We are pleased to announce that The Darkness of Colours by Martín Blasco, translated by Claire Storey, has won the GLLI Translated Young Adult Book Prize 2025.
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative's prize aims to recognise publishers, translators, and authors of books in English translation for young adult readers, and we're thrilled that Claire Storey's translation from the original Spanish has won this years prize.
What the judges say:
"A twisty thriller steeped in the gothic fantasies and scientific romances of Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells, this engaging and often unsettling book foreshadows the Fascist horrors of WWII, pointing to the dark ends of scientific rationalism and utopian nationalism."
About The Darkness of Colours:
A historical thriller narrated from two different perspectives, in two eras. The novel revolves, around kidnapping of five babies during the night of 5th of April 1885. This is the start of the experiment into the idea of nature vs nurture. What happens if these children are given different upbringing? Twenty-five years later the children now grown up suddenly reappear on the doorsteps of their biological parents. Confused by his daughter’s memory loss, one parent hires Alejandro a journalist to investigate. What he discovers shocks him to the core.
The Wild Ones, by Antonio Ramos Revillas, also translated by Claire Storey and published by HopeRoad October 2024, was shortlisted for the prize.
Explore The Wild Ones here and The Darkness of Colours here.
