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#WORLDKIDLITWEDNESDAY: What Makes Us Human

Posted on February 28, 2024September 2, 2024 by Karthika G

Described as a "poetic riddle" emphasizing the importance that language holds in our lives today, and the fragile position that it increasingly occupies, What Makes Us Human is a book filled with gentle surprises. Beginning with a time when the idea of a language was still new, to the breathtakingly beautiful spread that shows how … Continue reading #WORLDKIDLITWEDNESDAY: What Makes Us Human

Posted in #WorldKidLit Wednesday/Weekend, Endangered Alphabets, Independent Publisher, languages, Picture BooksTagged #EndangeredLanguages, #IndigenousLanguages, #Languages, #UNESCO, #WorldKidLit, Anna Forlati, Communication, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Victor D. O. SantosLeave a comment

Fiji 🇫🇯: A Privileged Life Denied by Sarote Fotfiri Erasito (tr. Sarote Fotfiri Erasito) in Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Ed. Chris McCabe)

Posted on August 6, 2023August 6, 2023 by jessenana

In 2021, I started a podcast interviewing a different woman each month asking her twenty questions. You can listen to the podcast here. As a thank you gift, I bought each woman a copy of this book. This is one of my favourite discoveries in this project, a wonderful anthology on the world’s languages/dialects that … Continue reading Fiji 🇫🇯: A Privileged Life Denied by Sarote Fotfiri Erasito (tr. Sarote Fotfiri Erasito) in Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Ed. Chris McCabe)

Posted in Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, Women Authors, Women in TranslationTagged #AnAnthologyofPoetryinEndangeredLanguages, #APrivlegedLifeDenied, #Blackbirding, #BritishColonialism, #ChrisMcCabe, #EndangeredLanguages, #ExileLit, #Fiji, #FijiLit, #HachetteUK, #JessAndohThayre, #Malaita, #PoemsFromTheEdgeOfExtinction, #Poetry, #RotumanLanguage, #SaleatoiNoruaMalou, #SolomonIslands, #TranslatedLit, #UNESCO, #WIT, #WITMonth, #womenauthorsLeave a comment

#TasmanianLitMonth – Summing Up a Month of Tasmanian Titles

Posted on April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 by beijinglibrarian

Written by guest curator, Bec Taylor Celebrating Tasmanian Literature Month has allowed me the privilege of connecting my past to my present and future. I have luxuriated in my precious memories of a wild and free childhood, shed tears over the dark and horrifying acts inflicted upon and by our ancestors, discovered incredible new-to-me creators, … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth – Summing Up a Month of Tasmanian Titles

Posted in Australian Literature, Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, Tasmanian LiteratureTagged #ABCAustralia, #AdamThompson, #AllenandUnwin, #AnneHathaway, #AustralianBookLoverspodcast, #AustralianLit, #AveryMcDougall, #BecTaylor, #Biography, #BookerPrize, #BrandTasmania, #Bushfires, #CBCA, #ChineseAustralianHistory, #ChineseTasmanianHistory, #ChloeHooper, #ClareBardley, #CommonwealthWritersPrize, #ConvictWomen, #CreativeCities, #DanielleWood, #DrDianneSnowdenAM, #DrMichaelStoddart, #EllenDeGeneres, #ErinHortle, #EvePownallAward, #Exhibitions, #Fiction, #HeatherRose, #HistoricalFiction, #IanBroinowski, #IndigenousLit, #IntlYALit, #InvisiblyGrace, #JenniferCossins, #Journalism, #KarenHarrland, #KateGordon, #KayAllport, #KylePerry, #LJMOwen, #LyndonRiggall, #MartinFlanagan, #MegBignell, #Nonfiction, #PanMacmillianAustralia, #PicadorAustralia, #PoppyGee, #PrimeMinistersLiteraryAwards, #PublicLibraries, #RayneAllinson, #RichardFlanagan, #RobbieArnott, #RobynMundy, #Spellhound, #StellaPrize, #StephenieCahalan, #SteveMartin, #StolenChildren, #TasmanBridgeDisaster, #Tasmania, #TasmanianGothic, #TasmanianLit, #TasmanianLitMonth, #TasmanianScience, #TheOctopusandI, #TinMiners, #ToddBabiak, #UNESCO, #UNESCOCityofLiterature, #VanishingFalls, #VianneBrian, #VogelAward, #WorldKidLit, #WrenFraserCameron, #WritingFestivals, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Women Authors, YA Books1 Comment

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