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This
month: Celebrating #WomenInTranslation Month, Catalyst authors
doing great things all over the place, a Brooklyn Book Fair
appearance, and a new release coming soon!
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Women in
Translation Month Sale
August is Women in Translation Month, an annual celebration started
by book blogger Meytal Radzinski in 2013 "with the goal
of promoting women writers from around the world writing in
languages other than English." In celebration of this year's
event, we're offering 20%
off of Sacrificed
(paperback or ebook), the U.S. debut of author Chanette Paul.
Translated from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke, this thriller/family drama
crosses borders and eras, as one woman's search for the truth
behind her painful past leads her from South Africa to the Congo’s
sparkling diamond mines to Belgium’s finest art galleries to
uncover a lifetime's worth of secrets. The sale runs through the
end of the month.
Be sure to head to our site to read interviews with Chanette
and Elsa,
and follow #WITMonth and #WomenInTranslation across social media to
discover other great new writers from around the globe. And check
out the Women In Translation Month website
to learn more about this great event.
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Catalyst Authors News
Joanne
Hichens's thriller Divine Justice
was included in this Amplitude Magazine
roundup of books featuring amputees. Amplitude Magazine
is a publication “for amputees who want to live more fully.”
This month’s Imbiza Journal, a South
African-based magazine focused on African writing, is centered on
women’s voices and is guest edited by Barbara Boswell, author of Unmaking Grace.
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (The Theory of
Flight) was recently in conversation with author
Tsitsi Jaji in an event hosted by Red Rice and Beans Diaspora
Bookstore in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can watch a recording
of their conversation here. And
special thanks to Zweli's, a Zimbabwean restaurant in Durham, NC,
who provided a recipe inspired by Siphiwe's book and Zimbabwe's
food culture. You can download the recipe for Dovi Chicken/Tofu here.
Niki Daly, the author of the
Lolo
series for beginning readers (among many other titles)
was recently awarded a South African Children’s Laureate Award
by the University of the Western Cape Faculty of Education and the
SA Festival of Children’s Literature. In presenting Niki the prize,
children’s lit scholar and editor Dr. Mia Oosthuizen said it nicely
“you capture the imagination and children’s magnificent everyday
lives.” We're excited to be publishing two more of Niki's books in
2022— Fly High, Lolo
and On My Papa's
Shoulders.
Helen Brain's book Mrs.
Penguin's Perfect Palace is featured on South Africa's Parent24 website.
The book was created with Book
Dash, a South African organization that brings together
"creative professionals who volunteer to create new, African
storybooks that anyone can freely translate, print and
distribute," making books available to young readers free of
charge. Mrs.
Penguin's Perfect Palace is available in English,
Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa. Helen is the author of The Fiery
Spiral trilogy, a fantasy series for young adult readers. Book two
in the series, The Rising Tide,
was released in July.
Sifiso Mzobe's short story collection Searching for Simphiwe is featured
in this great list at Brittle Paper from
author Siphiwo Mahala of books he's reading right now. We're proud
to be the U.S. publisher for Sifiso's award-winning novel Young Blood.
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Siphiwe
Gloria Ndlovu at the Brooklyn Book Festival
We are thrilled to announce that Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author of The Theory of Flight
and The History of Man,
will be appearing at the Brooklyn Book Festival! This year's event
runs September 26 through October 4, and is a mix of in-person
and virtual appearances. Siphiwe is part of an incredible line-up
of authors. Head to brooklynbookfestival.org for the
full roster of participating authors, illustrators and creators!
Through the lives of a few families and the fate of a single patch
of ground, The
Theory of Flight sketches decades of national history
in an unnamed country in Southern Africa – from colonial occupation
through the freedom struggle. The follow-up, The History of Man
shifts the perspective to that of the colonizer, exploring this
same history through the eyes of one man on his journey from
boyhood to manhood, and the changes that befall him through love,
loss, and war. With sympathy, complexity, and penetrating insight,
the novel explores what makes a man, a father, and a nation. The Theory of Flight
is out now, and The
History of Man is out in January.
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Out Next
Month: Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
“An electric collection of stories that seethes with horror and
beauty.” — Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Afterland
We are excited to be the North American publisher for Disruption, the
newest Short Story Day Africa anthology. Short Story Day Africa is
a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing the next
generation of African voices through workshops, mentorship, and
their annual Short Story Day Africa prize. Disruption
features 21 new and emerging authors from across the African
continent exploring the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive
in the face of our ever-changing global realities. In these
evocative, often prescient, stories, new and emerging writers from
across Africa investigate many of the pressing issues of our time:
climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more.
Disruption
is out on September 7, and pre-orders are available now.
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