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For most of the 19th century, America provided no copyright protection for foreign authors, arguing that it needed the freedom to copy in order to educate the new nation.

China's book publishing market is worth about $20 billion and e-books are a fast-growing segment, but it's difficult for foreign authors to gain a foothold.

Over time, publishers developed a system called "courtesy of the trade" which took the place of copyright protection for foreign authors.

At the time the common practice was to pay little or nothing for the rights of foreign authors' works.

There was mass production of "approved" books, with print runs of up to a million, a blanket nyet to unofficial writers (countered by a phenomenal circulation of underground samizdat publications) and an idiosyncratic roster of foreign authors approved for public consumption (Sinclair Lewis, Robert Burns and John Galsworthy were feted and promoted; other, greater writers banned).

You are renowned for bringing many foreign authors to an English readership for the first time Anaïs Nin, Hermann Hesse, Yukio Mishima, Jean Cocteau, the list goes on.

In fact, Americans read a great many foreign authors, for instance Arundhati Roy, Chinua Achebe, Robert Hughes, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and J. K. Rowling.

Publishing houses in India, like HarperCollins, are very sophisticated and after years of publishing foreign authors are looking for more Indian authors.

Mr. Godine, who has been running his publishing house for 38 years, said he published foreign authors because it gave his tiny press literary credibility.

But with many publishers increasingly unwilling to take risks on books without an obvious mainstream appeal, literary prizes are often the last hope for foreign language authors to make an impact in this country.