Literature in Interlingua

The **literature in Interlingua** is the collection of written words in that artificial language.

Gode had an extremely limited conception regarding the possible or desirable fields of use for Interlingua. His legacy consists only of several hundred summaries in Interlingua of scientific articles from the 1950s and 1960s, and two small collections of short stories... without much literary value. The first works written in Interlingua were books for learning the language, such as the _Interlingua-English Dictionary_ and _A Brief Grammar of Interlingua for Readers_, both published in 1954. These were accompanied in 1954 by _Interlingua a Prime Vista_ and, a year later, by _Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language_, this time written by Gode and Blair.

Already in 1960, Eric Ahlström began translating and editing booklets of fictional literature in his series _Scriptores scandinave in INTERLINGUA_: _Episodio con perspectiva_ (Harald Herdal, 1960); _Un desertor_ (Bo Bergman, 1961); and _Le nove vestimentos del imperator_ (H.C. Andersen, 1961).

One of the most prolific authors in Interlingua was the Swede Sven Collberg (1919–2003). His first publication in Interlingua, _Alicubi-Alterubi_, was an 18-poem booklet of original poetry. In the same year, he published _Cunate tu es a mi mar_, a book of 100 poems translated from languages all over the world and from poetry ranging from the past up to his own time. Other works by the same author include _Inter le stellas_ (1975), _Le prince e altere sonetos_ (1977), _Lilios, Robores_ (1979), _Prosa_ (1980), and _Versos grec_ (1987).

In the 1970s, Carolo Salicto published _Volo asymptotic_ (1970), a collection of original poems and two translations. _Celestina le gallina del vicina_ and _Hannibalo le gallo del vicino_ were published in 1971. Seven tales also by H.C. Andersen were translated in 1975. Also in this decade, Alexander Gode published _Un dozena de breve contos_ (1975), and Sven Collberg published the translation of the previously mentioned _Inter le stellas_, a work by Casemir Wishlace.

Alexander Gode published _Dece Contos_ in 1983.

In the 1990s, one finds many translations such as _Le familia del antiquario_ by Carlo Goldoni, translated in 1993, and _Le Albergatrice_, by the same author, translated two years later. Other works translated in this decade include _Contos e historias_ by H.C. Andersen (translated in 1995) and _Le pelegrinage de Christiano_ by John Bunyan (1994).

Vicente Costalago published the original novella _Juliade_ in 2022, followed by _Poemas_, also published in the same year. _Kilglan_, by the same author, was published in 2023.

In issue 46 of Posta Mundi, from March 2025, Eduardo Ortega, also known as Le Canario Interlinguista, published _Sonetto del depression_ ("Sonnet of Depression"), where _Ad su prude dama_ ("To His Coy Mistress") by Andrew Marvell also appeared, translated by Martin Lavallée, who also translated _Le Albatros_ ("The Albatross") by Charles Baudelaire.

### Original works

- Breinstrup, Thomas (2013) _Mysterios in Mexico - un novella criminal_
- Costalago, Vicente (2020) _Le dece-duo travalios de Heracles_
- Costalago, Vicente (2022) _Juliade_
- Costalago, Vicente (2022) _Poemas_
- Hak, Esbern (1996) _Paletta: dece-duo novellas original_
- Scriptor, Marcus (2015) _Le polyglotto involuntari e altere contos_
- Soreto, Carlos (2020) _Anthologia Litterari_
- Costalago, Vicente (2023) _Kilglan_

### Translations

- Andersen, H. C. (1975) _Septe contos_
- Andersen, H. C. (1995) _Contos e historias_
- Andersen, H.C. (1961) _Le nove vestimentos del imperator_
- Baldwin, James (2022) _Robinson Crusoe scribite de novo pro infantes_
- Bang, Herman (1994) _Tres novellas_
- Arseneault, Daniel (2023) _Le torno del mundo in octanta dies_
- Bunyan, John (1994) _Le pelegrinage de Christiano_
- Buzzati, Dino (1992) _Tres novellas_
- Collberg, Sven (1975) _Alicubi, alterubi_
- Collberg, Sven (1977) _Le Prince e altere sonettos_
- Collberg, Sven (1978) _Pandora. Scenas mythic in interlingua_
- Collberg, Sven (1980) _Prosa Pensatas breve e longe in interlingua_
- Collodi, Carlo (2018) _Pinocchio_
- Daudet, Alphonse (2013) _Litteras de mi molino_
- Doyle, Arthur Conan (2014) _Le grande experimento de Keinplatz_
- Enfors, Erik (2020) _Tres contos per Selma Lagerlöf_

- Frank, Sven (2012) _Contos in Interlingua_
- Gibran, Khalil (2019) _Le Propheta_
- Gode, Alexander (1983) _Dece Contos_, Beekbergen.
- Goldoni, Carlo (1995) _Le Albergatrice_
- Goldoni, Carlo (1993) _Le familia del antiquario_
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (2015) _Contos de phantasmas_
- Leblanc, Maurice (2014) _Arsène Lupin - le fur gentilhomine_
- Leroux, Gaston (2014) _Duo historias terrificante_
- Macovei, Toma (2019) _Ab le auro spiritual del scena e del schermo II_
- Notarstefano, Italo (2019) _Facile contos 1 – contos del humor_
- Notarstefano, Italo (2019) _Facile contos 2 – contos del mysteri_
- Poe, Edgar Allan (2013) _Le Barril de Amontillado_, traducite per Patricio Negrete
- Poe, Edgar Allan (2013) _Le homicidios in le Rue Morgue_
- Quiroga, Horacio (2013) _Contos del foreste_
- Söderberg, Hjalmar (2012) _Le joco seriose_
- Tchekhov, Anton (2006) _11 contos_

## Other websites

- Bibliotheca electronic in interlingua