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Stories that surprise
This issue of New Internationalist is rather different from the magazine you normally expect, in that its central section is devoted to four short stories. There is one from each of the anthologies of stories from around the world that we have published over the past year: Cooked Up, a lively compilation of fiction with food-related themes; Water, a new collection from Short Story Day Africa; The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories, the latest anthology of the prestigious Caine
Prize for African Writing; and One World Two, a follow-up to our successful book One World in which the writers’ geographical origins and cultural perspectives are even more diverse. The stories we have chosen are by: Krys Lee from South Korea; FT Kola from South Africa; the Cuban-American Ana Menéndez; and Efemia Chela, who hails from Zambia and Ghana. They can be seen as part of a new kind of ‘world writing’ that is emerging in the 21st century and are introduced by a conversation with Professor Elleke Boehmer of Oxford University – herself an acclaimed novelist – who explains how stories such as these are breaking down national and literary boundaries.
Also in this issue, we welcome back popular contributor Maria Golia for a one-off letter from Cairo, and turn the spotlight on President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. ■
CHRIS BRAZIER for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org
This month’s contributors include:
Ana Menéndez is the CubanAmerican author of four books of fiction including, most recently, Adios, Happy Homeland! A former journalist and columnist, her writing has featured in many anthologies, including Cubanisimo! She currently lives in Florida.
Krys Lee is assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. She is the author of the short-story collection Drifting House and the acclaimed new novel How I Became a North Korean. kryslee.com @krysleewriter
FT Kola was born in South Africa, grew up in Australia, and lived in London and New York thereafter. She is currently a fellow in fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2015 for her first-ever published story, ‘A Party for the Colonel’. Efemia Chela is half-Zambian and half-Ghanaian. She studied at Rhodes University, South Africa and at Institut D'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France. Her first published story, ’Chicken‘, was nominated for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing.
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