Recently, Shanghai Translation Publishing House released the new publishing dynamics of 2021 in the form of online live broadcast. In the new year, nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's new work "Clara and the Sun" Chinese edition will participate in the global simultaneous premiere. Paul Giordano's epidemic diary "We in the New Crown Era", the 2019 Booker Prize winner "Women, Girls, Others" and many other best-selling new works will also be introduced and published. The most influential series of "Penguin Books" "Penguin Cloth Classics" will also launch the first series in 2021. While the brand book series "Translation Documentary" continues to enrich, the Translation Social Science section will also add and enrich two book series, "Translation Science" and "History School", of which "Translation Science" will launch Desmond Morris's best-selling classic "Naked Ape Trilogy" with more than 20 million copies worldwide. The 105 varieties of the "World Academic Classics Series" (English edition), which will be published in 2019, will all be completed in 2021, and many "Red Classics", including "Red Star Shines on China", will also be launched for the first time in English to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
Kazuo Ishiguro's new work "Clara and the Sun" was released worldwide in April Chinese version
The Chinese Simplified edition of The first novel "Clara and the Sun," published by British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, is expected to be released simultaneously worldwide in April this year. Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and immigrated to the UK with his parents at the age of 5. His previous eight publications have earned him a number of important literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize in England. The works have been translated into more than fifty languages. Among them, the British versions of "The Long Day Will End" and "Don't Forget" sold more than one million copies and were remade into movies, which were widely acclaimed. In 2018, Kazuo Ishiguro was knighted by the Queen of England for his outstanding contributions to the field of literature. He is also a recipient of the French Order of the Knights of the Arts and Literatures and the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.
"Revealing the power of human passion and the pain of facing an obscure world," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said of his work when it awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro explores a fundamental question through the perspective of a special narrator who observes the ever-changing modern society through his typical delicate introvertedness and emotional tension: What exactly is love? Angus Cargill, editor of the British Faber Publishing House, commented on "Clara and the Sun" as "amazing", arguing that the novel not only maintains Ishiguro's consistent writing style, but also touches the human heart.
Since Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize, his works have been widely sought after in the Chinese market. All of Ishiguro's previous novel works, "Distant Mountain Shadow", "No Consolation", "Ukiyo Painter", "Serenade", "Buried Giant", "My Generation's Lonely Chick", "The Long Day Will End", and "Don't Forget", are published and distributed by Shanghai Translation Publishing House.
Best-selling new products continue to pay attention to hot topics
In 2020, a sudden epidemic disrupted people's lives. At a time when the epidemic and mankind are stuck in a stalemate, how to rationally look down on the crisis and changes brought to mankind by the new crown pneumonia has become a problem that everyone urgently needs to pay attention to and think about.
In January this year, the translation agency launched the new crown diary of The Italian post-80s writer and doctor of particle physics, Paulo Giordano, "We in the New Crown Era". A few years ago, Giordano's best-selling debut novel "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers" published by the Translation Agency swept China. His new book", "Us in the New Crown Era", gives readers a wake-up call with faithful records, unique insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, and in-depth reflection on how to truly learn from the epidemic and make changes. Giordano's fictional summer of backlight will also be published this year.
In 2021, the translation agency will also launch the Booker Prize-winning works, the Feminist masterpiece "Girls, Women, Others" by British writer Bernardine Evaristo, and the Irish "Novel laureate novelist" Roddy Doyle's "Childhood Past", which is also the booker Award-winning work. In Girls, Women, Others, Evaristo outlines the predicament of women's existence and their breathtaking courage and strength over the past hundred years through the account of twelve black women in London. "Childhood Past" outlines the bits and pieces of a child's daily life through unique wisdom and humor, showing the contradictions and hardships of the protagonist out of the comfort zone of childhood. In addition, the 2020 International Booker Prize shortlist shortlist works, Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa's "Secret Crystal" will also be launched. This surrealist work has been hailed as another masterpiece of contemporary dystopian literature, the women's version of 1984. French writer Nicolas Matthew, winner of the 2018 Goncourt Prize for Literature, "The Children Behind Them", meticulously portrays the plight of adolescents in the era of globalization and punctures the lies of the Western world about equal opportunity. French writer von Kinnos' works such as the "Library of Rejections" will also be published this year.
Famous classics continue to be launched
Famous translations have always been a feature of Shanghai Translation Publishing House. This year, the Translation Agency will launch the first edition of Penguin Books' most influential book series, the "Penguin Cloth Classics". The "Penguin Cloth Classic Anthology" is a selection of famous translations, which has been praised by the international publishing community as "a masterpiece among famous works". The first series will contain classic Chinese translations by Austen, Dickens, and the Brontë sisters.
This year, the translation agency will also launch "Ulysses" translated by Mr. Liu Xiangyu. This is the third complete translation of Ulysses after Xiao Qian, Wen Jieruo, and Jin Sui. The biography of John, hailed as a landmark in biographical literature, will also be published this year. Ren Rongrong's "Ren Rongrong Translation Anthology" (all 20 volumes) by the famous children's literature writer and translator will also meet with readers this year.
The father of "Little Naughty Nicolas" and the famous French illustrator Jean-Jacques Sambet's "Sambet: A Painter musician" will be published this year. This work contains hundreds of illustrations that Sambe has never published personally, and is a love letter to all children of all sizes who have been touched by music. The legacy of British spy fiction master John Le Carré, "Agent on the Battlefield," which died just last year, will be released this year.
In addition, the new edition of the world's phenomenal best-selling author Mitch Albom, the third series of the Dutch author Gao Luopei's "The Case of the Great Tang Di" series, the new edition of Haruki Murakami's short and medium-length works and essay collections, the second series of Murakami's works, the complete collection of Yoshimoto Banana's works series, and Margaret Atwood's "Crazy Adam" trilogy will also be launched this year.
Social science documentaries pay in-depth attention to social phenomena in the United States, Japan and other countries
This year's new social science book series "The Science of Translation" will launch the classic "Naked Ape Trilogy" of the famous British zoologist and biological anthropologist Desmond Morris, which sells more than 20 million copies worldwide. With a rigorous scientific attitude and a lifelong observation and research, Morris declared to mankind through three works: Naked Ape, Human Zoo, and Intimate Behavior: Man is not an angel descending from the sky, but an ape born from the earth.
The brand book series "Translation Documentary" will launch a series of "True Crimes", including the classic American drama "The Line of Fire", "Murder Team: Street Life" original "Murder Year", "Poison Town: Death and Life in Small Towns in the United States", which directly attacks the vicious fermentation of various social contradictions in contemporary small towns in the United States, Pulitzer Prize-winning work "Blood in the Water", which traces the history of the struggle for american civil rights and racial justice, "DarkNet Drug Lord", which records the criminal life of Rose Ubrit, the founder of the "Dark Web Empire", and "DarkNet Drug Lord", which directly attacks the chaos of the financial world in the era of Japan's bubble economy. Dian Jun: The last 12 people of Yamaichi Securities.
The Social Sciences category will publish Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award winner, Special Assistant to President Kennedy, and american heavyweight historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. book "The Division of America: Reflections on Multicultural Society", and "History and Popular Memory: The Power of Stories in Times of Crisis" by Corvin, professor emeritus of the Wesleyan Institute and researcher at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
In terms of Japan Observation, another Japanese observation work by Japanese economist and management scientist Kenichi Ohmae, "New Forms of Future Consumption", will meet with readers this year. As a companion to "Low-Desire Society", Kenichi Omae proposes new economic countermeasures in the context of Japan's "low-desire society" based on a keen social perspective. He proposed that "merchants who cannot make good use of the Internet will withdraw from the stage of history" and analyzed the new problems that have emerged in the economic situation: the rapidly growing sharing economy, the idol economy, and the transition from goods consumption to experience consumption. Other works launched this year include "The Future of Mankind, the Future of AI", in collaboration between Nobel Laureate shinya Yamanaka in physiology or medicine and Yoshiharu Hano, the most talented chess player in history, predicting the future of artificial intelligence, "The Future of AI", "The New Japanese Class Society" by Kenji Hashimoto, an anthropology professor at Waseda University in Japan, and "Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Models of Japanese Culture" by Ruth Benedict, a pioneer in American cultural anthropology.
The "Red Classics" series celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of China. The Translation Agency will launch the first five works of the "Red Classics" (English version) series to celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party of China.
The first series of the "Red Classics" (English edition) series of the Translation Agency includes the English guide editions of "Red Star Shines on China", "The Destiny of China", "The Chinese of one-fifth of mankind", "Tomorrow's China", and "The Road of Life: Zhu De's Biography". In addition, the 105 varieties of the "World Academic Classics Series" (English edition), which will be launched and published in 2019, will all be available within 2021. The third series published this year will also include english editions of zhuangzi, mencius, and university zhongyong, three traditional Chinese cultural classics, to help "culture go out".
The introduction and originality of the joint efforts, the translation of children's books continue to build an education and publishing service platform
For the first time this year, the Translation Agency will introduce and publish seven works by Kirkegaard, a well-known Danish national treasure, a children's book author. Kirkegaard is hailed as Denmark's most successful children's literature writer besides Hans Christian Andersen, and his whimsical children's world has attracted countless young readers around the world. Most of Kirkegaard's works have been adapted to the screen. The second installment of the world-renowned Italian national treasure children's book brand "Little Detective Agatha" series of books will also meet readers this year. The series was co-created by the famous Italian children's literature writer Steve Stevenson and the famous Italian illustrator Stefano Turcconi. In the book, the author relies on his profound professional background in children's psycholinguistics to cultivate children's rigorous, meticulous, orderly and empirical thinking qualities through exquisite writing skills and meticulous logical reasoning.
In terms of original children's literature, this year, the translation agency will also launch a painted and phonetic version of the fantasy children's literature work "Little Bear Bun Big Fantasy" created by the famous children's literature writer Qin Wenjun and the winner of the Bingxin Children's Book Award, Dai Qianyuan. The book consists of six volumes, which conveys the taste of love, happiness and sunshine to every young reader by portraying the image of a brave and optimistic bear who is not afraid of danger and explores the mystery of his own life.
Editor/Yajing Wang