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Dont think theres loads of edgar allan poe heads in China
Nope, he was big there, too.
Poe was also hugely influential in France and Japan. The French especially admired him as a poet, and the first big Japanese detective writer named himself after Poe - Edogawa Rampo.
In the Spanish speaking world too - Julio Cortázar's translations are very highly regarded
Baudelaire, Lu Xun, Cortázar - what an incredible roster of translators.
France I'm actually a bit surprised by since culturally they tend to be a bit insular, but China and Japan make sense to me. They both kind of strike me as very literary cultures, even of works from outside their respective regions.