David Almond welcomes a new publishing imprint by Pushkin books which will concentrate solely on international children’s fiction
Millions of children are missing out on the best books in the world because so few are translated into English, according to award-winning children’s author David Almond.
The Felling-born novelist, whose book Skellig won the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and was made into a film starring Tim Roth, said more needed to be done to bring international best-sellers to this country after figures showed translated fiction accounts for less than 3% of all books sold in the UK.
Almond, who lives in Northumberland, said: “Children need to read the best books by the best writers from all parts of the world. Of course they do.
“But the plain fact is that there is very little translated children’s fiction published in the UK, and our children are missing out.”
He said the launch of a new publishing imprint by Pushkin books which will concentrate solely on international children’s fiction was “a bold new venture”.
via Northumberland author says children are missing out on world of books – Chronicle Live.
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