children's & YA recommendations on the go
Favourite feature from the weekend press:
In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children’s fiction
It’s easy for children in the UK to miss out on the wonderful books published overseas. Here, nine children’s authors introduce the books they love
via In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children’s fiction | Books | The Guardian.
Have you read any good books in translation recently?
We’re always looking out for titles to recommend on our In Translation picks page…
The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. “A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties” (Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip).
In recognition of a commitment to bringing exciting and original books from around the world to the UK b small publishing have been awarded a publishing grant from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
The grant has been awarded in support of a new title – Creative Hand Art – due for publication in August this year.
As part of their autumn programme for 2013, b small will be publishing activity books from France, Chile and Korea. This is a new direction for the independent children’s publisher intended to complement their existing and continuing commitment to foreign language publishing, with a focus on culturally diverse activity books.
“This grant is a reassuring vote of confidence in our work and we’re extremely proud to be collaborating with LTI Korea. Our forward programme is made up of a healthy mix of foreign and home-grown titles, all of which embraces the idea that activity books can be artistic and inspiring whilst remaining fun and affordable.” – Sam Hutchinson, Director
Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won this year’s £10,000 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize with his novel The Detour, published by Harvill Secker.
It is the author’s second major literary prize win; his previous novel, The Twin, won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010.
Bakker will share the prize money with the title’s translator, David Colmer
via Bakker’s The Detour wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | The Bookseller.
Also on the shortlist:
The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson (Canongate)
Croatian author Dasa Drndic’s Trieste, translated by Ellen Elisa-Bursac (Maclehose Press)
Chris Barnard’s Bundu, translated from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns (Alma Books)
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean (Harvill Secker)
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.
