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Study Abroad in Germany

By Kaitlyn Shehee

December 16, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Study Abroad in Germany

Not only can studying abroad help you in your future career, but it can help you grow as an individual.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: bookselling, experience, Germany, international, Ooligan, publishing, study abroad, Stuttgart

Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

By Xian Wang

October 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

Reading is important in the school Can Ran founded for children. She believes a book acts as a boat, sailing to the inner world of a child, and that reading can help children become sensitive to this world and use their own language to describe their feelings.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: children's books, children's rhymes in books, china publishing, illustration, illustrators in China, images in children's books, Indigenous illustrators, international, promoters for children's books, reading to children

Overcoming Barriers: Poetry in Translation

By Michela Sottura @sttmichela

July 8, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Overcoming Barriers: Poetry in Translation

Poetry translation is a work of metamorphoses, where there is no space for literal translation, according to translator Edith Grossman. The intrinsic meaning and sounds of a poem are painted anew by the translator, who engages in an artistic transaction between languages.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: colonization, culture, decolonization, English, foreign, international, Language, multicultural, poetry, publishing, translation, translators, voices

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

By Meagan Nolan

June 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

As the cover of a book communicates to the potential reader what lies within, many conventions have emerged to highlight certain genres, such as an old photograph that promises a memoir, or a shirtless muscular man that promises a romance novel. To investigate further, we’ll look at four popular books sold in both the US and the UK and see what each cover has to say about the same story.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: audience, background, book covers, color, cover design, fantasy, font, genre, illustrations, international, memoir, mystery, photographs, popular books, publishers, publishing houses, reader, romance, thriller, UK, United Kingdom, United States, US, young adult

Publishing Translated Works

By Andrea McDonald

July 1, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Publishing Translated Works

The life of a book is fairly simple: author writes book, book is acquired by the publisher, book is edited (and edited and edited), book is marketed, book is published, readers purchase book, readers read book. Simple. But what if the book you want to read is not written in your native language? What if […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: global market, international, translations, translators

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