Publication timed to coincide with the implementation of recommendations of a groundbreaking United Nations study on violence against children.

To support Save the Children and raise awareness for its fight to end violence against children, bestselling authors from the world have banded together to create a bold and moving anthology of stories about childhood. Participants include such acclaimed and award-winning authors as David Almond, Margaret Atwood, André Brink, Melvin Burgess, Nadine Gordimer, Eva Hoffman, Alberto Manguel, Meg Rosoff, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ali Smith, Joan Smith and Richard Zimler.

In The Children’s Hours, these and fifteen other renowned authors explore and celebrate childhood; their tales touching on abuse and rejection, loneliness and love, the joys of friendship and discovery, and the first confused inklings of adolescent love.

All writer's royalties will be donated to Save the Children for its work to end violence against young people.

Richard Zimler, born in 1956 in New York, has lived in Portugal since 1990, where he is a professor of journalism at the University of Porto. He has published seven novels over the last decade: "The Seventh Gate; "The Search for Sana"; "Guardian of the Dawn"; "Hunting Midnight"; "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon"; "The Angelic Darkness"; and "Unholy Ghosts." His novels have appeared on bestseller lists in 12 different countries, including the USA, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, and Australia.

Raša Sekulovic is a literary translator and editor specialised in contemporary English written literature from all over the world. He had translated poetry and fiction by numerous renowned authors including Salman Rushdie, I.B.Singer, Hanif Kureishi, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and others and is the editor and founder of the literary magazine Shakespeare & Co.
He is a prominent child rights activist advocating for end of all forms of violence against children and global promotion of non-violent communication. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand.