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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: OK Day (23 March)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:41:55 +0100
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On 2024-03-26 09:45:16 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

>  Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:
> 
>  > [...] I'd like to nominate the mythic Wild West as the earliest American
>  > cultural export that went global, although its spread beyond North America
>  > and Europe may postdate WWII again, I don't know.
> 
> Jack London was massively popular in Russia in his lifetime,

and well after his death. When went to Russia on a school trip in 1961 
he seemed to bethe only modern writer in English that most Russians had 
heard of.

>  though I can’t see
> any comment about contemporary popularity in the Spanish and
> Portuguese-speaking New World in the corresponding Wikipedias. As I understand
> it, Karl May wasn’t hugely read outside of Europe, though he was huge within
> Europe.


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.