Three Indigenous Taiwanese writers are to take part in Australia's Emerging Writers' Festival in Melbourne next month, the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) said today.
Bunun writer Neqou Soqluman, Amis writer Ado Kaliting Pacidal and Truku writer Apyang Imiq are to participate in five events during the festival, which runs from Sept. 10 to 18, the NMTL said in a news release.
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It is to be the museum's first involvement with the festival, which was established in 2003 and is regarded as a major Australian platform for emerging writers and interdisciplinary performances.
The three writers are to join international forums and performances combining literature, readings, music and discussions, as well as engage with writers, publishers and readers from Australia and other countries, the museum said.
Their forum topics would include how writers make a living, their responsibilities when writing about others and what distinguishes fiction as an art form.
Neqou writes about Indigenous ecological knowledge, hunting culture and mythology, while Ado, also a musician and filmmaker, works across media to preserve and practice Indigenous culture, the NMTL said.
Apyang explores personal history, collective tribal memory, identity and connections between tradition and contemporary life through his writing and community work in Hualien's Ciyakang (支亞干部落) community.
The museum said it would also publish an English-language booklet containing translated excerpts from the three writers' works for distribution at the festival.
The excerpts would later be made available through the Taiwan Writers Festival and Taiwan Literature in Translation Repository Web sites, with the museum hoping to create opportunities for overseas publishing rights.
The trip is part of a partnership the NMTL established with the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office in 2024.
As part of the reciprocal program, Australian First Nations writers and literary curators will visit Taiwan for the Taiwan Writers Festival in November, the museum said.
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