e/UNESCO Collection of Representative Works

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has gloss	eng: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works (or UNESCO Catalogue of Representative Works) was a UNESCO translation project that was active for about 57 years, from 1948 to about 2005. The projects purpose was to translate masterpieces of world literature, primarily from a lesser known language into a more international language such as English and/or French . As of 2005 there were 1060 works in the catalog representing over sixty-five different literatures and representing around fifty Oriental languages, twenty European languages as well as a number of African and Oceanian literatures and languages.. It also did translations from one less widely known language into another, for example, translations of the writings of the Japanese Yasunari Kawabata into Indonesian, of the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz from Urdu into Hungarian. UNESCO financed the translations and publications, but UNESCO itself was not a publisher, instead working with other publishers who then sold the books independently.
lexicalization	eng: Unesco Collection of Representative Works
instance of	c/Translations