The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

Jonathan Coe

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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

— Jonathan Coe

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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

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you can find anything you want - if you don't find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it's in the decisions of Somalia, or Japan, or Indonesia or wherever.

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We offer dishes from many countries that border the Mediterranean - Morocco, Turkey, France, Italy, Spain.

— Barbara Wright