Alpha’s wife and son left Côte d’Ivoire months ago to join his sister-in-law in Paris, but Alpha has heard nothing from them since. With a visa, Alpha’s journey to reunite with his family would take a matter of hours. Without one, he is adrift for over a year, encountering human traffickers in the desert, refugee … Continue reading GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist: ALPHA by Bessora & Barroux (France)
The 2019 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Committee - amazingly served by Annette Goldsmith, Gene Hayworth, Kim Rostan, Laura Simeon, and Elaine Tai - is honored to announce the 2019 inaugural shortlist. Please help us celebrate these fine translations and the publishers behind them by encouraging your teen readers to explore the world through the … Continue reading 2019 GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist
Soho Press is an independent book publisher in Manhattan’s Union Square. Since 1986 Soho has published across a number of genres—crime fiction, young adult, and literary fiction. Within these, there are a number of translated titles, in particular the Irene Huss series by Helene Tursten. With over an average of 90 books published year by … Continue reading Publisher Spotlight: Soho Press
A small, independent press based in the Midwest, Autumn Hill Books isn’t just a non-profit press—it’s also one of the most ardent supporters of world translation around. Since 2005 they have published over twenty books in translation from all over the world, including countries like Korea, Japan, Croatia, Greece, Uzbekistan, and Israel. Spotlighted Titles: Gold, … Continue reading Publisher Spotlight: Autumn Hill Books
My cousin Egidijus Lisauskas put his hand on the book, hesitated for a moment, and then pulled it off the shelf and put it into my hands. It was 1997, we were standing in a bookstore in Vilnius, and I had asked for something to read to improve my Lithuanian, explaining that all I could … Continue reading The Translator’s Choice by Translator Elizabeth Novickas
This week we’ll be looking at Parthian Books, an independent publisher that operates from Swansea, Wales within the United Kingdom. Parthian began twenty five years ago as the brainchild of Richard Lewis Davies and Gill Griffiths (initially to publish Davies’ book Work, Sex and Rugby) and has since developed into a leading Welsh publisher. While … Continue reading Publisher Spotlight: Parthian Books
As I was doing research for this month of Baltic appreciation by talking to people in the industry and looking at publishers there was a particular line that caught my eye in regards to The Emma Press’ story. They mentioned that much of their exploration into the area of Baltic literature (they have published and … Continue reading Highlighting Endowment Programs in the Baltic States
The Emma Press is an award-winning press based out of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2012 by the eponymous Emma Wright, this publisher focuses on titles directed at children, while at the same time seeking to break down barriers and offer perspectives that are underrepresented (whether due to race or ideology). Though … Continue reading Publisher Spotlight: The Emma Press
What first drew you to Lithuanian stories? I first went to Lithuania in 1995, just four years after it had established its independence from the Soviet Union. Despite the many problems the country faced, it was a wonderful place to be. Vilnius was a beautiful, old city and to walk its streets was to … Continue reading Q&A with Author and Noir Press Founder Stephan Collishaw
Estonian literature is an enigma. Not Churchill’s Russian riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma – no, the abyss between the Russian and Estonian cultures and languages is vast despite their geographic proximity, the former being Indo-European and the latter Finno-Ugric in essence. Rather, the culture – and the language – of Estonia is … Continue reading The Enigma of Estonian Literature: Title Picks by Translator Adam Cullen
