Photo credit: Austin Malema Please extend a warm welcome to Lebohang Masango who joins the #WorldKidLit Wednesday team at the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative blog as a regular reviewer. Lebohang is a writer, poet and anthropologist with an impressive range of publications to her name, including Mpumi’s Magic Beads, a picture book for which … Continue reading #WorldKidLitWednesday: Meet Reviewer Lebohang Masango
Kwame Alexander Poet, Educator and Bestselling Author. Alexander’s latest book of poetry, “A Thousand Words on Race And Hope, Light For The World to See” is a small but powerful commentary on the historical and current racial struggles of Black people. The foreword touches on Alexander’s early participation, as a 10-year-old, during the Civil Rights … Continue reading #BlackIsBeautiful: Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess by Andal; translated from Tamil into English by Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar
Shameless by Taslima Nasrin; translated from Bengali into English by Arunava Sinha
The Play of Dolls by Kunwar Narain; co-translated from Hindi into English by John Vater and Apurva Narain
Heat by Poomani; translated from Tamil into English by N Kalyan Raman
The Last Salute by Santosh Kumar Ghosh; translated from Bengali into English by Ketaki Datta
Meghaduta by Kalidasa; translated from Sanskrit into English by Abhay K.
A Night in the Hills by Manav Kaul; translated from Hindi into English by Pooja Priyamvada
Hassan's State of Affairs by Mirza Athar Baig; translated from Urdu into English by Haider Shahbaz
