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Category Archives: Literary Travel

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Oranges and haiku

5 Dec ’20
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged haiku, Japan, Kyoko Yoshida, Matsuyama, Tomoka Kai. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

I arrived in Matsuyama mid-evening. It’s a city on the north coast of the island of Shikoku, but in the dark we hadn’t even seen the bridge connecting it with the main island of Honshu from our express train. I … Continue reading→

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Dublin Diary

18 Dec ’19
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce, MoLI, Seamus Heaney, Sweny's. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

I feel a fraud for not having read Ulysses, so I buy a postcard and some lemon soap and leave. Continue reading→

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Translation by the Lake

18 Aug ’19
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Balatonfüred, Hungary, translation. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

During the Austro-Hungarian Empire Balatonfüred was a holiday resort for the rich, and an important centre of intellectual life. However, on a wet and windy night in the early twenty first century it felt more like Cromer in November. Continue reading→

blue skies and blossom © 2019 Kate Griffin. All rights reserved.

Early spring in Tokyo

18 Jan ’19
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Japan, Tokyo International Literary Festival. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

My knowledge of Japanese is limited, to say the least. Continue reading→

viaje © 2019 Kate Griffin. All rights reserved.

Notas de viaje

18 Jan ’19
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Manila, Philippines. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

Geographically the Philippines is a little out of the way and writers feel isolated from the global literary scene. Continue reading→

Biržai Jewish cemetery © 2018 Kate Griffin. All rights reserved.

Reclaiming histories

26 Aug ’18
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Alvydas Šlepikas, Aurimas Svedas, Biržai, Dāce Meiere, David Shneer, Giedra Radvilavičiūtė, Grigory Kanovich, Lithuania, Paulina Pukytė, Rimvydas Stankevičius, Rūta Elijošaitytė-Kaikarė, Sigitas Parulskis, Vilnius. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

History untold is non-existent history. Continue reading→

Singapore national museum © 2018 Kate Griffin. All rights reserved.

Erasing histories

26 Aug ’18
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Annaliza Bakri, Cheran, Jeremy Tiang, Lakshmi Holmstrom, Melissa De Silva, Samuel Lee, Shubigi Rao, Singapore Literature Prize, State of Emergency. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

How writers and artists combat attempts to erase histories that don’t fit in mainstream narratives. Continue reading→

balloons © 2018 Kate Griffin. All rights reserved.

Yangon diary

13 Jan ’18
By: Kate GriffinFiled under Literary Travel. Tagged Letyar Tun, literature, Myanmar, San Mon Aung, Tan Dan Feng, translation, Yangon. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

Dan and I are the only foreigners taking part in the conference, and all the information we’ve seen has been in Burmese, so we’re not entirely sure what’s going on. Continue reading→

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