to the King Emperor. It also includes a historical and descriptive account of the city by T.H. Thornton, BCS, “for many years Secretary to the Punjab government.” Colonel Goulding – in whose memory one of Lahore’s roads is named, unless it is now called Shahrah Subedar Sumandar Khan – recorded his memories of the city by way of articles published in the Civil and Military Gazette from 1922 to 1924. They were later put together in a booklet by E.D, Maclagan, whose family links with Lahore went back to 1846. His father, an engineer, used to occupy quarters over the Hazuri Bagh gate of the Lahore Fort. Thornton and J. Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, produced summaries of the history of Lahore, which were printed in 1860 in a guidebook. Kipling was principal of the Lahore School of Art, which then became the Mayo School of Art and today we have it as the National College of Arts

7. The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Pleasure District by Louise Brown

The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.


8. Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border by Stephen Alter

In a sentimental journey undertaken to mentally erase the barriers created by history, Stephen Alter comparatively chronicles culture, life and activity on both sides of the India-Pakistan border and offers an unbiased and highly perceptive picture. Pakistanis view Indians with a "combination of affection, indifference and animosity", a complex attitude objectively portrayed in this travelogue. While emphasising similarities, Alter also dwells on the differences in 'national culture' brought about by partition and 50 years of separation- e.g. segregation of sexes is very marked in Pakistan; differences in dietary conventions exist ("being non-vegetarian is an integral part of Pakistani identity"); and political cultures vary from an Army-adoring Pakistan to "the world's largest democracy". Even in the desire of peace between the two countries, Alter notices an important distinction between "coexistence and cohesion". While ordinary Pakistanis prefer amicable relations with India, they are "unwilling to deny the reality of Partition". Many Indians, on the other hand, wish to "reclaim a lost homeland" and challenge the two-nation theory's very basis, a viewpoint that increases the insecurity of the smaller neighbour. All in all, Alter's travelogue is a treasure-trove of information and a border-piercing cruise that will strike a chord in every sub-continental heart.

10. Lahore District Flora by Shiv Ram Kashyap

LAHORE DISTRICT FLORA By the late Shiv Ram Kashyap. DJSc., F. A. S. B., R. B., I. E. S., Professor of Botany, Shiv Ram Kashyap died on the 26th November, 1934 For the last several years before his death, he was working on this Flora, for in India there are very few small local floras, specially in those districts which are seats of University instruction. It is not possible for all students of the B. Sc. Pass or even for B. Sc. Honours School classes to consult a work like Flora of British India. They need a smaller volume which could be used both in the classroom and in the field. It was to meet this difficulty that the late Professor took up the writing of the Lahore District Flora. Prof. Kashyap made tho collection of plants on which this book is based and also made all the sketches illustrating this volume but before he could complete the book his life was suddenly and prematurely cut short by the cruel hand of death. He had written out the descriptions of plants from the Itananculacece to Leguminosece . Mr. Amar Chand Joshi, an old student of ours now Assistant Professor of Botany, Benares Hindu University, who had been helping the late Professor during his holidays in the preparation of the manuscript, readily agreed at my request to check rewse and complete the manuscript of the Flora. Mr. Joshi checked by comparing with the specimens nu only in the Panjab University Herbarium but also in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Sibpur, Calcutta. Mr. Joshi followed the plan adopted by Professor Kashyap in describing the plants. The book deals with all the flowering plants found wild in the Lahore

Mario Vargas Llosa: 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa is the Peruvian novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, literary critic, who received Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the central writers in the Hispanic world, but he began his literary career in Europe. Most of his novels are set in Peru. From his first works, Vargas Llosa has used a wide variety of avant-garde techniques to create an aesthetic "double of the real world." Although Vargas Llosa has followed the tradition of social protest of Peruvian fiction exposing political corruption, machismo, racial prejudices and violence, he has underlined that a writer should never preach or compromise artistic aims for ideological propaganda.

"His voice was persuasive; it reached a person's soul without passing by way of his head, and even to a being as addlebrained as Big João, it seemed like a balm that healed old and terrible wounds. João stood there listening to him, rooted on the spot, not even blinking, moved to his very bones by what he was hearing and by the music of the voice uttering those words. The figure of the saint was blurred at times by the tears that welled up in João's eyes. When the man went on his way, he began to follow him at a distance, like a timid animal." (from The War of the End of the World, 1981)

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, but from ages one to then he lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he was brought up by his mother and maternal grandparents after his parents separated. However, Vargas Llosa once said, that "I feel very much an Arequipan". He also spent some time in Piura, northern Peru (1945-46), where his grandfather had been appointed as Prefect, and then in Lima. When he was about eight years old his parents reconciled.

Vargas Llosa attended Leoncio Prado Military Academy (1950-52), and Colegio Nacional San Miguel de Piura (1952). In 1955 he married Julia Urquidi; they divorced in 1964. From 1955 to 1957 Vargas Llosa studied literature and law at the University of San Marcos. He then attended graduate school at the University of Madrid, from where he received his Ph.D. in 1959. Vargas Llosa's doctoral dissertation about García Márquez (1971) was followed by several books on literary criticism, among them LA ORGÍA PERPETUA (1975), about Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. Decades later, in TRAVESURAS DE LA NIÑA MALA (2006), he drew on the character of Emma. With Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, and García Márquez, Vargas Llosa was among the most famous writers, whose aim was to revitalize the Latin American novel.

In the 1950s, while still a student, Vargas Llosa worked as a journalist for La Industria. He was a coeditor of the literary journals Cuadernos de Conversación and Literatura, and journalist for Radio Panamericana and La Crónica. His first collection of short stories, LOS JEFES, appeared in 1959. In the same year he moved to Paris because he felt that in Peru he could not earn his living as a serious writer. Although the boom of Latin American fiction in the 1960s opened doors to some authors for commercial success, the great majority of Peruvian writers suffered from the problems of the country's publishing industry.

In France Vargas Llosa worked as Spanish teacher, journalist for Agence-France-Presse, and broadcaster for Radio Télévision Française in early 1960s. From the late 1960s Vargas Llosa worked as a visiting professor at many American and European universities. In 1965 he married Patricia Llosa; they had two sons and one daughter. García Márquez became a godfather to his son, but after a brawl in a Mexican cinema in 1976, the friendship of two writers ended bitterly. However, in 2006 Vargas Llosa allowed an excerpt from his HISTORIA SECRETA DE UNA NOVELA (1971) to be published in the 40th anniversary edition of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. In 1970 Vargas Llosa moved to Barcelona and five years later he settled back in Peru, ending his self-imposed exile. In 1977 he was elected President of PEN Club International. The military dictatorship, which started in 1968 when General Francisco Morales Bermudez took over the country, ended in 1980.

In 1990 Vargas Llosa was a conservative candidate (Fredemo, the Democratic Front) for the Peruvian presidency. The development of his political convictions, from a sympathizer of Cuban revolution to the liberal right, has astonished his critics and has made it impossible to approach his work from a single point of view. Sabine Koellmann has noted that the publication of Vargas Llosa's LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO (2000, The Feast of the Goat) confirmed, "that politics is one of the most persistent 'demons' which, according to his theory, provoke his creativity." (see Vargas Llosa's Fiction & the Demons of Politics, 2002) Vargas Llosa was defeated by Alberto Fujimori, an agricultural engineer of Japanese descent, also a political novice, but who had a more straightforward agenda to present to the voters. An unexpected twist in the plot of this political play occurerred in 2000, when President Fujimori escaped to his ancestral homeland Japan after a corruption scandal.

In 1991 Vargas Llosa worked as a visiting professor at Florida International University, Miami and Wissdenschaftskolleg, Berlin from 1991 to 1992. The author has received several prestigious literary awards, including Leopoldo Alas Prize (1959), Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1967), National Critics' Prize (1967), Peruvian National Prize (1967), Critics' Annual Prize for Theatre (1981), Prince of Asturias Prize (1986) and Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1994).

Vargas Llosa made his debut as a novelist with The Time of the Hero (1962), set in Leoncio Prado military Academy, where he had been a student. The book received an immediate international recognition. According to Vargas Llosa's theory, personal, social or historical daemon gives a meaning to a novel and in the writing process unconscious obsessions are transformed into a novelist's themes. Autobiography and art has been one of the themes in his criticism.

One of Vargas Llosa's own obsessions is the conflict between a father and son, which he has approached from the private level or from more universal or social levels. The Time of the Hero is a microcosm of Peruvian society. The murder of an informer is buried due to the codes of honor to protect the academy's reputation. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) is a partly autobiographical story of a courtship and marriage, written with uninhibited humor. The tyrannical father threatens to shoot his son, a novelist named Marito Varguitas, in the middle of the street, because of his marriage to the sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia. Marito is eighteen and the marriage is illegal. Eventually his father accepts the situation. The book started to live its own life when Aunt Julia, Vargas Llosa's first wife, wrote a reply to it.

In The Green House (1966) Vargas Llosa returned to formative experiences of his childhood and youth. The complicated novel has two major settings: the first, a provincial city, and the second, the jungle, a challenging, hostile and attractive environment, which the author has depicted in several works. In 1957 Varga Llosa travelled with a group of anthropologists into the jungle, and learned how Indian girls were being drafted into prostitution on the coast. The "Green House" of the story is a brothel, which is burned to the ground but rebuilt again. Another storyline follows the fate of the virginal Bonifacia from a jungle mission; she becomes a prostitute in Piura.

The War of the End of the World (1981) is a story of a revolt against the Brazilian government in the late 19th-century and the brutal response of the authorities. A religious fanatic, known as Conselheiro (Counselor), is followed by a huge band of disciples drawn from the fringes of society. Before the army of the Republic wins, the modern rational world suffers several humiliating defeats with the group of outcasts. Vargas Llosa uses Euclides da Cunha's account of the events, Os sertões (1902), as a source. One of the characters, a "nearsighted journalist", is loosely based on da Cunha.

The Real life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) moves on several narrative levels. It deals with a failed Marxist-Leninist insurrection in the Andes, led by an aging Trotskyist Alejandro Mayta. He is captured and his second lieutenant Vallejos executed. The novelist-narrator interviews a number of people who give a contradictory view of Mayta's personality and the events. Finally the reader realizes that in the process of creating a novel within a novel, the narrator has invented Mayta's life and undermined the concepts of writing and reading history.

Vargas Llosa's bitter memoir, EL PEZ EN EL AGUA (A Fish in the Water), appeared in 1993. It focused on his run for the presidency in 1990 - he was supposed to win the little-known Alberto Fujimori. The Feast of the Goat continued the author's political excursion into the recent history of South America. The story is set in the Dominican Republic in 1961, ruled by the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Urania Chabral has returned to the noisy Santo Domingo to visit her father, Agustin Chabral, who is ill. He is a former Dominican senator, a faithful servant of the dictator. "And how many times did you come home saddened because he did not call to you, fearful you were no longer in the circle of the elect, that you had fallen among the censured?" Eventually "Minister Cabral, Egghead Cabral" lost his favor. Urania left the country as a schoolgirl, three and a half decades ago, just before Trujillo's assassination in 1961. Urania wants revenge against father for everything he did not do, and has her own reasons to examine the Trujillo Era. "The most important thing that happened to us in five hundred years. You used to say that with so much conviction. It's true, Papa. During those thirty-one years, all the evil we had carried with us since the Conquest became crystallized."

Vargas Llosa portrays Trujillo as a superman intoxicated by his political and sexual powers, and worshipped by his demonic henchmen working in torture dungeons. "Oddly, Vargas Llosa's Trujillo sees himself as having gotten the short end of the bargain. He whipped his pathetic homeland into shape, modernized its attitudes and highways and in return he got -- old." (Walter Kirn in the New York Times, November 25, 2001) Vargas Llosa has structured the story like a thriller, leading the reader into the heart of the darkness. The Feast of the Goat is a highly topical book. The era of strong leaders is not totally over in Latin America, as one of the latest examples, Fujimori, sadly proved. In EL PARAÍSO EN LA OTRA ESQUINA (2002) two exceptional individuals, the socialist Flora Tristan, and her grandson, the painter Paul Gauguin, are inspired by great ideas. Flora devotes her life to serve the humanity, to create a worker's paradise. Gauguin leaves civilization behind and eventually rots alive in Atuana, Marguesas Island, in a tropical paradise.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llolsa

For further reading: Mario Vargas Llosa's Pursuit of the Total Novel by Luis A. Diez (1970); La narrativa de Vargas Llosa by J.L. Martin (1974); Mario Vargas Llosa by José Oviedo (1981); Vargas Llosa: La ciudad y los perros by Peter Standish (1982); Mario Vargas Llosa by Dick Gwerdes (1985);Mario Vargas Llosa by Raymond L. Williams (1986); Novel Lives by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal (1986);Mario Vargas Llosa by Roy C. Boland (1988); My Life With Mario Vargas Llosa by Julia Urquidi Illanes, C.R. Perricone (1988); Sobre la vida y la política by A. Ricardo Sett (1989); El metateatro y la dramátice de Vargas Llosa by Oscar Rivera-Rodas (1992); Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernistsby M. Keith Booker (1994); Vargas Llosa's Fiction & the Demons of Politics by Sabine Koellmann (2002).

Selected works:

• LA HUIDA DEL INCA, 1952 (play)
• LOS JEFES, 1959 - The Cubs and Other Stories
• LA CIUDAD Y LOS PERROS, 1963 - The Time of the Hero (transl. by Lysander Kemp, 1966) - Kaupungin koirat (suom. Matti Rossi, 1966)
• LA CASA VERDE, 1966 - The Green House (transl. by Gregory Rabassa, 1968) - Vihreä talo (suom. Matti Brotherus, 1978)
• LOS CACHORROS, 1967 - The Cubs and Other Stories (transl. by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ, 1979)
• LA NOVELA EN AMÉRICA LATINA; DIÁLOGO, 1968 (in collaboration with Gabriel García Márquez)
• ed.: Seven Stories fro Spanish America, 1968 (with Gordon Brotherston)
• CONVERSACIÓN EN LA CATEDRAL, 1969 - Conversation in the Cathedral (transl. by Gregory Rabassa, 1975)
• LA LITERATURA EN LA REVOLUCIÓN Y LA RECOLUCIÓN EN LA LITERATURA, 1970 (with Julio Cortázar and Oscar Collazos)
• GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, 1971
• HISTORIA SECRETA DE UNA NOVELA, 1971
• PANTELEÓN Y LAS VISITADORAS, 1973 - Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (transl. by Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ, 1978) - film 1976, dir. by Vargas Llosa
• LA NOVELA Y EL PROBLEMA DE LA EXPRESIÓN LITERARIA EN PERÚ, 1974
• LA ORGÍA PERPETUA, 1975 - The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary (transl. by Helen Lane, 1986)
• LA TÍA JULIA Y EL ESCRIBIDOR, 1977 - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (transl. by Helen R. Lane, 1982) - Julia-täti ja käsikirjoittaja (suom. Sulamit Hirvas, 1992) - film 1990, dir. by Jon Amiel, starring Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Peter Falk
• LA UTOPÍA ARCAICA, 1978
• OBRAS ESCOGIDAS, 1978
• JOSÉ MARÍA ARGUEDAS, 1978
• ART, AUTHENTICITY AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE, 1981 (?)
• LA GUERRA DEL FIN DEL MUNDO, 1981 - The War of the End of the World (transl. by Helen R. Lane, 1984) - Maailmanlopun sota (suom. Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä, 1983)
• ENTRE SARTRE Y CAMUS, 1981
• LA SEÑORITA DE TACNA, 1981 - The Young Lady from Tacna (play)
• KATHIE Y EL HIPOPÓTAMO, 1983 - Kathie and the Hippopotamus (play)
• HISTORIA DE MAYTA, 1984 - The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (transl. by Alfred Mac Adam, 1985) - Mayatan tarina (suom. Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä, 1988)
• LA CULTURA DE LA LIBERTAD, LA LIBERTAD DE LA CULTURA, 1985
• LA CHUNGA, 1986 - trans. (play)
• ¿QUIÉN MATÓ A PALOMINO MOLERO?, 1986 - Who Killed Palomino Molero? (transl. by Alfred Mac Adam, 1987)
• EL HABLADOR, 1987 - The Storyteller (transl. by Helen Lane, 1989) - Puhujamies (suom. Erkki Kirjalainen, 1990)
• DIÁLOGO SOBRE LA NOVELA LATINOAMERICANA, 1988
• ELEGIO DE LA MADRASTRA, 1988 - In Praise of the Stepmother (transl. by Helen Lane, 1990) - Äitipuolen ylistys (suom. Sulamit Hirvas, 1991)
• LA VERDAD DE LAS MENTIRAS, 1990 - A Writer's Reality (ed. by Myron I. Lichtblau, 1991)
• Three Plays, 1990 (transl. by David Graham-Young)
• CONTRA VIENTRO Y MAREA (1962-1982), 1983-90 (3 vols.)
• LETRA DE BATALLA POR TIRANT LO BLANC, 1991
• The Cubs and Other Stories, 1991
• LITUMA EN LOS ANDES, 1993 - Death in the Andes (transl. by Edith Grossman, 1996) - Andies mies (suom. Sulamit Hirvas, 1995)
• EL PEZ EN EL AGUA, 1993 - A Fish in the Water (transl. by Helen Lane, 1994)
• EL LOCO DE LOS BALCONES, 1993
• Georg Grosz and Mario Llosa, 1993
• DESAFÍOS A LA LIBERTAD, 1994
• Making Waves, 1996 (ed. by John King)
• CARTAS A UN NOVELISTA, 1997 - Letters to a Young Novelist (transl. Natasha Wimmer, 2003)
• LOS CUADERNOS DE DON RIGOBERTO, 1997 - The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (transl. by Edith Grossman, 1998)
• LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO, 2000 - The Feast of the Goat (transl. by Edith Grossman, 2001) - Vuohen juhla (suom. Sulamit Hirvas, 2002)
• EL LENGUAJE DE LA PASIÓN, 2001 - The Language of Passion (translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2003)
• EL PARAÍSO EN LA OTRA ESQUINA, 2002 - The Way to Paradise (transl. by Natasha Wimmer, 2003) - Paratiisi on nurkan takana (suom. Sulamit Hirvas, 2005)
• DIARIO DE IRAK, 2003 (with Morgana Vargas Llosa)
• OBRAS COMPLETAS, 2004 (ed. Antoni Munné)
• LA TENTACIÓN DE LO IMPOSIBLE, 2004 - The Temptation of the Impossible (transl. by John King, 2007)
• PEZ EN EL AQUA, 2005
• TRAVESURAS DE LA NIÑA MALA, 2006 - The Bad Girl (transl. by Edith Grossman, 2007) - Tuhma tyttö (suom. Sulamit Hrvas, 2010)
• TEATRO: OBRA REUNIDA, 2006
• DICCIONARIO DEL AMANTE DE AMERICA LATINA, 2006
• ISRAEL, PALESTINA: PAZ O GUERRA SANTA, 2006 (with Morgana Vargas Llosa)
• ODISEO Y PENÉLOPE, 2007 (with Ros Ribas)
• Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art and Politics, 2007 (translated and edited by John King)
• VIAJE A LA FICCÍON: EL MUNDO DE JUAN CARLOS ONETTI, 2008
• AL PIE DEL TÁMESIS, 2008 (with Morgana Vargas Llosa)
• SABLES Y UTOPÍAS, 2009 (ed. by Carlos Granés)
• LAS MIL NOCHES Y UNA NOCHE, 2009 (with Ros Ribas)
• EL SUEÑO DEL CELTA, 2010

Source: kirjasto & wiki