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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.
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