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  2. Cantinflas - Wikipedia

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    His humor, deeply rooted in the Spanish language, did not translate well for the American audience and the movie's reception was a failure. He still earned a Golden Globe nomination for his part. Later in a 1992 American interview, Moreno cited the language barrier as the biggest impediment to his making it big in the United States.

  3. Gregory Rabassa - Wikipedia

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    He produced English-language versions of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One Hundred Years of Solitude. He later declared Rabassa's translation to be ...

  4. Peter Ladefoged - Wikipedia

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    He also was interested in listening to and describing every sound used in spoken human language, which he estimated at 900 consonants and 200 vowels. [7] This research formed the basis of much of The Sounds of the World's Languages. In 1966 Ladefoged moved from the UCLA English Department to join the newly established Linguistics Department. [8]

  5. English as She Is Spoke - Wikipedia

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    1969 – The book was re-published in New York by Dover Publications, under the title English as she is spoke; the new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English (ISBN 0-486-22329-9). 2002 – A new edition edited by Paul Collins was published under the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney's (ISBN 0-9719047-4-X).

  6. The Collector - Wikipedia

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    Literary scholars have noted the theme of class in the British caste system as a prominent point of interest in the novel. [1] Critic Hayden Carruth noted that Fowles is preoccupied with "reshuffling classes under British socialism", evoked in the differences in social background between the characters of the working-class Frederick, and Miranda, a member of the bourgeoisie.

  7. Simplicius Simplicissimus - Wikipedia

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    The work Simplicius Simplicissimus consists of five books nominally published 1668, with a sequel Continuatio appearing in 1669. Each book is in turn divided into chapters. [1] [2] [a] The Continuatio is considered the sixth book of the same cycle by scholars, though Grimmelshausen altogether produced ten titles which he claimed belong to the same set.

  8. List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for English

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    Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in English. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹ 50,000. [ 1 ]

  9. El Señor Presidente - Wikipedia

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    El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society.