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Catergories: Interviews
In the first interview, Su Tong describes writing a novel is like running a marathon and shares his feeling of achieving international fame. And in the second, Sarah Passmore gets Su's reaction on having just won the prize.
Catergories: Book
The Changeling introduces Kogito, a writer in his early sixties, who receives a mysterious package from his childhood friend and estranged brother-in-law, Goro. Goro has sent him a trunk of tapes with recorded reflections on their relationship, and after receiving it, Kogito learns his lifelong friend has jumped to his death. However, Goro’s voice continues to...
Catergories: Interviews
Sarah Passmore was joined by Emma Donoghue to talk about her writing.
Catergories: Interviews
Sir Andrew Motion talked to Hugh Chiverton about poems.
Catergories: Interviews
Jessica Rudd spoke to Sarah Passmore about her first novel.
Catergories: Chinese Literature
The Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) is often referred to as the Golden Age of China. Poems from that era are widely considered the finest classical poems in China's 2000 year history. Translator Minfong Ho has assembled a collection of simple poems which were traditionally taught to children and will certainly give young readers images to ponder, as in Moon: When I was...
Catergories: Book
The Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) is often referred to as the Golden Age of China. Poems from that era are widely considered the finest classical poems in China's 2000 year history. Translator Minfong Ho has assembled a collection of simple poems which were traditionally taught to children and will certainly give young readers images to ponder, as in Moon: When I was...
Catergories: Book
RAIN ON THE PACIFIC COAST is a tapestry of human experience, in which desires and passing worlds crisscross, collude, and collide. Each poem is a tiny spark that flies off in various types of encounter, giving significance and illumination to seemingly brief and mundane moments of daily existence. The poems are rooted in space and time and involve real people. Read...
Catergories: Interviews
Indian author Jeet Thayil tells Phil Whelan about his book, Narcopolis, which illustrates the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai - through the change of opium to heroin. He is one of the shortlisted finalists of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Catergories: Book
What does it mean to be a ‘Hong Kong person’? Hong Kong has never been an independent state, nor has it completely reverted to mainland Chinese control. Once a British colony, now a semi-autonomous Special Administrative Region of China, Hong Kong is something of a mystery even to itself. Although it has long had a majority Cantonese Chinese population, the...
