The literary executor of Usula K. Le Guin is allowing changes to her YA/youth books

[thewayne]

In this case, her executor is her son, so he does have firsthand knowledge of some of her thinking.

It's an interesting essay on a very tough issue, with good points and bad points - IMO. We've seen Road Dahl's publisher back off on updating his books and they've split their printing stream, still issuing original books under a different imprint. Ian Fleming's James Bond books are being revised to remove offensive language.

I find the second and third paragraphs before the end to be quite good and worth contemplation.

https://lithub.com/why-i-decided-to-update-the-language-in-ursula-k-le-guins-childrens-books/

Comments

[silveradept]

That's generally the thing that translators do, and sometimes, books of the past are really getting translated rather than merely edited, so it makes sense to include some useful notes in the back if you want to go to the effort.