Harry Potter and the Scots
Given that Hogwarts resides in the Scottish Highlands, it seems a bit of an oversight that Harry Potter is only now being translated into a Scottish language, but nonetheless we are delighted to hear...
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Harry Potter and The Italian Revision
In 2014 the publisher of the Italian translations of the Harry Potter books, Salani Editore published a significantly revised edition. They comment quite extensively on the revision on their website; fundamentally, the justification for...
Harry Potter and The Recycled Spanish Cover
MSpiegel brought something to my attention that collectors should be aware of. A later Salamandra edition, 978-84-7888-611-1, is in the wild with a first edition Emecé cover complete with the first edition ISBN, 978-950-04-1957-4....
Harry Potter and the Blair Partnership Translation List
Authoritative information about Harry Potter translations from primary sources is really hard to come by. Even if you do get a response to your request, it’s rarely very useful. I’m on the fence about...
Harry Potter and the Hebrew ISBN SNAFU
It’s not entirely clear why this is the case, but the Hebrew ISBNs are messed up, particularly for Philosopher’s Stone, which doesn’t appear to have it’s own unique ISBN and has been published under...
Bloomsbury Provides a Number!
Almost every source about Harry Potter translations says something like “translated into more than 65 languages”. That’s a fair thing to say, but it’s not very satisfying for a collector when there is no...
Azerbaijani Translation of Goblet of Fire published!
Title: Harri Potter və alov qədəhi Translator: Gülmira Fətullayeva ISBN: 978-9952-36-169-8 Publisher: Qanun Can be purchased directly from the Publisher.
Harry Potter and the Uighur Revisitation
An update to Harry Potter and the Uighur Enigma has been long over due! Some major life-events interrupted my investigation into this translation, but I have learned a lot in the interim. Since my first post, ThePotterCollector got...
Harry Potter and the Armenian Delegitimization
The status of the 2004 Lilit’ Mkrtčyan Armenian translation of Philosopher’s Stone was a little up in the air until just this year. It seems that it was, in fact, an unauthorized translation as...
