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World Kid Lit: The Best of 2022

By Jackie Friedman Mighdoll, Johanna McCalmont & Claire Storey

Join the editors of the World Kid Lit blog on a tour of their favorite international children’s books of 2022, from picture books to YA fiction and graphic novels.

A person pours tea into cups alongside pastries on a table

Photo copyright © Darren Byler

Translation as Transgression: Bringing the Uyghur Novel The Backstreets into English

By Darren Byler

In 2014, translating Uyghur knowledge into English felt like a subversive act in itself.

Framing the Story: Six Graphic Narratives

By Susan Harris

These artists capture both words and images to convey narratives individual and collective.

Contacts

By Mélanie Leclerc

It’s as if my childhood was preparing me for the camera, the photo, the image, and the documentary.

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Condolences

By Mishka Lavigne

Gabrielle Sauriol lies in the Pacific Ocean now.

Translated from French by Neil Blackadder

Honor Thy Father and Mother: In Mourning

By Susan Harris

All people mourn in their own ways.

Mustard Flowers

Morning starts / when lights turn green.

Translated from Punjabi by the author

Wounds

He knew he was a tyrant in his own way.

Translated from French by Pamela Casey

Vi

The realities of life in Indochina had nothing in common with those of France.

Translated from French by Sheila Fischman

Cock-a-doodle-do

By Pan Bouyoucas

“Why didn’t you tell her about the rooster?”

Translated from French by Éric Fontaine & Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Incidents at the Evangelista Lighthouse

By Sergio Kokis

They stared hard at one another for a time, overcome with fear and doubt.

Translated from French by Hugh Hazelton

The Vagaries of Exile: Migrant Literature from Quebec

By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

The four writers featured in this portfolio are all celebrated contemporary novelists born outside of Canada but who publish in French, their second language.

People Behaving Badly

By Susan Harris

Many greet the clean slate of a new year by pledging to chalk up only virtue and moderation.

Plamondon Metro

By Alejandro Saravia

drawn by the myth of the streets of gold / Santiago Nasar arrives on rue Barclay and becomes a pusher

Translated from Spanish by María José Giménez

Multilingual

Bridging Distances: Three Hispanic Canadian Authors

By María José Giménez

Writing by authors of Latin American descent living in Canada is seldom read, taught, or reviewed beyond the country’s borders.

Trilingual Day of Rain

By Alejandro Saravia

it’s still raining / as it did at the beginning of time

Translated from Spanish by María José Giménez

The Flowers of War

By Alejandro Saravia

the flowers of war / open at night / on boulevard Saint-Laurent

Translated from Spanish by María José Giménez

The God of Tar and Bone

By Alejandro Saravia

a man standing on the tracks / stares at a train as it advances / with a moan of metal and night

Translated from Spanish by María José Giménez

María Times Seven

By Martha Batiz

It was by accident that Doña Toña decided to sell her daughters’ tears.

Translated from Spanish by the author

The Right Path

By Diego Creimer

They blamed the phenomenon on the machinery of the heavens, and not on the machinations of man.

Translated from French by María José Giménez

In Search of the End of the World

By Michel Noël

I was brought into the world on a day of black misery.

Translated from French by JC Sutcliffe

from “Rabbit on the Road”

The island lights look like the stars came down from the sky and queued up.

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

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