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StoryBundle Sale Shares Global Voices, Supporting International Writers and Journalists

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StoryBundle Sale shares international voices and helps worldwide writers and journalists

(Story assortment, February 16, 2026)

A worldwide group of editors, publishers and writers have come collectively to supply a one-month bundle of books in digital format to lift consciousness and funds for story translation, together with journalism.

The bundle is on the market for buy by March 5 by California-based StoryBundle for small companies.

The bundle is priced on a sliding scale. Consumers can obtain three of the books for at least $5 USD, or all twelve books for any quantity between $25 and $100.

The customer can select how a lot of their cost will assist the authors and likewise whether or not 10% of their buy value shall be donated to the chosen charity.

The charity this assortment advantages is International Voices, a global, multilingual group of writers, translators, and human rights activists who harness the facility of the web to inform tales that develop understanding throughout borders, and particularly International Voices Lingua, a challenge devoted to translating tales into dozens of languages, creating accessibility to tales informed by individuals writing in languages ​​hardly ever coated by mainstream media.

This assortment was compiled and arranged by Ferndale author and editor EDE Bell. “I’ve been a poet and storyteller all my life, and I actually consider there may be nothing extra highly effective or mandatory than storytelling,” Bell mentioned. “Studying, writing, sharing – whether or not fictional, consultant or journalistic – it saves lives, it connects us, it builds new communities. And I consider we should do this as globally as regionally to discover a true path to peace and equality.

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“A group like this raises consciousness, it builds group, it helps international writers, editors, translators and presses attempting to do the identical – and shares these stunning tales! These are all my deepest passions, really I imply *individuals* and that is why I have been engaged on this for the previous yr as a option to attempt to carry like to the world. I hope individuals will see that pleasure and be a part of this international group to have a good time it.”

The hyperlink to share and buy the bundle is http://storybundle.com/translation.

The books on this bundle are: Beginning at a purchase order value of $5

• From Zimbabwe: Sunshine Metropolis by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa Wanner

• From Korea: Launch One thing! by Bae Myung-hoon, translated from Korean by Stella Kim

• From Palestine: No One Is aware of Their Blood Sort by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated from Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum From a purchase order value of $25

• From Nigeria: Sin Is a Pet That Follows You Residence by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, translated from Hausa by Aliyu Kamal

• From South Africa: I Thought It Would Rain by Nakanjani G. Sibiya, translated from isiZulu by Sifiso Mzobe

• From India: The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan, translated from Tamil by Nirmal Rajagopalan

• From Malaysia, Singapore and the Diaspora: Singa-Pura-Pura, edited and translated from Malay by Dr. Nazry Bahrawi

• From Thailand: The Unhappy Half Was by Prabda Yoon, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul

• From Brazil: Seen Magic, tales by Giu Murakami and Fernanda Castro, translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Anna Martino • From Canada: Hieroglyphs: The Celestial Conspiracies written and translated from French by Talhí Briones

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• From Wiikwemkoong: Sit with Us, written and translated from Nishinaabemowin by Kenn Pitawanakwat

• From Ukraine: The Manufacturing facility by Ihor Mysiak, translated from Ukrainian by Yevheniia Dubrova and Hanna Leliv

As a result of translation is inherently collaborative and international, this effort emphasizes those self same features, bringing collectively the facility of world storytellers working collectively to share, construct and be taught.

Fiction translation can’t be measured by numbers alone. Translation is extra generally carried out in areas the place it’s funded by the federal government, for best-selling authors and for revenue or political motives, normally from colonial languages. It’s extra usually funded for brief tales or for classics, and never for modern works that cope with problems with our time.

Translation is inherently political.

What’s translated, the place from, with whose voice, and with what themes is an inequality that international editors are paying shut consideration to. The group that collaborated on this upcoming occasion understood these issues and noticed the worth in sharing what’s gained when translations are supported extra broadly, from extra areas, from extra languages, from extra authors, and from daring and exploratory viewpoints.

These works, all offered in English, shall be totally different than many English-speaking readers will anticipate. Moderately than portraying the wonder or oppression of a tradition by the lens of a benevolent different or a critical scholar, these tales are written from genuine cultural views, with every author’s loving but essential view of their very own tradition.

Because of this, readers will uncover that our struggles are as widespread as the facility buildings that create them, and but our viewpoints and experiences are deeply totally different—in ways in which present energy and energy after we work collectively. Individuals inform tales. Individuals search love, happiness and safety. And no matter our geography, the individuals within the tales are the individuals we all know, in their very own complexity. This effort has been a yr within the making and we hope it can open eyes, doorways and conversations

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The hyperlink to share and buy the bundle is http://storybundle.com/translation.

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