[lbo-talk] Books in Translation: 3% of All Books in the US

[Chris Doss]

To be fair, a few writers do get translated -- Viktor
Pelevin, Ludmilla Ulitskaya and Boris Akunin have been
translated into English. But those are all novelists,
not scholars like Medvedev.

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Chris wrote:
> 
> > It is really amazing how little Russian writers
> get translated.
> 
> 
> It's not just Russian writers.  According to the
> National Endowment  
> for the Arts, "fewer than 3% of all books published
> in the U.S. . . .  
> were translations" (

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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