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Best European Fiction 2010 by Aleksandar Hemon

Best European Fiction 2010

by Aleksandar Hemon
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Best European Fiction 2010, by the numbers:

Stories: 35

Authors: 35

Countries Represented: 30 (with some countries represented by more than one language and therefore more than one story)

Translators: 29

Languages: 26 (with 6 languages used more than once, and one story using two languages)

Bulgarian
Castilian
Catalan
Croatian (2)
Danish
Dutch (2)
English (4)
Estonian
Finnish
French (2)
German (4)
Hungarian
Icelandic
Irish
Italian (2)
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian

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