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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Among the 12 winners of NYTimes' fourth annual Student Podcast Contest is a team featuring Caroline GAO (Between the Lines youth program, 2020), with the podcast “Asian Fetishization, Past and Present.”
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An intriguingly open-ended review of Wen Cheng [The Lost City] (Beijing, 2021), the most recent novel by YU HUA can be found in the ,just-out issue of World Literature Today.
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Today’s “Poem-a-Day,” by TSE Hao Guang 谢皓光, is from his volume The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association, forthcoming from Tinfish Press.
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We regret to note the passing, after a life of exile, of the distinguished Iraqi poet and translator Saadi YUSEF (Youssef). His translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself into the Arabic became one of the cornerstones of WhitmanWeb.
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Do yourselves a favor and go watch The Middleman, a French-Belgian miniseries co-written and co-directed by Etgar KERET and Shira Geffen, on The Criterion Channel as of June 2021.
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On June 14th, Asia Society will host an evening of readings in support of the Burmese writers killed or arrested following the military coup earlier this year. Among the presenters will be US Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Robert Hass, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (Austria), poets Brenda Hillman, David St. John, and Christopher MERRILL (USA), Esther DISCHEREIT (Germany), Kinga TÓTH (Hungary), and many more. Register here.
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