Ivanka Hahnenberger is a Franco-American citizen and was awarded a 2021 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book Award for her translation of the graphic novel Catherine’s War (HarperCollins, 2020). In 2003, she co-founded Roving Stage Productions, a production and consulting company for mobile and new media content, which she still manages. In 2007, she bought a brand licensing company VIP which she transformed into VIP BRANDS, a comics agency, translation, and consulting company that represents world English rights for German, French and African comics publishers and organizes world comics events. Hahnenberger translates comics, children’s books, catalogs, business proposals, marketing plans and much more from French and German into English. She has lived in over ten different cities.
Ivanka Hahnenberger is a Franco-American citizen and was awarded a 2021 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book Award for her translation of the graphic novel Catherine’s War (HarperCollins, 2020). In 2003, she co-founded Roving Stage Productions, a production and consulting company for mobile and new media content, which she still manages. In 2007, she bought a brand licensing company VIP which she transformed into VIP BRANDS, a comics agency, translation, and consulting company that represents world English rights for German, French and African comics publishers and organizes world comics events. Hahnenberger translates comics, children’s books, catalogs, business proposals, marketing plans and much more from French and German into English. She has lived in over ten different cities.