Translating Children's Literature: Juggling Between Boundaries

Lara Hölbling Matković is a literary translator, editor and author from Zagreb. She translates plays, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature from English into Croatian. She was president of the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association and serves currently as the Secretary General of CEATL. 

Marta Morros Serret has translated more than eighty children’s books and has fifteen years of experience as a freelance translator from English and Japanese to Spanish and Catalan. She is the former president of the Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia (APTIC) and is now member of the FIT-IFT Council.

Francesca Novajra is a literary translator of fiction and non-fiction from English and French into Italian. She has translated over a hundred children, teen and YA books. In 2017, she has been awarded the FIT Astrid Lindgren Prize. She is vice-president of CEATL and delegate of Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti (AITI) in CEATL. 

Flavio Rosati is a designer, cartoonist and entrepreneur. In 2015 he opened the "Ilflaviatore" company dedicated to the creation of comics in the field of marketing as a new communication tool for companies and businesses. Since 2016 he’s been the president of Autori di Immagini, the main Italian organization that protects illustrators and cartoonists. 

Manuela Salvi is an Italian translator and writer of children’s fiction. Manuela’s research project on censorship in Western children’s publishing has earned her the Jacqueline Wilson Scholarship for a PhD in creative writing at Roehampton University in London, which she completed in 2020. She has founded the Italian Children’s Writers Association (ICWA), and teaches creative writing.   

Eva Valvo holds a PhD in Latin Philology with a dissertation on Medieval Latin Scandinavia. She is an active literary scout and freelance translator specialised in Danish and Norwegian literature for children and YA. She is a board member of the translators’ union Strade that she represents at CEATL, the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations. As a tireless cultural promoter and organiser, she co-ordinates translation events at Festival delle Letterature Migranti in Palermo and peer-to-peer workshops for translators from Nordic languages into Italian.