Stories about Literature from January, 2007
Haiti: Year in Photos
Collectif Haiti de Provence recently posted (Fr) a slideshow of important Haitian personalities and events of 2006.
China: poor writers
Xueyong compares the income of famous and best selling writers in U.S and China and finds out that Chinese writers’ income is far too low (zh).
Lebanon: Politics of Economy
The Lebanese blogosphere seems to be in a semi-lull this week. Nevertheless some bloggers reflected on topics such as the theory of evolution, the economical situation in Lebanon and the execution of Iraq’s ex-president. Omar does not believe Darwin’s theory of evolution. He discusses natural selection, fossil records, hominid theory...
Lithuania: Helene Holzman
Music and Life – Everywhere! writes about Helene Holzman, a German married to a Jew in Kaunas, Lithuania, before World War II: there is a book based on her diary – and there are still people in Lithuania who remember meeting her in person.
Bangladesh: Elegy for Dhaka
imperfect world 2007 has a translated elegy for Dhaka. “Described unsentimentally, sceptically, passionately and dispassionately and even prophetically. Sharper than a photograph, and only faintly but excusably narcissisticDescribed unsentimentally, sceptically, passionately and dispassionately and even prophetically. Sharper than a photograph, and only faintly but excusably narcissistic”
Poland: A Real-Life Classic Remake
Traveling Life writes about an appointment that resembles “another remake of a Polish classic.”
Jamaica: Reading, writing & Absurdistan
“Writers who do not read have no right to write,” states Jamaican novelist Marlon James, in his meditation on reading and writing-cum-review of the novel Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart.
