Chinese-literature heavyweights from around the globe will gather in Taiwan next month to exchange ideas and explore networking opportunities at an international writers’ summit.
“My dream is to regularly bring Chinese-language writers together and have them communicate with Taiwan's readers,” said organizer Guo Feng, who also founded renowned local literary magazine “New Land Literature.”
According to Guo, Taiwan is the best location for the event because it is blessed with a liberal writing environment and freedom of speech. “These precious qualities play an important role in the Chinese-language literary world.”
Guo said most of the 40 authors attending the summit are established indy writers who have made significant contributions to the field of creative writing. He plans to showcase their talents during a series of public seminars scheduled for four universities in northern, central, southern and eastern Taiwan.
Taiwan’s U.S.-based writers such as playwright Ma Sen, poet Ya Xian, and sonnetist and academic Yang Mu will fly in for the event. They are to be joined by local colleagues, including essayist Chen Fang-ming, novelist Kenneth Pai and poet Yu Kuang-chung. Mainland Chinese-born authors such as Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian, U.S.-based essayist and commentator Liu Zaifu, and novelist Yan Lianke will also attend.
For Guo, the summit is his third attempt at focusing the spotlight on literature and the challenges it faces in today’s world. His previous conferences, organized with Hsinchu City-based National Tsing Hua University in 1988 and 1990, were well received and he expects a similar result this time around.
“In the past 20 years literature has become commercialized and shallow,” he said. “I believe this conference will help reverse this trend.”
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“My dream is to regularly bring Chinese-language writers together and have them communicate with Taiwan's readers,” said organizer Guo Feng, who also founded renowned local literary magazine “New Land Literature.”
According to Guo, Taiwan is the best location for the event because it is blessed with a liberal writing environment and freedom of speech. “These precious qualities play an important role in the Chinese-language literary world.”
Guo said most of the 40 authors attending the summit are established indy writers who have made significant contributions to the field of creative writing. He plans to showcase their talents during a series of public seminars scheduled for four universities in northern, central, southern and eastern Taiwan.
Taiwan’s U.S.-based writers such as playwright Ma Sen, poet Ya Xian, and sonnetist and academic Yang Mu will fly in for the event. They are to be joined by local colleagues, including essayist Chen Fang-ming, novelist Kenneth Pai and poet Yu Kuang-chung. Mainland Chinese-born authors such as Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian, U.S.-based essayist and commentator Liu Zaifu, and novelist Yan Lianke will also attend.
For Guo, the summit is his third attempt at focusing the spotlight on literature and the challenges it faces in today’s world. His previous conferences, organized with Hsinchu City-based National Tsing Hua University in 1988 and 1990, were well received and he expects a similar result this time around.
“In the past 20 years literature has become commercialized and shallow,” he said. “I believe this conference will help reverse this trend.”
(More information HERE.)
