Ediciones Salamandra, the Spanish language publishers the Harry Potter novels, have today announced the release date for their translations of seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” These editions are set to hit store shelves at 18:30 (6:30 pm) in Spain, the United States, and throughout Latin America on February 21, 2008. In addition to being printed in Castilian, the publishers also said versions of the book in Catalan and Galician will be released simultaneously. This translated edition of “Deathly Hallows,” the title for which you can read here, will be translated by Gemma Rovira, while the cover art will be produced by Dolores Avendaño, both of whom have worked on the previous novels.
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wow, they suddenly have three months to mentally prepare themselves for this. they must be so excited!
and cover art. exactly my sentiments, Fer_keeper.
excited? we hate salamandra. they do not respect fans of latinamerica. their translations are horribles, the covers and they invent details for the books. rowling has change it
it should be noted that the US edition was available on 21 july in much of latin america. It’s not like many of us don’t know what happens :) There were midnight release parties and everything. And Nono is right, lots of people do prefer the USA or british versions to the translations.
I totally agreed, they change almost everything. But I feel happy because in latinamerican there are a lot of fans that not read english, so for them will be so awesome to finally read this great book.
HEY! THIS LAST BOOK, I WANT READING TODAY BUT I CAN WAIT TO COME IN SPANHIS I LIVE IN MEXICO I DONT NOW MUCH INGLISH BUT I TODAY I HAVE MY BOOK IN INGLISH
I want to read the spanish traslation only because there are a few details that i wasn’t able to understand in english… i don’t like salamandras traslation either but is the only option we have…
I’m not pro non-official traslations but not everyone can read in english… and the one that was on the internet for this book was very acurate and almost every fan in latin america and spain read it because salamandra always release the books 8 or 9 months later…
My HP collection is half in spanish and half in english, and the split happens in the fifth book when it wasn’t out yet while the other four were already available in spanish. I wasn’t going to wait for a translation. My english is quite decent, plus, what better way to improve it than by reading the book on it’s native language?
The relics of death gives it a bit away unlike the english version where people just didn’t know what she meant with hallows. Then again, a relic doesn’t really says much, it could be ANY sort of old artifact. The play of words is still there though. Adding ‘de la muerte’ (of death) makes them sound pretty deadly and for someone who hasn’t read it, it’s hard to guess the relics were actually owned by death and not deadly themselves.
I know how to speak Spanish because I have to talk to my mom and a lot of my relatives in Spanish because they don’t know English., but I’m definitely no pro. English is my dominant and native language but I bought all the HP books in Spanish to sorta improve my Spanish. I didn’t know Salamandra’s translations were bad. That really bites. Oh well.
Posted by Brenda, a Chicana on November 19, 2007, 10:37 PM
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I can’t believe the spanish translation is coming out so late.
It’s a commercial strategy because the spanish version is the 3rd in importance after english and chinese (talking about the numer of people who speak the language and therefor buy it).
Finally! The book in spanish, I’ve read it in english, I’m exciting to see it. Well I have to admit it, I don’t like Salamandra, their traslations are horrible, they don’t respect us! However I hope see a beutiful cover art. I can’t wait.
Posted by VanessaPineda (Venezuela) Coc Member!! on November 20, 2007, 01:32 AM
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Finally!! It was about time!! ^^ I like to buy the book in Spanish too and compare the translasion, but, to be honest, I bought OotP in Spanish the same day it came out and still haven’t read it!! XD
Posted by Bonnie Radcliffe on November 20, 2007, 12:15 PM
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Yes, baby! All I need now is to see that beautiful cover art.