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  Huge congratulations to Marie-Aude Murail and Suzy Lee on winning one of the world’s most distinguished honors for children’s books and illustrations. Beyond thrilled that South Korean children’s book illustrator Suzy Lee won the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen illustrator Award! Born in 1974, Lee has written and illustrated a number of children's books, including critically acclaimed "Wave" and "Shadow" in the United States, both of which were selected as the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Last month, her latest book "Summer" also won a prize at this year's Bologna Ragazzi Awards. “Summer” has been published in Spain, Portual, France, Italy and China. It is said that Lee’s works played a critical role in expanding the readership of illustration books to include not only children, but also adults. The Hans Christian Andersen Awards were established in 1956 to commemorate Hans Christian Andersen, a 19th-century Danish children’s writer, and are presented biennially to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature. https://www.ibby.org/awards-activities/awards/hans-christian-andersen-award/hans-christian-andersen-awards-2022

  Mar 23, 2022

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  Initiated by Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature, poets from Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Exeter, Iowa City, Granada, Norwich, Manchester, Khumo, Tartu, and Melbourne have collaborated on a chain reading of the 'So I'll talk about it', by Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan to celebrate the culture of Ukraine, and share a message of solidarity, hope and resilience. #CreativeCitiesofLiterature #World Poetry Day #StandWithUkraine

  Mar 22, 2022

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  Marking the 2022 edition of World Poetry Day and celebrating linguistic diversity through poetic expression, we are thrilled to announce the release of International Chain Poem created by UNESCO Cities of Literature Network! The poem was initiated by Utrecht UNESCO City of Literature as a way to bring poets and translators into contact with each other during the corona pandemic and to conduct a poetic research into what happens when we listen carefully to each other. Poets and translators from twelve UNESCO Cities of Literature Cities have jointly written a poem in one year. The poem is titled 'These are waiting days' after the first words of the opening stanza written by poet Yentl van Stokkum for World Poetry Day 2021 and translated by poet and translator Mia You. Over the year long, Utrecht City of Literature published a new stanza every month and the complete poem has been released on March 21 2022. You can read the poem here: https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/cities-of-literature-chainpoem/ Writer and audio artist Wietse Leenders made an audio piece of the complete poem incorporating the original audio recordings in the original language of each of the poets, followed by an English translation. You can listen to the audio piece here : https://soundcloud.com/user-765794804/dit-zijn-wachtende-dagen-these-are-waiting-days Poets and translators from Edinburgh, Wonju, Melbourne, Odessa, Heidelberg), Manchester, Bucheon, Durban, Dunedin, Nottingham, Ulyanovsk made a contribution to the poem. Participants: Edinburgh: Colin Bramwell Wonju: poet Kim Jong-ho, translator Sung Eungee Melbourne: Evelyn Araluen Odessa: poet Anna Streminskaya, translator Anzhelika Kuznetsova Heidelberg: poet Miriam Tag, translator Rod Rojas Manchester: Rory Dickinson Bucheon: poet Kyungsook Ko, translator Eun-Gwi Chung Durban: Adiela Akoo Dunedin: Annie Villiers Nottingham: Ioney Smallhorne Ulyanovsk: Gala Uzryutova

  Mar 21, 2022

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  We are thinking of our friends in Lviv City of Literature and Odessa City of Literature and all of the people of Ukraine including the country's many writers and poets. We follow developments with heavy hearts and advocate peace, freedom of expression and respect for democracy. #StandWithUkraine Here is the link for 6 Ukrainian poems that capture a bold moment in contemporary poetry. https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12137/contemporary-ukrainian-poems

  Feb 25, 2022

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