Extracts from the current magazine
Welcome to ‘Context: Asia Pacific', PEN International's final issue of 2009.
This issue spans a range of contemporary writing from Afghanistan to Japan, and from Mongolia down to Oceania. Featured are poems, short stories, essays, articles and excerpts from longer works, appearing in English, French and Spanish in original or translated versions.
Special guest writers include Indian author and publisher Urvashi Butalia, who gives us impressions of her friend Mona, a Delhi hijra (so-called ‘eunuch') with a tragic life story.
Our ‘Found in Translation' section, sponsored by Bloomberg, features dreamscapes in Spanish by Australian writer and musician Peter Loveday plus an excerpt from the autobiography of Bangladeshi feminist activist Taslima Nasrin.
Other highlights include Michel Hockx on ‘Web literature' in China; excerpts from biologist Vojtech Novotný's Notebooks from New Guinea and Tibetan journalist and dissident Tsering Woeser's memoir; poems from the Philippines, Korea and New Zealand; and much more.
To read sample content from ‘Context: Asia Pacific,' click on the links below or download the online edition:
Lee Gil-Won
"When it reached the sea, The river quieted for the first time,"
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Urvashi Butalia
"I first met Mona at a birthday party in a graveyard. This proximity of birth and death was to remain a theme throughout the many years of our friendship."
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Malu Halasa
"Salvador and Victorina caught the boat from Masbate, one of seven thousand simmering islands washed by the filthy waters of Southeast Asia."
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