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1. REPRESENTATIVE TEXTS AND
AUTHORS FROM ASIA, ANGLO-
AMERICA, EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA,
AND AFRICA
21st Century Literature from the
Philippines and the World
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2. Contents of this template
1. Literary genres, traditions and forms
from different national literature and
cultures, namely, Asian, Anglo-
American, European, Latin American,
and African

3. 01
REPRESENTATIVE
AUTHORS & TEXTS
FROM ASIA

4. 21st CENTURY ASIAN
LITERATURE
1. Scheherazade (short story) by
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
2. Their Last Visitor (sudden
fiction) by Kim Young Ha (South
Korea) translated by Dafna Zur
3.The Bus Driver Who Wanted to
Be God (short story) by Etgar
Keret (Israel)
4.Elegy by Mong-Lan (Vietnam)
5. The Burning Kite by Ouyang
Jianghe (China) translated b
Austin Woerner
6. The Wheel by Vinda
Karandikar (India)
7. Song by Ali Ahmad Said Esber
(Syria) translated by Khaled
Mattawa

5. HARUKI MURAKAMI (January 12,
1949)
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer.
His books and stories have been
bestsellers in Japan as well as
internationally, with his work being
translated into 50 languages and
selling millions of copies outside his
native country. His work has received
numerous awards, including the World
Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award, the
Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem
Prize.
JAPAN

6. Murakami has a new short story in the recent New Yorker (Oct. 13, 2014),
the title of which, "Scheherazade," immediately attracted my attention,
having recently read the new translation of 1001 Nights by Hanan Al-
Shakyh and Marina Warner's wonderful study, Stranger Magic: Charmed
States and the Arabian Nights.
Murakami's story is about a guy who cannot, for some undisclosed reason,
leave his house. A nameless woman is assigned (but we do not know by
whom) to come to his house regularly to bring him food and supplies. She
also has sex with him and tells him stories; thus, he calls her Scheherazade.
The main story she tells him in the story we are reading is about her
breaking into the home of a boy with whom she was obsessed while in
high school, (she is middle-aged now), fantasizing about him, stealing
trivial items, and leaving other items in their place.
SCHEHERAZADE
(Short Story) by Haruki Murakami (Japan)

7. YOUNG-HA KIM (November 11, 1968)
Young-ha Kim was born in Hwacheon.
He moved from place to place as a child,
since his father was in the military. As a
child, he suffered from gas poisoning
from coal gas and lost memory before
ten. He was educated at Yonsei
University in Seoul, majoring business
administration, but he didn't show much
interest in it. Instead he focused on
writing stories. Kim, after graduating from
Yonsei University in 1993, began his
military service as an assistant detective
at the military police 51st Infantry
Division near Suwon.
South Korea

8. Yŏngsŏn was twenty-four. She had majored in sculpture
at a prestigious art school, then married Chŏngsu, a
graduate of the same school, before the ink was dry on
her diploma. It happened so quickly that most of their
friends thought the wedding invitations were a practical
joke. She was already working as a graphic designer at
an Internet firm, and a friend had gotten Chŏngsu a job
as a set designer for a movie producer. Yŏngsŏn's
small-scale start-up company kept her busy, but
Chŏngsu was even busier. He usually worked through
the night. Movies were always produced on a tight
schedule.
THEIR LAST VISITOR
(sudden fiction) by Kim Young Ha (South
Korea) translated by Dafna Zur

9. Chŏngsu basically lived with his tool belt on. He'd
pound away for days constructing an elaborate set only
to bash it to pieces within hours. That was life: good
work went completely unnoticed while carelessness
was criticized ruthlessly. He had to put up with a lot of
crap. Yŏngsŏn tended to think her husband's talents
were going to waste, but she kept her opinion to herself.
CONTINUATION…

10. ETGAR KERET (August 20, 1967)
Keret's first published work was
Pipelines (‫צינורות‬, Tzinorot, 1992), a
collection of short stories which was
largely ignored when it came out. His
second book, Missing Kissinger ( ‫געגועיי‬
‫ר'לקיסינג‬, Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger, 1994), a
collection of fifty very short stories,
caught the attention of the general
public. The short story "Siren", which
deals with the paradoxes of modern
Israeli society, is included in the
curriculum for the Israeli matriculation
exam in literature.
Israel

11. This is the story about a bus driver who would never
open the door of the bus for people who were late. Not
for anyone. Not for repressed high school kids who’d
run alongside the bus and stare at it longingly, and
certainly not for high-strung people in windbreakers
who’d bang on the door as if they were actually on time
and it was the driver who was out of line, and not even
for little old ladies with brown paper bags full of
groceries who struggled to flag him down with trembling
hands. And it wasn’t because he was mean that he
didn’t open the door, because this driver didn’t have a
mean bone in his body; it was a matter of ideology.
The Story About a Bus Driver Who
Wanted to Be God

12. The driver’s ideology said that if, say, the delay that was
caused by opening the door for someone who came
late was just under thirty seconds, and if not opening
the door meant that this person would wind up losing
fifteen minutes of his life, it would still be more fair to
society, because the thirty seconds would be lost by
every single passenger on the bus. And if there were,
say, sixty people on the bus who hadn’t done anything
wrong, and had all arrived at the bus stop on time, then
together they’d be losing half an hour, which is double
fifteen minutes. This was the only reason why he’d
never open the door. He knew that the passengers
hadn’t the slightest idea what his reason was, and that
the people running after the bus and signaling him to
stop had no idea either.

13. MỘNG-LAN (March 25, 1970)
Mộng-Lan is a Vietnamese-born American
award-winning poet, writer, painter,
photographer, musician, composer,
singer, Argentine tango dancer,
choreographer, and educator. Former
Stegner Fellow at Stanford University,
Fulbright Scholar, she has published
seven books of poetry & artwork, three
chapbooks, has won numerous prizes
such as the Juniper Prize and the
Pushcart Prize. Poems have been
included in international and national
anthologies such as Best American Poetry
Anthology and several Norton anthologies.
Vietnam

14. & what if hope crashes through the door what if
that lasts a somersault?
hope for serendipity
even if a series of meals were all between us
even if the aeons lined up out of order
what are years if not measured by trees
ELEGY
Mong-Lan (Vietnam)

15. OUYANG JIANGHE (1956)
Ouyang Jianghe was born in Luzhou,
Sichuan Province. He is a renowned
Chinese poet, critic of poetry and culture
and calligrapher and is Director of the
publication Today and a professor at
Beijing Normal University. Among his
works published in the People’s Republic
of China are 10 books of poetry - including
Who Leaves and Who Stays, Such a
learned hunger and Da shi da fei - and his
collection of reviews and essays Standing
on This Side of Fabrication.
China

16. What a thing it would be, if we all could fly.
But to rise on air does not make you a bird.
I’m sick of the hiss of champagne bubbles.
It’s spring, and everyone’s got something to puke.
The things we puke: flights of stairs,
a skyscraper soaring from the gut,
the bills blow by on the April breeze
followed by flurries of razor blades in May.
It’s true, a free life is made of words.
You can crumple it, toss it in the trash,
or fold it between the bodies of angels, attaining
a permanent address in the sky.
The Burning Kite
BY OUYANG JIANGHE
TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY AUSTIN
WOERNER

17. The postman hands you your flight of birds
persisting in the original shape of wind.
Whether they’re winging toward the scissors’ V
or printed and plastered on every wall
or bound and trussed, bamboo frames wound with wire
or sentenced to death by fire you are,
first and always, ash.
Broken wire, a hurricane at each end.
Fire trucks scream across the earth.
But this blaze is a thing of the air.
Raise your glass higher, toss it up and away.
Few know this kind of dizzy glee:
an empty sky, a pair of burning wings.

18. GOVIND VINAYAK KARANDIKAR
(August 23, 1918 – March 14, 2010)
Govind Vināyak Karandikar better known
as Vindā Karandikar, was a well-known
Marathi writer. In 2003, he was presented
with the Jnanpith Award, which is India's
one of the most prestigious literary
awards. He has also received for his
literary work some other awards, including
Keshavasut Prize, Soviet Land Nehru
Literary Award, Kabir Samman, and
India's highest literary award, for lifetime
achievement, the Sahitya Akademi
Fellowship in 1996.
India

19. Someone is about to come but doesn't. Is about
to turn on the stairs but doesn't.
I button my shirt
come from the laundry with all its dazzling blots,
like one's peculiar fate.
I shut the door, sit quietly.
The fan begins to whirl
and turn the air into a whirlpool of fire,
making a noise bigger than the house.
Someone is about to come and doesn't.
It doesn't matter.
Calmly I lean against the wall, become a wall.
THE WHEEL
Vinda Karandikar (India)
BY AUSTIN WOERNER

20. ALI AHMAD SAID ESBER
(January 1, 1930)
Ali Ahmad Said Esber , also known by the
pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian
poet, essayist and translator who is
considered one of the most influential and
dominant Arab poets of the modern era.
He led a modernist revolution in the
second half of the 20th century, "exerting
a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry
comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the
anglophone world.
Syria

21. Bells on our eyelashes
and the death throes of words,
and I among fields of speech,
a knight on a horse made of dirt.
My lungs are my poetry, my eyes a book,
and I, under the skin of words,
on the beaming banks of foam,
a poet who sang and died
leaving this singed elegy
before the faces of poets,
for birds at the edge of sky.
SONG
by Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Syria) translated by
Khaled Mattawa