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At the annual meeting of BookExpo America that was held in New York last May, to which most leading U.S. publishers sent representatives, state-sponsored Chinese publishers were named “guests of honor.” Commercially speaking, this made sense. China’s book industry, with sales now reported at $8 billion annually, is the second-largest in the world.1But for U.S. publishers there
I consider the translation of literary works a great service to humanity, yet the effort put into translation seldom...
The Frank Herbert series may be finding a footing in the Chinese market, where series and relatively recent 'classics' are prized.
NOBELPRIZE.ORG (Sweden) Worldcrunch STOCKHOLM – The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 57-year-old Chinese writer Mo Yan. 2012 #NobelPrize in #Literature was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." — Nobelprize_org (@Nobel...
As the Nobel ceremony takes place in Stockholm, here's more on Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah's works, which explore the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees.