New #CreativeTranslation workshop series starting on Friday with and ! We'll be introducing primary #KS2 pupils in Glos & Wilts to Ukraine and #Ukrainian, by exploring the picture book #HowWarChangedRondo and a poem by Natalka Maletich
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Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
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Literary translator: fiction, nonfiction, children's books into English from Arabic, German & Russian | she/her | pusher of #worldkidlit
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On this day one of the best Ukrainian modernists Valerian Pidmohylny was born in 1901.
I read Fitzgerald and think of Pidmohylny. We'd never know how his genius could flourished. Soviets murdered Pidmohylny in 1937 together with hundreds brightest minds of 🇺🇦 intellectual elite.
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Free event 21 Feb at ! Join acclaimed #Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Rafeienko, BBC special correspondent and poet Sasha Dugdale talk about Writing, War, Connection
In partnership with
eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-war- #Ukraine
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Some wonderful news to brighten your Thursdays: Slovenia has officially become the first eastern European country to recognise same-sex marriage! 🏳️🌈🎉🇸🇮
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thepinknews.com/2023/02/02/slo
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I’d always thought of genau as the most German word, but my wife is making a very strong case for leider
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Cats and books. Who can resist? 🐈⬛ 📚
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Over 100 people had already supported Pineapple Lane, ’s new imprint that will publish dual language, mother tongue books for displaced kids❤️
Their support ranges from £5 to a whooping £1500🤩
Please join & help us bring these books to life!
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Meeting of the century with amazing !!! Can’t wait to start reading one of her latest translations!
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So happy and grateful to be among the awardees! I believe ours is already the 4th Thai book #PENTranslates has supported.
Look out for VENOM by Saneh Sangsuk this May!
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So so pleased to have been awarded a PEN translates award for VENOM by Saneh Sangsuk, translated by Mui Poopoksakul. We'll be publishing in May, and the book will be available to pre-order imminently... watch this space. twitter.com/englishpen/sta…
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Congratulations to the latest #PENTranslates winners, including , ... and myself and !😊
We're excited to be bringing 's graphic novel YOGHURT AND JAM (OR HOW MY MOTHER BECAME LEBANESE) into English with ... Soon👀
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We’re delighted to announce 15 new #PENTranslates awards.
Featuring titles from 14 countries, 10 languages &, for the first time, a title from Mali & the first memoir by a Sudanese woman to be translated from Arabic to English.
Read more here 
englishpen.org/posts/news/pen
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Props to and , two great presses really doing the work for interesting German-language lit in translation
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WORLD BOOK DAY/WEEK school visit requests.
I am fairly booked up. But there might be other authors who have availability.
If you are a children's author with availability do you want to comment here so schools can see: your LOCATION/DATES AVAILABLE/KEY STAGES/WEBSITE?
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This week my girls and I read books about, written in, translated from, and set in China. You can read all about them on my website. mykidsreadtheworld.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/kid
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Thanks for all the love!! Today is my birthday and it’s LGBTQIA+ history month AND both I and this book are incredibly queer. Gosh. What a time to be alive. Stay kind. C x ❤️
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I'm in the Bookseller! My novel, The Manor House Governess, is publishing with @bwpublishing @bonnierbooks_uk this November. A queer love letter to Jane Eyre and the period dramas I grew up with. I couldn't be more thrilled!
tinyurl.com/6ynkmpfy
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BCLT are delighted to welcome Jen Calleja and Dr Jayasree Kalathil as our 2023 Translators in Residence! #xl8 #residency
You can read more about Jen and Jayasree and what they plan to work on during their residencies on the BCLT website:
uea.ac.uk/web/groups-and
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My translation of DIFFERENT: A STORY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR written by Venezuelan author Mónica Montañés & illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez () was chosen as a Batchelder Honor Book at the #ALAYMA!
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#worldkidlit #scbwi #canscaip #xl8 #translation
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(2) A reminder of why our work is so important; knowledge and great stories fight hate. And the battle is far from over. For ALL of us who have faced discrimination and violence.
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(1) In the spirit of smashing a glass during a wedding...I came home from the glorious feeling of having 3 books recognized by the Sydney Taylor awards, to the news that someone through a Molotov cocktail at Temple Nair Tamid in Bloomfield, less than a mile from me.
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A shock to find myself beside , Christina MacSweeney, Fady Joudah, Mara Fay Lethem, and Mark Polizzotti! Thank you, , for bringing readers to ’s novel, which lends depth to even the quietest of Ukrainian lives. No one is a statistic.
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ANNOUNCING THE FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 bookcritics.org/2023/01/31/nat
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We’re delighted to announce 15 new #PENTranslates awards.
Featuring titles from 14 countries, 10 languages &, for the first time, a title from Mali & the first memoir by a Sudanese woman to be translated from Arabic to English.
Read more here ⬇️
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#WorldKidLit community, Ann-Helén Laestadius' award-winning children's & YA books have been translated into Northern Sámi & Finnish. STOLEN is her English-language debut. Maybe we'll see her young readers' titles in English soon!
ahlanderagency.com/authors/ann-he
#SwedishLit #Indigenous
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We are delighted that will be returning to the Summer School in 2023, this time leading the #Korean workshops! We have 8 FULL Residential Bursaries (worth £850) avilable for this strand, supported by #xl8
Applications now open! Link: buff.ly/3t6dqPE
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Mabrook to and all the translators I don't know on here!
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Congratulations to all the translators!
thebookseller.com/news/english-p
#PENTranslates #xl8 #translation #readtheworld
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Here's our review of #2023BatchelderHonorBook, Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War, by Mónica Montañés, illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez, translated by Lawrence Schimel.
glli-us.org/2022/10/19/wor
#SpanishKidLit #SpanishCivilWar
#KidLit #SpanishLit
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The Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best work of translation goes to ‘Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II’ pub. by HarperCollins, written by Lia Levi & illus. by Jess Mason, translated by Sylvia Notini #ALAyma
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And please get in touch if you'd like to run a feature/event on the booming market of translated children's/YA literature in English. We're always happy to recommend writers/speakers/#worldkidlit experts
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Thrilled to unveil the start of the 2023 list: children's & YA books in translation (from any language, published anywhere)
Many more titles to add - please help by using the google form!
And please share with the global readers in your life!
worldkidlit.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/the
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A profile of Slovak-born Swiss writer Irena Brežná, whose The Thankless Foreigner in
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bit.ly/4087VyB
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Our section just announced as their newest patron, joining fellow humanists and . We look forward to working with Francesca in advocating for better mental health support for the military community.
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Consider this a reminder that if you're not subscribed to the #GermanFilmOffice newsletter, you're missing out on a great resource on where to watch German films in the US! Sign up to be the first to hear about ticket giveaways too.
👉 germanfilmoffice.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6
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🍍#PineappleLane is a new imprint from UK, publishing #bilingual picture books FOR kids and BY authors whose lives have been disrupted by war such as Ukraine, Somalia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Syria. Please spread the word and help if you can! #RefugeesWelcome
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I'm really proud of the work we are doing with our new imprint Pineapple Lane.
I know it's a tough time and I hate asking but we need all the support we can muster.
Thank you to those who have already supported our campaign. We're nearly at £5000!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pineapple-la
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Today on blog, our co-editor speaks to Rafaela Lemos about audio book translation and audio description ...
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Only a few more days until our bundle offer ends on 31 Jan!
Get meta-detective novel The Lives & Deaths of K. Penza by Clare Azzopardi translated from Maltese by Albert Gatt + our second anthology of new Maltese writing for just £20 ✨
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It’s publication day for Scintillas: New Maltese Writing 2 & The Lives and Deaths of K. Penza by Clare Azzopardi translated from Maltese by Albert Gatt!
We have a special bundle available from our web shop until 31 January if you’d like to get both! praspar.com/products
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I'm really proud of the work we are doing with our new imprint Pineapple Lane.
I know it's a tough time and I hate asking but we need all the support we can muster.
Thank you to those who have already supported our campaign. We're nearly at £5000!
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