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Her plays and translations have been presented in theaters across the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Italy. She has received fellowships from the Lark Play Development Center, the Dramatists Guild, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Banff Playwrights Colony and The Arctic Circle—an expeditionary residency programme bringing together artists, architects, scientists and educators to collectively explore a region of the Arctic.
She is currently working on a six-play cycle which will look at the different facets of the Arctic and investigate how theatre can participate in addressing the many challenges faced by communities on the frontline of climate change. As Neil Jamieson writes, a "bright star on the literary scene in the late s was a young man from central Vietnam who wrote under the pen name Che Lan Vien.
His reputation was based primarily on one slender volume of poems, entitled In Ruins , published in when he was only seventeen years old. Although he was Vietnamese, his poems are mostly about Champa and written from a Cham rather than Vietnamese point of view. It seems, however, that behind his preoccupation with the long-crumpled glories of Champa, deemed worthy of countless centuries of lamentation and regret, lay a view of Vietnam in the s as a decadent and dying society whose true glory was 'in ruins'" Understanding Vietnam , In addition to being a prolific and critically acclaimed author in Taipei, Chi is a regular contributor to discussions about sexuality and cyberculture, particularly through his columns in Taiwan's major newspapers and magazines.
He has also published three collections of stories, a collection of essays, and edited two books of local queer fiction and criticism. He is writing a history of lesbian and gay literature in Taiwan. She is the most recent winner of the Nigeria Literature Award, and has been published extensively in literary journals and newspapers.
She lives in Turnhout, Belgium. She writes mainly in Chinese and English, and translates both ways. Her nonfiction writings have appeared in Chinese newspapers Mingpao and Xinmin Wanbao. As a media professional, she writes and produces multimedia reportage for South China Morning Post , Post Magazine , and Shanghaiist , and makes regular talk show appearances on Shanghai TV. Having spent her childhood in rural China before moving to the bustling cities of Hong Kong and later, Shanghai, Hedy speaks three Chinese dialects and enjoys finding linguistic similarities and differences between them.
She now travels throughout China to interpret for family therapy conferences and counseling workshops.
Dumoux's memoir, published in French in , is one of the few available from the island country. He tells his story in the third person, in a series of chapters named after the house he was living in at the time. For more than a decade he has lived in Japan, translating the poetry of Chuya Nakahara, and he is the Managing Director of Nuance Partners, a consulting and full-service media company.
She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. His English, however, was inadequate to an academic understanding of English-language poetry.
He wrote in the wake of his Meiji-era predecessors, while straining towards those Symbolists and Surrealists he admired and translated, and he is recognized today as one of the most scrupulous pre-war Japanese writers of poems informed by European models, especially the Petrarchan sonnet. Chuya died of tuberculosis, having sold only a thousand books, but the edition of his collected works spans six volumes, and to date more criticism has been written on him than any other Japanese poet.
Trained as a medical doctor, he specialized in psychiatry. He was elected to the Finnish parliament from and again in , and he served as minister of culture from Andersson made his debut as a poet in and to date has published twenty-three collections of poetry and seven prose works. His poems appear in anthologies throughout the world.
It is now out of print. Lesser has also translated poems from his later collections, some of which have appeared in Books from Finland. A few of his poems appear on her website.
She currently teaches English and Translation Studies at Rome University, translates, sings in an American folk group, and plays baroque violin. His writing has been translated into five languages, including Russian and Chinese. Her fields of research include Italian literature and self-translation, but she is interested in specializing in the area of education. Her most recent book, Gravesend , looks at the cultural history of ghosts, and her current project, Landscapes On A Train , melds photography and text to engage landscape as a fluid medium.
He described his life in these words: "I am from Constantinople by descent, but I was born in Alexandria—at a house on Seriph Street; I left very young, and spent much of my childhood in England. Subsequently I visited this country as an adult, but for a short period of time.
I have also lived in France. During my adolescence I lived over two years in Constantinople. It has been many years since I last visited Greece. My last employment was as a clerk at a government office under the Ministry of Public Works of Egypt. I know English, French, and a little Italian. In , he earned a Ph.
He has contributed essays and reviews to Echinox , Steaua , Cultura , and Dilemateca.
At present, he teaches Romanian language and literature. She has published more than twenty books and has won numerous literary awards, including, most recently, the prestigious Mario Vargas Llosa Prize for her short story collection Habitaciones privadas.
His last book was Satori Blues Softblow Press He resides in Singapore and is based at The Substation, Singapore's first independent arts centre. He defected to France in , and in he accepted a position at the University of California at Berkeley. She has studied Comparative Literature and Art History, and currently studies creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut. He also teaches creative writing and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in He lives in New York.
He is passionate about Southern Africa and draws a great deal of inspiration from this part of the world. A chapbook, Family Album , is forthcoming from Poor Claudia this fall. Find him here. He now resides in Berlin where he continues to write political and literary articles for a number of Arab publications. His books have so far been translated into sixteen languages. Two collections of his short stories and six of his novels have been published in English.
Naipaul, and Vladimir Nabokov. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. In , he moved with his family to Calgary, Alberta; he now divides his time between Calgary and Belgrade.
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A major force in contemporary Hebrew poetry and a leading innovator and artist, Avidan published nineteen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books. His work has been translated into twenty languages, and collections of his poems have been published in French, Russian and Arabic. His Collected Poems , in four volumes, appeared in Israel in and His work has been translated into fifteen languages. With a body of work dating from , Loher's plays are marked by innovative uses and combinations of styles of language, merging the poetic with the pedestrian, the literary and the laconic, utilizing the resulting dissonance to great dramatic effect.
While her subject matter ranges from small town life to events torn directly from the pages of international news outlets to historical and literary figures such as Medea and the Red Army Faction, Loher continually explores what it is that creates communities, what it is that creates connections between individuals and how these connections are maintained or severed.
Loher's plays have an impact far beyond the boundaries of the German-speaking world; her work has been translated into 28 different languages. Poems of hers in Adam J. Sorkin's translations have appeared in Omnibus [U. She lives in Bucharest, where she coordinates a world literature series of Humanitas Publishing House.
Desmond also works in clay, his commemorative pieces housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. These span the genres of ethnography, journalism, poetry, and creative nonfiction, several edited pro bono for non-profit organizations.
All included photos are property of the author unless otherwise specified. Media Middle Ages Even without going to the store, customers can score a variety of flavors in bright reds, blues and beyond. It made me laugh so hard I almost died by choking on my milk I was eating Oreos at the time, while I was clicking away and that turned out to be an unwise decision; milk always goes well with Oreos, if you're wondering what it has to do with my milk. Acute gastric volvulus is a surgical emergency that requires early recognition and treatment. Seiler has published over six volumes of poetry, short-stories and essays.
Desmond is an interdisciplinary artist, also working in clay. In he was among the first contributors to the legendary literary journal Nyugat West and immediately made his mark as a poet.
Turning to fiction from the s, he wrote four novels, three of which are available in English, as well as hundreds of pieces of short prose. Virtually nothing is known with certainty of him. The dates commonly given for his birth and death are and , respectively. It is considered that he studied law, that he was a member of the lower nobility engaged in service to Queen Isabella, and that he fought on the side of the Catholic Monarchs against the army of the Nasrid Dynasty in the Granada War Of his scant surviving works, The Prison of Love is considered the most important.
The first example of the epistolary novel, it was translated into numerous languages shortly after its author's death and achieved international renown.