ΊΪΑΟΘλΏΪ Literature Festival hosts βThe Book of Beijingβ discussion
We are co-hosting a discussion at this yearβs ΊΪΑΟΘλΏΪ Literature Festival on 15 October about βThe Book of Beijingβ, an anthology of stories published by Comma Press in collaboration with the ΊΪΑΟΘλΏΪ Confucius Institute.
Gu Shi and Wen Zhen, two authors from China who contributed to anthology, will be reading their work and discussing the book with translator Christopher MacDonald.
The event will take place at the in central ΊΪΑΟΘλΏΪ at 4.00PM and it is free to attend.
Wen Zhen is one of the best-regarded young writers in China. She was the youngest writer ever to win the prestigious Lao She Literary Award 2014 with βA Love Affair on Anxiang Roadβ included in her first short story collection Eleven Doses of Love.
Gu Shiβs short fiction has won two Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction and three Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) Awards. Her novels include Love is Everywhere.
Christopher Macdonald is a translator and interpreter based in South Wales. He won the Comma Press Emerging Translator Award in 2019 and is the author of The Science of War: Sun Tzuβs Art of War re-translated and re-considered.
This event is sponsored by Leonardo Hotels.
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