THI Lunch Symposium with Tibetan Women Writers on Friday, April 22nd
The Tibet Himalaya Initiative was honored to host a lunch symposium with Tibetan women writers Tsedron Kyi, Nyima Tso, and Min Nangzey at Koenig Alumni Center on April 22nd. These writers are prominent women's voices in the Tibetan literary scene, both on the plateau and in the diaspora.泭
The lunch symposium was an intimate gathering of 20 THI faculty, visiting scholars, local translators, alumni, and graduate students. We had the opportunity to hear about the literary journeys of each writer and engage in informal discussion with them.
This was泭a follow up to the public event, Emerging Voices: Tibetan Women Writers (attended by approximately 75) on Thursday evening the 21st, in which the writers泭read from their works, a combination of poetry and short stories, in Tibetan followed by a reading of the泭translations.
Nicole Willock (Old Dominion 勛圖厙) introduced the event with a lecture on the history of泭contemporary Tibetan literature from seminal figures such as Tseten Zhabdrung, the topic of her book泭泭(Columbia 勛圖厙 Press, 2021), up to emerging publications by Tibetan women writers.
勛圖厙 the Tibetan Writers:
Tsedronkyi (鉠鉠箋鉠舟鉧耜蝦鉠鉏鉠舟鉧晤蔡鉠) is a short story writer from Chapcha, Amdo and teacher of Tibetan language and literature. She has published two books of collected short stories, A Melancholy Drama (鉠舟鉧晤蝦鉏鉠舟麾鉠鉏鉠鉠耜鉠鉧喪蝦鉠舟鉠鉠Ｒ 2005) and Clinging (鉠鉠箋鉏鉏 2016).
Nyima Tso (鉠鉠耜鉠鉏鉠鉠鉠潼) is a poet and short story writer from Labrang, who currently lives in Dharamshala. She has published two books of collected poems and short stories respectively: The First Journey of This Life (鉠鉠耜鉠鉠箋鉠鉠鉠耜鉠耜鉠鉠鉧耜蓬鉠鉏鉠鉠鉠毯鉏鉠鉠箋鉠舟鉠鉠鉏鉠鉠潼 2003) and A Fragment (鉠鉠毯耦鉏鉠鉠耜 Zhur zhig 2007).
Min-Nangzey (鉠舟儘鉠耜鉏鉠舟麾鉠鉏鉠鉠鉠箋膠鉏) is an emerging poet and essayist from Golok, who currently lives in Dharamshala. She has published two books of collected poems and lyrics respectively: Princess of the Snow Mountain (鉠鉠鉠舟鉠Ｒ蔡鉠鉠耜鉠舟噙鉠舟鉠鉠潼 2006) and Songs of Emotions (鉠鉠潼耦鉏鉠鉠鉠耜鉠鉧喪蓬 2015).
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We are grateful to UVA's Tibet Center, who arranged for this group of writers to come on tour to the US with presentations at UVA, Harvard, Columbia, and CU Boulder.
Sponsored by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative with support from the Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Research Innovation Office at CU Boulder.