Word reaches us that poet HU Xudong , who also taught comparative and world literatures at Peking University (Beida), specializing in Latin American literatures, passed away unexpectedly. RIP, Hu Xudong…
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We note with sadness the passing of Hiroshi SAKAGAMI 坂上 弘, whose long novelistic career garnered him major literary and cultural honors. A former president of the Japan Writers’ Association, he was until his retirement also the director of Keio University Press.
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The poetic documentary Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores, written and co-produced by Takako ARAI and creatively subtitled into English by a class of UI students of Japanese, will be screened at the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, on-line 10/7-14/2021.
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An opinion piece by Mohib ZEGHAM about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan has appeared in The Dallas Morning News.
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Excerpts from Enza GARCÍA ARREAZA’s second poetry collection Cosmonauta have appeared in a Russian translation by Dmitri KUZMIN.
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The Simon Billenness Emergency Challenge Fund for a New Myanmar/International Campaign for the Rohingya and artist Chaw Ei Thein are launching a virtual memorial garden to honor those killed in the wake of the 2/1 military coup. Artists in any media, Burmese and international, are invited to contribute.
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Among the judges for the 2022 Booker International Prize is novelist and translator Jeremy TIANG.
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Cocoon by ZHANG YUERAN, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIANG, is among the winning titles of English PEN's translation awards for 2021.
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We mourn the premature death of our friend, collaborator, and colleague, the Russian playwright, dramaturge, and author Ksenia DRAGUNSKAYA. May she rest in peace.
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