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Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:28 am

This is a work in progress. I decided to make a mega list of publishers that sell bilingual books/parallel texts, divided by the target language/country of the editions*.

The languages are ordered alphabetically according to their ISO 639 code.

Help me enlarge this list by contributing with other (well formated) entries!

[CS] Czech (for Czech-speaking learners)

  • Albatros Media (adaptations or simplified versions of the originals with adjacent translations into Czech)
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

[DE] German (For German-speaking learners)

  • Doppeltext (German version) "...ungekürzte Fassungen großer Romane und Erzählungen":
    English, French, Russian, Italian

  • Penguin Anacondas Zweisprachig:
    English

  • dtv Zweisprachig
    English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Arabic, Polish, Greek, Latin

  • Amiguitos Verlag (child books)
    Spanish, English (~20 options)
    French, Russian, Low-German, Italian (~5 options)
    Turkish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Greek, French, English, Chinese, Arabic, Albanian, Kannada (only a few options)

  • Baobab Books (child picture books)
    Spanish, Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Korean, Georgian, Ukrainian, Arabic

  • Edition Bilibri (child books)
    Arabic, English, French, Greek, Italian, Kurdish, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian (in alphabetical order)

  • Georg Olms Verlag (nonfiction for kids and teenagers)
    7 languages, from English to Turkish

  • Schauhoer Verlag (child books)
    9 languages, from English to Ukranian

  • Sefa Verlag (a couple of child books)
    in over 50 languages (according to their website)

  • Talisa Kinderbuch Verlag (child books)
    20 different languages, from Albanian to Ukranian

  • MundoLibro shop (not a publisher, but a shop in Berlin specialized in languages)
    English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  • Fizzy Lemon (child books)
    Turkish, Arabic, English

  • EasyOriginal Verlag (Ilya Frank's reading method)
    English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian

  • Reclam Verlag
    Ancient Greek, Latin

  • Some smaller (mostly single-language) publishers:
  • See also: Misc/Edition Tintenfaß

[EN] English (For English-speaking learners)

[ES] Spanish (For Spanish-speaking learners)

[FR] French (For French-speaking learners)

  • Folio Bilingue "...chefs-d’œuvre donnés parfois enrichies de notes expliquant le texte un choix de traduction":
    English, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese ("par ordre décroissant de nombre de titres")

  • Pocket - Langue Pour Tous:
    English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Japanese (and maybe others...)

  • Le livre de poche (classic literature, also unilingual annoted texts)
    English, German, Spanish

  • Flammarion (classics)
    English, Italian, Spanish

  • Les Belles Lettres - Les Budés (...textes grecs et latins ..., mis à jour et accompagnés de traductions, d'introductions, de notices, de notes de critique)
    Ancient Greek, Latin

  • Dunod / Armand Colin (Stories for learners, probably graded readers)
    Chinese, Corean, Japanese

  • Asiatheque (fiction, novellas, poetry, theatre)
    Many languages, some "unusual", from Armenian to Urdu

  • Cahiers du cinema (Screenplays)
    English, Spanish, Japanese

  • Editions Harmattan
    Many (often "smaller") languages, for example French regional languages and African languages

  • Éditions L'auceua libre (mainly poems and short stories)
    English, Languedocien, Occitan, Provençal

  • Incorpore (Shorter texts by contemporary authors)
    Catalan, English, Spanish

  • L'accolade (classic novels and stories)
    12 different languages, from Brasilian Portuguese to Russian

  • Les Éditions Vasseur (classic fiction, history, speeches, stories, theatre)
    English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian Spanish

  • Mémoir d'encrier (essays, history, poetry)
    English, Haitian Creole, Indigenous languages

  • PUM (theatre)
    Arabic, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

  • Some smaller single-language publishers:

  • Mainly Poetry:

  • See also: Misc/Edition Tintenfaß

[HU] Hungarian (for Hungarian-speaking learners)

[KO] Korean (For Korean-speaking learners)

  • See: English/Hanbooks

[LT] Lithuanian (For Lithuanian-speaking learners)

  • Alma littera (classic child stories, probably graded)
    English
    Buy at: knygos.lt

[NL] Dutch (for Dutch-speaking learners)

  • Eenvoudig Communiceren graded readers for learners of Dutch, but also some bilingual books
    Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Polish
    - Note: this is the Dutch version of Spaß am Lesen Verlag

  • See also: Misc/Edition Tintenfaß

[PT] Portuguese (For Portuguese-speaking learners)

[RO] Romanian (For Romanian-speaking learners)

  • Aquila (nonfiction and child stories)
    English, German, Hungarian

  • Editura Paralela 45 (Fairytales and stories for children and young readers, probably graded readers)
    English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish

[RU] Russian (For Russian-speaking learners)

[SK] Slovak (for Slovak-speaking learners)

  • Vydavateľstvo Lindeni (adaptations or simplified versions of the originals with adjacent translation into Slovak)
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish

Misc (hard to classify)

  • Edition Tintenfaß: "regional, minority and historical languages and (not only German) dialects ... monolingual, bilingual and multilingual books", including MANY translations of Le Petit Prince
    Not limited to: English, German (and German dialects and minority/historical languages), French (and French dialects and minority/historical languages), Dutch (and Dutch, Flemish dialects)

Contributors to this list: Chung, Sonjaconjota, my dear friend Laura, kundalini, vonPeterhof, MapleLeaf

* You can, of course, use any entry in this list the other way around. But I am dividing this to point out what is the intended audience of the publishers. For example, the Bilingual German texts in the English version of Doppeltext website are originally written in German and not the same as the Bilingual English texts in the German version of Doppeltext, which are originally written in English.
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Re: Bilingual Text Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:29 am

Reserved for the eventual expansion of this list of resources.
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby Iversen » Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:54 pm

Excellent work. The main addition to your list could be companies that have published bilingual versions of for instance Latin texts - like for instance the Latin-Danish version of Gaesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus which Gad published eons ago. But I have no idea who still publishes learned works of that kind, and I suspect that they are becoming fewer and fewer because learners find cheaper alternatives on the internet.
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby Chung » Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:03 am

Czech (for Czechs or anyone learning Czech)
  • Albatros Media
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Czech)

Slovak (for Slovaks or anyone learning Slovak)
  • Vydavateľstvo Lindeni
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Slovak)

I suspect that these two publishers are either subsidiaries of a larger company or have some kind of licensing agreement since many titles overlap and differ only in that the translation is either Czech or Slovak.

English

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A related concept that admittedly takes some liberties with a dual-langauge reader is a translation of a classic or popular title. One can create a type of dual-language text by pairing the original with a translation even though the resulting pair of books lacks the convenient formatting in a dual-language reader with the right-hand page being a close translation of the original text on the left-hand page.

In any case, think of how easy it is to find translations of the Bible, "Harry Potter", "Astérix", "Don Quixote", "Alice in Wonderland", "Pinocchio", "Le Petit Prince", "Jane Eyre" or "Преступление и наказание" ('Crime and Punishment') among millions of other titles.
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:55 am

Chung wrote:Czech (for Czechs or anyone learning Czech)
  • Albatros Media
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Czech)

Slovak (for Slovaks or anyone learning Slovak)
  • Vydavateľstvo Lindeni
    English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Slovak)

English


Thank you! Do you mind if I copy it and add it to my first post on top?
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:57 am

Iversen wrote:Excellent work. The main addition to your list could be companies that have published bilingual versions of for instance Latin texts - like for instance the Latin-Danish version of Gaesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus which Gad published eons ago. But I have no idea who still publishes learned works of that kind, and I suspect that they are becoming fewer and fewer because learners find cheaper alternatives on the internet.


Interesting! Do you have maybe a link for one of such a company?
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:07 am

Chung wrote:A related concept that admittedly takes some liberties with a dual-langauge reader is a translation of a classic or popular title. One can create a type of dual-language text by pairing the original with a translation even though the resulting pair of books lacks the convenient formatting in a dual-language reader with the right-hand page being a close translation of the original text on the left-hand page.

In any case, think of how easy it is to find translations of the Bible, "Harry Potter", "Astérix", "Don Quixote", "Alice in Wonderland", "Pinocchio", "Le Petit Prince", "Jane Eyre" or "Преступление и наказание" ('Crime and Punishment') among millions of other titles.


Yes, this is indeed what I do most of the time, as otherwise you end up being locked to the options offered by the publishers.
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby Sonjaconjota » Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:03 am

This thread has been a welcome occasion for some hours of happy procrastination.
What I've found most were bilingual childrens' books, so I'll list them first and later on the rest in a second post.
evandro, please feel free to copy the information and edit it according to your standards. (For example, I have not been able to create nice short links.)

Bilingual childrens' books

· Edition Tintenfass
(Mainly classic childrens' books in a wide variety of languages. They seem to specialize in small languages and regional vernaculars.)
The second language is mainly English, French or German.
https://editiontintenfass.de/en/catalog

· Equipo Everest
(Classic childrens' stories: These are supposed to be for children learning English, but I've seen bilingual versions for Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese, so I think those would be great for learners of those languages, too.)
I have not found one single website for the whole collection, so here are some sellers' links:

Spanish
https://www.amazon.es/s?k=coleccion+cuentos+de+siempre+biling%C3%BCe&__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1T03JTOIF5ZZ4&sprefix=coleccion+cuentos+de+siempre+biling%C3%BCe%2Caps%2C80&ref=nb_sb_noss

Catalan
https://www.amazon.es/s?k=Col.lecci%C3%B3+Contes+de+Sempre+Biling%C3%BCes&__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3DEAH39TYR463&sprefix=col.lecci%C3%B3+contes+de+sempre+biling%C3%BCes+%2Caps%2C202&ref=nb_sb_noss

Portuguese
https://www.fnac.pt/c59488/Contos-de-sempre



English (For English-speaking learners)

· Dolphin Book
(Childrens' books)
Chinese
https://cypressbooks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Dolphin+book&x=0&y=0&product_list_order=relevance
https://www.purpleculture.net/search_result/?search_in_description=1&keyword=Dolphin+Book

· Tulika Books
(Childrens' books)
Indian languages
https://www.tulikabooks.com/bilingual-books/


German (For German-speaking learners)

· Amiguitos Verlag
(Childrens' books, each book has the text in both German and several other languages)
18 languages from Albanian to Turkish
https://www.amiguitos.de/TiendaEnLinea/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65_95

· Anadolu Verlag
(Childrens' books)
Mainly Turkish
https://www.anadolu-verlag.de/Kinderbuecher/

· Baobab Books
(Childrens' books)
8 languages from Arabic to Ukranian
https://www.baobabbooks.ch/de/buecher/zweisprachige-buecher

· Drachenhaus Verlag
(Mainly stories for children)
Chinese
https://www.drachenhaus-verlag.com/programm/zweisprachige-buecher/

· Edition Bilibri
(Childrens' books)
14 different languages, from Arabic to Ukranian
https://www.edition-bilibri.com/buecher/

· Edition Riedenburg
(Children's books)
Ukranian
https://www.editionriedenburg.at/blog/deutsch-ukrainisch-zweisprachige-titel-der-sowas-reihe/

· Fizzy Lemon
(Childrens' books)
Turkish, Arabic, English
https://fizzy-lemon.de/produkt-kategorie/buecher/

· Georg Olms Verlag
(Nonfiction for kids and teenagers)
7 languages, from English to Turkish
https://www.olms-presse.de/kinder-und-jugendbuch/kinder-und-jugendbuch.html

· Horami Verlag
(Childrens' books)
Vietnamese
https://www.horami.de/?s=Vietnamesisch&post_type=product

· Schauhoer Verlag
(Childrens' books)
9 languages, from English to Ukranian
https://www.schauhoer-verlag.de/shop/kinderbuch/

· Sefa Verlag
(A couple of childrens' books)
According to their website, they are available in over 50 languages
https://sefa-bilingual.com/en/books-en.php

· Talisa Kinderbuch Verlag
(Childrens' books)
20 different languages, from Albanian to Ukranian
https://talisa-verlag.com/



Lithuanian (For Lithuanian-speaking learners)

· Alma littera
(Classic childrens' stories, probably graded readers)
English
Because I couldn't find them grouped together on the editors' website, here they are on a seller's website:
https://www.knygos.lt/lt/paieska?q=dvikalb%C3%A9



Romanian (For Romanian-speaking learners)

· Aquila
(Nonfiction and stories for children)
English, German, Hungarian
https://www.aquilashop.ro/cautare/?query=bilingv&gotopage=1&ipp=20

· Editura Paralela 45
(Fairytales and stories for children and young readers, probably graded readers)
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish
https://www.edituraparalela45.ro/literatura-pentru-copii-adolescenti/search/?pagina=1&c=bilingve
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Re: Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

Postby evandro » Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:41 am

Sonjaconjota wrote:This thread has been a welcome occasion for some hours of happy procrastination.
What I've found most were bilingual childrens' books, so I'll list them first and later on the rest in a second post.
evandro, please feel free to copy the information and edit it according to your standards. (For example, I have not been able to create nice short links.)


Oh my that's a lot of resources, thank you so much! I'll add them to my list when I have some time! :)

Edit: Alright, done!

Edition Titenfaß is definitely gonna get some orders from me, their multilingual version of Le Petit Prince are a great ridiculous/awesome/niche gift idea!
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Postby Sonjaconjota » Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:25 am

Okay, now for Spanish.
Most of the options I've found are bilingual editions for poetry. Are they really useful for language learners? I'm not sure, but I know that people have wildly different preferences, so I've included them.

Spanish (For Spanish-speaking learners)

· Abada Editores
(Mainly classic texts, poetry)
German, English, French, Latin, Sanskrit
https://abadaeditores.com/busqueda?cont ... ing%C3%BCe

· Alianza Editorial
(Poetry)
French, English
https://www.alianzaeditorial.es/busqued ... c&pagina=1

· Alvarellos Editora
(Poetry)
Galician
https://alvarelloseditora.gal/es/?s=bil ... pe=product

· Bartleby Editores
(Poetry)
Chinese, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Polish
https://www.bartlebyeditores.es/obras.p ... oleccion=2

· Cátedra Letras Universales
(Classic literature, poetry)
French, English, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian
https://www.catedra.com/subcoleccion/le ... iversales/

· De la Mirandola
(Poetry, mainly Rilke)
French, German
https://delamirandola.wordpress.com/titulos/

· Dualbooks
(Classic stories)
English
https://www.amazon.es/s?i=stripbooks&rh ... f=sr_adv_b

· Ediciones Atalanta
(Classics)
English
https://www.edicionesatalanta.com/?post ... ing%C3%BCe

· Ediciones Sigueme
(Religious and philosophical texts)
Danish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin ...
https://www.sigueme.es/busqueda.html

· Estación Mir
(Nonfiction)
Russian
https://www.estacionmir.com/?q=es

· Fragmenta Editorial
(Religious texts)
Arab, Chinese, Hebrew, Latin
(also in combination with Catalan)
https://www.fragmenta.cat/es/

· Huerga & Fierro Editores
(Poetry)
Arabic, Catalan, French, English, Japanese
https://huergayfierro.com/category/poesia/

· Langre
(Classic literature, art, poetry)
English, German
http://clangre.es/

· Losada
(Classic texts)
English, Latin
https://editoriallosada.com/?s=biling%C3%BCe

· Nordica Libros
(Mainly poetry)
Catalan, English, French, Portuguese
https://nordicalibros.com/

· Penguin
(Classic literature)
German, English, Italian, Latin, Sanskrit
https://www.amazon.es/s?k=penguin+edici ... nb_sb_noss

· Plutón Ediciones
(Classic literature and classic childrens' stories)
English
https://clasicosbilingues.com/site/

· Reino de Cordelia
(Mainly poetry, journalism)
English, French, Latin, Russian, Ucranian
https://www.reinodecordelia.es/?s=bilin ... pe=product

· Rosetta Edu
(“Las ediciones bilingües de Rosetta Edu tienen como fin ayudar la comprensión de obras fundacionales de la literatura en su idioma idioma original.”)
English, French, German
https://rosettaedu.com/collections/libros-bilingues

· Sabina Editorial
(Poetry by female authors)
Catalan, English
https://www.sabinaeditorial.com/catalogo/

· Satori Ediciones
(Some of their poetry books are bilingual: the collections Maestros del Haiku and Poética)
Japanese
https://satoriediciones.com/catalogo/

· Sexto Piso
(Poetry)
French, English, German
https://sextopiso.es/esp/items/?kw=biling%C3%Bce

· Torremozas
(Texts from female authors, mainly poetry)
Basque, Chinese, English, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese
https://www.torremozas.com/

· UMA Editorial
(Short stories)
Corean
https://asiaoriental.uma.es/investigaci ... icaciones/

· Vaso roto
(Poetry)
English, Greek, Serbian
https://emea.vasoroto.com/

· Vivelibro
(Classics and a novella)
English, French
https://editorial.vivelibro.com/

· Visor
(Poetry)
Catalan, Galician
https://www.visor-libros.com/search?typ ... q=bilingüe
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