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A number of global literary heavyweights who have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, Hugo Award and the National Book Award, among other prestigious accolades, will land in Korea for the upcoming Seoul International Writers Festival (SIWF). First launched in 2006 as a platform for fruitful literary exchanges between Korean and international authors and readers, SIWF will make its return as an in-person event for the first time in three years following the pandemic-induced online transition.
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Taiwan the betrayed lover, Taiwan the neglected son, Taiwan the objectified sex toy these are among the literary identities explored in this engaging and original study by Wu Chia-rong (吳家榮).
Perhaps the most resonant metaphor is the hearing-impaired mechanic Saburo, from Wu Ming-yi’s (吳明益) novel Routes in the Dream. Having served in the Japanese navy in World War II, Saburo suffers partial hearing loss in a bombing raid, after which his life is “plagued by miscommunication with his own family and the outside world.” Saburo can thus be seen to represent Taiwan itself riven by internal social division
Taiwan’s booth at the just-
concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books drew a lot of attention from visitors across the US, many of whom were eager to resume traveling after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tourism Bureau’s Los Angeles office said.
As one of the nation’s largest literary events, the annual festival at the University of Southern California usually attracts about 150,000 people every April.
This year, it was held on Saturday and Sunday last week, featuring hundreds of exhibitors who filled the university campus.
Due to the pandemic, the event was held virtually in the past two years.
While the bureau usually runs a