Looking for a summer read to share with the young translated-literature fans in your life? The World Kid Lit team share four recently published favourites for the summer … EDITH: THE GIRL WHO WAS 100 YEARS OLD Written and illustrated by Catharina Valckx Translated from French (France) by Antony
Lucia Odoom is a Danish writer of Ghanaian descent, whose debut novel Cosmos has been published by Daunt Books, in Hunter Simpson’s translation. The character Cosmos has left Ghana as a boat refugee and has ended up in present-day Denmark via Italy. His dream is to earn enough to build a house bac
The title of Jean-Noël Orengo’s latest novel is a quote from a remark allegedly made by SS officer Karl Maria Hettlage, who, with a discernible note of jealousy, is said to have once told one of Adolf Hitler’s favourite courtiers: ‘You are Hitler’s unrequited love.’ That favourite was Alb
Reading Iris Wolff’s writing is like immersing oneself in the pages of a beautifully composed picture book. Clearing shows us the forests, mountains and plains of Romania where Wolff spent her childhood. Each scene, vividly realised, resonates with others – in this book and in her earlier works.
An internet search for the name ‘Vanta’ soon turns up a colour called Vantablack. A deep-black material invented by a technology company, Vantablack absorbs almost all the light that hits it, feeling uneasily vortex-like if looked at for too long. Would Astrid Roemer (1947–2026) have app
Radio producer Philippe Collin has had a huge cultural impact in France on two counts: firstly as the creator of the hit podcast Facing History, which has had forty million downloads; and secondly with his bestselling first novel, The Barman of the Ritz, based on a true story and just translated int
