22 Mar(Fri)8:00pm-ALCHEMICAL IMAGINATION

ALCHEMICALIMAGINATION

Julie Koh’s dreamlike narrativesswell with undercurrents of social critique. Li Jingrui, a former journalist, molds her stories around the edges of true stories and personal histories. Joining them in conversation today, Nüvoices’ Alice Xin Liu discusses the ratio of critique to imagination: how authors use narrative and voice to imbue social commentary with authorial creativity, and transform the public into something personal.

Julie Koh

JulieKoh (許瑩玲)was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and lawat the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursuewriting. She is the author of two short- story collections: Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities. The latter was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Australian Science Fiction Foundation’s Norma K Hemming Award(Long Work). Julie was named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. She was a judge for the 2018 Stella Prize. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Best Australian Stories in 2014 to 2017. Her fiction has been published in the United States, Ireland,Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Julie is the editor of Books Actually’s Gold Standard, the librettist for satirical opera Chop Chef, and a founding member of experimental literary collective Kanganoulipo.

Liu Jingrui

Li Jingrui was a journalist for eight years,reporting on legal affairs in China. She resigned in 2012 and turned to other forms of writing, including her own column in the Chinese edition of The Wall Street Journal. She now mostly concentrates on writing fiction. She has published a collection of short stories Tales of a Small Town, also a novel Small Town Girl, in which she tries to explore human feelings and fate, without steering clear of sensitive subjects. Her stories may be about the everyday lives of ordinary people in a small town in Sichuan, or about students exiled in New York after Tian’an men.

Friday,March 22 at 8:00pm

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