Re: OK Day (23 March)

On 2024-03-26 09:45:16 +0000, Aidan Kehoe said:

 Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:
  > [...] I'd like to nominate the mythic Wild West as the earliest American
 > cultural export that went global, although its spread beyond North America
 > and Europe may postdate WWII again, I don't know.
 Jack London was massively popular in Russia in his lifetime,

and well after his death. When went to Russia on a school trip in 1961 he seemed to bethe only modern writer in English that most Russians had heard of.

 though I can’t see
any comment about contemporary popularity in the Spanish and
Portuguese-speaking New World in the corresponding Wikipedias. As I understand
it, Karl May wasn’t hugely read outside of Europe, though he was huge within
Europe.

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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.