Lit Lists 2021 was a robust year for literary translations. This list kept growing, and we didn’t resist. As always, though, we recognize there are, thankfully, many more and hope you’ll add them in the comments, along with those you’re eagerly anticipating in 2022. 2021 was also a robust year for new initiatives. Here at World Literature Today, after ninety-five years of publishing translations, WLT finished the year by publishing its first all-translation issue: all bylined pieces in translation and thirty-nine translation reviews, many of which take a deep dive into translation. For example, Emily D. Johnson’s review of Maria Stepanova’s The Voice Over: Poems and Essays considers the book’s incorporation of the translators: “This explicit discussion of translation strategies within the volume will give readers a great deal to think about and highlights current trends and points of debate in literary translation.” Rita Signorelli-Pappas writes about how Anne Carson “deliberately cast aside literal translation” in the graphic novel Euripides’ Trojan Women, laying “bare the central emotion of the women in the play.” One of our favorite new initiatives was #WorldKidLitMonth. A group of volunteers created #WorldKidLitMonth, which ran in September and celebrated world literature for kids and teens, especially fiction and nonfiction translated to English from other languages. The group’s blog includes resources for locating books in... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2021-11-29 19:56:31 UTC ]
Staff at independent comics and graphic novel publisher Image Comics voted January 6 to certify union representation by a vote of 7-2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The #1 book in the country is 'The Brightest Night,' the graphic novel adaptation of the fifth entry in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire series. Plus 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and other works by Joan Didion, who died December 23, see renewed interest. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeremy Holt and artist George Schall’s new graphic novel 'Made In Korea' outlines a near-future world in which childless couples can purchase a sophisticated robotic kid powered by AI and designed by its Korean manufacturer to age and develop along human lines. A 10-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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CricketMash publications has signed up The Ashes: This Thing Can Be Done by cricket historian Arunabha Sengupta alongside London-based artist and illustrator Maha. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-03 15:14:29 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group has inked a deal for Demon in the Wood by bestselling Shadow and Bone series author Leigh Bardugo, the first graphic novel set in the Grishaverse universe, with illustrations by Dani Pendergast. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-17 07:47:02 UTC ]
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was Gendry-Kim’s second... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-13 09:49:57 UTC ]
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Indie publisher Oneworld has created an audio list, which will launch with three titles from across its imprints. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-13 07:18:08 UTC ]
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Lit Lists The past year and a half of being stuck inside and working from home has led many of us to turn to our pets as consistent conversational companions. For some, we have even adopted the peculiar social practices of our furry friends. If you are... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-12-09 15:24:00 UTC ]
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Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit is the kind of book that stays with you. Since I finished reading it, the graphic novel has been lingering in the corners of my mind, sticky and sweet as a nectarine. It’s a book about family, breakups, queerness, childhood, sisters, and healing, but most of all, Stone... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-12-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
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'Just Roll With It' by writer Lee Durfey-Lavoie and artist Veronica Agarwala is a debut graphic novel about a grade-school girl who is beginning to deal with anxiety and Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). An eight-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Philippe Girard (Leonard Cohen: On a Wire, translated by Helge Dascher and Karen Houle) and Joe Ollmann (Fictional Father) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-12-06 09:55:48 UTC ]
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Lit Lists 2021 was a robust year for literary translations. This list kept growing, and we didn’t resist. As always, though, we recognize there are, thankfully, many more and hope you’ll add them in the comments, along with those you’re eagerly... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-11-29 19:56:31 UTC ]
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Mirion Malle (This Is How I Disappear) and Sophie Yanow (The Contradictions) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The occasion was Malle’s second English-language release and first work of fiction, This Is How I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-11-29 09:54:22 UTC ]
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Hodder is to release The Heartstopper Yearbook, "a joyful trip" into the world of the graphic novel series by author and illustrator Alice Oseman. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-25 00:28:13 UTC ]
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Gina Gagliano, the founder and publishing director of Random House Graphic, Random House Children's Books’ graphic novel imprint, is leaving the company effective December 3. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-24 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The merged Canadian and Korean platforms are expected to generate 12 graphic novels per year in the Webtoon Unscrolled imprint. The post Wattpad-Webtoon’s Book Group Opens Graphic Novel Imprint appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-11-19 03:13:04 UTC ]
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Wattpad Webtoon Studios announced plans to launch Webtoon Unscrolled, a new graphic novel imprint that will publish print editions of hit Webtoon mobile webcomics beginning in fall 2022. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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It was just a rumor, but a persistent one. Whispers in the halls of the DC Comics offices; buzz among fans as they gathered at annual conventions. That the legendary Alan Moore, writer and creator of From Hell and V for Vendetta, had written another masterpiece, something no one had ever seen.... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-11-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Comics on audio are like recordings of live music. They’re a translation. Design your perfect concert and get a graphic novel on audio rec, like Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-11-10 11:31:00 UTC ]
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To hear Weng Pixin tell it, Let’s Not Talk Anymore started out as a kind of “fuck you” move after a particularly bad fight with her mom but—as these things tend to go—it gradually transformed into a project to locate herself within the moth-eaten story of her matrilineal line. Moving back and... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-11-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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