Lost In Books Reflection
Stories, ideas and conversations from a multilingual literary world.
The Lost in Books Blog is where we go beyond the bookshelf. Here we share new books and reading lists, conversations with writers, translators and artists, reflections from our literary programs, and ideas about language, literacy, culture and belonging. From Western Sydney to writers and stories around the world, this is a space to explore what happens when languages, books and people meet — and why reading, writing and creating in more than one language matters.
On Saturday 25 July, 90 people gathered at Glebe Town Hall for In Other Words: Spanish in Focus / En otras palabras: el español en primer plano, a new multilingual literary festival presented by Lost In Books. For this afternoon, Spanish was the language of the room.
Writers, readers, translators and community came together for conversations about literature, language, migration, displacement, translation and belonging - experienced in Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation into English.
And what emerged was something that felt quite different from simply making an event available in another language.
Today is World Teachers’ Day. We take our hats off to teachers across the world for their dedication to sharing knowledge and sparking curiosity in those they educate.
We share our Wordless Book collection as a gift to the increasingly multilingual classrooms of Australian schools. Wordless Books democratise literature by enabling every reader to make their own story within the world of the book, regardless of shared language.
We offer NESA-accredited PD to assist educators to use creativity and multilingual strategies to engage learners and their imaginations.
And we have recently brought new shipments of books from Iran; from across the Arabic-speaking and Chinese-speaking worlds; and soon we will welcome new Vietnamese titles. Check out the beautiful new books now in stock here. Please do not hesitate to contact us to enquire about how we can assist you to bring these books into your classrooms and your communities.
LOST IN BOOKS celebrates the talent of Australian authors, illustrators and publishers and calls for our attention to remain on improving the extent to which our literature mirrors the diversity and languages spoken by children and young people who call Australia home.
Play with language - join the Think+DO Tank Writers’ Room mentored by novelist, Peter Polites.
