Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For SCBWI Japan‘s event, payment is in cash at the door. I think it displays as it does on the website so that people don’t have to pay to rsvp. If you prefer not to create an account, simply attend and pay the non-member price at the door. I’ll pass this exchange to the organizers for reference. 👍 010
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026November ‘26 will bring multiple master classes for literary translators able to get to Tokyo! Sam Malissa has a workshop at Waseda on November 11, and David Boyd and Asa Yoneda will headline a workshop held by #SCBWI #Japan on November 21: www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...scbwi.orgSCBWI Japan In-person Event: What We Talk About When We Cotranslate: A Conversation and Workshop with David Boyd and Asa YonedaJoin SCBWI Japan for this in-person workshop on translation, Japanese to English, with renowned literary translators David Boyd and Asa Yoneda 31710
Reposted by Avery UdagawaMelek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#kidlit #worldkidlit #GOTV 111
Reposted by Avery UdagawaJocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To end International Translation Day on a translating note, here is an old, but excellent essay by the legend Cathy Hirano on the difficulties of translation in general and J-E translation in specific.hbook.comEight Ways to Say You: The Challenges of TranslationLast year I had the honor of attending the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony in Massachusetts, not as an award recipient but as an accompanist — as the translator for Kazumi Yumoto’s The Friends,... 33623
Reposted by Avery UdagawaYilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2023Happy international translation day, fellow translators!!! 2317
Reposted by Avery UdagawaCEATL @ceatl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Happy International Translation Day, everyone! #internationaltranslationday #protecthumancreativity #translatingismysuperpower 01813
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This essay is so inspiring! Thank you for re-sharing! 010
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My personal #WorldKidLitMonth read has been BUTTERFLY HEART by Swedish Sámi author Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Agnes Broomé. This coming-of-age book reminds me of ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME MARGARET but with slightly older characters (8th grade) and a quest to learn a once-suppressed language. 🦋 051
Reposted by Avery UdagawaTristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Btw here’s the side-by-side. Bigger as with Downpour, but also quite a different vibe this time 👀 193
Reposted by Avery UdagawaTristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Voice of the Snow is outttt (tr. me) 🥰👦🏻❄️ 195
Reposted by Avery Udagawaworldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Teachers! School staff! Does your school know about the @worldkidlit Schools' International Reading Award? Prizes for * Best #ReadtheWorld display * Best group project * Best solo project Your school could win a global book bundle! Please share: worldkidlit.org/internationa... #booksky #edusky 22015
Reposted by Avery UdagawaWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Celebrate 10 years of World Kid Lit Month with nine new children's and YA books exploring themes as diverse as Hmong history, the intersection of art and exile, and our food supply chain. Find the list of selections here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...wordswithoutborders.orgWorld Kid Lit Month 2026: 9 New Books to Read Now - Words Without BordersCelebrate World Kid Lit Month with nine new children's and YA books translated from Korean, Arabic, German, and more. 073
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026👍 Schools are an amazing place to share and cherish #WorldKidLit! 031
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Forty years of the #WhiteRavens! Continuing a tradition begun in 1986, »The White Ravens 2026« features brief annotations of 216 notable new children’s and young adult books in 46 languages from 62 countries and territories. From the International Youth Library in Munich: www.ijb.de/en/home/the-... 022
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Coverage of #WorldKidLitMonth and the #BatchelderAward at the Association for Library Service to Children @wearealsc.bsky.social blog! www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2026/09...alsc.ala.orgWorld Kid Lit Month: Celebrate a global outlook this SeptemberCelebrate World Kid Lit Month this September and promote diverse global literature for children and young adults in your library. 033
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Here is a whole roundup of rounder-uppers who have made #WorldKidLitMonth what it is today! worldkidlit.org/2026/09/19/m...worldkidlit.orgMeet the team: Who’s behind 10 years of World Kid Lit?By Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp Hopefully you’ve heard: World Kid Lit is 10 this September! It has been a truly global community project, bringing together children’s and YA lit enthusiasts from … 020
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@tristiger.bsky.social So sorry you have been dealing with all this. I would love to talk soon about these issues in the literary translation industry and what collectively we can do about them. 020
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So sorry, my math was wrong (should be 40 not 30)! Here is the corrected version. bsky.app/profile/aver... 110
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I had the good fortune to connect with Christopher Holmes, who translated Sachiko Kashiwaba's debut work as The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist about 40 years before I translated it as The Village Beyond the Mist. Reading our translations side by side was fun! glli-us.org/2026/09/15/w...glli-us.org#WorldKidLit Month Focus on Japan: Two Translations of Sachiko Kashiwaba’s First NovelComparing two translations of a children’s novel is often impossible, as, typically only one has been published. But at least two English-language translations exist of a trim, eight-chapter classi… 066
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"My underlying mission as a translator is utilizing literature as a tool for social justice." @anamzafar.bsky.social in a terrific #WorldKidLitMonth conversation with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and Alton Melvar M Dapanas at the #Asymptote blog: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/09...asymptotejournal.comThe Tension that Keeps the Bridge Aloft: An Interview with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and Anam Zafar on Children’s Literature in Translation - Asymptote BlogTranslation teaches you that you never finish learning any language. There are always more words, perspectives, and ideas to encounter. 0108
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ever wish these ‘Literature only’ pockets in planes actually contained literature? 📚 041
Reposted by Avery Udagawagamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die. 211260485
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This #WorldKidLitMonth, the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative #GLLI is featuring posts about #Japan #kidlit and #YA titles in English #translation. @hatbooks.bsky.social and I have had the privilege of lining these up. See post #1 here and follow along all month! glli-us.org/2026/09/01/w...glli-us.org#WorldKidLit Month: Focus on JapanWelcome to the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) Focus on Japan month! We are author Holly Thompson and Japanese-to-English translator Avery Fischer Udagawa. In tandem with #WorldKid… 0143
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Since this interview, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social has translated a number of key titles from Arabic including Thunderbird, a time-traveling fantasy trilogy for young readers written by award-winning Palestinian author Sonia Nimr. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477325810/utpress.utexas.eduThunderbirdShortlisted for the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Society of AuthorsA Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical ... 141
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Happy #WorldKidLitMonth! This is the tenth year of a project touched by many fabulous people over time, including @mlynxqualey.bsky.social. I interviewed her at @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social's Cynsations in 2016. cynthialeitichsmith.com/2016/09/gues...cynthialeitichsmith.comGuest Interview: Marcia Lynx Qualey on #WorldKidLit Month - Cynthia Leitich Smith#WorldKidLit Month image (c) Elina Braslina By Avery Fischer Udagawa September is #WorldKidLit Month, a time to notice if world literature is reaching kids in the form of translations. (See this Book... 1116
Reposted by Avery UdagawaTranslators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today marks the start of #WorldKidLitMonth!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Celebrate all month with our playlist of the world's best children's & YA books, read by their talented translators! #booksky #kidlit #yabooks #kidsbooks #readtheworld #booksforkids #yafiction #bookstagram #translation #xl8 #transl8 buff.ly/UkFCwBQ 0134
Reposted by Avery Udagawaworldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It’s September 1st which means … it’s World Kid Lit Month! 🌍📚We’d love to see your diverse, global or translated picks! Find out more about how you can join in below ⬇️ #WorldKidLitMonth #namethetranslator #childrensliterature worldkidlit.org/2026/09/01/w...worldkidlit.orgWelcome to World Kid Lit Month 2026!It’s September 1st which means … it’s World Kid Lit Month! Read on to find out what it’s all about, how you can get involved and what to look out for here on the blog. What … 11215
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026To make tomorrow's audience for #WorldLit we need to get young people their #WorldKidLit —and one of the key groups helping grownups with this is the #WorldKidLitMonth collective. Please buy them a coffee or get one of their mugs! 077
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026To herald the tenth annual #WorldKidLitMonth in Sept 2026, @worldkidlit.bsky.social has posted a Bluesky starter pack. Check it out! 👇 bsky.app/starter-pack... 11616
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“If people want fewer data centers, they need to reduce their demand.” —one of my teens in the car today. When young people in my orbit see unneeded AI use, they perceive laziness and disregard for privacy and the environment. 082
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Voted in the #Kansas primary election today with my newly eligible-to-vote daughter! ❤️🌾 070
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"And I have gone to all the conferences there are. I go… I show up, I engage, I talk to everybody who's there." Eva Apelqvist's pitch and translation of FIRE FROM THE SKY by Moa Backe Åstot led to its US publication and a Printz Honor. #scbwiSummer26 #translation #IntlYALit #YALit 030
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"I will not let people push me into a too-early deadline, because I know it's not going to be good, and my name is going to be on there." Sage advice from Eva Apelqvist at the #scbwiSummer26 Translators' Social! #SCBWITranslation #kidlit #xl8 190
Reposted by Avery UdagawaPercy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Does translating about sports count as exercise?? Asking for a friend... #AmTranslating #xl8 151
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I commented for a Japan Times piece that highlights literary influences on Hayao Miyazaki, including Sachiko Kashiwaba's THE VILLAGE BEYOND THE MIST. www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...japantimes.co.jpHow Hayao Miyazaki’s love of books influenced Studio Ghibli’s storiesHayao Miyazaki lists books as direct sources for a number of his films including his latest, “The Boy and the Heron.” 0143
Reposted by Avery Udagawaisabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'm crying over a translation again. I'm unlikely ever to forget why I do this job (it's not a job, it's a calling!), but if I ever did... this is why. #xl8 #amtranslating #amediting 091
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Why can I never have enough chocolate? #amtranslating 130
Reposted by Avery Udagawaworldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026As we approach 10 years of #WorldKidLitMonth this September, we're fundraising to keep the #WorldKidLit ship sailing into the next decade, and for two projects aimed at promoting international reading among young people. Please donate & share widely! Thank you! worldkidlit.org/2026/07/21/w...worldkidlit.orgWorld Kid Lit: 10th Anniversary FundraiserIt’s the 10th year of World Kid Lit: an international reading project with a global impact! As we approach World Kid Lit Month this September – our 10th anniversary – we are fundr… 01213
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Translators, register here to join a social featuring Eva Apelqvist, translator of FIRE FROM THE SKY by Moa Backe Åstot—only the second title in #translation to be named a Printz Honor book! Thurs, July 30, 7-8pm Central scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/regi... A free part of #scbwiSummer26 ⭐️ #ya #xl8 #kidlit 0113
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Submissions welcome through July 31 for the #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant! Assists children’s book translators in the development of a specific #translation project into English, which is not currently under contract. Up to 2 winners selected annually: www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec... #kidlitscbwi.orgPitch-Perfect Translation GrantThe Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug... 075
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Translation is "making choice after thoughtful choice so that a child reading in another language laughs at the same joke, feels the same sense of comfort or the same sense of wonder." Editor and translator María Camila Correa at @scbwisf.bsky.social webinar on July 10. 📚 #SCBWITranslation #kidlit 1276
Reposted by Avery UdagawaLawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026#kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8 082
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ALTA49 will feature a panel on translation of children's literature moderated by @jasmine-hongyu.bsky.social and including Riya Parikh, @nanettemcg.bsky.social, Lena Traer, and @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social! 📚 #kidlit #worldkidlit #translation #xl8 #ALTA49 093
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A new #IBBY Honour List! 🎉 "Selected for the 2026 list are 76 entries in the category of Writing; 58 in the category of Illustration; and 57 in the category of Translation, making it the largest list ever compiled since the creation of the programme seventy years ago." www.ibby.org/awards-activ...ibby.orgIBBY Honour List 2026: IBBY International Board on Books for Young People 042
Reposted by Avery UdagawaHelen Wang @helenwanglondon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Some more information about #MARC041 and making #translation visible from Minjie Chen of the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton, on LinkedIn 011
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026“The decision to pursue the sale of picture books and other children’s books [in selected post offices] was driven by their steady sales amid an overall slump in publishing.” #Japan #BookIndustryNews HT @helenwanglondon.bsky.social asianews.network/japan-post-t...asianews.networkJapan Post to launch initiative selling kids’ books at post offices, beginning in areas affected by 2011 quakeAmid a nationwide decline in local bookshops, the company will leverage the strength of its extensive network of post offices to provide local residents with a space to discover books. 0278
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'm not sure there's an ALTA equivalent, but there is the Japanese Literary Translators United google group owned by Polly Barton. 120
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Minjie Chen of the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton, has requested that a library database field called #MARC041 about #translation be made visible. Please consider sharing this with your local library team, especially those working in #metadata: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...linkedin.comLogin | Christophe FrickerOur campaign to improve the visibility of #translation in #library catalogues is making progress. If you are a librarian, please support Minjie Chen's new request for OCLC to index #marc041, a field i... 186
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I look forward to moderating SWET Talk Shop: Catching Up with Writer Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social on Saturday, July 11 at 9 a.m. Japan Standard Time. Holly's #bicultural writing for young people has inspired me for years. #kidlit #pb #mg #ya #ListeningToTrees swet.jp/events/event... 061