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Candid Reads: A Literary Open Mic

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Candid Society launches its monthly Open Mic series, inviting the closeted literati out there to step up and take the mic. Bring out your literary prose and poetry to share with friendly and supportive enthusiasts of the written word. All languages welcome! This session we open with feature readers Sushma Joshi, Kai Bird and Sanjeev Uprety. Sign up at the event or drop us an email if you’d like to read your own work. Sushma Joshi is a writer and filmmaker. She recently co-edited New Nepal, New Voices, a collection of short stories by 16 Nepali writers, to be published by Rupa in 2008. Her writings appear in Utne Reader, Ms. Magazine, East of the Web, Cold River Review, Mosaic, Samar Magazine and elsewhere. Joshi has had stories translated into Italian, Spanish and Vietnamese. Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures. He was an associate editor and columnist for The Nation magazine from 1978-82. His biograp...

"Betrayal" in Asian Cha

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Read my story "Betrayal" in Asian Cha's latest issue.

"Cheese" in Buran

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Cheese in Italian (traduzione di Ilaria Dal Brun) Gopi fece la conoscenza del formaggio due anni dopo essere giunto a Kathmandu. Prakash Babu tornava dalla Svizzera. Paese di miracolosi orologi che spaccavano sempre il secondo, non come l'ora del Nepal, in ritardo o in anticipo di qualche minuto. Paese gemello di montagne, immagine speculare di cime, ma molto più occidentalizzate, molto più moderne di quelle del Nepal, grevi di mitologia. Erano tutti convinti che le montagne della Svizzera dovessero essere un po' meglio, un po' più belle, un po' più civilizzate di quelle del loro povero, arretrato paese. Che il Nepal avesse le cime più alte del mondo non contava -l'altitudine era irrilevante, c'erano cose più importanti a cui pensare, la pulizia e l'igiene ad esempio. La modernità e la precisione. L'altitudine non contava, se si potevano avere le montagne più pulite, più asettiche, più moderne del mondo. Prakash portava con sé una valigia piena di regali...

"Cheese" in Buran

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hombres y Mujeres, Signori e Signore Buran 4 is online: www.buran.it 41 novels 30 countries 13 photographers 29 translators Thank you for your cooperation, for your love for writing, for everything. Next issue in june, to write and read about the Body. -------- El nùmero 4 de Buràn ya està. Participaron 41 escritores de 30 paises, 13 fotografos y un equipo de 29 traductores. Muchas gracias por vuestra colaboraciòn y por la pasiòn que todos teneis para la escritura y la vida. Vamos a salir en junio, con un nùmero dedicado al Cuerpo. Brunella Saccone

redaktion

Liebe Freunde, Mitstreiter und Interessierte, Am Mittwoch, dem 20. Februar, laden wir zum zwölften Mal zur Lese- und Film- Reihe cinéma littérature, einer Kooperation der Zeitschrift das gefrorene meer mit dem Dresdner Programmkino Thalia - Cinema. Coffee and Cigarettes. Veranstaltungsbeginn ist 20.00 Uhr im ebendort, (Dresden, Görlitzer Str. 6) In guter Tradition werden Gedichte und Erzählungen im Original und in Übersetzung inszeniert. So erzählt eine Geschichte der Nepalesischen Schriftstellerin Joshi Suhma in englischer Sprache von der Suche nach einem wahrhaft mytischen Bild. Dierk Knechtels Kurzerzählung berichtet vom einem letzten Hindernis, das überwunden werden muss, ehe ein alter Mann endlich den Tod in seine Arme schließen darf. Die Gedichte der bekannten russischen Dichterin Marjana Gaponenko lassen greise Bienen fliegen und erzählen von der Hand im Maul des Scheesturms. Nach einer kurzen Pause wirft der Film "Control" einen Blick in das kurze und reiche Leben de...

Book Addiction

READ Magazine, Issue 3, September 2007, Kathmandu READ magazine published a book review/personal narrative piece called " Book Addiction " this September. Do read the archived copy, which is archived at Cambridge University's Digital Himalaya: http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/read/pdf/Read_03.pdf sushma