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The Saint's Blog devoted to news and rumors about The Saint and Leslie Charteris. Simon Templar, alias The Saint, was played by Roger Moore in the 1960's TV show featuring the Volvo 1800.
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 The Saint by Leslie Charteris was published in Japan as セイント by レスリー・チャータリス.
The book pictured here is a 1966 Japanese (Kanji) edition of Nazo no kaito Saint of which the original English title is unknown. The cover artwork of this particular edition is fairly reminiscent of the Dutch editions that were done by Dick Bruna around the same time.
There are more pictures and information about the Japanese editions and all foreign language editions available.Labels: 2007, Dutch, Foreign Language, Japanese
I have recently found a number of new Leslie Charteris foreign language editions of The Saint, and have therefore expanded that area of this site quite substantially. Look for the new Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, and Portuguese editions on the main foreign language page!
 Then look at the growing collection of artwork for the following languages:NOTE: The broken links have been fixed.Labels: 2007, Dutch, Finnish, Foreign Language, French, German, Italian, Leslie Charteris, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
 The Saint by Leslie Charteris was first written in English and published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada for all those English-speaking readers around the world. Due to The Saint's popularity, most of The Saint stories were translated into a number of languages, including: French, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Hungarian, Serbo-Kroat, Arabic, Norwegian, Finnish, Braille, and perhaps even others!
The success of the Roger Moore series led to a number of TV-tie-in editions in Spanish, Polish, English, and Hebrew, to name a few. When the Val Kilmer Saint movie came out, the Burl Barer novelization of the film was translated into quite a number of languages and might possibly be the most-translated title of all The Saint stories, next to The Saint in New York.
Another interesting fact is that some of the "translations" were never published in English at all. The French translator wrote many stores from radio scripts and comic strips, and while some of these novels were translated into Dutch, and perhaps other languages, they have never been translated back to English.
More details and cover scans are available at The Saint Around The World page of this website (www.saint.org), and your help is greatly appreciated in finding additional languages and book cover artwork.Labels: Dutch, Finnish, Foreign Language, French, German, Italian, Leslie Charteris, Polish, Portuguese, Roger Moore, Spanish, Turkish, Val Kilmer
 Dick Bruna is one of the few living Dutch artists to have achieved worldwide fame among young and old. He started drawing in 1940 and among the books he illustrated was the series entitled Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears), which published a very large number of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris in Dutch.
Bruna has spent his later career developing his skills within the picture book genre, creating characters such as miffy. The work of Dick Bruna is distinguished by its simple and direct draughtsmanship. Not only has Bruna made more than a hundred picture books, he has also designed more than two thousand book covers, over one hundred posters, postcards and prints. Aged 78, he still works every day in his studio in Utrecht - this year he published his 114th title. The Dick Bruna collection of the Centraal Museum comprises more than 1,200 works. The Centraal Museum holds the collection on long-term loan.
The offical Dick Bruna website can be found at www.dickbruna.comLabels: Dick Bruna, Dutch, Foreign Language, Leslie Charteris
The Saint on Dutch TV
Dutch TV channels have been re-running the complete series for a long time and are now up to the 1969 episodes. They are broadcast on these channels at the following times: SBS6 15:30(BST). Then the episode is repeated the following morning on NET5 10:05(BST). These Dutch TV stations are available on the Astra satellite beaming to Europe and they are free to air channelsLabels: 2004, Dutch, Foreign Language, TV
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