PWF 2012 | Authors | Interviews
Duo Duo | Poetry is not only about understanding
14.05.2012
-petr-machan,-pwf-2012-(4)-4fb0c44db6cb4_360x225.jpg "Duo Duo by Petr Machan, Prague Writer's Festival 2012")
Duo Duo is the pen name for Li Shizheng, a Chinese poet born in Beijing in 1951. After being posted to an agricultural brigade in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, he took the name Duo Duo (“too much, too much”) from his daughter, who died in infancy. Scheduled to give a poetry reading in London in June 1989, the day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Duo Duo chose not to return to China, remaining in exile for 15 years. He finally returned in 2004 after being...
António Lobo Antunes | We Destroyed Entire Civilizations
30.01.2012
Your author bio mentions that you were trained as a psychiatrist and served as a military doctor in Portugal’s war in Angola before becoming a writer. This experience seems to be at the heart of The Land at the End of the World, which takes the form of the soul-baring rant of a Portuguese war...
Anita Desai | One Doesn't Want to Lose the Beauty
18.01.2012
Kiran Desai In Custody was set in the Old Delhi of your childhood, but what did you know of the Germany of your mother, the East Bengal of your father? Did you know your grandparents?
