Podcast appearances and mentions of Tash Aw

Beth Golay recently spoke with author Tash Aw about "The South," which follows a family one summer as they move to an inherited farm in southern Malaysia.

Tash Aw’s writing puts the history and reality of Southeast Asia on the page. His latest novel, ‘The South’, is the first in a quartet series exploring family struggles amid climatic and economic change. Speaking to Georgina Godwin, Aw discusses his upbringing, his influences, his relationship with Malaysia and the reality behind the glossy image of Southeast Asia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frisch erschienen: der neue Roman von Han Kang, der Frau, die gerade als erste Schriftstellerin aus Südkorea den Literaturnobelpreis bekommen hat. Keine leichte Kost, erneut greift die Autorin die Gewaltgeschichte ihres Landes auf, sanft, aber sehr sehr hartnäckig: "Unmöglicher Abschied". / Ein Buch, das kaum einer wirklich in der Hand hatte, das aber in der DDR ein kleiner Mythos wurde, ist die Anthologie "Blitz aus heiterem Himmel", in der Autoren von Günther de Bruyn bis Christa Wolf über das Thema Geschlechtertausch schrieben. Jetzt ist sie wieder zu bekommen - mehr über diese 'Buchbiographie‘ im Gespräch mit dem Literaturwissenschaftler Carsten Gansel. Wir stellen "Größtenteils heldenhaft" der nordirischen Schriftstellerin Anna Burns vor und "Fremde am Pier", das Buch, mit dem Tash Aw seine Familie zwischen den Kulturen porträtiert. Dazu das literarische Rätseltaxi.

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Neben klassischer Musik haben auch die Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits und Janis Joplin die Sängerin Irina Ungureanu geprägt. Unversehens tauchte in ihr nun Musik in Mundart auf. – Der Autor Tash Aw hatte gegen das Schweigen zu kämpfen, als er sich mit seiner Familiengeschichte beschäftigte. «Wenn sie singt, explodieren die Farben», heisst es in einer Laudatio für die Sopranistin Irina Ungureanu, ihre «Stimme lotet die entlegensten Winkel der musikalischen Welt aus. Um immer wieder in die Mitte, in ihre Mitte zurückzukehren.» Die in Luzern lebende gebürtige Rumänin hat sich in jüngerer Zeit neu erfunden: mit Liedern in Mundart. Der Schriftsteller Tash Aw, geboren in Taiwan, aufgewachsen in Malaysia und heute in London wohnhaft, forscht in seinem neuen Werk «Fremde am Pier» nach der Geschichte seiner Familie, die einst aus purer Not China verliess. Kein einfaches Unterfangen. Weitere Themen: - Musik gewordene Resilienz: Die «Lieder aus dem Schneckenhaus» - Gegen die Mauer des Schweigens. «Fremde am Pier» von Tash Aw

"Fremde am Pier" ist ein kluges und berührendes Buch über die schwierige Suche nach den eigenen Wurzeln.

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City Lights celebrates the publication of "Blessings," a novel by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, published by Doubleday. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/blessings/ Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and another boy, his deepest fears are confirmed, and Obiefuna is banished to boarding school. As he navigates his new school's strict hierarchy and unpredictable violence, Obiefuna both finds and hides who he truly is. Back home, his mother, Uzoamaka, must contend with the absence of her beloved son, her husband's cryptic reasons for sending him away, and the hard truths that they've all been hiding from. As Nigeria teeters on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships, Obiefuna's identity becomes more dangerous than ever before, and the life he wants drifts further out of reach. Set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2013, "Blessings" is an elegant and exquisitely moving story that asks how to live freely in a country that forbids one's truest self, and what it takes for love to flourish despite it all. Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a writer from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, born in 2000. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, New England Review of Books and Lolwe, amongst others, and he is a staff writer at Brittle Paper. He was the runner-up for the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award, and was profiled as one of the “Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction” by Electric Literature. He has studied creative writing under Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, and Tash Aw, and is currently a an MFA student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. francesca ekwuyasi is a learner, artist, and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel, "Butter Honey Pig Bread" (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). "Butter Honey Pig Bread" was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. "Butter Honey Pig Bread" placed second on CBC's "Canada Reads: Canada's Annual Battle of the Books," where it was selected as one of five contenders in 2021 for “the one book that all of Canada should read.” francesca's writing has appeared in the Malahat Review, Transition Magazine, Room Magazine, Brittle Paper, the Ex-Puritan, C-Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Canadian Art, Chatelain and elsewhere. Her short story, "Ọrun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. She co-authored, "Curious Sounds: A Dialogue in Three Movements" (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023), a multi-genre collaborative book with Roger Mooking. Originally broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, July 11, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation. citylights.com/foundation/

Welcome to episode 5! On the menu today is Memorial by Byran Washington, which just slips over our '2 years old' threshold - the hype is arguably still hyping - and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, which was written 30 years ago and yet still, the hype hypes (StudioCanal just released a sparkly new version of the film.)We discuss Memorial's literary take on the 'meet the parents' romcom, the 'traumedy' genre, and why Mitsuko is one of the best characters ever written; and why The Virgin Suicides' big themes - adolescent mental health, the male gaze, the American Dream - still feel as prescient today.You can get in touch bookchatpod@gmail.comSound by Joel Grove and production by Pandora SykesBooks/articles mentioned:Memorial by Bryan WashingtonThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesBewilderment by Richard PowersRomantic Comedy by Curtis SittenfeldSuch A Fun Age by Kiley ReidWhite Noise by Don DeLilloMemorial review by Maria Marchinkoski for The Harvard ReviewMemorial review by Tash Aw for The TLSMemorial review by Ron Charles for The Washington PostJeffrey Eugenides interview at The Strand bookstoreDoes The Virgin Suicides still hold up 25 years later? By Emily Temple for LitHub Pre-order Isaac and the Egg in paperbackBooks for episode 6:When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise.'Édouard Louis's tender memoir of his mother is an exquisite portrait of womanhood, motherhood, the trials of both and the transcendent, fragile joy of eventual liberation. Louis, one of the leading French writers of his generation, discussed A Woman's Battles and Transformations (Harvill Secker) with its English translator the novelist Tash Aw, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Harmony Silk Factory and author most recently of We, The Survivors. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Geschichte eines Mörders – der eigentlich ein Opfer ist. Tash Aw gelingt in seinem vierten Roman eine eindringliche Geschichte über die soziale Realität im heutigen Malaysia. Eine Rezension von Nicole Strecker. Von Nicole Strecker.

How does France look when viewed from different places and at different times? Graham Robb knows France well from his academic career and decades of travels and offers an alternative route through French history in his new book. Hannah Scott has looked at the role of low-brow music in forming an idea of ‘Britishness' for the French at the height of cross-channel rivalry in the last century. Tash Aw has translated the latest work of biographical writing by Édouard Louis. Professor Ginette Vincendeau is currently co-editing a book on Paris in the cinema. They join Anne McElvoy to explore ideas of France and the French through it's history and culture. Graham Robb has published widely on French literature and history and was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His latest book is France: An Adventure History Hannah Scott is an academic track fellow at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow 1870-1904 Ginette Vincendeau is a Professor in Film Studies at King's College, University of London. She is is currently co-editing a book on Paris in the cinema. She has recently published on ethnicity in contemporary French cinema and is researching popular French directors of the 1950s and 1960s. A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis (author)and translated by Tash Aw is out now. Édouard Louis's earlier book Who Killed My Father has been adapted into a stage drama by Ivo Van Hove. You can see that at the Young Vic in London between 7th September and the 24th September and you can hear Édouard talking to Philip Dodd about street protest, gilets jaunes and his own upbringing in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0704m92 Producer: Ruth Watts

Tash Aw, Wir, die Überlebenden / Michael Kempe, Die beste aller möglichen Welten / Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John / Hörbuch: Markus Orths, Ewig währt am längsten - Tante Ernas letzter Tanz. Lesung: Bjarne Mädel / Vladimir Sorokin, Die rote Pyramide / Leonid Zypkin, Die Winde des Ararat / Das literarische Rätsel

Ein zufälliger Mörder erinnert sich an seine Tat und an sein Leben zwischen Armut und Aufstiegssehnsucht im modernen Malaysia. Tash Aws Charakterstudie “Wir, die Überlebenden” ist ein Gesellschaftspanorama von unten.Von Fabian Wolffwww.deutschlandfunk.de, BüchermarktDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

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Die wenigen Privilegierten und diejenigen, für die ihre Existenz ein ständiger Drahtseilakt des Überlebens ist, sie sind Teil der gleichen Geschichte, und diese Geschichte hat Tash Aw geschrieben.

Voetvolk, het gezelschap van choreografe Lisbeth Gruwez en muzikant Maarten Van Cauwenberghe bestaat 15 jaar. Dat wordt gevierd met Into the open, een performance waarin dans en concert in elkaar vervloeien. De Amerikaanse kunstenaar Kara Walker presenteert in Tilburg onbekende schatten uit haar privé-archief, waarin ze racisme, gender en geweld in beeld brengt. Jeroen Laureyns gaat kijken. Catherine Vuylsteke leest Vreemdelingen op een kade van Tash Aw, een familiekroniek over migratie in Azië.

The Paris-based author returned to his native Malaysia to tell a haunting tale of migration and murder in his most recent novel, We, The Survivors. Tash Aw spoke to Eleanor onstage at the Vancouver Writers Festival in 2019.

Comedian David Mills discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Award-winning comic David Mills is known for his sharp and hilarious take on contemporary culture and politics. His signature razor wit has been seen onstage in New York, LA, San Francisco, London and across the UK. He has opened for comedy icons Margaret Cho, Scott Capurro and Ed Byrne. As an actor, he appeared in Florence Foster Jenkins with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, Patrick Melrose with Benedict Cumberbatch and Mandy with Diane Morgan. 'David Mills is headed for the big time. Most definitely one to watch.' Time Out Follow David on Twitter and Instagram @DavidMillsDept Check out his regular e-newsletter: QUALITY TIME https://bit.ly/3HWcwuO Goldsmiths' Fair https://www.goldsmithsfair.co.uk Say Amen Somebody https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-amen-somebody-1983 Features Highway To Heaven by The O'Neal Twins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmSffTrgBY Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/08/five-star-billionaire-tash-aw-review Train to Busan https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/30/train-to-busan-review-nonstop-thrill-ride-zombies Ain't Misbehavin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8_MxJCsqg Conspirituality podcast https://conspirituality.net/about/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

"I have no relation or friend" - words spoken by Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. That story, alongside Georg Büchner's expressionist classic Woyzeck, has inspired the new production for English National Ballet put together by Akram Khan. He joins poet Hannah Lowe, who's been reflecting on her experiences of teaching London teenagers; Tash Aw, who explores his Chinese and Malaysian heritage, and his status as insider and outsider in memoir Strangers on a Pier; and New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck, who's been looking at the images of music hall performance and circus life in the paintings of Walter Sickert (1860 - 1942) and Laura Knight (1877-1970) for a conversation exploring different ideas about belonging. Shahidha Bari hosts. Creature: a co-production between English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen opens at Sadler's Wells on 23rd Sept and then tours internationally. Hannah Lowe's new collection from Bloodaxe is called The Kids. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw is published by Fourth Estate. Sickert: A Life in Art is on show at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool from 18 Sep 2021—27 Feb 2022. It's the largest retrospective in the UK for 30 years. Laura Knight: A Panoramic View is on show at the Milton Keynes Gallery from 9 Oct 2021 - 20 Feb 2022. Eleanor Lybeck is an academic on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council called New Generation Thinkers which turns research into radio. She is a lecturer in Irish Literature at the University of Liverpool and explored her own family history and her great grandfather's links with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in a short Sunday Feature for Radio 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pqsqr Producer: Tim Bano Image: Akram Khan Credit: Jean-Louis Fernandez You might also be interested in our exploration of language and belonging in which the writers Preti Taneja, Michael Rosen, Guy Gunaratne, Deena Mohamed, Dina Nayeri and Momtaza Mehri compare notes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006fh9

Pierluigi Vaccaneo"Premio Pavese"https://fondazionecesarepavese.it/Tu sei tutto nel gesto che fai”, Dialoghi con LeucòI vincitori del Premio Cesare Pavese 2020:Eraldo Affinati (narrativa), Renata Colorni (editoria), Elton Priftie Wolfgang Schweickard (saggistica), Anna Nadotti (traduzione)sono i vincitori della 37a edizione del Premio Cesare PaveseSabato 24 e domenica 25 ottobre 2020Santo Stefano Belbo (Cn)Eraldo Affinati (narrativa), Renata Colorni (editoria), Elton Prifti e Wolfgang Schweickard (saggistica) e Anna Nadotti (traduzione) sono i vincitori del Premio Cesare Pavese 2020, promosso e organizzato dalla Fondazione Cesare Pavese.Riceveranno il Premio e terranno il discorso di accettazione domenica 25 ottobre 2020 alle ore 10 a Santo Stefano Belbo all'auditorium della Fondazione Cesare Pavese, che ha sede nella Chiesa dei Santi Giacomo e Cristoforo (Piazza Confraternita 1), sconsacrata negli anni '20 del ‘900, in cui fu battezzato Cesare Pavese.Le sezioni in cui il Premio è suddiviso intendono rappresentare i tanti ambiti in cui Pavese aveva lavorato: narrativa, editoria, traduzione e saggistica, riconoscendo in ciascuno una personalità che si è distinta nel corso degli anni per passione, cura del lavoro, creatività, continuo confronto con il mondo. È un intento che prende linfa e anima dalle parole di Pavese in Dialoghi con Leucò, “Tu sei tutto nel gesto che fai”. La giuria del Premio Pavese è composta da: Alberto Sinigaglia (presidente della giuria, presidente dell'Ordine dei Giornalisti Piemonte, presidente del Comitato scientifico della Fondazione Cesare Pavese), Gian Arturo Ferrari (figura di rilievo dell'editoria italiana), Giulia Boringhieri (traduttrice, storica dell'editoria, figlia di Paolo Boringhieri che fu amico e collega di Pavese all'Einaudi), Chiara Fenoglio (docente, saggista, giornalista), Claudio Marazzini (presidente dell'Accademia della Crusca), Pierluigi Vaccaneo (direttore della Fondazione Cesare Pavese). Per la sezione Narrativa il Premio Cesare Pavese va a Eraldo Affinati, scrittore e insegnante, autore di una ventina di libri. Insieme a sua moglie, Anna Luce Lenzi, ha fondato la Penny Wirton, scuola gratuita di italiano per immigrati, senza classi e senza voti, che conta oggi cinquanta nuclei didattici nel territorio nazionale. Il suo ultimo libro è I meccanismi dell'odio (Mondadori), scritto con Marco Gatto: un confronto a due sulla crisi socioculturale che ha travolto l'Occidente negli ultimi vent'anni, dialogo sul razzismo e i modi per combatterlo. Nelle sue opere «Affinati ha unito narrazione e saggio, memoria storica e impegno nel presente, sguardo ai padri e spinta etica, armonizzando la lingua altissima della nostra tradizione a quella estesa e polifonica dei nuovi italiani. Il viaggio, l'urgenza di “andare a vedere” cose, luoghi, persone, è una delle strutture portanti dei suoi libri che, rifiutando il facile estetismo, la retorica del margine, lo sperimentalismo fine a sé stesso, ci consegnano un progetto letterario e civile capace (come segnalato dall'uso ricorrente della seconda persona singolare) di coinvolgere tutti nel segno della responsabilità. Il valore assegnato all'esperienza individuale, con le sue incertezze e i suoi punti di cedimento, fa di Eraldo Affinati uno degli scrittori più acuti e interessanti degli ultimi trent'anni: il suo elogio dell'imperfezione e della fragilità, il suo guardare alla letteratura dal punto di vista dell'escluso e del perdente ci richiama al valore della vita nelle sue molteplici forme». [motivazione completa allegata]Il Premio Cesare Pavese per la sezione Editoria viene consegnato a Renata Colorni, che con la sua creatività, energia e sguardo internazionale ha saputo dare grande impulso al settore editoriale. Ha lavorato con Boringhieri, Adelphi e Mondadori, dove dal 1995 ha diretto continuativamente la collana di classici italiani e stranieri I Meridiani. «È riuscita a trasformare una collana estemporanea, I Meridiani, di fisionomia imprecisa, in un vero e proprio pantheon letterario, lontano da ogni accademismo, ubbidendo anzi all'idea che i classici sono tali grazie alla loro incisività pop alla loro forza interiore. È impossibile descrivere qui l'impressionante potenza di fuoco de I Meridiani, ma basta scorrere il catalogo per farsene un'idea. Ci limiteremo solo a due menzioni. La prima riguarda la poesia. I Meridiani di Renata Colorni hanno da un lato coperto tutta la tradizione poetica europea, dai tre volumi dei Poeti della scuola siciliana, a Petrarca, a Hölderlin, a Shelley, fino a Valery e Paul Celan. Dall'altro, fatto ancor più stupefacente, hanno escogitato la forma editoriale in grado di rendere la poesia un business profittevole: la raccolta completa di un'opera poetica è in grado di suscitare un vasto e corposo interesse presso il pubblico. La seconda menzione riguarda le opere complete di autori contemporanei, da D'Annunzio a Montale a Pasolini, un'impresa, proprio a causa della contemporaneità, particolarmente ardua e difficile. In questa categoria rientra anche il monumentale lavoro di ri-traduzione, compiuto in larga parte da Renata Colorni, delle opere di Thomas Mann». [motivazione completa allegata]La sezione Saggistica vede vincitori i linguisti Elton Prifti e Wolfgang Schweickard. Prifti si occupa di linguistica contattuale e variazionale, linguistica storica, lessicografia storica, linguistica digitale, dialettologia e storia della linguistica. Schweickard si concentra sulla storia delle lingue romanze e sugli studi di lessicologia e lessicografia. Insieme dirigono il progetto lessicografico Lessico Etimologico Italiano. «La scelta della giuria per la saggistica si è indirizzata verso un'opera di grande respiro internazionale, frutto di un enorme lavoro collettivo: Lessico etimologico italiano (LEI), un monumentale dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti, avviato nel 1979 dalla Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur di Magonza, dunque edito all'estero, ma redatto in lingua italiana. L'opera è ancora in corso di realizzazione: ne sono usciti oltre 130 fascicoli, per un complesso di XV volumi; si è giunti alla lettera “C”. Si tratta di un enorme impegno, proiettato su tempi lunghi, a cui hanno posto mano decine di collaboratori, molti dei quali italiani. L'opera è destinata a durare nei secoli. Desta ammirazione per la sua mole, per la ricchezza enorme dei dati raccolti, per l'originalità dell'impostazione, che abbraccia la lingua letteraria antica e moderna, ma anche la lingua pratica dell'uso e la ricchezza dei dialetti italiani. Il fondatore della ciclopica impresa è il prof. Max Pfister, morto nel 2017». [motivazione completa allegata]Per la sezione Traduzione il Premio Cesare Pavese va ad Anna Nadotti, che tra i suoi diversi lavori ha curato la traduzione delle opere di Antonia Susan Byatt (a quattro mani con Fausto Galuzzi), Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Hisham Matar, Rachel Cusk, Tash Aw. Al momento è all'opera su The Shadow King, di Maaza Mengiste, in lizza per il Booker Prize 2020. «Dalla sua penna, o tastiera, esce una lingua “soave”. Impeccabile. Spasmodicamente precisa. La preparazione con cui si avvicina ai suoi autori è assoluta ed esemplare: un'immersione totale, spesso non solo virtuale ma anche reale, nei mondi che deve tradurre, siano essi Londra o Calcutta. E non solo oggettiva, documentaria, ma anche soggettiva, sensoriale. Per non perdere nessun riferimento, nessuna sfumatura; per immergersi nei suoni, negli odori, nei paesaggi, nelle luci… Una sorta di metodo Stanislavskij della traduzione. Ogni lavoro di Anna Nadotti è un vero e proprio incontro di mondi, tra inevitabile distanza e appassionata riappropriazione. Noi lettori tutte queste cose non le sappiamo, ma stiamone certi: le leggiamo». [motivazione completa allegata]Il premio ai vincitori sarà offerto dalla cantina I Vignaioli di Santo Stefano Belbo che consegneranno a ciascun premiato una bottiglia di Moscato d'Asti DOCG 2020 per ogni domenica dell'anno, 52 bottiglie per celebrare, oltre al Premio Pavese, anche la nuova annata del vino più importante di Santo Stefano Belbo. Con l'edizione 2020 del Premio nasce la collaborazione tra la Fondazione Cesare Pavese e le Cantine Ceretto, proprietarie assieme alla famiglia Scavino de I Vignaioli di Santo Stefano, con l'obiettivo di celebrare il connubio tra cultura contadina e letteraria che caratterizza l'anima di una terra, quella di Langa riconosciuta in tutto il mondo grazie alle sue unicità. Il tartufo d'Alba, offerto dall'Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero, sarà il consueto ospite della giornata di premiazione a ulteriore suggello del dialogo tra le eccellenze del nostro territorio. Il Premio Pavese 2020 si arricchisce di una sezione dedicata alle scuole. Nel corso della premiazione di domenica 25 ottobre verranno premiati i ragazzi delle scuole che hanno partecipato al concorso dedicato ai temi del romanzo La luna e i falò. L'Associazione per il Patrimonio dei Paesaggi Vitivinicoli di Langhe Monferrato e Roero e la Fondazione Cesare Pavese metteranno a disposizione della scuola vincitrice materiale didattico a sostegno dell'istruzione in un periodo complesso per tutte le scuole d'Italia.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Anna Nadotti"Premio Cesare Pavese"https://fondazionecesarepavese.it/Anna NadottiLettrice per passione e per professione, traduttrice, editor, e consulente Einaudi per le letterature anglofone. Ha curato, tra altre, la traduzione delle opere di AS Byatt (a quattro mani con Fausto Galuzzi), di Anita Desai, di Amitav Ghosh, di Hisham Matar, di Rachel Cusk, di Tash Aw; la traduzione di Carne, di Ruth Ozeki, e di Romanzieri ingenui e sentimentali di Orhan Pamuk. Per Einaudi ha curato una nuova traduzione della Signora Dalloway e di Gita al Faro, di Virginia Woolf. Sta ora traducendo The Shadow King, di Maaza Mengiste, shortlisted per il Booker Prize 2020. Scrive per varie testate. Collabora con la Scuola Holden di Torino. Ha ricevuto il Premio AVA per la Cultura, Venezia 2013.Motivazione del Premio Cesare Pavese, per la traduzione:Anna Nadotti traduce da più di 30 anni: lunghissimo, quindi, è l'elenco degli autori di cui è la voce italiana. Ha legato strettamente il suo nome, in particolare, ad alcuni scrittori di cui ha tradotto tutta l'opera, specie per gli editori Einaudi e Neri Pozza: all'indiano Amitav Gosh; all'inglese Antonia Byatt, autrice del celebre Possessione; alla grande scrittrice indiana Anita Desai; all'anglo-libico Hisham Matar, l'autore de Il Ritorno; alla canadese Rachel Cusk, di cui è in uscita da Einaudi l'ultimo libro. Last but not least, a Virginia Woolf, di cui ha ritradotto Mrs Dalloway e Gita al faro. Ma il Premio Pavese per la traduzione non è un semplice premio alla carriera, e non omaggia la semplice quantità di energie spese, bensì la qualità dei risultati raggiunti nel proporsi come modello sia di arte, sia di mestiere. Mestiere nel senso pavesiano di lavoro ben fatto, raggiunto con fatica, come unico mezzo per fare arte, letteratura, poesia. Anna Nadotti questa qualità, la rappresenta pienamente. Dalla sua penna, o tastiera, esce una lingua “soave”. Impeccabile. Spasmodicamente precisa. La preparazione con cui si avvicina ai suoi autori è assoluta ed esemplare: un'immersione totale, spesso non solo virtuale ma anche reale, nei mondi che deve tradurre, siano essi Londra o Calcutta. E non solo oggettiva, documentaria, ma anche soggettiva, sensoriale. Per non perdere nessun riferimento, nessuna sfumatura; per immergersi nei suoni, negli odori, nei paesaggi, nelle luci. Una sorta di metodo Stanislavskij della traduzione. Ogni lavoro di Anna Nadotti è un vero e proprio incontro di mondi, tra inevitabile distanza e appassionata riappropriazione. Noi lettori tutte queste cose non le sappiamo, ma stiamone certi: le leggiamo. A lei dunque il Premio Pavese per la traduzione 202IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

On today's episode actor and comedian David Mills joins me to talk about "Five Star Billionaire" by Tash Aw.  Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Guest: David Mills Website/Podcast/Vimeo   Discussed in this episode: Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. – Samuel Johnson Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis Hello Darlin’! Tall (And Absolutely True) Tales About My Life by Larry Hagman Johnny Woo Timberlina Focus People! Podcast with David Mills  

On today's episode actor and comedian David Mills joins me to talk about "Five Star Billionaire" by Tash Aw.  Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Guest: David Mills Website/Podcast/Vimeo   Discussed in this episode: Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. – Samuel Johnson Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis Hello Darlin'! Tall (And Absolutely True) Tales About My Life by Larry Hagman Johnny Woo Timberlina Focus People! Podcast with David Mills  

Tash Aw's We, The Survivors (2019) is all about exploitation and the toll of development on workers. Vladamir Lorchenkov's The Good Life Elsewhere (2008) looks at workers who have been made useless and disposable. They're two sides to the same capitalist system, and they show us some important things in this moment when work (especially the underpaid 'essential' kind that's keeping us alive) and hope are on our minds. Fantastic interview with Tash Aw. Max Haiven on the Crisis of Imagination

Novelist Tash Aw talks with his close friend, literary superstar Chimamanda Adichie, about his newest novel We, the Survivors, touching on questions of representation (or the lack of it), the intersections of poverty and violence, and the evolving state of immigrant literature. (Recorded at the Fort Greene store on September 9, 2019.) 

Tash Aw is an award-winning author with three previous novels and one autobiographical non-fiction book. We, the Survivors is a 2019 release. The focus is on Ah Hock, a man living just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In Ah Hock's bid to build a better life for himself, he kills a Bangladeshi migrant worker. In the interview, the author touches on some of the themes in the novel, such as friendship, masculinity and language. Then, Nathan has a conversation with some of The Kinkonauts (Nicole Zylstra & Michael Harvey) about their improvised, family-friendly, 1930's-radio-drama X-Mas show: 'It's An Okay Life, Considering'.. Featuring audience-suggested advertisements, live music with Mandy Morris and Her Jazz Quartet, plus the wonderful addition of sound effects performed with cool analogue devices, this interview covers the yuletide effort of Calgary's improv lab. Holiday Radio Play

In deze podcast twee auteurs die dit najaar over de tongen zullen gaan: de Belg Peter Vermeersch en de Maleise schrijver Tash Aw verdiepen zich elk op hun manier in misdaad en straf.

Will, Dan and Holly talk about friendship with book recommendations coming straight away from Holly, who loves Expectation by Anna Hope. Dan talks about a Waterstones event for Empathy Day and how reading, empathy and friendship are all connected. We get to hear from Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winner Angie Thomas talking about friendship in the wake of her huge success with The Hate U Give. Tash Aw talks about how his international life puts a huge pressure on friendship and why it requires work to succeed. And to finish off we drop into an event featuring Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebenene, authors of Slay In Your Lane. The two best friends talk about how their book began and how their friendship helped them to share more of themselves through it. BOOKS MENTIONED: Expectation, The Hate U Give, We, The Survivors, Slay In Your Lane, The Lido, Release, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

After reading Tash Aw's riveting latest novel, We, The Survivors, we, the interviewers sat down to a skype with him. We talked all sorts of things, from fatalistic viewpoints of Asians to the class system that overrides race and religion. We also prodded on his writing process and what it took for him to write something personal but also hard to put down at times. Listen to this! Plus we also have a new book giveaway this week.

Welcome to the Waterstones Podcast, a chance to hear authors going beyond the book to talk about the themes and ideas that obsess us all. This is a books podcast with a difference, drawing on the regular appearances of authors nationwide in our events and the more intimate conversations recorded in the studio, each episode will take a different theme and see where it takes us. As Dylan Thomas said, we shall begin at the beginning, with David Nicholls joining our podcast team to chat about his beginnings as a Waterstones bookseller, as an actor and then as a writer. ‘Beginnings' will also feature Michael Palin on those first steps to any journey and Tomi Adeyemi on realising the power of being seen in encouraging new writers to put their words to the page. So join us over the next few weeks as season one takes us through friendship, family, success, sex and perfection. We'll be hearing from Arundhati Roy, Sebastian Faulks, Jeanette Winterson, Tash Aw, Angie Thomas, Elizabeth Day and many, many more.

We were joined by Tash Aw to discuss his devastating new novel We, the Survivors.

On this week’s show, we sit down with Shakespeare expert Emma Smith and novelist Tash Aw talks about his latest book, We, the Survivors. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

Tash Aw, winner of the Whitbread Award and Commonwealth Book Prize, discusses his new novel We the Survivors, about a man born in a Malaysian fishing village who tries to make his way in a country and society that is transforming. He describes the book as a tribute to those battling to survive in a ruthless, rapidly changing world. As museums such as the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Modern sever ties with the philanthropic Sackler family following controversy over its alleged role in the opioid crisis, what is the wider impact on the ethics of arts sponsorship? How much scrutiny of arts sponsors should there be? Andrea is joined by Heledd Fychan, chair of the Museum Association's Ethics Committee and author and academic Tiffany Jenkins.Dear Lord and Father of Mankind is one of the nation's favourite hymn tunes, yet the tune itself comes from a much bigger work, the oratorio Judith by Hubert Parry, which is about to get its first UK performance in almost one hundred years at the Royal Festival Hall in London next week. Music historian Jeremy Summerly explores the significance of this musical revival. Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Timothy Prosser

Critically-acclaimed Malaysian author Tash Aw talks about why, despite living thousands of miles away, his stories always lead back to home.

Authors Ruth Ozeki and Tash Aw read from their contributions to an innovative new series from Restless books titled THE FACE, which asks writers to offer a guided tour of that most intimate terrain: their own faces. Afterwards they have a conversation with AAWW Executive Director Ken Chen.   In Ruth Ozeki’s piece A Time Code, she provides a Buddhist meditation of the second-by-second experience of the author watching her own face. Tash Aw’s Strangers on a Pier gives the reader--in the words of Yiyun Li--“whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.”   Music by Robert Rusli and Lu Yang

Édouard Louis was born into poverty in northern France, as Eddy Belleguele, in 1992. His autobiographical novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, newly translated into English as The End of Eddy (Harvill Secker), draws an unsparing portrait of the violence, alcoholism, racism and homophobia of the milieu into which he was born, and quickly became a sensational bestseller both in France and throughout Europe. Louis was at the shop to discuss his work with the novelist Tash Aw. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma welcomes Tash Aw - the Man Booker nominated, Whitbread Award and Commonwealth Award winning Malaysian writer of The Harmony Silk Factory, and Map of the Invisible World, and Five Star Billionaire. The both of them speak about the current state of the Five Star Billionaire movie, about the proliferation of Southeast Asian Fiction, and about why so many of our great Malaysian authors live everywhere else but here. Tash Aw is a featured author at this year's edition of the Singapore Writers Festival. You can find a list of his appearances here.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma welcomes Tash Aw - the Man Booker nominated, Whitbread Award and Commonwealth Award winning Malaysian writer of The Harmony Silk Factory, and Map of the Invisible World, and Five Star Billionaire. The both of them speak about the current state of the Five Star Billionaire movie, about the proliferation of Southeast Asian Fiction, and about why so many of our great Malaysian authors live everywhere else but here. Tash Aw is a featured author at this year's edition of the Singapore Writers Festival. You can find a list of his appearances here.

What would happen if a story were successively translated by a series of novelists, each one working only from the version immediately prior to their own – the aim being to preserve that story’s style? Adam Thirlwell's Multiples set out to explore this idea. To celebrate its UK publication, several writers from the anthology - Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt, Joe Dunthorne, Adam Foulds, Ma Jian and Francesco Pacifico - joined Adam Thirlwell at the Bookshop to talk about the project. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Portraying the PM on stage; artist Yinka Shonibare: the return of Lara Croft; actor Mark Strong; author Tash Aw; artist Chuck Close and George Benjamin and Martin Crimp on their opera Written on Skin.

With Mark Lawson. Actor Mark Strong is familiar from TV dramas including Our Friends in the North, Prime Suspect and The Long Firm, and feature films such as Green Lantern, Sherlock Holmes and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He now co-stars in Welcome To The Punch, playing a notorious criminal alongside James McAvoy's embittered cop. He reflects on playing villains, acting in slow motion and the art of wearing wigs. Author Tash Aw discusses his new novel, Five Star Billionaire. Set in Shanghai, the story is told from the perspective of five migrant Malaysian workers. Sketch comedy duo Anna Crilly and Katy Wix have a new TV series starting this week, which showcases their comic creations and satirizes well-known TV formats. They discuss their new characters and continuing the long tradition of comedy double acts. Producer: Olivia Skinner.

The history of humanity - as told through one hundred objects from the British Museum in London - is in South East Asia. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's director, is with the objects from across the world around 400 years ago that explore the relationships between religion and society. Today he is with a shadow puppet from the Indonesian island of Java, asking how a puppet watched by a predominantly Muslim audience is a character from a Hindi epic. He describes the history of the theatre of shadows and explores how it reveals the religious traditions that have shaped Indonesian life. He talks to a puppet master from Java. And the Malaysian novelist Tash Aw discusses the influence of shadow theatre on the region today. Producer: Anthony Denselow.

Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant of New Scientist. His books include Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil and We Need to Talk About Kelvin, which has just been long-listed for the 2010 Royal Society Book Prize. I interviewed Marcus about We Need to Talk about Kelvin for the Faber podcast. You can listen to the interview by clicking here. Here are his summer reading selections: It is probably odd to recommend a book so far only half-read but I knew from the opening page that Tash Aw’s Map of the Invisible World was going to be special. The story of two orphaned brothers adopted by very different families, set amid the political turmoil of post-colonial Indonesia, its prose is rich and atmospheric. Reminds me of Graham Greene. Aw, a Malaysian writer based in London, deserves to be far better known than he is. I had never before read anything by Rose Tremain but, after putting down The Road Home, I wanted to read more. The novel charts the …