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Qiu Miaojin, in Taiwan,her university years, her loves and the “Crocodiles”.
“Notes of a crocodile” (1) is a short novel, published in Taiwan in 1994, translated two years ago by Bonnie Huie for the prestigious New York Review Books collection, which had already published Qiu...
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Racial tensions, social inequalities in Malaysia, Tash Aw’s latest novel.
Tash Aw is the most famous Malaysian novelist; he was born in Taipei in 1973 and lived in Kuala Lumpur before studying law in Cambridge and working for a few years with a lawyer. He lives in London...
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Jean Francois Billeter and Wen, a love of nearly fifty years.
Jean François Billeter is a well-known Swiss sinologist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. Some of his books are references such as “The Chinese Art of Writing” (1), which has been...
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Sanmao, a wandering and superstar writer.
Nearly thirty years after her death, she remains a celebrity in China and Taiwan; a million followers on her Weibo account. Her best-known book “Stories of the Sahara” (1) has just been translated...
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Xiao Hong, the talent of a great novelist let down by translators,...
In February 2014, I posted a short analysis of the works of Xiao Hong, one of the most important novelists of 20th century Chinese literature, who died in Hong Kong in 1942, at the age of 31, after a...
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The novelist Yan Lianke, with “The death of the sun”, paints a tragic...
Yan Lianke is one of the most important contemporary novelists, who could become a Nobel prize winner. A major work, “The Death of the Sun” (La mort du soleil) (1) has just been published by Editions...
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Sharlene Teo, horror films and literature in Singapore.
It’s a pity that Singapore and Malaysian literature is not reviewed more often. In Malaysia, there is a state-sponsored literary life for the Malaysian language and little international exposure, but...
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Chi Zijian, can literature help us face the epidemic?
With the epidemic, sales of Camus’ “The Plague” strongly increased in Italy and France. A good omen for Chi Zijian’s novel “Neige et Corbeaux” (1) (White Snow, Black Crows) which has just been...
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Why not take advantage of your lockdown to read Chinese novels?
China is the largest book publisher in the world and yet reading Chinese novels does not always get very good press. With the six books that we are recommending, we hope to show a different picture:...
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A new prose work by the poet Bei Dao who wants to rebuild “his” Beijing.
Bei Dao is with Yang Lian and Duo Duo, one of the best-known Chinese poets of the Tiananmen generation in the West. His prose works have suffered from the celebrity of a poetry often considered as a...
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