Issued by the National Library at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture six children's stories, translated from Finnish to English within the Finnish literary exchange program (Philly).
The Board has held an agreement with the Foundation literature Finnish (Philly) to achieve its goal of supplying the Arab library with the latest versions literary world, particularly in children's literature, the organization seeks Finnish to support the translation of books Finnish into the languages of the world, the definition of literature, Finnish and published, since its inception in 1977, is given Foundation grants for translation of Finnish literature, printed children's books and comic books more than five hundred thousand euros a year, covering nearly three hundred of the project.
The Foundation was keen to hold the agreement with the National Library of being the first point of Finnish books published in Arabic, the company is also keen to participate annually at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair organized by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, being an important cultural event in the Arab region.
And stories translated is: "Journey Slav Night" authored by Juha ڤairta, and "the heart of Sapphire" to its author Karina Hillakisa, and "Dance rat forest" for its author Birkuliza Sorwigen, and a series of "أرنوبة sail" and " and Sunni happy" and " and space flight" to its author Nina Berhonin.
The new titles feature the placing of topics related to nature and the relationship with other friends and the people, whether through the figures of animals or imaginary figures of aerospace and other books also feature graphically expressive and beautifully colored.
It was translated stories Maria Pakal, a graduate of King Fahd School senior translation in Morocco, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where attending doctoral thesis in the science of interpretation, as well as being taught Arabic language and translation in a number of universities, Finnish, has been translated Pakal yet 29 books of Finnish language to Arabic; including scientific books, novels, poetry, and children's books.
Has earned her book, "our common sea" published by the National Library at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture the award for best book translated into Arabic, from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences in 2012, and they speak several languages such as English, French and Maltese as well as Arabic and Finnish.




