Award-winning screenwriter and author Geling Yan has written more than 20 novels and short story collections about China, many adapted to film or TV, including Coming Home and The Flowers of War, both of which became feature films directed by Zhang Yimou. But the novel Little Aunt Crane was one of her most difficult to complete, the seasoned Chinese-American writer admits.
Tejaswini Niranjana is currently professor and head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and visiting professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She is the author of
Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context, as well as
Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad. Her translation of Jayant Kaikini’s
No Presents Please was jointly awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Tejaswini Niranjana
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante: The first of the so-called Neapolitan novels, a veritable modern masterpiece, the book is an intense story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.