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...Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts," says Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostál. "All the same it's a great film." Milos Forman, the émigré Czech film-maker and two-time Oscar winner, hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes...
...This worldwide Chinese diaspora has changed the Chinese literary landscape and transformed what it means to be a Chinese author, to the point where much of the most robust "Chinese" literature is no longer even written in Chinese. In just the past decade, Chinese émigré authors who have adopted other languages have gained prominent seats in the world's literary pantheon. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was an immediate best-seller in France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book...
...received from the Swedish academy. Liu, a literary critic residing in the U.S. state of Colorado and a former director of the literature department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explains why exile in the West has played such a key role in the life of émigré writers: "After fleeing from China, life was hard. We had to adjust to a new culture at a late age. Gao didn't have a job and tried to survive by selling his paintings. Another author, Ah Cheng, did everything from auto repair to fast-food delivery. 'What does America...
...search for their spiritual home. "Our perspectives have changed," says Liu. "In China, we had struggled between life and death in different political movements and already had a deep understanding of China and humanity. The displacement and exile has set our minds free!" But exile strips émigré authors of their natural place of belonging. Liu, one of the most admired authors in China in the 1980s, has been banned on the mainland for more than 10 years and is gradually being forgotten. Though his newer books have found publishers in China again in the past year...
...migré authors with a readership in both the West and China. In the past five years, however, her focus has been on the West. She thinks the Chinese market has become too commercial and low brow. "I don't really care how many readers I have in China," she says. "I only care how many of them are people with taste...