An excerpt from Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham
After accepting the NSK silver medallion, certificate, and a check symbolizing the $35,000 award, Gene Luen Yang delivered a heartwarming story about the arc of his career, making art with friends, and the earned wisdom of what creating comics has taught him.
As he introduced and paid tribute to Gene Luen Yang during the NSK Prize ceremony, Trung Lê Nguyễn, who nominated Yang for the award, reflected on the role of comics in helping bridge cultures, languages, and generations.
“What shall I grasp? This house? These children who left to live / in other houses because here there is no food / and a big mess, and the wash is unfolded in the cabinets,” from “And the Earth Opened Its Mouth,” by Avigail Antman (trans. Linda Stern Zisquit)
“Ulla / took off her glasses / Said she met Tomas Tranströmer / in his house in Sweden / Schubert was playing / The moment he appeared / she’d bowed almost genuflected / as if a saint walked in,” from “Tranströmer,” by Jaspreet Singh
“Fleet-footed seagulls / squawk in displeasure. / Plump as a cuttlefish, / a sailboat glides past. / A dripping-wet beauty / cries out for her dress,” from “Fish Pier, Santa Monica,” by Vernon Duke (trans, Boris Dralyuk)
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“The ice thickened and awoke with a snap. It stretched, shivered, and strengthened again. Each day it grew deeper and, for a short while, reflected the shine of the distant sun back into the sky,” from “极速赛车全国统一开奖官方数据结果,” by Mirja Lanz (trans. by Catherine Venner)
Ruins
“Ruins give us this beautiful idea,” writes the author, “that you could make something, something wonderful and strange, as pleasing as you could, imbuing it with something of yourself.” Yet even the self, subject to time, must evanesce.
Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s contributions to the genre.
What are the three ancient Irish sports and how have they played a role in Irish history? Find out this and more in Mraović-O’Hare’s short essay.
When reflecting on the experience of interviewing his own grandfather into his one hundredth year, Matt A. Hanson finds a kindred methodology in writer Michael Frank’s patience as he interviewed Holocaust survivor Stella Levi for One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Avid Reader Press, 2022).
6 Questions for Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A mini-interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Certain Dark Things, a vampire tale set in Mexico City.
5 Questions for E. J. Koh
An interview with E. J. Koh, whose debut novel, The Liberators, examines the lives of two families over four generations play out against the backdrops and legacies of Japan’s occupation of Korea and the Korean War.
Writing, the Gambler’s Art: A Conversation with Chigozie Obioma
An interview with Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, whose debut novel, The Fishermen, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015. His third novel, The Road to the Country, a Biafran War fiction, is forthcoming from Hutchinson Heinemann.