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Shannon Clark
Rycaut@mastodon.social
Edited 1 year ago
What are your favorite genre books that you have read in translation?
(SF/Fantasy being my personal genres of choice, but if mysteries or romance are yours answer accordingly?)
My primary language is English so in the replies I'll give a few of my favorites (one which I've read both in English and the original language)
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Shannon Clark
Rycaut@mastodon.socialin Fantasy one of my all time favorite books is The Stone and The Flute by Hans Bemmann translated from the original German by Anthea Bell
and I loved read The Little Prince (Le Petite Prince) which I read in high school in both my English and my French classes
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@Rycaut When I started reading, the only language I knew was Sinhalese. So I read a lot of classics like “Lorna Doone”, “Robinson Crusoe”, “Les Miserables”, “The Count of Monte Cristo” and so on (too many to count really) all in Sinhalese …
From the lot, “The Count of Monte Cristo” still remains my favourite even though SF/Fantasy became my preferred genre a few years later and still remains so …
But I don’t think I read that may SF/Fantasy books in Sinhalese though. I don’t think there were that many translations of the genre back then — I do recall several SF originals in Sinhalese that got me on track to become a huge SF fan, but it wasn’t until I started reading in English that I hit the motherlode in terms of SF (and later, fantasy …)
From the lot, “The Count of Monte Cristo” still remains my favourite even though SF/Fantasy became my preferred genre a few years later and still remains so …
But I don’t think I read that may SF/Fantasy books in Sinhalese though. I don’t think there were that many translations of the genre back then — I do recall several SF originals in Sinhalese that got me on track to become a huge SF fan, but it wasn’t until I started reading in English that I hit the motherlode in terms of SF (and later, fantasy …)
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