Spotlight image above: A.A. Prime accepts the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize. See the entire presentation here.
Early in the pandemic, the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative named two winners of its 2020 Translated YA Book Prize: The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi,
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September is #WorldKidLit Month, a time to notice if world literature is reaching kids in the form of translations.
The movie “You’ve Got Mail” recently turned 20, with a New York Times critic noting both its staying power and its “dark commentary on how capitalism absorbs its critiques.” After all,
Lawrence Schimel, photo by Nieves Guerra
September is #WorldKidLit Month, a time to notice if world literature is reaching kids in the form of translations.
Read a Cynsations interview with co-organizer Marcia Lynx Qualey.
#WorldKidLit Month image (c) Elina Braslina
September is #WorldKidLit Month, a time to notice if world literature is reaching kids in the form of translations.
(See this Book Riot list of 100 Great Translated Children’s Books from Around the World.)
Leading the effort are Cairo-based writer Marcia Lynx Qualey,
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By Misa Dikengil Lindberg, Alexander O. Smith and Avery Fischer Udagawa
This month, the Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore will feature Cynsations’ own Cynthia Leitich Smith speaking on “The Irresistible Fantastical Supernatural: Writing a World that Beckons.”
Also featured at AFCC 2016 will be Cathy Hirano,
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By Avery Fischer Udagawa
For Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations
Marian Schwartz is a master translator of Russian literature into English. Active in PEN and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, she has translated more than seventy books including the bestseller The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky and a re-translation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
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Wenxuan’s Bronze and Sunflower, translated by Wang
What do old coins, the British Museum, and Chinese novels have in common?
Helen Wang.
Wang is Curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum and also translates Chinese literature into English.
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