AmazonCrossing Announces $10 Million Commitment to Translating Books into English
October 13 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Investment to increase the number and diversity
of books in translation
New website open for proposals at
translation.amazon.com/submissions
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—In celebration of its fifth year, AmazonCrossing,
the literary translation imprint of Amazon Publishing, today
announced a $10 million commitment over the next five years to
increase the number and diversity of its books in translation.
AmazonCrossing is one of the largest publishers of translated
literature in the United States, with 77 titles from 15 countries
and 12 languages to be published in the United States in 2015.
Today’s announced investment will go toward fees paid to
translators over the next five years and increasing the countries
and languages represented on the AmazonCrossing list, which since
2010 has included more than 200 titles by authors from 29 countries
writing in 19 languages.
To support this growing commitment to books in translation,
AmazonCrossing editors today opened a new website for authors,
agents and publishers to suggest titles for translation at
translation.amazon.com/submissions. AmazonCrossing is now accepting
submissions in mystery, thriller, women’s fiction, historical
fiction, literary fiction, memoir, science fiction and fantasy
categories. In addition to this new streamlined process for
submissions, AmazonCrossing editors will accept submissions for
translation consideration in person at the Frankfurt Book Fair on
October 14th from 11:00 am-1:00 pm in Hall 3.0, K31.
“We launched AmazonCrossing five years ago to introduce readers
to voices of the world through English-language translations of
foreign-language books. While we are now one of the largest
publishers of translated literature in the United States,
translated fiction is still a tiny fraction of new publications.
Today we are committing $10 million to translations to bring more
international writers to new audiences,” said Sarah Jane Gunter,
Publisher of AmazonCrossing and General Manager of International
Publishing. “Our new website for submissions will help us cast a
broader net in finding great books for translation, with the hope
of increasing the number of acquisitions from countries that are
traditionally underrepresented in translation.”
Over the past five years, AmazonCrossing has published
significant works such as German author Oliver P�tzsch’s
million-copy best-selling Hangman’s Daughter series, Korean author
Bae Suah’s acclaimed novella Nowhere to Be Found and Turkish author
Ayse Kulin’s Kindle best seller Last Train to Istanbul. The 2016
list will continue a commitment to translating books by exceptional
foreign-language authors including award-winning and best-selling
Mexican author of Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel. Her
novel Pierced by the Sun, a gripping tale of murder and redemption
translated from Spanish by Jordi Castells, will be published in
June 2016. In July 2016, AmazonCrossing will publish award-winning
Polish crime writer Zygmunt Miloszewski’s Rage, translated from
Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, winner of the 2014 Paszport Polityka
prize for literature.
Please visit translation.amazon.com/submissions for more
information and to propose titles for translation.
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and Amazon Media EU Sarl.
About Amazon Publishing
Amazon Publishing is the publishing arm of Amazon.com. The
Amazon Publishing family has 14 imprints: 47North, AmazonCrossing,
AmazonEncore, Amazon Publishing, Grand Harbor Press, Jet City
Comics, Lake Union, Little A, Montlake Romance, Skyscape,
StoryFront, Thomas & Mercer, Two Lions, and Waterfall
Press.
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