欢迎访问关注非漂 [Fēi Piāo]新设的微博，liberation 时代。 Season of Crimson Blossoms, a novel by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, wins the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth US$100,000. Writes author and critic Toni Kan: I was fascinated because I grew up in the North, first Kano and then Jos, but I was discovering something new about the North in Abubakar’s … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2016.10 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Alat Asem’s 《时间悄悄的嘴脸》: Guide to Related Links
Alat Asem’s Confessions of a Jade Lord 《时间悄悄的嘴脸》阿拉提·阿斯木 著 Translated by Bruce Humes and Jun Liu Author's Background 阿拉提·阿斯木_百度百科 Literary Bio Présentation: Alat Asem (en français) Book Reviews Turkey's Sabah: A Gem of Uyghur Literature Academic Papers 翟晓甜 张治安:阿拉提·阿斯木的超越与创新——读《时间悄悄的嘴脸》 Renditions of the Novel Chinese original: 《时间悄悄的嘴脸》 Excerpt: Rechristening a High-rise (Chapter 19) The Translation Process Co-translating … Continue reading Alat Asem’s 《时间悄悄的嘴脸》: Guide to Related Links
September 2016: Altaic Storytelling Newsbriefs
Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper, was arrested in late 2015 for publicizing the discovery of a covert arms shipment by the Turkish secret service to radical Islamist organisations fighting government forces in Syria. He was charged with espionage, aiding a terrorist organization, trying to topple the government and revealing state secrets. The newly … Continue reading September 2016: Altaic Storytelling Newsbriefs
Altaic Storytelling Quote of the Week: Let’s simply say I’m ‘from Turkey’
In a polished English accent, she began, “In my country,” but she paused, trying to reframe her sentence more academically. “You’re right,” she said instead. After giving this sign of acquiescence, sacred to all sane Oxfordites, she continued, “In my country, they grant the highest importance to the law that the height of minarets can’t … Continue reading Altaic Storytelling Quote of the Week: Let’s simply say I’m ‘from Turkey’
July-August 2016: Altaic Storytelling Newsbriefs
Coup d’état Fiction: A Curiously Turkish Genre offers suggested reading for books that capture the Zeitgeist during the years that followed modern Turkey’s not infrequent periods of dictatorship. The winners of the Junma Literary Awards for Ethnic Minority Writers (骏马奖) — handed out every three years since 1981 — were announced in early August. The competition … Continue reading July-August 2016: Altaic Storytelling Newsbriefs
Writing by Controversial Turkish Writer Coming Soon to China
Like any journalist worth her salt in today’s Turkey, Ece Temelkuran (伊切•泰玛尔库兰) was once fired for writing copy that the government of the day deemed politically incorrect. Her novels are edgy too, touching on sensitive social and political issues, and as a columnist and a novelist she has built up quite a following at home and … Continue reading Writing by Controversial Turkish Writer Coming Soon to China
Coup d’état Fiction: A Curiously Turkish Genre
In the wake of the military’s badly botched putsch, as of July 21st Turkey finds itself once again living under a formal State of Emergency (SOE). This should not come as a big surprise to many citizens, because according to Dr. Zafer Üskül, a law professor and founding member of the Turkish Human Rights Organization, … Continue reading Coup d’état Fiction: A Curiously Turkish Genre
“Le Dernier Quartier de Lune”: French version of Chi Zijian’s ode to the Evenki to launch in September
In September 2016, the French rendition of Chi Zijian’s 《额尔古纳河右岸》will join several previously published foreign language editions including Dutch (Het laatste kwartier van de maan); English (Last Quarter of the Moon); Italian (Ultimo quarto di Luna); Japanese (アルグン川の右岸) , and Spanish (A la orilla derecha del Río Argún). Le Dernier Quartier de Lune is co-translated … Continue reading “Le Dernier Quartier de Lune”: French version of Chi Zijian’s ode to the Evenki to launch in September
Sakharov Prize for Uyghur Intellectual Ilham Tohti?
In an open letter entitled Donnons le prix Sakharov à un intellectuel ouïghour published in the French newspaper Libération on July 14, 2016, three prominent French citizens propose awarding the Sakharov Prize to Ilham Tohti: Il est temps que l’opinion publique francophone s’empare de son cas : à force d’évoquer les méfaits de Daech, d’Isis ou de Boko Haram, … Continue reading Sakharov Prize for Uyghur Intellectual Ilham Tohti?
Quote of the Week: Wei Hui’s “Shanghai Baby,” Zhang Chengzhi’s “History of the Soul” and the end of an era
这个时代，正好就是我生活着并将继续生活着的时代，这个时代曾经以 《上海宝贝》的方式戏剧性地与我调情，而现在，通过《心灵史》，我将我自己治愈。尼采曾经说过瓦格纳是他的疾病，对我来说，以《上海宝贝》为代表的那种 “小资想家”就是我的疾病，我曾经如此并入高膏 ---- 万幸的是，我遇到了《心灵史》这一味时代的良药。 杨庆祥 (Yang Qingxiang) writing "通向真实的世界" for 三联生活周刊 (2016.7.11) about the two books that initiated and terminated the 90s for him.
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