Award-winning opera singer, translator, and podcast host Nanette McGuinness is the translator of over 100 books and graphic novels for children and adults from French, Italian, German and Spanish into English, including the much-loved Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels, as well as Tiki: A Very Ruff Year (nominated for the 2023 Eisner and Harvey Awards), and Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War (2023 GLLI YA Translated Book Prize Honor Book, 2023 Mosaic Prize winner, 2023 Excellence in Graphic Literature Finalist and 2023 Harvey Award nominee). Accolades have also gone to her translations of Magical History Tour: Vikings and of Magical History Tour: Gandhi (both 2023 Excellence in Graphic Literature Finalists), Luisa: Now and Then (2019 Stonewall Honor Book; 2020 GLLI YA Translated Honor Book; YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2019), California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas (2018 Harvey Award; YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2018) and Ellie In First Position (Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List).
Her translations have received starred reviews in Kirkus (Little Sisters) and Publishers Weekly (A House Without Windows; Luisa: Now and Then) and have been reviewed in the New York Times, Washington Post, School Library Journal, Jewish Book Council, Booklist, Library Journal, Paris Review, and more.
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