El Principito
My collection of THE LITTLE PRINCE
Tu sarai per me unico al mondo, e io saro' per te unica al mondo.
When did you start your collection?
İn 2008 a friend from France gave me her childhood copy of Le Petite Prince and her gift was the beginning of my collection. I officially started collecting in 2011 when I came to study in Turkey and I had the opportunity to meet people from all over the world.
"Grown-ups never understand anything but themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaing things to them.”
What are the properties of your collection?
My target is to collect all the published languages but 90% of my collection must be a gift from a friend or an exchange with new friends, that's what makes my collection so special for me, each book is a token of friendship.
Evcilleştirdiğin şeyden her zaman sorumlusun
Cuando mires el cielo por la noche, dado que yo estaré en una de ellas, dado que yo reiré en una de ellas, entonces será para ti como si rieran todas las estrellas. ¡Tú tendrás estrellas que saben reír !
Maya Yucatec
Year of publication:
2010
Publisher: Edition Tintenfass
Place of publication: Neckarsteinach Translator:
Amedée Colli Colli
Mezquital Otomi
Year of publication:
2012
Publisher:Instituto Humboldt Place of publication:
Ixmiquilpan, Mexico
Translator:
Raymundo Isidor Álvarez
Nahuatl (Huastec)
Year of publication:
2014
Publisher:
Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos – CEMCA
Place of publication:
Mexico
Translator:
Refugio Sandoval
I'm currently working on a project to publish more Little Prince versions in Native languages from Mexico. In 2016 hopefully we will complete the publication of a version in
Totonaca
translated by Prof.Pedro Perez Luna
and sponsored by
the Probst Foundation
In my collection the versions that have been published in Native languages from Mexico are very precious for me, because we have approximately 72 native languages in Mexico and so far only 3 of these have been translated. I would feel proud if there are more of these languages translated I feel in Mexico the interest for natives languages should increase.
L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
Ele era para mim como uma fonte no deserto
