Programme Event highlights
pean Capital of Culture 2017. Hay’s children’s festival director Julia Eccleshare, Aarhus anthologies editor Daniel Hahn and a selection of the project’s authors will discuss writing for children and the benefits of kids reading stories from other countries.
You might also like Vampires and Apocalypse: Is That All Adolescents Want? (4th April, 15.00, Authors’ Café). By far the best-titled seminar of Bologna 2017, this will look into current trends in YA.
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BookTrust’s In Other Words 4th April, 17.30 Illustrators’ Café, Centro Servizi
UK children’s laureate Chris Riddell and Carnegie Medal-winner Kevin Brooks will help present the four “honour titles” from the inaugural eight-strong shortlist of BookTrust’s In Other Words scheme. The laudable project is designed to highlight children’s writing from overseas and to help UK publishers acquire children’s books in translation. Each shortlisted title is given fund- ing for a partial translation, and a £1,500 marketing budget is available if it goes on to be issued in the UK.
You might also like the announcement of the fair’s International Award for Illustration (5th April, 12.30, Illustrators’ Café).
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Children’s Laureates 5th April, 10.00 Illustrators’ Café, Centro Servizi
Pictured top Australian children’s laureate Leigh Hobbs, his Swedish counterpart Anne- Marie Körling left and the UK’s outgoing laureate author/illustrator Chris Riddell above
The state of kids’ publishing across the globe will be discussed among the children’s laureates from the UK (Riddell), Australia (Leigh Hobbs), Ireland (P J Lynch), Sweden (Anne-Marie Körling), The Netherlands (Jan Paul Schuten) and Mexico (María Baranda).
You might also like: International Board of Books for Young People Press Conference (3rd April, 14.30, Illus- trators Café). IBBY announces its main projects for 2017 and beyond.
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Catalonia and Belearic Islands Guest of Honour Opening Ceremony
3rd April, 19.30 Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio
If we’re honest, we go to Bologna for the parties. The Guest of Honour territory kicks off a week of down- ing prosecco and gorging on food in jaw-dropping surroundings with this do in Bologna’s impressive central library, built in the 1500s by Pope Pius IV.
Illustrator Jon Burgerman will be popping by the Oxford University Press stand party on 3rd April
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You might also like the stand parties, which are prety good too. Pop by the OUP stand on 3rd April at 17.30, and you can meet Notingham-born, New York-based illustrator extraordinaire Jon Burgerman.
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