Dongfang.com reporter Bao Yongting reported on March 17: 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Gurna’s works, the new Milan Kundera series of works, and the best-selling post-90s writer Sally Rooney’s new work “Beautiful World, You Are in a Beautiful World” “Where”, Fuxia Dunlop’s food essay “Searching for Things”… A few days ago, Shanghai Translation Publishing House held the 2022 new book promotion conference online, and announced this year’s blockbuster books and publishing plans.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist of Arab descent living in the UK. Previously, the works of this “unpopular writer” only met Chinese readers in the form of articles. After the announcement of the Nobel Prize, Shanghai Translation Publishing House obtained the publishing rights for the simplified Chinese translations of ten of Gurna’s works.
In 2022, the translation agency plans to launch the simplified Chinese version of the new Nobel Prize winner’s 10 works, the first batch of which are his 5 important masterpieces – “Paradise”, “Praise for Silence”, “Beach” and “The Last”. “Gift” and “Afterlife”.
The series of works by the famous author Milan Kundera will be relaunched this year. At that time, readers will be able to choose different versions of Kundera’s works such as paper books, e-books, audio books, and interpretation audio books. Launched in April with the first batch of works is the French writer and journalist Ariane Sherman’s “Looking for Milan Kundera”, which discloses key events in Kundera’s life and is a painting of Kundera. The jigsaw puzzle of life, and more precious is that the book is accompanied by more than 30 exclusive Kundera photos, manuscripts and archives.
This year marks the 210th anniversary of Dickens’s birth. Shanghai Translation Publishing House will launch the first and second batches of “Penguin Cloth Classics”, including seven Dickens works such as “David Kapoefer”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities” and “The Fog” Orphans, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and two works by the Brontë sisters, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. In the specially launched “Penguin Cloth Classic” Dickens works set, the translation agency will present a special commemorative peripheral with the set, and will hold a bookstore-themed micro-exhibition and Douban online reading activities from April to May.
British food writer Fuxia Dunlop became famous in China for her book “Shark’s Fin and Pepper”. Her new book “Searching for Things” will be released in March. This book brings together many of Fuxia’s essays published in the “Financial Times”, “New York Times”, “Gourmet Magazine”, “Los Angeles Times” and other well-known media.
In this food essay, Fuxia vividly describes the four themes of “Eating East and West”, “Strange Foods”, “Connecting Heart and Stomach” and “History of Food” with her consistent delicate and humorous brushstrokes. Various differences between Eastern and Western food cultures and wonderful anecdotes regarding food.
Because of “Chat Records” and “Normal People”, Irish post-90s writer Sally Rooney has become a new star in the international literary world in recent years, and the “Chat Records” series will also be launched this year. In May, her latest novel, The Beautiful World, Where Are You, is scheduled to meet readers. This book tells the different life trajectories of two good friends in their twenties, Alice and Erin. Four young men, Alice, Felix, Erin, and Simon, yearn for each other, deceive each other, and break up. Rooney draws on the protagonists’ perspectives on art, friendship, and the world around them, as well as delicate depictions of the complex emotions in their lives, to convey the younger generation’s doubts regarding “if there is a beautiful world.”
In addition to maintaining original children’s book authors, “Translated Children’s Books” excavates and introduces more excellent children’s books from overseas. All seven volumes of “Selected Works of Danish Children’s Literature Master Kilgore” will be published, which is Kilgore’s first appearance in China. Tarzan, Magic Carpet, etc. The classic children’s book series “Charlotte Classic Edition” will publish newly introduced works – “The Clockwork Clock” by British author Philip Pullman and “The Flour Doll” by British author Anne Vann.Return to Sohu, see more
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