The directory presents the most famous writers from Asia and Africa. The annotations introduce not only important information from the creative biography of these authors, but also the plots of their main works. The bibliographic part of the reference book is given selectively. There are auxiliary indexes. The directory is addressed to a wide range of readers. This publication of the literary and bibliographic directory “Main works of foreign fiction” in two volumes is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after. M. I. Rudomino. Executive editor E. P. Chelyshev, academician. Editorial board: G. M. Ageeva; L. G. Pospelova, candidate of philology. Sciences;N. D. Serebryakov, Doctor of Philology. Sciences;L. E. Cherkasova, Doctor of Philology. sciences. The expanded and corrected edition of this volume of the reference book was prepared by: I. G. Kushke, M. V. Novikova, N. M. Fedorenkova.

Artist I. Kuchma.