English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu!(www.nytimes.com)

posted 5 months ago

Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.

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5 months ago

I would never read a Danish translation of an English novel. I i would even prefer an English translation if it’s in a language I can’t read.

I started reading in English in my early teens, and it stuck.

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