Ryszard Kapuscinski writes in Travels with Herodotus, that

"there are many worlds. And that each is different. Each is important. And that one must learn about them, because these other worlds, these other cultures, are mirrors in which we see ourselves, thanks to which we understand ourselves better-for we cannot define our own identity until having confronted that of others, as comparison."

Look in the online catalogue for these writers:

• about Africa: Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ken Sero-Wiwa, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee, Naguib Mahfouz
• about Asia: Xinqjian Gao , Jin Ha, Sijie Dai, Jun’ichoro Tanizaki, Haruki Murakami, Kenzaburo Oe, Amos Oz, Abraham B Yehoshua, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Azar Nafisi, Nadeem Aslam, Ahdaf Soueif, Hanan Shaykh, Indra Sinha, Shirin Ebadi
• about Australia/New Zealand: Peter Carey, Janet Turner Hospital, Lloyd Jones, Keri Hulme, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Jolley

• about Western Europe: David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, A S Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Kate Atkinson, Seamus Heaney, John Banville, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, Nuala O'Faolain, Erik Orsenna, Francoise Sagan, W.G Seba>ld, Gunther Grass, Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Italo Calvino, Andrea Camillieri, Jose Saramago, Camilo Jose Cela
• about Eastern Europe: Gillian Slovo, Orhan Pamuk, Elif Shafak, Yasar Kemal, Joseph Brodsky, Ismail Kadare, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, Ryszard Kapuscinski
• about South/Central America: Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa, Antonio Skarmeta, Sergio Ramirez, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Paolo Coelho, Julia Alvarez, Octavio Paz, Laura Esquivel

• Native American: Tomson Highway, Thomas King, Daniel Paul, Rita Joe, Louise Erdrich, M. Scott Momaday, Michael Dorris
• Multicultural/Transcultural –looking at the intermingling of cultures –: Hanif Kureishi , Monica Ali, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Anita Rau Badami, Yasmina Khadra, M.G.Vassanji, Vikram Chandra, Chang-Rae Lee, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri