French Week 2025 | Feel Good Friday – Draw along with Sandrine Kao

Join French illustrator, Sandrine Kao as she leads a special love themed draw along session as part of our French Week celebrations. Learn how to draw some of Sandrine’s kawaii characters and poetic facet, which are deeply influenced by Asian culture.

For this session, you will need:

• Pencil and Paper
• Easer
• Coloured pencils
• Fine black felt pen (1mm but up to 0.4mm is fine)
• A black felt tip brush (optional)
• Fine coloured felt pens
• Masking tape (and if you have some at home: adhesive paper or round sticker)
• A cloth or tissue for blending
• Scissors and glue

French Week 2025

From 27 – 31 January 2025, we are running a week of events to mark the 60^th anniversary of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translations of books from French into English. This series of events kicks off our 2025 events programme.

Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full-length work. Following the success of our Japan Week to celebrate our Translation Prizes, this year we shine a spotlight on French.

The week includes:

• 28 Jan | Industry Insider – 60 Years of the Scott Moncrieff: Celebrating Francophone African Writing
• 29 Jan | SoA in Person: Tour of The Institut français du Royaume-Uni (French Institute of the United Kingdom)
• 30 Jan | Afternoon Tea with Vineet Lal
• 14 Feb | Feel Good Friday – Draw along with Sandrine Kao

Programme

• Welcome, introductions and housekeeping from Ambre Morvan (3 mins)
• Draw along with Sandrine Kao (35 mins)
• Sharing creations (5 mins)
• Summary and closing comments (2 mins)
• This event will be moderated by Aine Pullan – Grants and Prizes Manager, SoA

The Line-up

Sandrine Kao

Sandrine Kao is a French author and illustrator for young people, writing and illustrating picture books, comics and novels. Her last illustrated works published by Grasset Jeunesse won awards from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2023 (special mention in the Comics early reader category for Après les vagues) and from the Jean-Hugues Malineau poetry young readers price (attributed to Rêveries).

Website: sandrinekao.com

Ambre Morvan

Ambre joined the SoA in October 2021. She advises members on publishing contracts and issues. She also works on the SoA’s public policy. Ambre is joint group coordinator for the Translators Association.

Translation Prizes 2024 – Online Fundraising Bookshop

Browse our virtual Bookshop.org store, featuring titles shortlisted for this year’s Translation Prizes. When you make a purchase using our affiliate links, a percentage will go to the Society of Authors’ Access Fund, giving authors support for travel, subsistence, childcare or access needs for events, residencies, and retreats.

Need to know 

Accessibility

• Attendees will have the option to turn on the live transcript option
• If you require BSL interpretation for this event, please email events@societyofauthors.org

Before the event

• Once registered, you will be sent a confirmation email with the Zoom link
• If the confirmation email doesn’t arrive in your inbox, please check your junk/spam email folder
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During the event

• This online event will take place on Zoom Meetings; you will be visible on screen and will be able ask questions via the chat box or by unmuting yourself.
• This event will be recorded and you may be on screen
• This event is 45 minutes

After the event

• Hashtags for this event: #SoAatHome & #TranslationPrizes
• You’ll be able to catch the recording on our Vimeo channel
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Booking

Book your place by using the registration below.

This #SoAatHome events is free but if you can afford to, please consider donating to our Authors’ Contingency Fund and we suggest a minimum donation of £5. The fund is to help professional authors experiencing financial hardship. DONATE HERE