Unruly Books: Translating hybrid picturebooks for teens and adults

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, are delighted to announce the latest event in their seminar series on translation for children:

Unruly Books: Translating hybrid picturebooks for teens and adults. In conversation with Claudia Zoe Bedrick and Eugenia Mello

This online webinar is free & open to all. To register for the Zoom link, please click here.

This webinar focuses on Unruly Books, the picturebook imprint launched in 2021 to bring category-defying ‘hybrid’ international books – combining elements of the graphic novel, picture book, and art book, with ample text, sophisticated conception, and challenging or more complex subject matter – for teens and adults to the US. Publisher Claudia Zoe Bedrick and designer Eugenia Mello will discuss how the imprint came about, what it is seeking to do, and key books from the catalogue and how they were translated. The conversation will explore how the Unruly approach to translating includes ideas and editorial practices, book design and visual experimentation, and, ultimately, offers a challenge to assumptions about the categories of books for adults and books for children in English-language publishing.

Speakers 

Claudia Zoe Bedrick is the publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books, an award-winning, independent publisher based in Brooklyn. Her work is nourished every day by an abiding sense of wonder and a deep appreciation for the spirit and creativity of children everywhere.

Eugenia Mello is an occasional art director at Enchanted Lion/Unruly and a core member of the team for strategic and artistic development. She is an illustrator and graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently living and drawing in NYC. She is passionate about rhythm, movement, and feelings, and uses colors and shapes for things that are difficult to put into words. She strives to make images that express feelings and moments in a musical way.