I am especially proud to present my International Sherlock Holmes Library.
The Canon was translated into at least 71 languages, special editions
like Braille or Shorthand not counted. My special Sherlockian task during
the years has been collecting Sherlock Holmes books in different languages
from all over the world. This is much more difficult than one may assume,
and therefore I beleive that it is a worthy task for a Sherlockian scholar.
This is the right place to give my very special thanks and deepest deference to all the incredibly nice and friendly people who I met out there in the world and who helped me most kindly in building up this library and increasing it all the time. If you see any language which is still missing in my collection and you know where to get a specimen, please kindly let me know.
Now to the list of languages of which I know that Sherlock Holmes books
exist in.
Please click on the underlined languages to see the cover of the book,
and use the back switch of your browser to return this page.
With my deepest bow to Mr. Don Hobbs this list could be largely updated in October 2002
Afrikaans (South Africa)
Arabic (Arabia)
This one was really hard to get, it is a bilingual
edition English/Arabic from Quatar.
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Bengali
Bulgarian
(Bulgaria)
Burmese
Catalan
Chinese
(China)
Czech (Czechoslovakia)
Czech (Czechia)
This book is said to be in Kantonese Chinese
Danish I (Danmark)
This book is said to be in "old" Danish, as there was
a reform of the language in the 1940'ies
Danish II (Danmark)
Dutch (Netherlands)
Eskimo (Inuit)
(This shurely is one of the rarest books today, and I
only have a photocopy.
But since it was the single edition in 1961, we will
turn a blind eye on this)
Estonian
Finn (Finnland)
Flemish
French (France)
Frisian (Netherlands)
This ultra rare book shurely is one of my rarest Sherlockian
possesions.
Friulan
Galacian
Georgian
German (Germany)
German (GDR
German Democratic Republik)
This one is a rarity, because the GDR does no longer
exist.
Greek (Greece)
Gujarati
Hebrew (Israel)
Hindi (India)
Hungarian
(Hungary)
Icelandic (Iceland)
Indonesian
Irish (Ireland)
Italian (Italy)
Japanese (Japan)
Kanarese
Korean (Korea)
Lettish
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay (Malaysia)
Malayalam
Marathi
Mongolian
Mizo
Norwegian
(Norway)
Oriya
Persian (Farsi)
Polish (Poland)
Portuguese
(Portugal)
Rumantsch
(Swizerland)
Rumanian
Russian
(USSR)
This one is an original from the Sowjet Union, which
was then back in the 80'ies extremely difficult to get.
Russian (Russia)
Serbo-Croatian
Sindhi
Sinhalese
(Sri Lanka)
Slowak (Czechoslovakia)
This one is an original from the 80'ies when Chechia
and Slovakia were still one state.
Slovak (Slovakia)
Slowenian
Sotho
Spanish (Spain)
Spanish
(Mexico)
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish (Turky)
This one is not a book from the Canon, but as it was
only got by extreme coincidence,
it is displayed here, until a better one comes my way.
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbeck
Valencian
Vietnamese
Yiddish
Related Special Editions:
Braille
Gregg
Shorthand
Pitman's
Shorthand (Easy)
Pitman's Shorthand (Advanced)
Dancing Men
Esperanto
Latin
Pig Latin
Ebonics
