> English literary culture is [...] indifferent [...] to writers in other languages.
That's particularly true of booksellers in England, so I'm not sure whether the resulting landscape is a cause or an effect of commercial arrangements. Outside of the London - Oxbridge axis, it's very hard to find bookshops stocking anything more than US/UK writers. Coming from Italy (where it's often hard to find works by Italian authors in the average bookshop), it was a shock I never really recovered from.
That's particularly true of booksellers in England, so I'm not sure whether the resulting landscape is a cause or an effect of commercial arrangements. Outside of the London - Oxbridge axis, it's very hard to find bookshops stocking anything more than US/UK writers. Coming from Italy (where it's often hard to find works by Italian authors in the average bookshop), it was a shock I never really recovered from.