Special Taiwan Writers Panel

The presentations will be in Chinese. Three prominent writers from Taiwan discuss the processes of their artistic creation and the current state of Taiwan’s literary scene. Zhu Tianwen 朱天文, renowned woman writer, is author of numerous award-winning novels and vanguard of Taiwan’s postmodernist fiction in the 1990s. Liu Kexiang 刘克襄, writer of “animal fiction,” will be discussing his views on naturalist fiction. Ke Yufen 柯裕棻, Professor of Journalism at National Chengchi University, will talk about his experiences in the United States and return to Taiwan as a scholar and writer. The downloadable PDF files linked below are essays that the panelists will be discussing.