The Man Asia prize 2010 for Bi Feiyu.

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Bi Feiyu has just received, in Hong Kong, the Man Asia 2010 Literary Award; an amount of USD 30 000 for his novel “Three Sisters”. This book was translated into French (1) in 2004, for Editions Philippe Picquier by Claude Payen and recently translated into English (2) by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin who will share 5 000 USD.

This is the third Chinese writer winning the prize after Jiang Rong in 2007 for … Lire la suite

Eileen Chang: to survive family and war.

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A few months ago was mentioned the posthumous triumph of Eileen Chang with the success, fifteen years after her death, of three autobiographical works: “Little Reunion,” available only in Chinese, “The Fall of the Pagoda (1) followed by “The Book of Change (2), written in English.

The quality of these two books is such that it was interesting to analyze the wide variety of topics and events related to the author’ s life.

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