MARIA TURTSCHANINOFF - #NAONDEL BLOG TOUR - My Road to Translation

Welcome to Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books and my stop on the “Naondel” blog tour. “Naondel” is the second book in the critically acclaimed “The Red Abbey Chronicle Series” published by Pushkin Children's Books. Naondel will be hitting the bookshops on the 6th April, 2017 so it's not too long to grab yourself a copy and give it a read.  

Here Maria shares with us how the book came to be translated - My Road to translation. 

Have a read and enjoy... 

I owe quite a bit to my translator Annie Prime. It was she who, many years ago, contacted me and told me she was working on translating a sample from my novel Arra as a part of her translator’s exam, and would I like to see it? I did, and thought it was better than the sample translation my agency was using at the time, so I told my agent about it. She ended up asking Annie Prime to do the sample translation of Maresi, when that book came out, and later commissioned a translation of the entire book. It helped that Maresi is such a short novel, I think. And Annie did a fantastic job, which I think is one of the main reasons the sales abroad took off. The fact that the book won the prestigious Finlandia Junior 2014-award helped, too. It’s a testament to the quality of the translation that it’s the one my British and American publishers ended up using. And Annie has done the translation of Naondel, too. I very much hope to be able to continue working with her in the future! As I write this, Maresi has been sold to 20 territories and the trilogy to about 13 or so. And the big news last year was of course that Maresi was optioned for a movie by Film4.

Next stop on the #Naondel blog tour is: thepewterwolf.blogspot.com

 

About the author - Website: https://www.mariaturtschaninoff.com/english

Maria Turtschaninoff is a Swedish-speaking Finn who has been writing fairy tales from the age of five. However, there was often a twist: the poor farmer boy and the princess he had just saved from the evil witch did not end up marrying, because they "didn’t feel like it". Her biggest grief as a child was that no wardrobe led to Narnia.

After a detour as a journalist for a few years Turtschaninoff debuted in 2007 with a middle-grade portal fantasy and has since published four more novels, all YA fantasy. Pushkin Press has acquired world English rights to Maresi and the subsequent two novels in the Red Abbey Chronicles.

Book Synopsis: In the opulent palace of Ohaddin, women have one purpose - to obey. Some were brought here as girls, captured and enslaved; some as servant; some as wives. All of them must do what the Master tells them, for he wields a deadly and secret power. But the women have powers too. One is a healer. One can control dreams. One is a warrior. One can see everything that is coming.In their golden prison, the women wait. They plan. They write down their stories. They dream of a refuge, a safe place where girls can be free.

And, finally, when the moon glows red, they will have their revenge.