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Re: Jules Verne = #4 translated author in the world

From: Ron Miller <spaceart~at~att.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:51:01 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

This is pretty cool! Though it really doesn't seem very fair (or even
realistic) to include Walt Disney Productions as an "author".

R

Art Evans wrote:

> Dear Vernian friends,
>
> UNESCO has just updated their INDEX TRANSLATIONUM, and Jules Verne is
> now the fourth most-translated author in the world (up from #5
> previously). Only Walt Disney Productions, Agatha Christie, and the
> Bible have more translations. It is interesting that the author whom
> Verne just surpassed for the #4 slot is Lenin.
>
> See the TRANSLATIONUM's top-50 list at:
> http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/stat/xTransStat.a?VL1=A&top=50&lg=0
>
> Best,
> Art
>
>
>
>
Received on Fri 03 Dec 2004 - 14:51:16 IST

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