Taiwanese Authors Honored at European Literary Festival
Taiwan is the first Asian country to be the guest of honor at this year’s Authors’ Reading Festival in Europe. Thirty-one Taiwanese authors have been invited to share their works in the Czech Republic and Slovakia over the next month.
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00:00Taiwanese authors are taking center stage
00:03at a literary festival in Europe.
00:06The Czech Republic and Slovakia are holding
00:08their 25th annual Authors Reading Month Festival.
00:12Taiwan is the first Asian country
00:14to be featured as the guest of honor.
00:16Over the next month, 31 Taiwanese writers
00:19will share their works across five cities.
00:22The first was novelist Li Ang,
00:24who gave a reading at the opening ceremony
00:26and shared her thoughts on the festival.
00:29Many times, because Taiwan has been ignored in the past,
00:35there are very few opportunities to receive more attention.
00:41People usually don't know where Taiwan is,
00:45and then they are ignored.
00:47So this time, friends from the Czech Republic
00:49are willing to do such a big event with us.
00:52To be honest, at the beginning,
00:54I thought, wow, this is incredible.