Sleepmakeswaves – What We Cannot Speak Of Must Be Passed Over In Silence
Malcolm D B Munro
Friday 30 September, 2016
Good words, well written, better the world. Good literature betters the world immeasurably.
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Drawing The Endless Shore – Tomorrow We Will Be Dying
Malcolm D B Munro
Friday 30 September, 2016
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Translated book sales are up, but Britain is still cut off from foreign literature
“But when you examine what is translated into English, only 1.5% of all books published in the UK are translations. Compare that to Germany (a bigger book market than the UK), France or Italy, where translated fiction is 12.28%, 15.9% and 19.7% of the respective markets… “ Literature Across Frontiers
No of speakers world wide, in millions
English 1500
German 101
French 67
Italian 61
Top 30 languages of the world
Number of books sold, in millions, per year in / per capita
US 305 / 1
UK 184 / 2.875
Germany 82 / 1
France 42 / 0.667
Italy 62 / 1
Books published per country per year
Number of speakers worldwide
English 1500
German 101
French 67
Italian 61
Percentage number of books per year being translated into
US 3
UK 3
Germany 11
France 15
Italy 25
Percentages of Translations in English
If we take the fact that 2.875 books are read per person in the UK, the the percentage translated rises to 43%. If one looks at the number of publishes who sell translated work, and the number of translated titles they introduce a month, this begins to make sense. To take one example
Happy International Translation Day!
Then, to end with, we have this from the same newspaper,
Translated fiction sells better in the UK than English fiction, research finds
Malcolm D B Munro
Friday 30 September, 2016
Filed under: Arts, Book Review, Culture, history, Media, Memoir, poetry, songs, stories
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