Hard to say, because the task of translating author Jin Yong's hugely bestselling Legends of the Condor Heroes defeated many an English translator before a young Scotswoman won through with the first volume in a planned 12-volume series. "Agent Peter Buckman, who sold the rights to the series to the publisher, came across the works almost by chance as he searched the internet for'“bestselling authors'. 'Jin Yong was in the top 10, though I’d never heard of him; nor did I read Chinese,' he said."
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