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[from www.carlsenpresse.de, translated by altavista and corrected by Dave Haber]

Finally it is clear when waiting will come to an end for the German-language translation of the fifth Harry Potter volume: Saturday, 8.11.2003.

The translation of the manuscript will be done by Klaus Fritz, who already translated the first four books into German. The cover of volume V will again be illustrated by Hamburg artist Sabine Wilharm, who's given this country an unmistakable face to the magician's apprentice.

Volume V will be the longest of all past Harry Potter books: The manuscript is around a third longer than that of the fourth volume "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". The German-language translation of volume V will be longer too, at over 1000 pages. The sale price will be 28,50 € (D) / 29,30 € (A) / 47,90 sFr.

So far altogether 15.5 million copies have been sold of the four volumes of the German-language Harry Potter translations. World-wide the number of copies sold amounts to approximately 195 million. The books have been translated so far into 55 languages.

Original article in German

Published May 10, 2003

This article is Copyright © 2003, David Haber, and may not be reproduced on other web sites or in print, in whole or in part, without expressed permission

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