Lin Bai was born in Guangxi Province in 1958 . She has nine novels, as well as novellas, short stories, essays, and collections of poetry to her credit. In 1998, Lin Bai won the first Chinese Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Lin Bai
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Biswadip Chakraborthy
Vishnupriya
Vishnupriya is a bilingual writer of poetry, essays, flash and short fiction based in the U.S. She likes to use these genres to express ideas, impulses, and interior mindscapes, and exchange and analyze viewpoints.
Life, Art and Literature in the Time of Pandemic – Editor’s Note
What has been the creative response to the pandemic?
Has the crisis spurred innovation?
Is it too early to decide whether the pandemic will bring about a paradigm shift in how the world thinks?
Tushar Chaudhury
Translated from the Bengali by Rajosik Mitra Insane You were insane back then, and so you'd begged...
Artist of the Month – Yan Li
Yan Li belongs to the star. The STAR is an avant-garde literary artist assembly in China that dared strict tenets of Chinese politics with abstract surrealism.
“The World Has Grown Weaker” – Lockdown in the Chinese Countryside, Poems by Rao Jinhui and Ni Zhou
This year the Lunar New Year which fell on 25 January is one of the very rare occasions in which Chinese migrant workers can go back to their place of origin to reunite with their families. This year the traditional celebration coincided with the outbreak of the epidemic. After the announcement of the national emergency on 20 January and the lockdown of the Hubei province, where the city of Wuhan is located, on the 23rd, the vacation time was extended first by one week, and then until further notice.
The Scaly People – Modhura Banerjee
The Scaly People – A Graphic Fiction on the plights of migrant workers during Indian lockdown
Pause – Deb Bandyopadhyay
I cracked, I shatteredan warm slice of litterpinched trough the cavernsrested time in a jaryes, I...
Rina Xhihani
Rina Xhihani was born in Albania 34 years ago. She has published poetry collections in Albenian and Italian. Her collection Cosmos Atrosanguineus is forthcoming in 2021, published by EtaBeta.
Carola Eijsenring
Carola Eijsenring (The Hague, 1954) grew up alternately in the Netherlands and Suriname. In 2012 she created her first music &
poetry show ‘Als het glas scherft’ (‘When the glass shatters’)