Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton will be hosting a reading of their new book, The Red Room, on Thursday, December 10, 2009. 6:00–8:00 p.m. Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1881 East-West Road.
They are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction and have contributed to past issues of MANOA. Enduring War: [...]
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Reading by Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton on December 10
Posted in UH Press, book launches, contributor news, readings on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another Kind of Paradise
Posted in contributor news on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific
Cheng & Tsui (2009)
“Trevor Carolan’s Another Kind of Paradise is a wonderfully rich collection of some of the best contemporary fiction from East and Southeast Asia. These stories give students a direct [...]
Understanding War (and Peace)
Posted in book launches, contributor news, readings on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shepherd Bliss and Chester Aaron, contributors to Enduring War: Stories of What We’ve Learned, have arranged three events focusing on the subject of war. They are listed here by date.
Feb. 17, Tues., Storytelling, Farming, & Healing
Summary: Chester will take a break from garlic farming and Shepherd from tending berries and teaching at Sonoma State to [...]
The Ninth Inning
Posted in contributor news on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chester Aaron, a fiction writer whose story “Winterswijk” opens MANOA’s winter 2008 issue, recently appeared on National Public Radio’s series The Ninth Inning. The following paragraphs by senior producer Davar Iran Ardalan are from NPR’s blog on the series:
In early September, author and garlic farmer Chester Aaron emailed me and asked me to consider a [...]
Books by Contributors to Crossing Over: Partition Literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Posted in contributor news on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Readers of MANOA may be interested in other published works by the contributors of Crossing Over. The following is a list of selected works available to English-language readers:
Aangan (Inner Courtyard) by Khadija Mastur
(Kali for Women, 2000)
“Narrated in the intimate anger of a young women’s journal-keeping voice this novel explores the politics of sex and class [...]
Award-winning fiction in winter 2006 issue
Posted in awards, contributor news on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Where the Rivers Meet, the winter 2006 issue of MANOA, includes award-winning fiction by Alexis Wright and Roger McDonald. Wright is represented by an excerpt from Carpentaria, the novel that won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. A writer, researcher, and social commentator, she is one of Australia’s best-known indigenous [...]
Contributor News
Posted in contributor news on December 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Lam has received Pen American’s Beyond the Margins Award for his book Perfume Dreams. His story “The Palmist,” which originally appeared in the winter 2004 issue of MANOA, was reprinted in New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and chosen by Symphony Space for “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story.”
Symphony Space will be presenting Lam’s [...]
Beyond Words
Posted in contributor news on November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The summer 2006 issue of MANOA features Yoko Tawada, Nguyen Chi Thien, Martha Collins, and many other writers and translators. In this volume—illustrated with beautiful photographs of Asia by Linda Connor—prominent and emerging Asian writers talk about the conditions under which they work, their relationships with their home countries, and the convictions that guide them. [...]
