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43 editions since 1994, i.a.:
Some poems and one short story have been translated into Polish, Russian, English, French, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian and Latvian and have been published in anthologies in those countries
translation by Dr. Aaron von Lifschitz, Wien, publisher (Leopold Brachmann Verlag)
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