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Touting a big year in entries, the US-based Global Literature in Libraries Initiative names two books its co-winners for 2021, both translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena. At Ipanema during the COVID-19 pandemic, November 9, 2020. Image – iStockphoto: Brunomartin Simagens ‘Sharing Perspectives From Abroad’ The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative‘ (GLLI) Translated YA Book Prize announced on Friday (April 2) that it has two winners this year. Both of them are themed on contemporary gay life in Brazil, and both are published by Scholastic. Here the Whole Time (Sch...

UI offers diversity fellowship in its literary translation program but only one student has accepted Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS) By Sindya Bhanoo, Washington Post Aron Aji, a literary translator and professor at the University of Iowa, runs a Facebook group called Literary Translation with more than 4,300 members from 99 countries. For the most part, the group is an active, amiable one where linguaphiles help one another with tran...

On IBBY’s International Children’s Book Day: books on Amazon Crossing Kids’ list this year include titles from Asia for the first time, as editor Marilyn Brigham looks to expand the imprint’s range. A detail from the illustrations by Ramón París for María Eugenia Manrique’s ‘The Caiman,’ releasing July 1 from Amazon Crossing Kids. Image: ACK Update: Today (April 2) is International Children’s Book Day, as designated by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Read more about the focus here. Marilyn Bingham: ‘The Connectedness of All People’ Something we...

Bookshop Iraqi novelist Gzar (My Beautiful Cult) unfurls an exquisite story of life and lost love in this sweeping memoir. Raised in Basra, Iraq, Gzar spent his youth collecting scrap metal to sell for money while hiding his homosexuality, as, in Iraqi culture, gay men were often murdered. He recounts stories of violence, such as his transgender friend Mahiya, whom soldiers stalked slowly for weeks then “killed... on the spot. She was in the wrong place, dressed in the wrong clothes.” While attending the University of Baghdad in the mid-2000s, Gzar met an African American GI n...