Cultural Diversity Week 2026

Cultural Diversity Week is a time to celebrate the power, influence, and stories of Victoria's rich multicultural communities. This year we have curated a list of translated titles, both new and well loved, so you can immerse yourselves in the stories of other cultures.

Cultural Diversity Week runs 21-29 March this year.

Updated March 3, 2026
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick- 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A brilliant literary murder mystery.' Chicago Tribune A subversive, entertaining noir novel from one of Poland's most...
We do not part
Han, Kang
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE NBCC BARRIOS BOOK...
The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
Paper Book
A sensation across Europe--millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and...
I Who Have Never Known Men
Harpman, Jacqueline
Ebook
Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? ...
The kingdom
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
Two brothers. Bound by blood and a lifetime of secrets. Roy thought he'd buried the past for good. Living quietly in his mountain village, he tends the petrol station, keeps to himself, and stays out of trouble. But when his younger brother Carl returns after years abroad, ambitious...
Discontent
Serrano, Beatriz
Paper Book
Life can't go on like this - can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection. A sexy and hilarious Spanish bestseller, where a young woman's office persona threatens to crack when she's...
The secret of snow
Harnesk, Tina.
'This is a story about culture and identity and about fighting to keep your memories while being robbed of your history, but it's written with a warmth and humor that never leaves the reader alone on the journey' Fredrik Backman, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove<...
P?tea boys = Ng?ti P?tea
Ngarewa, Airana
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Bone Tree comes a lively and playful bilingual collection of stories about growing up in Pātea. Interlinked and full of recurring characters, these stories are about growing up in small-town Aotearoa - sneaking away during cross country,...
Going to the dogs
Lemaître, Pierre
Paper Book
Spent bullets
Terao, Tetsuya
Paper Book
Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered on the short life and long shadow of an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder....
A Father Is Born
Neuman, Andres
Paper Book
The moving story of a man relearning his entire world and words, written by the winner of the Alfaguara Prize. "It's not vertigo: it's a child." A father, a mother, a child: three different characters in a universal story, told in newly born words. A minimalist chronicle of a...
Advent
Gunnarsson, Gunnar
Paper Book
'As we come nearer to Christmas this wondrous book becomes ever more poignant and magical. Once read never forgotten' Michael Morpurgo Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards...
Not On Display: A Graphic Novel About Female Nudes In The Louvre
Zelba.
Paper Book
An entertaining satire of nudity in the Louvre, Not on Display is a deeply serious, award-winning graphic novel examining the history of the female body in art and our society.   When one of the greatest museums in the world gave the illustrator Zelba free rein to...
What you are looking for is in the library
Aoyama, Michiko
Paper Book
THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL The Top Ten Times bestseller A Time Magazine Book of the Year 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times 'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail 'It...
The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
Paper Book
The perfect nine : the epic G?k?y? and M?mbi
Ng?g? wa Thiong?o
Paper Book
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE.* 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity. Gikuyu and...
Cursed bunny
Chung, Bora
Paper Book
Everything I'll say to you tomorrow
Benavent, Elísabet
Paper Book
If you could and rewrite your memories, would you do it? International bestselling author Elisabet Benavent explores doomed love, memories, and regrets in this sensational contemporary romance full of witty humor, emotional catharsis, and a satisfying happy ending. Fashion editor...
Kafka on the shore
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their...
The midnight shift
Cheon, Seon-Ran
Paper Book
A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn't understand why she's...
Jimi Hendrix live in Lviv
Kurkov, Andre?
Paper Book
"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times "Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European "A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by...
One hundred years of solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a true classic, a timelessly fascinating and intricately...
Oromay
Ba?lu Germ?
Paper Book
"Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King Ethiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of propaganda, it's Tsegaye's job...
The memory police
Ogawa, Y?ko
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __...
My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy¿s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante¿s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and...
When the cranes fly south
Ridzén, Lisa
Paper Book
DISCOVER THE No.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'One of those \"you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love\" books'...
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Sola, Irene.
Paper Book
An earthy, bewitching and ferocious new novel by the author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance
The three-body problem
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War of the Worlds for...
My friends
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most...
Jackson alone
Ando, Jose
Paper Book
Jose Ando's short, sharp debut about four mixed-raced Black Japanese gay men out for revenge when a disturbing pornographic video of one of them is circulated online.
Lullaby
Slimani, Leila
Paper Book
The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt - a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood.
Before the coffee gets cold
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Paper Book
The first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what...
My name is Emilia del Valle
Allende, Isabel
Paper Book
'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel...
Lean your loneliness slowly against mine : a novel
Hveberg, Klara
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of Asymmetry, that combines...

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