Wei Ting
@weitingjen
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Writer, Mom | I write about women, language and contemporary Asia | 🇸🇬/中/日/한/De | Letters from the Periphery 📩 https://t.co/9zD8meaeG4
Singapore/New York
Joined February 2008
I've started a new writing series where I publish and respond to letters from around the world about what it means to be an 'international' writer in the US. The first letter is from a Singaporean reader who asks: how do you balance writing and family? https://t.co/JZNhF4tpmX
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So excited for this book!!
My novel, The Book of Records, will slip into the world next year. I am so very grateful. Literature tries to hold, even fleetingly, what history and time dissolve.
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For anyone interested in reading some of Han Kang's work, this story (a precursor to The Vegetarian) translated by Deborah Smith is a great (free!) introduction:
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A new story by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
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"With the war intensifying and people being carried out dead every day, how can we have a celebration? Please don't celebrate while witnessing these tragic events. The Swedish Academy didn’t give me this award for us to enjoy, but to stay more clear-headed."
Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars
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My aunt, Lee Wei Ling, passed away on Oct 9. When I was a child, she recruited my brother and me as lab subjects for a brain imaging study. Ever the scientist. Her funeral is today, in Singapore. It pains me that I cannot be there to say goodbye.
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Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars
koreatimes.co.kr
Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukrain...
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Couldn't be more excited for @AntonHur and what this means!!
Honored to be on the judging panel for the #InternationalBooker2025 ✨ Trans rights are human rights and human rights are trans rights 🏳️⚧️ And free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Popped in here to check out what's going on and WHOA LIT WORLD MUNRO WUT
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Popped back on this site and saw this. Wow! Congrats @YuanfenYang!!
Last canvass of this general election, with Bala in Whitley Wood (left) and our Whitley councillors (right) 🌹
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It still doesn't seem real, but somehow, some way, UC Berkeley and Harvard are going to support my weird little magazine. Which means that after twenty solid years of dreaming about it, I'm making a print mag of writing and art.
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Are you ready to take a trip? Elastic, a biannual print magazine of psychedelic art and literature that will debut in spring 2025, aims to publish art and writing that’s “immersive, dreamlike…
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Day 2 of #JinYongCentenary. We started the day with a visit to Jin Yong’s cousin Xu Zhimo’s house. He’s best known as a poet - we’ve all learned his ode to River Cam at school and can still recite it 轻轻的我走了 - but he’d also welcomed Tagore to China and met Hardy in the UK!
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shared with permission, originally posted to rootward's story on IG: Cindy Juyoung Ok resigns as poetry editor from @GuernicaMag 🌸
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Singapore friends! I'm working on a story about canals and waterways in Singapore, and hoping to speak to someone familiar with public works? Or drainage systems? If you know of anyone who might be up for a chat, please let me know? Feel free to RT. Thanks!! 😊
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This little story made a longlist! Thank you @epiphanylit for the shout out and congrats to all the other nominees ☺️
We are pleased to announce the longlist for our 2024 Breakout! Writers Prize, honoring student writers in prose and poetry. This year's judges are Manuel Muñoz (prose) and James Cagney (poetry). And to all the talented student writers who submitted: thank you and keep going!
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One of the best stories I've read in a while - I have a ton of work to do but this was so good I just couldn't stop reading.
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because in the meaning making, you realise we're all in this together, making meaning in the meaninglessness
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