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Open Call for Nanjing International Writers Residency 2023
Nanjing is offering 6 residencies in 2023 to writers, poets and translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature.
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Nanjing City of Literature celebrates World Book Day with ‘Read the stories of Nanjing’
On 23rd April, the World Book Day, Nanjing City of Literature launched ‘Read the stories of Nanjing’, a ceremony that showcases the achievements of Nanjing Translation Fund Project to date.
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Open up a Poetic Spring -- Nanjing celebrated World Poetry Day with Cities of Literature around the Globe
21st March was first announced as World Poetry Day by Unesco in 1999, With the aims to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to increase the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard at local and international levels.
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International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Roads 2022
The International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Roads 2022 was held in Beijing
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Nanjing International Writers Residency 2022
2022 marks the fourth year after Nanjing’s designation, and the fourth year that Nanjing has initiated the Nanjing International Writers Residency programme
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Open Call for Nanjing International Writers Residency 2022
Nanjing is offering 6 virtual residencies in 2022 to writers, poets and translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature.
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Nanjing in partership with Iowa City Launched a UNESCO City of Literature Creative Writing Workshop
The Creative Writing and East-West Ecologies: USA-China IWP/UNESCO City of Literature Chinese-English Writing Workshop was inaugurated at Global Nanjing Literature Hall on 5th August, 2022.
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Nanjing City of Literature Afternoon Tea hosted Guests from Book Business During the Nanjing City of Literature Book Festival
On Tuesday, July 5th, Nanjing Literature Centre organised an afternoon tea event featuring guests of prominent figures of the publishing and literary enterprises that are based in Nanjing.
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Reach Out Nanjing Through Poetry-Nanjing World Poetry Day Celebration
In response to the invitation from Granada City of Literature World Poetry Day Initiative, Nanjing Literature Centre organized featured events to celebrate the World Poetry Day...
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Poetry and Urban Life-Nanjing World Poetry Day Celebration
In response to the invitation from Granada City of Literature World Poetry Day Initiative, Nanjing Literature Centre organized featured events to celebrate the World Poetry Day...
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“Read on The Lake” Meets Again for an International Reading Communication Session
On the morning of November 28, “Read on the Lake” meets again in Xuanwu Lake Park for a special session...
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Selected Works: 2020 Nanjing International Writers' Residency Program
On October 31, 2019, Nanjing was designated UNESCO City of Literature. In accordance with the mission of UNESCO, Nanjing, as the only UNESCO City of Literature in China, embraces cultural diversity and urban inclusiveness, values mutual aid and mutual learning between different countries...
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Read on The Lake Celebrates Double Ninth Festival
On October 24, Read on The Lake celebrated Double Ninth Festival in Xuanwu Lake Park, Nanjing. The activity is jointly organized by Jiangsu Province Reading Promotion Association...
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Warm the Whole City with the Sound of Reading: Nanjing “Readers” Meet Again by the Xuanwu Lake
September 26, 2020, by the Xuanwu Lake we hear again the beautiful sound of reading. The sixth session of the monthly “Read on The Lake” meeting was held in Liangzhou Square...
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“One City, One Postcard” Exhibition of UNESCO Cities of Literature
On the evening of the 4th of December, Cities as Space for Literary Creativity: “One City, One Postcard” Exhibition of UNESCO Cities of Literature had a grand opening at G Museum. This exhibition was made happen under the guidance of the National Committee of People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, sponsored by the Publicity Department of C.P.C. Nanjing Municipal Committee and organized by the Nanjing Literature Center...
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Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
Hello friends! Help us to spread the word about Norwich Crime Writing Festival.Festival news from Norwich UNESCO City of Literature.We are delighted to announce that Noirwich Crime Writing Festival returns to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature in September 2020 in a brand new, online format...
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Read on the Lake: Special Event for Qixi Festival
On August 25th, Read on the Lake Qixi special event was held at Xuanwu Lake Park by Jiangsu Reading Promotion Association and Nanjing Literature Center. With “2020 Qixi Festival, Let’s Read together” as the event theme, participants sought out poetry of romance throughout history...
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The Untold Story of Nanjing's bid for UNESCO Creative City of Literature
October 31st, 2019, UNESCO has designated 66 cities across the world to join UCCN, and Nanjing became the first ‘Creative City of Literature’ in China. Literature lovers in Nanjing, even China were cheering for this exciting news; they all believe that Nanjing fully deserves this honour. However, why is Nanjing well-deserved? How did Nanjing earn this honour? We usually have a lot of Chinese-styled imaginations toward international prizes like Nobel Prize, and ‘City of Literature’ was not out of this imagination as well. ‘City of Literature’ built its purpose, rules and values under the frame of UCCN. Nanjing was confronting challenging ups and downs during the bid process. The future construction of ‘City of Literature’, the systematic works for assessments...
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CCTV Documentary “Literary Hometowns”
Starting from 2016 summer, with 2 years of work, documentary “Literary Hometowns” followed the lead of 6 well-known writers, presented audiences with 6 episodes named after these writers: these episodes are ‘Jia Pingwa’, ‘A Lai’, ‘Chi Zijian’, ‘Bi Feiyu’, ‘Liu Zhenyun’, ‘Moyan’ (part1 and part2). The documentary focused on these writers’ hometowns: Moyan’s hometown Gaomi, Jia Pingao’s hometown Shangzhou, A Lai’s hometown Jiarong, Chi Zijian’s snowy hometown at the Northern part of China, Bi Feiyu’s watery hometown at the north part of Jiangsu Province and Liu Zhenyun’s hometown at Yanjin. The documentary traced back to the time of writers’ childhood and youth and it also discussed how they had turned their living hometowns into literary hometowns...
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Read on the Lake: Let’s read Nanjing City of Literature Classics Series together
On July 28th evening, the fourth ‘Read on the Lake’event was held on a classical lake boat at Xuanwu Lake Park. Experts such as Feng Yitong, Cao Jinsong, Hu Axiang and Fan Liwen led everybody to seek out Nanjing’s literature context throughout history. Participants were discussing, interpreting and inheriting classics. This activity was held by Jiangsu Reading Promotion Association, Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation and Nanjing Literature Center with Jiangsu Shuxiang Reading Foundation, Nanjing Reading Promotion Association, Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Park Office and Litchi Reading Club as co-organizers...
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“Audio Reading Base for Disabled Readers”is established in Nanjing
26th July, The Launching Ceremony of “Audio Reading Base for Disabled Readers” co-organized by Nanjing Reading Promotion Association, Nanjing Disabled Persons’ Federation and Nanjing Publishing Media Group was held in Youth Meeting Room (Wuding Gate)....
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City of Literature Classics Collection Set launching ceremony was held in Nanjing
On July 2nd, 2020, ‘City of Literature Classics Collection Set’ was published by Nanjing Publishing & Media Group (Nanjing Press) with the Information Office of Nanjing City take the lead. Many literature celebrities came to the launching ceremony; they highly appreciated this collection set which demonstrates Nanjing’s cultural achievements from multiple perspectives. This collection set is not only a showcase of Nanjing’s culture but also a piece of classic works of Chinese culture. Famous writer Bi Feiyu said this collection set is the most suitable and resplendent response to the honor of ‘City of Literature’...
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Stick to your own “ancient expression” Interview on Bi Feiyu
On behalf of Youth Magazine I want to thank you for taking this interview. First question, according to your experience, since we enter the era of internet, in what aspects are the readers of the new generation different from before? Meanwhile, in what senses have our main-stream novelists been changing and adapting?...
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The Sharing Salon of Standing inside Fiction: Images of Bi Feiyu was held in Nanjing
The famous writer Bi Feiyu has his first image set. On June 26th, Bi Feiyu image exhibition Standing inside Fiction: Images of Bi Feiyu was held in Nanjing Cafe Belong Literacy Cafe. Bi Feiyu participated with authors of the book, famous literature reviewer couple Xiaohua and Wang Zheng. In a certain sense, this image set is all about Bi Feiyu, his detailed biography with images and texts. Authors of this book are critics who have maintained 30 years of literature communications and friendships with Bi Feiyu. This luxurious squad has undoubtedly attracted a large group of readers....
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Read on the Lake: the Dragon Boat Festival special event
“Poem, is the shelter for poet’s will, is the will when the poet puts it in heart, turns into a poem when the poet speaks out.”Dragon boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, is the first Chinese festival that is selected into World Intangible Cultural Heritage, and we also call it the Poets’ Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival on May 25th, to lead everyone to appreciate the beauty of Chinese poetry, and promote traditional Chinese culture. In Liang Island of Xuanwu Lake Park....
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International exhibition "A City as a Writer's Workplace" opens online
The International online exhibition “A City as a Writer's Workplace” brought together 100 photographs and texts from writers and artists from around the world. The exposition, organized by the “Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature” program directorate, is presented in English and Russian....
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International Youth Forum: Special Dialogue on Youth’s Response to COVID-19
Nanjing, a UNESCO Creative City of Literature in China, held a special edition of the International Youth Forum in collaboration with the UNESCO Beijing Office, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and the Creative City of Changsha....
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21 cities of literature extend best wishes to Wuhan
21 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide have extended their best wishes in nine languages to Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak...
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2019 Nanjing International Literature Residency project
This program was established to improve the creative ability and multicultural understanding of talented writers from world cities with literary resources (particularly UNESCO Cities of Literature)...
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2019 International Youth Forum on Creativity and...
Between April 3 and April 6 of 2019, the 2019 International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage Along the Silk Roads was held in Nanjing for the event’s third meeting and second consecutive year in the city...
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2019 International Literature Forum
The "Silk Roads International Literature Forum" is a biannual event launched in 2018 with an emphasis on literary exchange between countries along the Silk Roads...
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Nanjing Literature Center
Nanjing Literature Center, founded in 2016, is the chief coordinator for Nanjing's ...
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