Translations
German | French | Dutch | Italian | Polish | Hebrew
Duncton Wood has been translated into French, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Spanish. (William Horwood. 2005. Thomson Gale. Retrieved March 6, 2006, from Contemporary Authors Online.)
German
The edition with the grey framing has the ISBN 978-3-608-95147-9 and Hobbit Press website lists a year of 1992. The edition with a quartered cover image is more recent, and has the ISBN 978-3-608-87503-4.
William Horwood at Hobbit Presse website
Another hardcover edition of Der Stein von Duncton is in an auction (July 2010) on eBay.de:
The artwork of the standing stone is by French artist Christophe Vacher, and included on his website: http://www.vacher.com/covers/books-and-cd-covers-traditional-and-digital/
French
Le Bois Duncton is the French translation of Duncton Wood, translated by Pierre Goubert, and was published by L'Atalante.
- Le Bois Duncton on Amazon.fr
- A lengthy review, in French, of Le Bois Duncton.
L'Atalante published a new edition of Le Bois Duncton in 2007, with the ISBN 9782841723836.
Dutch
The Dutch translation of Duncton Wood is De sage van het Duncton woud, published by Sijthoff (ISBN 9021826356), then by Het Spectrum in 1985 (ISBN 9027415625). It was translated by Liesbeth Kramer.
- Het Spectrum edition with the ISBN 9027415625, shown on boekbeschrijvingen.nl
- De Boekenplank's list of Dutch translations of William Horwood's books lists two translations of Duncton Wood.
Italian
La Foresta di Duncton is the Italian translation, published in November 1983 by RCS Rizzoli. It was translated by Giuseppe Picca Milano.
The stylized cover is very different from the endpapers, which have artwork of two realistic moles against a background of plants.
A poster shown with a copy of the book in a 2010 auction on eBay.it is realistic as well.
Polish
Duncton Wood was translated into Polish as Las Duncton. It was published by Rebis in 1993, with the ISBN 8385696253. The translators were Maria Korusiewicz, Maria and Roman Palewicz.
- Las Duncton on Conrada 11
Hebrew
Duncton Wood was translated into Hebrew and published in 1981 by Ma'ariv Book Guild, in two volumes totalling 636 pages. This was listed on eBay in April 2008; the photographs below are used on WilliamHorwood.net with permission from the photographer.
