Guest Interview: A. A. Prime on Translating Red Mantle

 

By Avery Fischer Udagawa

Spotlight image above: A.A. Prime accepts the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize. See the entire presentation here.

Early in the pandemic, the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative named two winners of its 2020 Translated YA Book Prize: The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano (Henry Holt, 2019), and Maresi Red Mantle—published in the U.S. as Red Mantle by Maria Turtschaninoff, translated by A. A. Prime (Amulet...