'''A Coincidence of Birth''' is a [[Liavek ]] story written by Megan Lindholm. Chronologically it is the first story about ''Kookaloo'', the orphan girl hoping to find out when her birthday is, so she can invest her birth luck.
It ==Editions and translations==* The story was first published in English in [[Liavek, City of Luck and Wizardry]] in 1985. Republished It was republished in an ebook titled ''Liavek 2'' the 17th of August 2015 by CatYelling with ASIN B0143Q5Q5A. * A Japanese French translation ''Hasard de naissance'' was published in 19892014 and reprinted in 2016 in a volume simply titled ''Liavek'' which combines all the Liavek stories written by Lindholm and [[Steven Brust]].A The French translation of this first story also appeared in the collection ''Hasard de naissanceFiction - tome 18'' in 2014, where it was printed under the pen name Robin Hobb.* A Japanese translation was published in 2014April 1989 in the second volume of a split edition of the first Liavek novel titled 魔法都市ライアヴェック〈2〉緑の猫 with ISBN 9784390112925.
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Liavek lw.jpg|US paperback
Liavek2ebook.jpg|ebook
Fr-liavek.jpg|French, paperback & ebook 2014
fr-liavek-jailu.jpg|French, paperback 2016
Fr-coincidence.jpg|French
Jp-liavek1b.jpg|Japanese 2/2
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