Kyoto Journal offers thought-provoking cultural perspectives from Asia. A non-profit, all-volunteer production now in its 19th year, KJ has been shortlisted ten years in a row for the Utne Independent Press Awards. In 2006, it was again nominated in the category of International Coverage. In 2004, the journal was nominated for General Excellence, Design, [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Kyoto Journal
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El Léon Literary Arts
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New books from El León Literary Arts include Bluebird in My Window and draite a u méure by Frank Dituri and Locke 1928 by Shawna Yang Ryan.
Incorporated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation in California in 2001, El León Literary Arts was established to promote and strengthen the arts and education. Publishing fiction, poetry, or [...]
Reading by U Sam Oeur on April 10
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“Sacred Vows,” a bilingual reading in Khmer and English by U Sam Oeur, will be held Tues., April 10, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in Kuykendall 410, on the UH-Manoa Campus.
U Sam Oeur grew up in a Cambodian farming family. After studying in the U.S., he served in the Cambodian government. When Pol Pot assumed power [...]
Reading by Haruki Murakami on April 26
Posted in readings on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Haruki Murakami will read on Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Murakami is one of the most widely translated Japanese novelists, having built an international following with his daringly original fiction. He is best known for the novels Kafka on the Shore (2005) [...]
2007 Kiriyama Prize
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The 2007 Kiriyama Prize winners have been announced. Congratulations to the authors of the winning selections and the finalists!
Fiction Prize: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami
“While anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream,” Laura Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “it’s the rare artist, [...]
