85 read: Ghosts of Chinese Poems - Feb 26 - 4pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH, UBC
CK Choi Building, Conference Room #120
4:00-5:30pm

By Robert Majzels and Claire Huot

Experiments in the reception of classical Chinese poetry into English
- from writing to visual text to video to installation
- from author to translator to performer to spectator

Robert Majzels is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec.

In 2007, he won the Alcuin Society Prize for Excellence in Book Design for the limited edition of his book, Apikoros Sleuth.

This Night the Kapo, an award winning full-length play, was produced at the Berkley Street Theatre in Toronto, in March 2004.

He was given the Governor General’s Award of Canada for his translation of France Daigle’s Just Fine in 2000.

With Erin Moure, Robert has also translated several books of poetry by Nicole Brossard.

He is presently an Associate Professor in English at the University of Calgary. His most recent novel is a murder mystery entitled THE HUMBUGS DIET.

Claire Huot is a sinologist who has written two works on contemporary Chinese culture (La Petite révolution culturelle, 1994; China’s New Cultural Scene, 2000).

She was Canada’s cultural counselor in Beijing from 2000 to 2002.

She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has been living in and out of China since 1980.

She is presently an instructor in the Faculty of Communication & Culture at the University of Calgary where she teaches China-related courses.

Her first novel, with a Mandarin speaking heroine, is a murder mystery entitled THE PRISON TANGRAM (Mercury Press, 2007).

She has been involved in Robert Majzels’ 85 project since 2004.