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Touting a big year in entries, the US-based Global Literature in Libraries Initiative names two books its co-winners for 2021, both translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena.
At Ipanema during the COVID-19 pandemic, November 9, 2020. Image – iStockphoto: Brunomartin Simagens
‘Sharing Perspectives From Abroad’
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative‘ (GLLI) Translated YA Book Prize announced on Friday (April 2) that it has two winners this year.
Both of them are themed on contemporary gay life in Brazil, and both are published by Scholastic.
Here the Whole Time (Scholastic, 2020) is Vitor Martins’ story of male body image and youthful sexuality, in a translation by Larissa Helena. ....

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