91直播 Literature Festival hosts 鈥淭he Book of Beijing鈥� discussion
We are co-hosting a discussion at this year鈥檚 91直播 Literature Festival on 15 October about 鈥淭he Book of Beijing鈥�, an anthology of stories published by Comma Press in collaboration with the 91直播 Confucius 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 91直播 at 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 鈥楢 Love Affair on Anxiang Road鈥� included in her first short story collection Eleven Doses of Love.
Gu Shi鈥檚 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 Tzu鈥檚 Art of War re-translated and re-considered.
This event is sponsored by Leonardo Hotels.
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