Lawrence Schimel

Taboos & Children’s Books

BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Schimel writes in both Spanish and English and has published over 130 books as author or anthologist in many different genres–including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and comics– for both children and adults. His writings have been translated into over fifty languages, including Icelandic, Maltese, Farsi, Kurdish, Basque, Luxembourgish, Changana, Japanese, and Romanian. In addition to his own writing, he is a prolific literary translator, into English and Spanish, of over 150 books. His own books have won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), the Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a White Raven from the International Youth Library in Munich, and have been chosen by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities (three times), and his translations have won a Margaret Batchelder Honor from the American Library Association, a PEN Translates Award from English PEN (three times), and (co-translating with Layla Benitez-James) a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. He lives in Madrid, Spain.