Jul 14, 20214 minBILA HUDOOD Festival - Arabic LiteratureA new kid on the literary festival block this year is BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere.
May 24, 20216 minBorderless Book Club – Strange Beasts of ChinaStrange Beasts of China by Yan Ge, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang, (2020) Tilted Axis at Borderless Book Club. February 2021.
Mar 29, 20215 minTranslating WorldKidLit - Dr BJ EpsteinWhat is children’s literature? Where do you start when you begin to translate a book for children? Dr BJ Epstein shares examples.
Mar 8, 20215 minTranslating KidLit – Montreuil Book Fair How do children’s books make their way into French from other cultures and languages? That was the topic of a fascinating panel at SLPJ.
Feb 6, 20214 minBorderless Book Club – Zero Another Thursday evening, another cosy evening online with the Borderless Book Club.
Feb 1, 20216 minMontreuil Children’s Book Fair - #SLPJ2020France may have been placed under lockdown at the end of October, but that didn’t stop the annual Montreuil Children’s Book Fair (SLPJ).
Dec 17, 20201 minMy Year @WorldKidLitOne of the most exciting opportunities I’ve had this year has been the chance to write more for the WorldKidLit blog. I’m grateful to the...
Dec 17, 20203 min#ReadingAfrica Week 6-12 December 2020This post first appeared at WorldKidtLit on December 9, 2020 What if we got readers, publishers, librarians, authors, and everyone who...
Dec 11, 20203 minGabo Prize for Translation 2020 FinalistIt was an honour to see my translation of an extract from Karin Kalisa's Sungs Laden selected as a Finalist in the Gabo Prize for...
Nov 23, 20209 minWorld Kid Lit – Young Adult Studies Association ConferenceYA in Translation Panel - 3 November 2020 Reham Almutairi, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Nanette McGuinness, Lawrence Schimel and Claire Storey in...
Nov 5, 20205 minStereotypes in children’s picture booksReflections on the representation of Africans, people of African descent and Africa Brussels, Librairie Le Wolf, 18 December 2019...
Sep 18, 20204 min#WorldKidLit Challenge – CanadaI felt like I needed a laugh and a bit of colour this week, so I headed to North America with Elise Gravel’s extremely eye-catching Olga and
Sep 16, 20204 minGetting Started - Creative WritingCreative writing couldn’t possibly be for me, could it?
Sep 11, 20203 minWorldKidLit MonthIllustration credits: Pablo Gallo and Thiago Lopes. Font courtesy of Elīna Brasliņa You don't have to have known me for long before you...
Sep 9, 20202 minHello & WelcomeAfter recently sorting through a pile of notebooks full of quotes, thoughts, and other musings quickly jotted down at countless literary...