Taigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-06-16
• Mått: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
• Vikt: 144 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Wind&Bones
• Antal sidor: 136
• Förlag: Wind&Bones Books
• ISBN: 9781999376420
• Översättare: Will Buckingham, Shengchi Hsu, Kiú-kiong, Elissa Hunter-Dorans, Naomi Sím, Lisa MacDonald

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Naomi Sím is a Taiwanese writer with a background in communication design. She is a two-time recipient of the Tâi-gí Literature Award for short stories. Elissa Hunter-Dorans is a writer and artist from the Highlands, writing in Gaelic and English. She was the Scottish Poetry Library’s first Next Generation Young Makar for Gaelic poetry, and she has performed at the Dandelion Festival, StAnza, and The Edinburgh Fringe. Elissa was recently awarded the Julia Budenz Commemorative Prize for Gaelic poetry. She is president of Edinburgh University’s Folk and Traditional Music Society, where she is currently studying History of Art, and has a fascination with religious and folk visual culture.Kiú-kiong is author of the essay collection I Buried Myself under the Earth, and in 2023 was writer-in-residence at the Taiwan Literature Base. She has an MA from the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University. Her primary writing language is Tâi-gí. She believes that one’s mother tongue is not only the voice of one’s mother, but is also the voice of one’s homeland.Lisa MacDonald (Lisa NicDhòmhnaill) is an educator and a writer. She is also a parent, a singer and a PhD student. She lives in a small, rural community in the Highlands of Scotland, where the beauty of the landscapes belies centuries of social upheaval. Her deep investment in place and community takes many forms, and she draws strength from connections and shared concern. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been widely published, and her work has been recognised with awards and prizes. Her collection Mnathan na Còigich | The Women of Coigach was published in 2022, and one of the poems was selected to feature among the Best Scottish Poems by the Scottish Poetry Library.Shengchi Hsu is an English-Chinese translator. After over two decades living and working in the UK, he now lives and teaches in Taichung, Taiwan. His translations cover prose and poetry, including A Daughter by Lin You-hsuan, Violet by Hsu Yu-cheng, Cage by Qiu Miao-jin, and eight classical Taiwanese Han poems in the PN Review.Hannah Stevens (溫婷誼) is a writer from the UK, with deep connections to Taiwan. She is co-director of Wind&Bones Books. Hannah has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Leicester, and her first short story collection, In their Absence was published in 2021. She is also author of the short story collection On the Bodies of Strangers, for which she was shortlisted for the W&A Working Class Writers’ Prize 2022. Hannah has been writer in residence at the Sofia Literature and Translation House, Bulgaria, and also at the Taiwan Literature Base.Will Buckingham is a writer, philosopher and translator from the UK, currently based in Taiwan. Along with Hannah Stevens, he co-directs Wind&Bones Books. Will has a PhD in philosophy, and he writes fiction, nonfiction and for children. His most recent book is Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Divided World (Granta 2022), which was a BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. He, too, has been writer in residence at the Sofia Literature and Translation House in Bulgaria, and at the Taiwan Literature Base.

Garry MacKenzie, author of Scotland: a Literary Guide for Travellers and Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain“Four thoughtful and thought-provoking stories in conversation across languages and cultures - how exciting, and how necessary! This marvellous anthology, full of grace and wit, shows how writers and indeed whole literatures thrive when in contact with other voices.”Li Yuan (Taiwan) 李遠, screenwriter and Taiwan Minister for Culture “I am grateful for the publication of this book. A mother tongue is the root of culture, and a culture that loses its mother tongue is like a plant without roots. This book will greatly inspire the promotion of language equality and literary translation.”Michelle Kuo (Taiwan), author of Reading With Patrick“In this imaginative and profoundly original book, two seemingly distant worlds—Gaelic Scotland and Taiwanese communities—are brought into resonant dialogue through their suppressed languages, enduring myths, and local beliefs. By placing Gaelic and Taiwanese side by side, the book creates a striking intimacy with the daily lives that preserve them. Both Scotland and Taiwan, small democracies with rich and complex histories, emerge here as sites of cultural resilience and deep-rooted memory. Beautifully translated across four languages, these evocative and subtle stories show, as editors Hannah Stevens and Will Buckingham put it, ‘what it means to seek out connections that might bind us more closely.’”Lin Chia-lung 林佳龍, Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs“Language is the essence of culture, and native languages shape the collective memory of a nation. I am grateful for this publication of this book, which allows us to bear witness to the literary vitality sparked by mother-tongue creativity. Through a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural collaboration between Taiwan and Scotland, this is a book that brings into being a profoundly moving cultural exchange.Tân Lêkun 陳麗君 (Taiwan), professor of Taiwanese literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan“Here, the scattered voices of Taiwanese and Scottish Gaelic meet. Stories rooted in our mother tongues that glow like the sunlight of early spring—these are tales that, in their gentleness, quietly burn.”Un Jio̍k-kiâu (Wen Ruoqiao) 温若喬 (Taiwan), translator and poet“Languages are the vehicles of culture; they carry the spirit of their origins from generation to generation. Tâigael is an innovative work created by writers from Taiwan and Scotland, presenting culture-based stories in four languages and five writing systems. It is an important vehicle that brings life to these beautiful cultures worth preserving. I am truly honoured to be one of the first readers of this impressive work!”Martin MacIntyre (Scotland), author, Bàrd and storyteller“Stories told well and without fear invite us in, so we can travel in the depths of their inspiration. In this innovative collection, East and West become travel partners, opening crucial doors between Taiwanese and Gaelic creativity. What a lovely partnership. How much they have to tell each other, late into the night; and how rich our sharing becomes!”Colin Bramwell (Scotland), poet and translator“Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic facilitates a storytelling conversation between two minority languages, Taiwanese and Scottish Gaelic. It is a rare thing for these particular languages, these oral cultures, to be put in such comprehensive contact. Drawing parallels between two marginalised territories, Scotland and Taiwan, the central, future-facing lesson of this book is that communication between minority-language writers is not only possible but desirable. Though two quite different national-linguistic contexts are celebrated and maintained here, a shared preoccupation with certain concerns - present-day feminism perhaps foremost among these - animates this unique quadrille of stories (and tellers) beyond their languages of transmission.”Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania“In Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic, we have a rich assemblage of stories in an innovative format involving four languages. Reading through the book will open hitherto unexperienced nooks and crannies of the mind.”

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