Italian publisher Fanucci has acquired the Italian translation rights to Swan Song and Boy’s Life. Both books were previously published in Italy in 1991 and 1992. Presumably, the Fanucci editions will be new translations.
Last year, Fannuci published Il grande libro degli Zombie, a translation of Otto Penzler’s Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! anthology.
More info when it’s available, which probably won’t be until next year, at the earliest.
სინქრონული თარგმანი • Salome Japiashvili translated Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life into the Georgian language. She’ll be live on Facebook on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, to discuss her translation. The event starts at 11:30 AM EDT/10:30 AM CDT. Salome leaves the videos on her page afterward, so if you miss it live, you can watch later here.
Dave Overland has released a song called “Band of Brothers” that’s about his friends and him. The lyrics are based around and use Robert McCammon’s poem from the beginning of Boy’s Life. You can listen to it on Spotify and YouTube. Check it out!
Back in 2009, Finnish jazz musician Timo Heikkinen recorded his interpretation, called “Boy’s Life.” You can listen to it and other reader-created songs on the Fan Audio page.
Turkish publisher Ithaki has acquired the rights to publish Turkish translations of Swan Song and Boy’s Life.
German publisher Luzifer Verlag has announced the March 31, 2020, publication date for BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER, their translation of Boy’s Life. The cover art by Michael Schubert can be seen below.
BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER @ Luzifer
Also, Luzifer’s translation of Mister Slaughter was released at the end of November!
Bulgarian publisher Iztok-Zapad released a Bulgarian translation of Robert McCammon’s classic coming-of-age novel Boy’s Life. back in 2013. The translation was done by Elena Pavlova, and the cover design, shown below, was by Denitsa Trifonova.
Iztok-Zapad has renewed their rights to the book, so presumably the book will be reprinted in Bulgaria soon.
German publisher Luzifer Verlag has acquired the German translation rights to Boy’s Life. Luzifer has already published a German edition of The Border, as well as the first two books in the Matthew Corbett series. They are publishing a German edition of Mister Slaughter in November 2019. Presumably, their edition of Boy’s Life will see print sometime in 2020. More info as I know it….
Hungarian publisher Fumax is releasing a Hungarian translation of Boy’s Life on March 1, 2019. The cover art is by David Ho. It was previously used for the Subterranean Press 25th anniversary limited edition of Boy’s Life.
Egy fiú élete is translated by Kleinheincz Csilla.
A larger version of the cover can be found in the Boy’s Life Cover Gallery.
Russian publisher Azbooka-Atticus has acquired the translation rights for five Robert McCammon novels: Boy’s Life, Swan Song, The Border, The Listener, and Speaks the Nightbird. No word on when the books will be published, but I would guess the first will appear in 2019.
The ebook edition of Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life is one of twenty-two books included in the Humble Book Bundle: Forbidden Books this year. Pay what you want, and help support charity. The more you pay, the more books you get. To get Boy’s Life (along with 14 other books), you must pay $8 or more. Bundled books are DRM-free, and the charities supported this year are National Coalition Against Censorship and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
