Lawrence Schimel
Lawrence Schimel, 2008
Lawrence Schimel (born October 16, 1971) is a bilingual (Spanish/English) American writer, translator, and anthologist working in many genres, including poetry, fantasy and science fiction, and children's books, whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes.[1] He was born in New York City, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University.[2] Schimel is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Academy of American Poets. His is a founding member of the Publishing Triangle, an organization of lesbians and gay men in the publishing industry, which he chaired for two terms (1996–1998). As well as a writer, he is a prolific translator to and from Spanish.[3]
His work has received the Rhysling Award[4] and has twice received the Lambda Literary Award.[5]
In 2021, Schimel's rainbow family board books - Early One Morning and Bedtime, Not Playtime! - caused controversy in Hungary, with a Hungarian bookseller being fined for selling these books, on the grounds that putting books depicted same-sex couples was an unfair commercial practice, as "[C]ontent which deviates from the norm.... The book was there among other fairytale books and thus committed a violation," Pest County Commissioner Richard Tarnai said. "There is no way of knowing that this book is about a family that is different than a normal family."[6][7]
He is Jewish and identifies as a post-Zionist.[8]
Awards and honors[]
1998-2002[]
- 1998 - Lambda Award for Best Transgender Book for PoMoSexuals - winner
- 1998 - Lambda Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy for The Drag Queen of Elfland - finalist
- 1999 - Lambda Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy for Things Invisible to See - finalist
- 1998 - Lambda Award for Best Non Fiction Anthology for PoMoSexuals - finalist
- 1999 - Lambda Award for Best Non Fiction Anthology for Found Tribe - finalist
- 1999 - Lambda Award for Best Fiction Anthology for MBO Gay Erotica - finalist
- 2001 - Lambda Award for Best Fiction Anthology for Kosher Meat - finalist
- 2002 - Lambda Award for Best LGBT Erotica Book for His Tongue - finalist
- 2002 - Winner of the Rhysling Award for best long poem[9]
2003-2007[]
- 2003 - Lambda Award for Best LGBT Erotica Book for MBO New Gay Erotica - finalist
- 2003 - Lambda Award for Best Spirituality for Found Tribe - finalist
- 2004 - Lambda Award for Best Visual Arts/Photography for Vacation in Ibiza - finalist
- 2005 - O hay nada como el original - selected by the International Youth Library, Munich, as a White Ravens Book[10]
- 2007 - Lambda Award for Best Romance for Two Boys in Love - finalist
2008-2012[]
- 2008 - Lambda Award for Best LGBT Anthologies for First Person Queer - winner
- 2010 - Lambda Award for Best Gay Erotica for I Like it Like That - finalist
2013-2020[]
- 2019 - Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction (as translator) for La Bastarda - finalist
- 2019 - Schimel's translation of Sofía Rhei's poem embalmed won the 2019 Dwarf Stars Award[11] (the first time a poem in translation won any of the awards from the SFPA)
- 2020 - Schimel's picture book Qué suerte tengo!, translated into Maltese by Clare Azzopardi, was a finalist for the National Book Award[12] (The Maltese title is: Meta Mmur għand Sieħbi Carlos[13])
- 2020 - Schimel's translation of Some Days by María Wernicke (AmazonCrossing) was chosen as a 2021 USBBY Outstanding International title by the United States Board on Books for Youth[14] and as a Notable Translation of 2020 by World Literature Today[15]
- Schimel's translation of Poems the Wind Blew In, by Karmelo C. Iribarren (The Emma Press) won an PEN Translates Award (EnglishPEN)[16] and a Highly Commended Award from the CLiPPA (the first time a work in translation has ever won)[17]
- PEN Translates Award (EnglishPEN) for Voice of the Two Shores by Agnès Agboton (flipped eye publishing)[18]
- Schimel's translation of Carmen Boullosa's poetry collection Hatchet (White Pine Press) won the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation[19]
- Schimel's translation of The Day Saida Arrived was a finalist for the Jane Addams Children's Book Award (the only translated title that was a finalist out of all the categories that year)[20]
- Schimel's translation of Impure Acts by Ángelo Néstore (Indolent Books) was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle[21]
Bibliography[]
Short stories[]
- Taking Action (1993) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Warriors)
- A Stable Relationship (1997) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Tyrants)
Short Story Collections[]
- The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet)
- His Tongue
- Two Boys in Love
- Una barba para dos
Poetry Collections[]
- Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Nights Press)
- Deleted Names (A Midsummer Nights Press)
- Desayuno en la cama
Graphic Novels[]
- Vacation in Ibiza ()
Edited works[]
- First Person Queer, (with Richard Labonté) Arsenal Pulp Press
- Best Date Ever: True Stories That Celebrate Gay Relationships, Alyson
- The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica,
- The Future Is Queer, (with Richard Labonté) Arsenal Pulp Press
- Two Boys in Love: Stories of Romance and Desire,
- Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender And Sexuality, (with Carol Queen) Cleis Press[22]
- Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica And Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica, (With Carol Queen) Cleis Press
- Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories,
- Kosher Meat: Gay Jewish Erotica,
- Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism, Circlet
- Two Hearts Desire: Gay Couples on Their Love, St. Martin's Press
- Boy Meets Boy, St. Martin's Press
- The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, Carroll & Graf
- Streets of Blood: Vampire Stories from New York City, Cumberland House
- Fields of Blood: Vampire Stories from the American Heartland, Cumberland House
- Tarot Fantastic, Daw Books
- Camelot Fantastic, Daw Books
Children's Books[]
Schimel has written over sixty children's books, including:
- Bedtime, Not Playtime! - originally written in Spanish
- Early One Morning - originally written in Spanish
- Both of these books feature same-sex families and have also been published in Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, Galician, Latvian, German, Italian, French, Romansh, Russian, Welsh, and Hungarian.
- Read a Book With Me
- Let's Go See Papá!
- ¡Qué suerte tengo!, by Lawrence Schimel, illus .by Juan Camilo Mayorga (Rey Naranjo) - chosen by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities
Translations[]
Translations into English[]
- The Wild Book by Juan Villoro (Restless Books, USA; HopeRoad Publishing, UK)
- Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist by Lola Robles (Aqueduct)
- I Offer My Heart as a Target, by Johanny Vázquez Paz - winner of the (poetry)
- Out In the Open, by Jesús Carraso, adapted by Javi Rey, translated by Lawrence Schimel (SelfMadeHero) - graphic novel, nominated for Eisner Award[23]
- Buñuel: In the Labyrinth of Turtles, by Fermín Solis (SelfMadeHero)
- La Bastarda, by Trifonia Melibea Obono
Translations into Spanish[]
- Collective Amnesia Koleka Putuma [with Arate Hidalgo]
- Nos llamaron enemigo, graphic novel memoir by George Takei (Top Shelf)[24]
- Bluets, by Maggie Nelson (Tres Puntos)[25] - the cover story for Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País (Maggie Nelson: “Una ventaja de ser mujer es llevar el canon a tu terreno”)
- El Arte de la Crueldad, by Maggie Nelson (Tres Puntos)
- Tú Eres Tú, by Richard Van Camp & Julie Flett (Orca)[26]
References[]
- ^ Karvoski, Ed; Jr. (2002-03-14). Award-Winning Men: Up Close and Personal with Gay Honorees. iUniverse. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-595-21769-4. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ "Paying It Forward: A Conversation with Lawrence Schimel". The Rumpus.net. 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
- ^ "Lawrence Schimel". Restless Books. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
- ^ "http://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhysarchive.html". sfpoetry.com. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2011. External link in
|title=(help) - ^ "2011 Judges". lambdaliterary.org. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
- ^ https://apnews.com/article/hungary-europe-entertainment-lifestyle-arts-and-entertainment-e95b24c3d8e39b7549e07dc7b13704b2
- ^ https://www.newsweek.com/hungary-fines-distributor-over-selling-lawrence-schimel-kids-book-same-sex-parents-1607591
- ^ New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora By Caryn S. Aviv, David Shneer, Professor David Shneer p.112
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhysling_Award
- ^ http://www.ijb.de/files/whiteravens/wr05/spainl.htm
- ^ https://locusmag.com/2019/09/2019-dwarf-stars-and-elgin-awards-winners/
- ^ https://ktieb.org.mt/national-book-prize-and-terramaxka-2020-the-longlist/
- ^ https://merlinpublishers.com/product/meta-mmur-ghand-siehbi-carlos/
- ^ https://www.usbby.org/uploads/1/0/7/0/107064867/oib_2021_bookmark.pdf
- ^ https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/world-literature-todays-75-notable-translations-2020-michelle-johnson
- ^ https://www.englishpen.org/translation/the-world-bookshelf/titles/poems-the-wind-blew-in/
- ^ https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/teaching-resources/clippa-teaching-sequences/poems-wind-blew ; https://worldkidlit.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/poems-the-wind-blew-in-highly-commended/
- ^ https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-awards-announced/
- ^ https://www.whitepine.org/hatchet
- ^ https://www.janeaddamschildrensbookaward.org/2020-finalist-for-younger-children/
- ^ https://publishingtriangle.org/awards/thom-gunn-gay-poetry/
- ^ Raphael, Mitchel (May 17, 1998). "Where gay goes after the mainstream". Toronto Star. p. 1. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ (http://translationista.com/2019/04/translated-works-among-2019-will-eisner-comic-industry-award-nominees.html)
- ^ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646528/nos-llamaron-enemigo-they-called-us-enemy-spanish-edition-by-george-takei-justin-eisinger-steven-scott-harmony-becker/
- ^ https://www.udllibros.com/libro-bluets-R090010017
- ^ https://us.orcabook.com/Tuacute-eres-tuacute-P12355.aspx
External links[]
- Author's blog
- Detailed bibliography at Fantastic Fiction site
- Lawrence Schimel on Words Without Borders site
- Lawrence Schimel on Worldcat
- Lawrence Schimel at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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