by Laura Watkinson | Dec 31, 2015 | Blog
“An ingenious novel about a writer’s inspiration, a father’s love and a man’s fear of losing his legacy. Emiel Steegman, a midlist author with a handful of novels to his name, is seeking a way to escape a dinner with a party of Estonian...
by Laura Watkinson | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
I’m very pleased to see this latest arrival, Hieronymus by Marcel Ruijters, which I translated for Knockabout in the UK. Packed with great characters and so many, many little details from Bosch’s famous – and not so famous – works, this book is...
by Laura Watkinson | Nov 8, 2015 | Blog
Last month I was lucky enough to attend the 11th IBBY Regional Conference in New York, where I participated in a panel discussion on children’s literature in translation, at the invitation of Claudia Zoe Bedrick of Enchanted Lion Books in Brooklyn and Anita...
by Laura Watkinson | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Anton Van Hertbruggen has been awarded a Silver Medal by the Society of Illustrators in the US for his illustrations for The Dog That Nino Didn’t Have, a beautifully illustrated story about a boy and his imaginary dog, written by Edward van de Vendel and translated by...
by Laura Watkinson | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
I’m so delighted that my translation of Tonke Dragt’s classic The Secrets of the Wild Wood is out today, published by Pushkin Children’s Books. I love this book and couldn’t be more chuffed that it’s now available to English-speaking...
