@laurawat.bsky.social
Literary translator, lover of lemurs and lemon drizzle cake, wearer of silly hats, hoping for better things. She/her
Three FREE online literary translation workshops as part of Flip Through Flanders with Liz Waters, P.C. Evans & me!
Info and sign up www.flandersliterature.be/literary-tra...
Hooray for Bird and friends! 🦜🐦🥳
19.06.2025 07:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Ihara Saikaku was probably the greatest writer of male/male love stories of the Edo Period (1603-1868).
Saikaku’s most famous book about male/male love specifically is called Nanshoku okagami, published in 1687 and translated by Paul Gordon Schalow as The Great Mirror of Male Love.
Drie kinderboeken over klimaatverandering: Scheten uit de schoorsteen (4+), Palmen op de Noordpool (8+) en Rugzwemmen (10+)
Aanstaande maandag geef ik een webinar voor de Vlaamse Grootouders voor het klimaat. Voor zover ik weet kun je ook meedoen als je geen grootouder of Vlaming bent. www.grootoudersvoorhetklimaat.be/events/lees-...
17.06.2025 14:03 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Delighted that 'Bird Is Dead' by Tiny Fisscher & Herma Starreveld (trans. by me, publ. by @greystonebooks) has not only been shortlisted for @societyofauthors Queen’s Knickers Award (founded by Nicholas Allan) but is also a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year. Well done, Bird and pals! 🥳🎉
15.06.2025 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Catch Sachiko Kashiwaba and me on our upcoming tour to launch The Village Beyond the Mist in the US! #SachikoKashiwaba #kidlit #japankidlit #worldkidlit #translation 🧵
15.06.2025 09:38 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3
In Manhattan’s Chinatown on Wednesday, June 25, at 5:30 p.m., Sachiko Kashiwaba and I will converse with New York Times-bestselling author @katemilford.bsky.social at the Chatham Square Library 📚: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
15.06.2025 10:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2THRILLED that The No-Girlfriend Rule by @bycrandall.bsky.social is included in the CBI Read with Pride guide 🏳️🌈 'This charming LGBTQ+ coming of age story shows us that we can discover the most about ourselves in the unlikeliest of places' 🌈
More Pushkin pride coming soon!
@pushkinpress.com
#mswl reminder: I am still on the hunt for standout trans/genderqueer voices, particularly in YA but also MG, from speculative to gorgeously written coming-of-age. My partner is trans/nb, I’m genderfluid, and I will never stop championing genderqueer authors
23.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 177 🔁 72 💬 7 📌 2😭
17.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha ha! Douze points! 😎😘
17.05.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Neeee!!! 🤣
17.05.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Duitsland ❤️
17.05.2025 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0What? No Austria?! ❤️
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IN MEMORIAM AFLEVERING JAN TERLOUW
Jan Terlouw had nooit gedacht schrijver te worden, maar wordt nu vooral herdacht als de auteur van een rijk kinderboekenoeuvre. In dit In Memoriam staan we stil bij zijn boeken en de betekenis van zijn schrijverschap
degrotevriendelijkepodcast.nl/afleveringen...
Graphic showing British children's book covers: Matilda, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Meg and Mog, Coming To England, The Gruffalo, Who's Going On A Bear Hunt, Horrid Henry, Journey To The River Sea, A Monster Calls, How I Live Now, Noughts & Crosses, The Girl Of Ink & Stars, Tall Staroy, Oliver & The Seawigs, Face, Varjak Paw
An island of strangers? Just imagine British children's books without the work of migrants & their children – all of these & more!
www.sfsaid.com/2017/02/one-...
Small thing but nice...
02.05.2025 17:13 — 👍 102 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 0Pope opera! ❤️ #loveit
02.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/
#BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚
Wow! ❤️
09.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great idea! Think I'll join you ❤️
08.04.2025 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm shocked. So sad. He was such an amazing, creative translator.
01.04.2025 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice! ❤️
01.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, that's so sad. He was such a great translator with an incredible sense of fun in his translations. I was sure our paths would cross at some point and that we'd meet in person. Sending strength to those who loved him.
01.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reading is a radical act. Every time a child picks up a book, new possibilities open up that were not there before. And it has the biggest positive impact of all factors on children's life chances! Every time you help a kid to read for pleasure, you will change their lives FOREVER. #literacy #books
31.03.2025 19:28 — 👍 178 🔁 55 💬 6 📌 2
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
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Ware en onware beweringen over vaccins, met illustraties van Wendy Panders. Uit: https://marcterhorst.nl/kinderboeken/viruswereld/
Feit en fictie over mazelen, vaccins, God, bijwerkingen, autisme. Uit kinderboek Viruswereld.
26.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hallo beste blauwe lucht liefhebbers! Vanaf nu is @ibby-nl.bsky.social ook op BlueSky te vinden. Wil je weten wat we allemaal bij IBBY NL doen, neem een kijkje op onze website: www.ibby-nederland.nl Alle kinderen hebben het recht om een lezer te worden.
#BringingBooksandChildrenTogether
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