Mickey Mouse Named Tops in Translations
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PARIS — The adventures of Mickey Mouse are now available in more languages than the works of Soviet founder V. I. Lenin, mystery writer Agatha Christie or the Bible, an official translation count shows.
Index Translationum, published by the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, says stories featuring the Walt Disney character were translated 284 times in the reference year 1983.
Lenin went out in 276 versions, Christie’s mysteries in 262 and the Bible was translated 219 times.
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