Kay Hawkins asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

What other languages besides English has the Vorkosigan Saga been translated into? And where might I find a copy of them in these other languages (mostly looking for Russian)?

Lois McMaster Bujold
My books have been translated into over 20 languages, although
not all titles in all languages. Note that this is over the course of my whole career, so many editions will have aged out of license and into oblivion.

First place to look, I suppose, is at the publisher websites of the target-language countries. AST (in Cyrillic ACT) has been my Russian publisher. Next would be the country Amazon site, if they have one. I know Japan, France, and Germany Amazons sometimes have my books. After that (or through that) used-book vendors in the language of interest.

Offhand, from memory before my morning tea, my books have been translated to:

Spanish
French
German
Italian
Hungarian
Finnish
Estonian
Croatian
Bulgarian
Greek
Czech
Russian
Japanese
Chinese
Hebrew
Frisian
Dutch
Korean
Lithuanian
Polish

Hm, I feel I'm missing something... I may have been counting Chinese traditional and simplified as two. We had a recent offer in Thai, but nothing has come of it yet.

It's interesting to contemplate which countries or regions apparently read SF, and which don't. I know in some of the smaller countries, like Croatia, Finland, and the Netherlands, most people who do read the genres do so in English, for breadth of access.

Ta, L.

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