China’s first collection of Tibetan novels published
China’s first collection of novels written in Tibetan has recently been published. It probes into the social lives and thoughts of the Tibetan people in the modern time, Chinanews.com reported.
The collection contains five original Tibetan novels created by three generations of Tibetan writers. There are more than one million words, and it took two years to have it published.
Suo Luo, editorial director of Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, said that although ethnic Tibetan literature has emerged with unprecedented vigor in the 21st century, the publication process has been relatively slow for a national-level novel. This has certainly halted the progress of contemporary Tibetan literature.
"The publication of this collection of books has helped overcome the shortcomings of too many poetry and short stories but very few novels from the past", said Suo Luo.
Suo Luo added that , in the collection, the book entitled "My two fathers" was created by Tsering Dondrup, a Mongolian writer who finished it in Tibetan; the book named "Yesterday’s tribe" created by Tenpai Ya’erjie, vice chairman of Tibetan Writers’ Association, depicts the pastoral life in north Tibet; Shigatse writer, Phurbu Tsering, reflects on the Tibetan people’s second anti-British war in 1904 in his book titled "Falling Stones"; Tsering Tashi’s "Waning crescent" and Kuan Taijia’s "Grand Ditch" really do reflect the new style of Tibetan literature among the younger generation.
Suo Luo believes that this collection reveals to the world how Tibetan writers, by taking the reality as the source depict changes in Tibetan historical development and the emotional memories of the Tibetan ethnic group. At the same time, it probes into the social lives and thoughts of the Tibetan people in the modern time.