Six books to read this Women In Translation month – recommended by our experts
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
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Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
Award-winning screenwriter and author Geling Yan has written more than 20 novels and short story collections about China, many adapted to film or TV, including Coming Home and The Flowers of War, both of which became feature films directed by Zhang Yimou. But the novel Little Aunt Crane was one of her most difficult to complete, the seasoned Chinese-American writer admits.
Tejaswini Niranjana is currently professor and head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and visiting professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context, as well as Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad. Her translation of Jayant Kaikini’s No Presents Please was jointly awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Tejaswini Niranjana My Brilliant Friend by Elen...