Erikson is available in French... the first two books.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 14/05/2010 10:01:17 PM
Bakker is available in French and I seem to recall reading that Erikson is as well. Whether or not books published in France would be available in Quebec is an entirely different matter, though. SOIAF I know is published in full volumes in Spain and Martin, Bakker, and Sapkowski are fairly popular there as well. But from what I recall of the Portuguese and Brazilian markets, what's popular in Spanish isn't necessarily going to be popular in Portuguese-language editions.
Then they gave up, evidently, precisely like they did in Dutch. Erikson takes more effort than the average fantasy book that's translated, without being marketable as a more literary kind of work like e.g. Gene Wolfe might be. My guess would be they discovered that most of the target audience just bought him in English and didn't feel like waiting for a translation, and so they stopped translating.
And as for Bakker, Wikipedia says there's a French translation for all of the PoN trilogy, but amazon.fr doesn't even have the translation of Thousandfold Thought, which doesn't look like a good sign either.
Interesting discussion on the series, for the few here who can understand it
13/05/2010 11:15:27 PM
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Speaking for my own culture...
14/05/2010 01:04:54 AM
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Nice counterpoints
14/05/2010 01:54:07 AM
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Erikson is available in French... the first two books.
14/05/2010 10:01:17 PM
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Re: Nice counterpoints
14/05/2010 10:53:33 PM
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But some translations are actually quite good
14/05/2010 11:38:19 PM
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Re: But some translations are actually quite good
15/05/2010 02:15:11 AM
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Have they finally released Monaldi & Sorti in the original Italian now?
15/05/2010 09:51:36 AM
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Re: Have they finally released Monaldi & Sorti in the original Italian now?
15/05/2010 05:27:58 PM
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Russia loves that sort of crap.
14/05/2010 03:59:52 PM
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After reading Alexey Pehov's first translated work, I can believe that *NM*
14/05/2010 04:12:07 PM
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You're just linking that because of the compliments they're making about you, admit it.
14/05/2010 09:00:35 PM
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I did say I was made aware of this because of a link to my comments
14/05/2010 09:09:34 PM
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