April 11, 2024
Huia boosted by Bologna Book Fair win
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Aotearoa’s leading indigenous publisher of books for 30 years hopes a major prize at one of the world’s biggest book fairs can help spread the work of Māori authors to millions of readers worldwide.
Huia Publishers won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year, Oceania, atthis week’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy.
Spokesment Pania Tahau-Hodges says the Wellington-based company is trying close deals with multiple international publishers at the fair.
“And what we’re trying to do is get them to buy rights to our books, so that they will publish our stories in their countries, and potentially translate them into their languages – so that our stories can go out to the world,” she says.
Pania Tahau-Hodges, says recent children’s books being highlighed at the book fair include The Dream Factory by Steph Matuku, which is also published in te reo Māori as Te Wheketere Moemoeā; Dazzlehands-Ringakōreko by Sacha Cotter, and How my Koro Became a Star, by Brianne Te Paa.