Read the World Project Promotes Translations

Posted on May 17, 2005

Booksellers and book publisher are uniting for Read the World, a project to help promote translations worldwide. Bookweb.org explained the program in a recent news article:

To take part, booksellers choose two titles from each of the five participating publishers and display them for the month of May. Participating publishers are Archipelago Books, Dalkey Archive Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Random House, and New Directions. For each title purchased, booksellers receive a free reading copy. In addition, participating bookstores also get posters and other promotional materials featuring original artwork donated by award-winning illustrator Peter Sis.

The Read the World project's website includes a list of participating bookstores and book publishers as well as this list of Read the World book titles. Some of the books in the list include Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz, The Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca and Snow by Orhan Pamuk.