Launching Books into the World: A Conversation with Carolina Orloff, by Aitana Bellido Interviews [email protected] Mon, 07/01/2024 - 15:54 Carolina Orloff is a translator, author, and researcher of Latin American literature. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, she set up Charco Press, where she serves as editorial director. For her work at Charco, Carolina was awarded Editor of the Year (Saltire Society, 2018), and for her work as co-translator of Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, she was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize (2018). In the research project* “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, we are studying a corpus of novels published in the last thirty years that go beyond the national and linguistic sphere and are projected onto the international literary market. Among the novels that interest us, the works of two authors, both from the Charco catalog, stand out: Ariana Harwicz, for her hybrid voice and her exploration of violence and motherhood, as well as her way of experimenting with form; and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, for her rewriting of Martín Fierro, which interrelates aesthetic, linguistic, and queer elements. Both are authors, moreover, of works that have circulated very well beyond the Argentine publishing market. Aitana Bellido: Since 2017, Charco Press has achieved national and... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Libraries across the country are taking part in a high-tech treasure based on Simon Mayo’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The ebook market has begun to slow, with the post-Christmas peak in ebook sales less pronounced... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Firehouse World—an event that offers training, equipment and education for the fire service—was acquired by Cygnus Business Media about 11 years ago and following a tough market in 2007, which saw the down economy hit the public safety market particularly hard, the company has been reinvesting... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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By the end of last summer, I was worn out. It seemed like every week brought a new, awful incident of plagiarism or fabrication at news organizations large and small. My job was to write about all of them, to try and get more information about wh ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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We've come a long way since an IBM 704 first croaked its way through Daisy Bell. Now we've got Siri copping an attitude when we ask a stupid question and Google Now feeding information in an incredibly realistic sounding voice. AT&T has its own initiative, dubbed Natural Voices. At this... Continue reading at Engadget
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Penguin division Michael Joseph has launched a major marketing campaign to support the paperback... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The boy band sign a publishing deal to be completed this autumn but have yet to release their first single. Continue reading at BBC News
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Icon Books is to release a new tongue-in-cheek guide to parenting from the people behind popular... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Among the best, new self-published titles of March and April is The Beach at Herculaneum by Susan G. Muth, only the second title to win a BlueInk Best Book Award. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Independent publisher Accent Press has signed a 10-book deal with crime author Jean G Goodhind... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Only 23 magazines launched in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 44 in the same period a year ago, but the number of titles that shut down between Jan. 1 and the end of March also dropped, according to figures released Monday by online database MediaFinder.com.The new titles include Condé... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Horrible Histories author, Terry Deary, says his book series has "naturally come to an end" after 20 years of writing the popular children's books. Continue reading at BBC News
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There is a 'girl power' void in new books for Kiwi kids, according to judges on a children's book awards panel. Continue reading at Stuff
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Independent publisher Myrmidon has launched an e-first genre imprint for drama romance, called... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Argentine illustrator known as “Isol” has won the world’s largest award for children’s literature, the SEK 5m (roughly $766,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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The publishing industry shows signs of maturity with a spate of new books addressing bullying. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Foreign Affairs will cover topics like crises in the Middle East, arms treaties and international law--and now they're writing about Game of Thrones. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Oscar season is over, which means one thing: it’s on to the summer blockbusters. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Amber Books, an independent publisher specializing in nonfiction titles for the African-American market, marked its 15th anniversary in February by winning an NAACP Image Award in the Youth/Teen category for publishing Gregory Reed’s book, Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons—A Dialogue with... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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It's kind of a natural for a company that, despite its many other ventures, still makes a lot of its money selling books. Continue reading at AllThingsD
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