Check out GLLI on Facebook, Twitter ( as well as at the GLLI website. GLLI regularly showcases and reviews world literature and the blog focused on Brazilian literature most recently in April 2020. Works published within three years of the submission deadline were considered. The winning books were selected from a field of titles translated from 16 languages and representing 21 countries or regions from Bangladesh to Belgium.

The committee also selected two honor books: Almondby Won-pyung Sohn (translated from Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee and published by HarperVia), the gritty story of a Korean teen born with a condition that leaves him unable to identify or express emotion, and The Endby Mats Strandberg (translated from Swedish by Judith Kiros and published by Arctis Books), in which Swedish teens have 4 months to come to grips with the fact that world will be ending. That suggests growing publisher interest and commitment to global literature and their recognition of the importance of sharing perspectives from abroad.” GLLI Executive Director Karen Van Drie said, “Submissions have increased by more than a third this year. The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) prize aims to focus attention on the gems of world literature for 12-to-18-year-olds.

Fewer young adult (YA) books are translated into English than any other type of children’s literature. Launched two years ago with the inaugural prize presented in 2019, the prize was created to raise the profile of translated literature for teens.

The festival is free and open to the public (registration required). In-depth interviews with the authors and translators of this year’s and last year’s winners of the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize will be featured in an online presentation to be released on April 14 at 2:30pm CDT as part of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Fay B. In World Kid Lit Month last year (September), Lawrence Schimel interviewed Larissa about her work on these two brilliant books here on the blog, and Here the Whole Time was one of our 2020 Best Young Adult picks.

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