Next is a set of D-item draft pages for translations in Latvian. The draft pages include four editions of two translations of two A-items.
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Here is a set of D-item draft pages for translations in Macedonian, a Slavic language spoken in the Republic of Macedonia, a landlocked country in the central Balkan peninsula. The draft pages include 11 editions of seven translations of six A-items.
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Here is a set of D-item draft pages for translations in Lithuanian. Nine editions of six translated A-items have been published in the Baltic state of Lithuania.
You may have noticed that on the covers of the earlier Lithuanian editions, VN’s name is given as “Vladimiras Nabokovas”. This adheres to the Lithuanian rule of using the Indo-European masculine ending, “as”, for a male’s name. But some of the later editions use the standard name and some even use both.
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Not many translations in Indonesian. Just two: Mary and Lolita. But the original translation of Lolita in 2008 went through at least eight printings before it was revised for another edition in 2011.
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The next set of D-item draft pages is translations in Hebrew. Sixteen editions of 12 translated A-items have been published in Israel since 1959 when Lolita was released. Of course that was not the only appearance of the novel in Israel that year. Steimatsky distributed a one-volume reprint of the original English language Olympia Press edition (see A28.1 First Israeli printing, variants a and b, on p. 11 of the pdf).
Two of the editions, D10.he.1.1, The Defense, and D16.he.1.1, Invitation to a Beheading, were translated from the original Russian.
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The next set of D-item draft pages is translations in Estonian. Nine editions of six translated A-items have been published in the tiny Baltic state of Estonia. Two of the editions were published in 1990 (D10.et.1.1 and D42.et.1.1) before Estonia became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991 and one was published immediately after in 1992 (D28.et.1.1).
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The fourth set of D-item draft pages is translations in Arabic. There are 17 editions of seven translated A-items from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq.
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The third set of D-item draft pages is translations in Bulgarian. There are 12 editions of 10 translated A-items.
I haven’t been able to confidently translate one of the Bulgarian titles. The title of D24.bg.1.1, the first Bulgarian edition of the first Bulgarian translation of Bend Sinister, is Знак за незаконороденост [Znak za nezakonorodenost]. Does it translate as “Bend sinister”? Or is there a more accurate rendering of the Bulgarian? Can anyone help?
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The second set of D-item draft pages is translations in Dutch. There are 69 editions of 27 translated A-items. This listing is as complete and accurate as it is because of the whole-hearted help of Martin Kaaij.
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I have posted the draft PDF of the first of the D-items, translations in Albanian. Only five editions of Nabokov have been published in Albanian: one of Машенька / Mary and four of Lolita / Лолита, one of which was published in the U.S.
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