(Central News Agency reporter Yin Junjie, New York, 25th) May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States. The Taipei Cultural Center in New York and the Queens Borough Public Library will jointly organize the “Taiwan Bookcase”, which will select 13 Taiwanese books in Chinese and English translations. edition, which is on display in three branches, hoping to become a showcase for introducing Taiwanese culture.
The Taiwan Book Corner exhibition is scheduled to hold an opening event on May 9 at the Forest Hills branch of the Queens Public Library. It will invite National Literary Award winner Shi Shuqing, who wrote the “Taiwan Trilogy” series of novels, and Lin King, translator of the English version of the graphic novel “Children from Clearwater” attended the literature lecture.
The Nuwen Center stated in a press release that Queens is the largest of the five boroughs of New York City and is known for its ethnically diverse population, with half of its residents being immigrants. The Taiwan Bookcase Exhibition Project is in line with the Queens Borough Public Library’s goal of serving readers. The two parties hit it off and will be launched simultaneously in Forest Hills, Bayside and Flushing branches in May for a one-month exhibition period.
After jointly selecting books, Taiwan Bookcase will exhibit 13 works, divided into three categories: novels and essays, picture books, and comics, reflecting the outstanding achievements in foreign translation of Taiwan’s original publications in recent years.
The novels and prose works include Lin Yihan’s “Fang Siqi’s First Love Paradise”, Guo Qiangsheng’s “Piano Seeker”, Li Weijing’s “Mermaid”, Chen Sihong’s “Ghost Place”, Zhang Yuge’s “Abnormal Stories”, Zhang Guoli’s “Fried Rice Sniper” , San Mao’s “Saharan Years”, Qiu Miaojin’s “Diaries of a Crocodile”, and Wu Mingyi’s “The Stolen Bicycle”.
The picture book works include “Riding a Dinosaur to School” by Liu Siyuan and Lin Xiaobei, and “Riding a Dinosaur to School” by Liu Jialu and Thomas. Tomáš Řízek’s “Songs of Mountains and Seas: A Series of Taiwanese Aboriginal Myths” and Lin Lian’en’s “HOME”.
The comic works are “Children from Qingshui” by You Peiyun and Zhou Jianxin.
The Nuwen Center stated that the works on display are of various types and are suitable for readers of different ages. They include themes such as women, queer people, history and culture, and demonstrate the diverse and open features of Taiwanese literary works. The book list is excellent and all are award-winning works. We look forward to introducing readers to Taiwan’s latest good books and using literature and reading as a showcase to introduce Taiwanese culture.
The Chinese version is suitable for the first generation of Chinese-speaking immigrants, while the English version is suitable for second- and third-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States and readers of other ethnic groups to meet the needs of readers from different backgrounds. All books will be available for readers to borrow after the exhibition and will be in long-term circulation in more than 60 branches of the Queens Borough Public Library. (Editor: Guo Zhonghan) 1130426
