On the other hand, señora Rowson also provided the inevitable slips that will give Spanish-speaking fans plenty to argue about, world without end. The Silkworm followed in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Strike’ crime series, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. My apologies to the American edition, which I follow loosely below, and to those of you expecting something more profound like “There is no good and evil…” or “To the well organized mind….

En su primera clase de adivinación, la profesora Trelawney ve un presagio de muerte en las hojas de té de Harry. Inspired by the original companion volume, it was the first in a series of new adventures featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander. Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. Millions of Spanish-speaking people can say the same, thanks to the translation by Alicia Dellepiane Rawson, published by Ediciones Salamandra in 2001.Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. The ISBN locates it as Spain—when penguin took over, they’ve started publishing the books in individual countries with local ISBNs, so my inclination would be to say that it’s a European Spanish book. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels for adults and children, and a bestselling crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith. I got the sense that someone did a quick translation that was “good enough for kids” or “good enough for this kind of book”. I just love that this page exists; now I know that I am not the only fan of Harry Potter and Spanish enthusiast in the world.

The only editions not printed in Spain were printed in Argentina (at least that I’ve seen so far), so no help finding different distribution centres there. Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra hache. My best guess is that those editions published in Spain are ‘Europe’, those in Argentina are ‘Southern Cone’ and the others are all ‘Latin America’; however, I am still attempting to verify those classifications. Es una novela donde un niño vive ajeno a su propia historia, donde los secretos han estado presente en su vida desde su nacimiento y, desde ese entonces, su destino está sellado.Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. I’m finding sets that say they’re the Spain version but I’m having trouble finding a book set that is definitively the Latin American edition.

I have been puzzling over my “Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal” translation (trying to learn spanish). There are more Spanish-speaking people within a 50 mile radius of where I live than English-speaking. I have a Harry Potter and the philosophers stone 4th edition book, paperback, bought in Argentina in 2001, which was printed in Spain in 2001. Also, some updates were made in the most recent editions, so let’s ignore those for the moment too and just look at editions between ~2000 to ~2012ish. Hay muchos que niegan el regreso del Señor Oscuro, pero Harry no está solo: una orden secreta se reúne en Grimmauld Place para luchar contra las Fuerzas Oscuras.As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Below, I’ll explain how I came to my conclusions, provide a lot of detail what kind of variations exist and tell you how you can determine what regions your own editions belong to. Or, and this is the really cool part, I figured out what a lot of Spanish words and expressions meant just from the context, which I knew so well. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, sold in aid of Lumos and university-wide financial aid at Harvard. Chortled” seems just not to have a good corresponding word in Spanish which could account for the variation there.