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European Fantasy Books

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Khazraj, Mar 16, 2003.

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    I am quite amazed that there are so many forum friends of European backgrounds that enjoy reading English Fantasy novels. (Good on you for knowing so many languages, makes me jealous...)

    Are there other perhaps equally talented authors of fantasy in your local language? Just curious.

    What would be the title and author?
     
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    As far as I know, there's not a single fantasy writer in Slovenia. Which is not really surprising, since 10 years ago no one here has even heard of fantasy. I suppose that might change in the upcoming years, but in the meantime, there are 5 tons of English fantasy novels around, so no one is really complaining...
     
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    Can't think of any dutch writers either, but the reason why we read english fantasy is in my opinion the lousy translations (if there even are any, for example the FR novels)
     
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    There are some Swedish fantasy writers, many whom were active a few decades ago. I have read most of it and I must say that it is pretty entertaining, Swedish fantasy tends to not be as epic as anglo-saxian and almost all of it is aimed at juveniles. I have found what I have read to be pretty good, it is often set in very strange worlds and magic and the like often does not play a very big part.
     
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    In Germany, there is a man called Wolfgang Hohlbein. He dabbles in fantasy-, SF- and horrorstories. I don't know if his books were translated into english.

    IMHO, he is rather average. Some of his books are quite good, such as "Das Jahr des Greifen" (the year of the griffin), his "Enwor"-cycle or "Magog". But his is producing books by the dozen, so that noone can really survey his whole work. There's even the rumor that he has several ghost authors, just because the velocity he's is putting out his books.
     
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    For Slovakia, I don't know.
    For Czech Republic, there are plenty of them, but none is known in outside. And the publishers often make them to use english pseudonyms.
    Poland has quite a few ones, including one of my favorite fantasy author ever, Andrzej Sapkowski.
    It's quite pity so many english crap books are being translated and so many high quality slavonic ones have no chance to be translated in english.
     
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    Here in Poland we have whole herds of fantasy writers. Only not all of them should really be given a pen ;)

    Some of them are quite nice to read although I must confess I don't remember their names - I have only read many short stories in Polish and haven't had the time to seek out the novels. Well, except one, mentionned above by ArrynMorgerim: Andrzej Sapkowski (you'll never pronounce that so don't even bother trying :D ). He's being translated into various foreign languages, but I don't know if English is among them. Whatever you see of this author is highly recommended by me.
     
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    Here in Turkey ,there are no fantasy-writers. Mostly, because fantasy is not well known here.
    Everyone is reading Salvatore's, Cunningham's or Weis' books.
     
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    Chevalier. I think that I could try to say Andrzej Sapkowski. "Andzhey Sapkovskee"...

    Thanks for the info. If only I could read Polish. That would be a dream come true...
     
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    To Andrzej Sapkowski:
    I think parts of Wiedzmin were translated to German, Russian, Czech (all books and short stories were translated) and IIRC some other slavonic languages (Litvian?)
    There was a movie made, but I don't think it is very good.
     
    ArrynMorgerim, Apr 13, 2003
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