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,
Continue Reading Guest Interview & Giveaway: Translator Cathy Hirano (Pre AFCC 2016 Con) »
By Patti Buff
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations
Kathleen Ahrens was born in the suburbs of New York City and aspired to be an astronaut and to live in a skyscraper. Poor eyesight led her to forgo the first dream,
Continue Reading 2016 SCBWI Bologna Author Interview: Kathleen Ahrens »
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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Translator Laura Watkinson founded the Dutch chapter of the SCBWI. She also translates books into English, from Dutch, Italian and German. Her literary interests vary and her projects range from children’s picture books to adult novels and comics.
Her translation of Bibi Dumon Tak’s Mikis and the Donkey,
Continue Reading 2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Translator Laura Watkinson »
Greet Pauwelijn
Greet Pauwelijn is publisher with Book Island, as well as a translator.
True to Book Island’s bold dream of enriching children’s and adults’ lives in the English- and Dutch-language market, she publishes children’s books in English and Dutch.
She does this by bringing unique stories from Europe to the shores of New Zealand,
Continue Reading 2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Publisher Greet Pauwelijn of Book Island »
This picture of my then three-year-old granddaughter Michelle inadvertently sparked the idea for Ship of Dolls (Candlewick, 2014) and a forthcoming sequel, Dolls of Hope.
My son and daughter-in-law had taken Michelle to visit her maternal grandparents in Japan in time for the traditional girl’s day festival of Hintamatsuri.
Continue Reading Guest Post & Giveaway: Shirley Parenteau on Ship of Dolls »
