Date: 5 - 6 November 2012
The 2012 South East Asian Writers Awards (“The S.E.A.Write Award”), in collaboration with Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Association (AP Writers) and the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, will present an international writers’ and translators’ Summit entitled “Reaching the World” and a series of Author Showcases at the University’s Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building from Monday, 5 – 6 November 2012.
“Reaching the World” is Bangkok’s first international festival for writers and translators, bringing together authors from around Asia, the Pacific to share their work in conjunction with one of Asia’s longest-running and most prestigious literary events, The S.E.A. Write Award.
The two-day Summit, initiated by AP Writers, and also supported by Culture Sports & Tourism Department, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration 2, SCG Foundation and Post Publishing (Public) Co., Ltd., brings together about 80 authors, literary translators, publishers, emerging writers, literary scholars and others from some 20 countries. They include 15 participants from Australia (some of whom were supported financially by the Australia-Thailand Institute); five participants supported by Air Asia from nearby Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia; as well as writers from Bangladesh, the Peoples’ Republic of China and the Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA and Thailand.
“Reaching the World” has been designed to look at the value of literary prizes in escalating an awardee’s career and also perhaps as recognition of the writer’s ability to capture some essence of community or national identity. It will also discuss the importance of quality literary translations to gain writers and a nation’s literature the global readerships they deserve.
The Summit will be opened by the President of Chulalongkorn University, Professor Pirom Kamolratanakul, MD. Special guest speaker kicking-off the discussion of literary prizes is the Australian author Matthew Condon who has fought to reinstate the major literary prizes in his State of Queensland after recent government cut-backs that saw these axed. Other special guest speakers and participants include Daniel Hahn from the British Centre for Literary Translation, Professor Edmund Thumboo, 1979 S.E.A. Write Awardee from Singapore, Harold Stephens, well-known author, travel writer and adventurer as well as Simon Winchester, the 2012 S.EA. Write Awards keynote speaker.
Among the poets and writers who will showcase their work at readings in SaSa International House, Chulalongkorn University, are:
Additional sponsors of the Summit comprise: Australia’s Copyright Agency Ltd which co-sponsored Matthew Condon; Mandarin Oriental Bangkok for accommodating several participants including Matthew Condon and Daniel Hahn; Island Magazine (Tasmania) which has co-sponsored Zeyar Lynn from Myanmar; the Walkley Foundation for sending Louisa Graham their GM; Asia Hotel Bangkok and Sasa International House at Chulalongkorn University for their generous room discounts; Literary Events Asia Pacific Plus (LEAP+) in Australia for tireless pro bono work to co-organise this event, and Asia Books who will join the Author Showcases to sell the writers’ book.
More information can be found here.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Website: http://apwriters.org/
The 2012 South East Asian Writers Awards (“The S.E.A.Write Award”), in collaboration with Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Association (AP Writers) and the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, will present an international writers’ and translators’ Summit entitled “Reaching the World” and a series of Author Showcases at the University’s Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building from Monday, 5 – 6 November 2012.
“Reaching the World” is Bangkok’s first international festival for writers and translators, bringing together authors from around Asia, the Pacific to share their work in conjunction with one of Asia’s longest-running and most prestigious literary events, The S.E.A. Write Award.
The two-day Summit, initiated by AP Writers, and also supported by Culture Sports & Tourism Department, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration 2, SCG Foundation and Post Publishing (Public) Co., Ltd., brings together about 80 authors, literary translators, publishers, emerging writers, literary scholars and others from some 20 countries. They include 15 participants from Australia (some of whom were supported financially by the Australia-Thailand Institute); five participants supported by Air Asia from nearby Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia; as well as writers from Bangladesh, the Peoples’ Republic of China and the Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA and Thailand.
“Reaching the World” has been designed to look at the value of literary prizes in escalating an awardee’s career and also perhaps as recognition of the writer’s ability to capture some essence of community or national identity. It will also discuss the importance of quality literary translations to gain writers and a nation’s literature the global readerships they deserve.
The Summit will be opened by the President of Chulalongkorn University, Professor Pirom Kamolratanakul, MD. Special guest speaker kicking-off the discussion of literary prizes is the Australian author Matthew Condon who has fought to reinstate the major literary prizes in his State of Queensland after recent government cut-backs that saw these axed. Other special guest speakers and participants include Daniel Hahn from the British Centre for Literary Translation, Professor Edmund Thumboo, 1979 S.E.A. Write Awardee from Singapore, Harold Stephens, well-known author, travel writer and adventurer as well as Simon Winchester, the 2012 S.EA. Write Awards keynote speaker.
Among the poets and writers who will showcase their work at readings in SaSa International House, Chulalongkorn University, are:
- Adam Aitken, Thai-Australian poet
- Martin Alexander, Editor of Asia Literary Review
- Zakariya Amataya, former S.E.A. Write awardee from Thailand
- Michelle Aung Thin, Burmese-Australian debut novelist
- Bernice Chauly, poet and write from Malaysia
- Colin Cheney, award-winning American poet
- Jose Dalisay, acclaimed novelist from the Philippines
- Lionel Fogarty, award-winning Indigenous Australian poet
- JANG Jin-sung, a poet from North Korea who defected
- Zeyar Lynn, acclaimed contemporary poet from Burma
- ‘Lao Ma’ (with co-translators Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan), a senior writer in the People’sRepublic of China
- Nguyen Quang Thieu, a poet from Vietnam
- Dinah Roma, poet from the Philippines
- Edwin Thumboo, acclaimed Singaporean poet
- Michael Vatikiotis, author and journalist
- Nury Vittachi, Sri Lankan-born, Hong Kong-based author and humorist
- Simon Winchester, the acclaimed UK author
- Xu Xi, award-winning Chinese-Indonesian novelist
- Kulpreet Yadav, novelist and magazine editor from India
- Kyoko Yoshida, writer and translator from Japan
Additional sponsors of the Summit comprise: Australia’s Copyright Agency Ltd which co-sponsored Matthew Condon; Mandarin Oriental Bangkok for accommodating several participants including Matthew Condon and Daniel Hahn; Island Magazine (Tasmania) which has co-sponsored Zeyar Lynn from Myanmar; the Walkley Foundation for sending Louisa Graham their GM; Asia Hotel Bangkok and Sasa International House at Chulalongkorn University for their generous room discounts; Literary Events Asia Pacific Plus (LEAP+) in Australia for tireless pro bono work to co-organise this event, and Asia Books who will join the Author Showcases to sell the writers’ book.
More information can be found here.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Website: http://apwriters.org/
