21st lit periodical Flashcards
Miguel Syjuco was a grand prize winner of _____ Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado
2008
Who wrote - Ilustrado – with light shading of New York noir and American thriller; tells the story of a young writer’s apprentice tasked with the self-appointed mission of writing an account of his deceased master’s life. The action that follows takes readers on a journey of metacriticism, which does well to entertain while asking some serious questions about the state of Filipino literature as a whole
Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)
works are known for their complex portrayal of the “female psyche”
Bi FeiYu (China)
some of the highest literary awards in China; - also wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou’s 1996 film Shanghai Triad
Bi FeiYu (China)
An example of Bi FeiYu’s work
Three Sisters : an intense and invigorating examination of personality and rampant individualism that’s set in the context of high-Communist China in the years of the Cultural Revolution, does well to draw its readers in with a plethora of storylines that touch on vice, sex, Machiavellian power plays and contemporary politics all at the same time. With its focus on female characters and their interactions with male patriarchs in the China all around them, the book continues in the same vein as Feiyu’s other feminist works, while its general success was galvanized in 2010, when it garnered the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Asian Literature
Shin Kyung Sook was amongst the most highly regarded contemporary writers; became the first Korean writer to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in _____ for her novel Please Look After Mother
2012
has won major literary prizes including the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-In Literary Award and the Yi Sang Literary Prize
Shin Kyung Sook (South Korea)
prose is especially prized for its focus on exploring the psychological depths of the human mind.
Shin Kyung Sook (South Korea)
An example of Shin Kyung Sook’s work
Please Look After Mother - driven by the guilt of those closest to ‘Mother’, the saintly, sacrificial old woman who has gone missing in the center of Seoul. Alternating in perspective, from first to second to third person, the novel veers from near accusatory to reflective and explores themes of family in the midst of South Korea’s rapid urbanization and modernization of the past decade
Better known as Vinda
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (India)
Indian poet, writer, literary critic and translator of Marathi language
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (India)
Govind Vinayak Karandikar’s work
- The Wheel
Debuted in Eureka at the age of 19
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Has written poems with stylistic diversity and unique sense of humor
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
has emerged as the new poetic sensitivity in Japan, and is sure to remain one of the most important figures in 21st – century Japanese poetry
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Who wrote: A Day When the Mountains are Visible and Sweet Ultramarine Dreams
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Yosuke Tanaka was born Tokyo in ______
1969
a famous Japanese author whose works have been translated into several languagescultural soo
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
not only arguably the most experimental Japanese novelist to have been translated into English, but is also the most popular, with sales in the millions worldwide
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
now the most widely-read Japanese novelist of his generation;
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
he has won virtually every prize in Japan has to offer, including its greatest, the “______ Literary Prize”
Yomiuri
influenced by Evan S. Connell’s 1959 debut novel Mrs. Bridge.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
James Brendan Patterson published his first novel in 1976 called:
The Thomas Berryman Number
has written 147 novels since 1976, had _____ New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of ____, which is also a Guinness World Record.
114 ; 67
awards include the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild’s Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award, and the Children’s Choice Book Award for Author of the Year.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
the first author to have No. 1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children’s bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Tracker’s top-ten list at the same time.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist; has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.
Nicholas Sparks (North Carolina)
Works of Nicholas Sparks
The Choice
The Longest Ride
The Best of Me
Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer)
The Lucky One
Message in a Bottle
A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe,
Dear John,
The Last Song
The Notebook
an American author and YouTube content creator
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
John Green won the ____ Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012.
2006
also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and created original radio essays for NPR’s All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago’s public radio station
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review and created original radio essays for NPR’s All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago’s public radio station
John Green (Indianapolis, Indiana)
The Hunger Games is partly inspired by a._____ and b.______
a. the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
b. Suzanne Collins father’s career in the Air Force
