When Dolma, the daughter of Lhamo, a Tibetan refugee, moves to Canada from Nepal, she does not believe that her life has begun. This is a recurring sentiment throughout Tsering Yangzom Lama’s novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies. An important statue called the Nameless Saint, which appears whenever the family needs him and is a leitmotif in the …
This was originally meant to be a “comedy of manners” about the Tibetan community in Toronto. Author Tsering Yangzom Lama As I began to write about the characters’ present reality, I found myself thinking about everything that had brought them to the West. I remember at a community book event in New York City, a Tibetan person said that we …
An award gala for this year's Lu Xun Literature Prize, broadcast on satellite television and livestreamed online, is held in Beijing on Nov 20 to promote the winning works. Sonam Tsering, a laureate of this year's Lu Xun Literature Prize, one of the country's most prestigious awards, shared his first encounter with literature in Beijing on Sunday. Impressed by the …
