 Lívia Rusz first became known outside Hungary and Romania during the 1970s and '80s, when "Mac" or "Cofofifi" were translated into English, German, Russian and Spanish.The 1980s version of the two volumes were published in countries of the Eastern Bloc and beyond (in Hungary, East Germany and Cuba).While the Tolkien edition registered much success in Romania, it became internationally known only in the decades after 1989, when Rusz's illustrations were republished by Douglas A. Anderson.