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Soldier Bear on Eerdword

Kathleen Merz, managing editor for Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, has written a very interesting piece on Eerdword, the company blog, about Soldier Bear, the Batchelder, and the Risky Business of Publishing International Literature. Eerdword also kindly posted a blog piece that I wrote about Voytek, my experience of translating Soldier Bear, and why that bear’s [...]
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Batchelder Award for Soldier Bear

I’m absolutely delighted, thrilled, over the moon that the 2012 Mildred L. Batchelder Award “for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States” has gone to Bibi Dumon Tak’s Soldier Bear (original title: Soldaat Wojtek, publ. Querido), which I translated for Eerdmans. A fantastic book and [...]
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    Translating Mister Orange by Truus Matti (Enchanted Lion Books, Brooklyn, NY)