NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Claire Conceison talks to Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Gloria Davies talks to Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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China and the Nobel III
A Transnational, Translingual Writer: Claire Conceison on Gao Xingjian
GAO XINGJIAN became the first writer of Chinese ancestry to win a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. Initially making his mark in China in the early 1980s with his avant-garde plays and literary essays, he gained renown internationally when his ...
All I See Around Me is the Same Old Darkness: Gloria Davies on Lu Xun
THE NEED to include something about Lu Xun in this series was obvious to us from the start, since many inside and outside of China describe him as the country’s most important and influential 20th-century literary figure. Then, just to ...
China and the Nobel Prize II
LARB's Asia editors Megan Shank and Jeffrey Wasserstrom asked a number of prominent writers and critics to discuss their choices for the Nobel Prize in Literature. We published four [here], and today, four more. So Many Mysteries: Jiayang Fan on ...
The Challenges of Conveying Absurd Reality: An Interview with Chinese Writer Yu Hua
As the Nobel awards approached, the Asia editors at Los Angeles Review of Books wanted to check in with Yu Hua, the spirited Chinese author of Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, To Live,and Brothers, among others, who also has a ...
A Cart of Charcoal in the Snow: Qiu Xiaolong on the Poetry of Wang Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong is the author of nine novels in the award-winning Inspector Chen series, with the eighth, Enigma of China recently out in the US, and the ninth, Shanghai Redemption, scheduled to come out in French first next March . He has ...
So Many Mysteries: Jiayang Fan on Yiyun Li as a World-Class Writer
Editors’ Note: Nobel prizes for literature tend to go to authors with at least one big sprawling work to their name, with the first two Chinese winners, Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan, being cases in point. Sometimes, though, the Swedish selectors ...
Monkeying Around with the Nobel Prize: Wu Chen'en's "Journey to the West"
On Wu Cheng’en's "Journey to the West," one of the masterworks of classical Chinese writing....
A Monument to What Might Have Been: Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"
Qian Zhongshu is a tough sell for the Nobel Prize, but he deserves it for Fortress Besieged alone....
Getting "The Good Earth"’s Author Right: On Pearl S. Buck
The most influential book on China since Marco Polo....
Untidy Endings: On Lao She
Lao She deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature....
