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"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

Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching and Resource Collection

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My article You Will Know What I'm Talking About As You Grow Older is included by the National Association of Women's Studies in its collection of resources! NEW: Introducing Women's and Gender Studies: A Teaching and Resource Collection. Compiled by Elizabeth Curtis (click to download ) Contributions were included when they focused on the wider overview provided in most introductory courses. In the “Introductory Courses on Special Topics,” however, some courses constructed around specific themes were included to show how courses that are structured in this way provide an alternative method to traditional survey method for introducing students to the discipline. The range of student populations that these teaching materials have been crafted for range from middle school to the graduate level. To help locate the reader who is navigating this wide range of resources, demographic information about courses and their instructor preface each item. Although attempts were made to r...