Daniel Hahn on translated children’s books
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
In the world there are 6.7 billion people whose first language is not English, but, as Daniel Hahn points out, there is little translated fiction in the UK. He talks to Gillian Cross about the translated books and foreign authors he included in The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199695140.do Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some forty books to his name. He has worked as editor on the following: The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Good Fiction Guide, The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland, and The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. He is currently Chair of the Society of Authors. Gillian Cross is winner of the Cargegie Medal, the Smarties Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, as well as many other children's book prizes © Oxford University Press
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