Finland has two national languages, Finnish and Swedish. Most of the approximately 5.5 million inhabitants speak Finnish as their mother tongue, while Swedish is spoken as a first language by just ...
But they've been stubbornly resistant to one of France's biggest imports: Asterix. The bite-sized, brawling hero of a series of treasured comic books is as invisible in America as the Eurovision ...
Albert Uderzo, who drew the Asterix comic books, has died at the age of 92. He created the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend ...
The French-Belgian comic book series Asterix has been translated in to more than 100 languages A signed original illustration for an early Asterix comic book cover has sold for more than 1.4m ...
One of the comic book adventures of Asterix has been translated into a rare Swedish dialect - spoken only by a few thousand in Western Finland - the project director told AFP. Originally published ...