Old Demons, New Deities -

. .

Résumé :
The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese.

Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful.

For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.

Biographie:
TENZIN DICKIE is a writer and literary translator living in New York. Her writings have been published in Indian Literature, Apogee Journal, Tibetan Review, Himal SouthAsian, and Cultural Anthropology, and anthologized in The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians from The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and The Tibet Reader, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her translations have been published in The Washington Post online and Modern Poetry in Translation. A 2014-2015 ALTA Fellow of the American Literary Translators' Association, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Harvard University. She is an editor at treasuryoflives.org, a biographical encyclopedia of significant figures from Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan Region....

Sommaire:
Table of Contents (by title and author)

Introduction Wink
Pema Bhum The Silence
Jamyang Norbu Ralo
Tsering Dondrup Under the Shadow
Bhuchung D. Sonam The Agate and the Singer
Kyabchen Dedrol The New Road Controversy
Takbum Gyal Nyima Tsering's Tears
Woeser Hunter's Moon
The Flight of the Wind Horse
Pema Tsewang Shastri Letter for Love
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa The Connection
Light
Tsering Lama The Season of Retreats
Tsering Namgyal Khortsa The Dream of a Wandering Minstrel
Pema Tseden The Fifth Man
Tenzin Dorjee Winter in Patlikuhl
Tenzin Dickie Snow Pilgrimage
Zumki's Snowlion Tenzin Tsundue Dolma
Dhondup Tashi Rekjong Tips
The Valley of the Black Foxes
Contributor biographies Acknowledgments