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The winners of the 50,000 prize, to be shared equally between writer and translator, will be announced on June 2, 2021.
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The winners of the 50,000 prize, to be shared equally between writer and translator, will be announced on June 2, 2021.
Share: A recording of our digital reading of poetry, fiction, and essays from our annual literary anthology, with ASL interpreting. To celebrate the release of Boston Review's annual Arts in Society issue, Ancestors, we hosted a digital reading from contributors, featuring poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays. This was the third in our series of events to celebrate the book’s release, with the first and second also viewable on our site. ASL interpreting was provided by Susan Pacheco-Correa and Selena Flowers of Pro Bono ASL, and the evening was hosted by Boston Review...
A sense of loss seeps through the pages of D.C. author Eric Nguyen’s Things We Lost to the Water, about a Vietnamese family of refugees who emigrate to New Orleans after the Vietnam War.
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Nước — the Vietnamese word for country and water — permeates Eric Nguyen's haunting debut. Signifying both a place of origin and the means by which a boat refugee departs from such place of origin, Things We Lost to the Water poignantly explores all the ways in which Vietnamese refugees are affected by country and water — in sum, by dislocation. Told from multiple perspectives and spanning 27 years, from 1978 to 2005, Things We Lost to the Water gracefully manages to be both panoramic and specific, allegorical and literal. Most of the story takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, w...