Bilingual Book Publishers: A Mega List

[evandro]

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.

Added!

[kundalini]

Here are some bilingual publishers for classical languages.

Sanskrit:
Clay Sanskrit Library (English translations): https://claysanskritlibrary.org/

Latin & Greek:
Loeb Classics (English translations): https://www.loebclassics.com/
Budé (French translations): https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/les-budes
Reclam (German translations): https://www.reclam.de/service/english_information

[Chung]

Hungarian (for Hungarians or anyone learning Hungarian)

• Kossuth Kiadó - Kétnyelvű klasszikusok sorozat
  English (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Hungarian)

• Napraforgó Kiadó - Klasszikusok magyarul-angolul
  English (books are adaptations or simplified versions of the original texts with adjacent translation into Hungarian)

• Tinta Könyvkiadó - Kétnyelvű könyvek nyelvtanuláshoz
  English (books have original texts with adjacent translation into Hungarian or English as appropriate)

Korean (for Koreans or anyone learning Korean)

• Asia Publishers - Bilingual Edition Modern Korean Literature
  English (a massive 7-part collection of Korean short stories and novellas with each part made up of 15 or 20 dual-language books of Korean texts with adjacent translation to English - here's an example of the layout from one of the books. Each part can be bought from Amazon or Hanbooks.)

BONUS: Hanbooks sells several other dual-language books of English to Korean in the given link

Relatively few publishers specialize in dual-language books and it's more typical for the genre to be just one of several offered by a publisher. A good way to find dedicated dual-language texts for your target language is just to run a search in Google with that term or similar. For example:

Czech, Slovak: dvojjazyčné knihy, Finnish: kaksikielinen kirja / kaksikielisiä kirjoja, French: livres bilingues, German: zweisprachige Bücher, Hungarian: kétnyelvű könyvek, Italian: libri bilingue, Polish: dwujęzyczne książki, Swedish: tvåspråkiga böcker, Turkish: çift dilli kitaplar / iki dilli kitaplar, Ukrainian: двомовні книги etc.

The rising popularity of self-publishing via Amazon has also supported the proliferation of numerous dual-language books of varying quality. Unfortunately, some of them come off for me as "machine-translationese" of insipid texts in English as exemplified in some volumes from Skriuwer.com. However, if the book's credits explicitly list a translator, then that's a reasonably strong indicator of the translation being idiomatic. An example of this kind of book would be this self-published dual-language title in German by Paul Reinker and translated to Ukrainian by Svitlana Sinitsyna.

[evandro]

Korean (for Koreans or anyone learning Korean)

• Asia Publishers - Bilingual Edition Modern Korean Literature
  English (a massive 7-part collection of Korean short stories and novellas with each part made up of 15 or 20 dual-language books of Korean texts with adjacent translation to English - here's an example of the layout from one of the books. Each part can be bought from Amazon or Hanbooks.)

BONUS: Hanbooks sells several other dual-language books of English to Korean in the given link

I put this one on the English-speaking section!

A good way to find dedicated dual-language texts for your target language is just to run a search in Google with that term or similar. For example:

Czech, Slovak: dvojjazyčné knihy, Finnish: kaksikielinen kirja / kaksikielisiä kirjoja, French: livres bilingues, German: zweisprachige Bücher, Hungarian: kétnyelvű könyvek, Italian: libri bilingue, Polish: dwujęzyczne książki, Swedish: tvåspråkiga böcker, Turkish: çift dilli kitaplar / iki dilli kitaplar, Ukrainian: двомовні книги etc.

Good idea, I think I'll put this here on the main post also!

[vonPeterhof]

I think the most famous Russian series of bilingual books is the Метод чтения Ильи Франка (Ilya Frank's reading method) series from the publisher ВКН (VKN), which currently has books for learning 64 languages (63 languages via Russian plus Russian and six other languages via English). The books are bilingual in that a full translation of the original text is included, but they're not exactly parallel in that the translation isn't really separated from the original text. Instead it alternates between passages of the unaltered original and passages where the original is interspersed with translated sentences, often with additional explanations. They also have two spinoffs, the German-based easyOriginal (learner languages: German, English; target languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, German) and the Polish-based IFrank (apparently only English via Polish).

I'm also aware of a more conventional parallel text publisher called МАГИ "Из века в век" that published compilations of 20th and 21st poetry in Slavic and Cyrillic-using languages with poetic Russian translations. Unfortunately the publisher doesn't seem to exist anymore and I haven't been able to find a complete list of books they published.

[MapleLeaf]

Japanese/English bilingual books:

• Breaking into Japanese Literature, by Giles Murray.
• Exploring Japanese Literature, by Giles Murray.

[Sonjaconjota]

Some stuff for French. I was surprised that there were so many options for Occitan, but practically none for Breton or Corsican.


French (For French-speaking learners)

· Albouraq
(religious texts)
Arabic
https://www.albouraq.fr/index.php?page=accueil.html

· A L'Asard Bautezard
(Short stories and poems)
Languedocien, Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... d-bautezar

· Armand Colin
(Stories for learners, probably graded readers)
Chinese, Corean, Japanese
https://www.dunod.com/recherche?text=bilingue

· Asiatheque
(Fiction, novellas, poetry, theatre)
A big number of languages, some "unusual", from Armenian to Urdu
https://www.asiatheque.com/fr/

· Cahiers du cinema
(Screenplays)
English, Spanish, Japanese
https://www.cahiersducinema.com/?s=bilingue

· Éditeur Fédérop
(classic texts)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr/25_federop

· Éditions d'en Bas
(poetry)
English, Icelandic, Friulian, Italian, Portuguese, Romansh, Spanish
http://sp-s.ch/collection-bilingue/

· Éditions du non-agir
(Comics, novellas, theatre)
Chinese
https://www.non-agir.fr/dictionnaires-bilingues/

· Editions Harmattan
(Childrens' books, essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry)
A huge number of (often "smaller") languages from all over the world, for example French regional languages and African languages
https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index ... erby=score

· Éditions L'auceua libre
(Mainly poems and short stories)
English, Languedocien, Occitan, Provençal
https://lauceulibre.com/catalogue-des-o ... bli%C3%A9s

· Editions Lisieres
(Mainly poetry)
Afrikaans, Arabic, Corsican, English, Japanese, Spanish
https://www.editionsdeslisieres.com

· Flammarion
(Classics)
English, Italian, Spanish
https://editions.flammarion.com/

· IEO
(Mainly short stories and poetry)
Occitan
https://ideco-dif.com/trouver?main=rech ... o=Chercher

· Incorpore
(Shorter texts by contemporary authors)
Catalan, English, Spanish
https://www.incorpore.org/plurilingues/

· Jorn
(Poetry)
Occitan, English
http://www.editions-jorn.com/catalogue.htm

· L'accolade
(Classic novels and stories)
12 different languages, from Brasilian Portuguese to Russian
https://www.laccolade-editions.com/

· La Salévienne
(Fables)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... salevienne

· Le Castor Astral
(Poetry)
Arabic, Dutch, English, German, Persian
https://www.castorastral.com/?s=bilingue

· Le port a jauni
(Artistic books for children and poetry)
Arabic
http://www.leportajauni.fr/articles/

· Les Éditions Vasseur
(Classic fiction, history, speeches, stories, theatre)
English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian Spanish
https://www.editions-vasseur.com/collec ... sult-count

· Letras d'òc
(Poetry)
Occitan
http://www.letrasdoc.org/fr/?s=bilingue ... pe=product

·Livres EMCC
(mainly fables and stories)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... s-emcc?p=2

· Le livre de poche
(Classic literature)
English, German, Spanish
https://www.livredepoche.com/

· Lo Chamin de Sent Jaume
(Poetry)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... sent-jaume

· Mémoir d'encrier
(Essays, history, poetry)
English, Haitian Creole, Indigenous languages
https://memoiredencrier.com/catalogue/

· Ostal del libre
(Stories and lyrics)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... -del-libre

· PULM
(Classic texts)
Occitan
https://www.pulm.fr/index.php/default/c ... s.html?p=2

· PUM
(Theatre)
Arabic, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
https://pum.univ-tlse2.fr/cat%C3%A9gori ... es-scenes/

· Reclams
(Classic texts, fiction, poetry, essays)
Langedocien, Occitan
https://www.reclams.org/fr/catalogue/fe ... -catalogue

· Vent terral
(Classic texts and poetry)
Occitan
https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr/9_vent-terral

[evandro]

Some stuff for French. I was surprised that there were so many options for Occitan, but practically none for Breton or Corsican.

It's indeed a shame, I lived in Brittany once and even then I couldn't find much (I wasn't learning the language, true, but I was curious enough to try to look for it)

[Sonjaconjota]

German (For German-speaking learners)

· Anaconda Verlag
(Classics)
English
https://www.penguin.de/Anacondas-zweisprachige-Buecher/s1775.rhd

· Abrazos Books
(Books about tango and Argentina)
Spanish
https://abrazosbooks.com/?s=zweisprachi ... pe=product

· Bello Books
(Childrens' books and graded readers)
Italian
https://bellobooks.de/

· Buske Verlag
(A couple of graded(?) readers)
Chinese, Georgian, Japanese, Vietnamese
https://buske.de/

· cgfernandes
(Graded readers?)
Portuguese
https://www.cgfernandes.com/zweibilingue.html

· Chinabooks E. Wolf
(Stories, picture-books, comics)
Chinese
https://www.chinabooks.de/?s=zweisprachig&post_type=product

· Easy Original
(Classics)
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian
(also books for English-speaking learners)
https://easyoriginal.com/

· Dağyeli
(Poetry)
Russian, Turkish
https://dagyeliverlag.com

· Edition Orient
(Oriental literature of the 20th century)
Arabic, Turkish, Persian
https://www.edition-orient.de/advanced_search_result.php

· Forough Book
(A small collection of very different texts)
Persian
https://www.forough-book.com/search?q=bilingual&filter=0&module=1

· Forum-Sprachen-Lernen
(Classics, also for children)
English, French, Italian
https://forum-sprachen-lernen.com/

· Langenscheidt
(Graded readers with crime stories, also for children)
English, French, Italian, Spanish
https://www.amazon.de/s?k=langenscheidt+krimi+zweisprachig&crid=34HMB290GSLFC&sprefix=Langenscheidt+krimi%2Caps%2C115&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_3_19

· Li Edition (Märchenwald Verlag)
(Novellas)
Korean
https://www.maerchenwaldverlag.de/L!EditionNeu.html

· Lyrik Kabinett
(Poetry)
Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish
https://www.lyrik-kabinett.de/publikationen/reihe/lyrik-kabinett-bei-hanser/

· Ondefo Verlag
(Scandinavian literature)
Norwegian, Swedish
https://ondefo.de/zweisprachige-buecher/

· Reclam
(Literature and academic texts)
Mainly English, French, dead languages
https://www.reclam.de/search?submit_search=Submit&query=zweisprachig

· Reichert Verlag
(A small collection of very different bilingual texts)
Finnish, French, Kurdish, Latin, Old Persian, Portuguese
https://reichert-verlag.de/search?reichert_elastic=true&keyword=zweisprachig

· Schiler & Mücke
(Poetry)
Arabic
https://schiler-muecke.de/index.php

· Schinken Verlag
(Graded readers for learners)
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
https://schinken-verlag.de/

· Suhrkamp
(Literature, poetry, academic texts)
Danish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish
https://www.suhrkamp.de/

[rowanexer]

I couldn't find a proper website but the publisher Dilúvio has several bilingual books of Portuguese poetry. I have the book "Poems by Amalia Rodrigues" which is bilingual Portuguese and English and I love it. Their books have translations in Spanish, Italian and Japanese too. It seems to be quite an indie publisher so not too many titles.

https://www.facebook.com/diluvioeditora/