911±¬ĮĻLiterature Festival hosts āThe Book of Beijingā discussion
We are co-hosting a discussion at this yearās 911±¬ĮĻLiterature Festival on 15 October about āThe Book of Beijingā, an anthology of stories published by Comma Press in collaboration with the 911±¬ĮĻConfucius 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 911±¬ĮĻat 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 āA Love Affair on Anxiang Roadā included in her first short story collection Eleven Doses of Love.
Gu Shiās 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 Tzuās Art of War re-translated and re-considered.
This event is sponsored by Leonardo Hotels.
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