Almost 80 years after the first of Tove Jansson's Moomins appeared, the US market finds the durable characters at Barnes & Noble. The post Tove Jansson’s Moomin Characters Licensed to Barnes & Noble appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-03-17 19:07:53 UTC ]
‘When we woke up, the whole ocean was full of broken ice.’ An excerpt from Notes from an Island, with artwork by Tuulikki Pietilä and memoir by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal. The post Notes from an Island appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2021-10-04 05:36:51 UTC ]
Lit Lists Kayla E. Ciardi For WLT’s November 2016 issue, author and translator Alison Anderson explores and explains in her essay “Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories: The Ongoing Struggle to Make Women’s Voices Heard”—in an issue devoted exclusively to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-08-15 14:12:27 UTC ]
Most overseas publishers are familiar with the reputation of Tomorrow Publishing House, which was founded 35 years ago and has translated more than 1,000 titles. Credited for putting several local authors—Yang Hongying, Cao Wenxuan, Wu Meizhen, and Yu Yujun, for instance—on the international... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Sort Of Books is set to release eight original Moomin novels after acquiring world English rights to Tove Jansson’s works from Moomin Characters Ltd. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishing a children’s book in Russia is not a straightforward matter, as Anna Starobinets found when her detective stories set among woodland animals were deemed to be far too beastly for children I wrote my first children’s book, The Land of Good Girls, in 2009 for my then five-year-old... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sort of Books is publishing a collection of supernatural short stories by Sophie Hannah called The Visitors Book (October, £8.99). Hannah has worked with Sort of Books since 2001, when she helped produce an English-language version of Tove Jansson’s children’s stories in verse. This was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tove Jansson, author of the Moomins and other children's books, would have turned 100 years old this year. Here's what you don't know about this famous Finn. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]