News & Interviews

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2023

"Diaspora Unfurled: Dear Chrysanthemums," American Library in Paris
Evenings with an Author - October 24

  

Video Podcast, episode on Chinese diaspora literature
with author Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dear Chrysanthemums 
The World of Chinese, "Meanwhile in China"
September 2023

 

                     Watch on Youtube channel, Meanwhile in China

"Lucid Silence: An Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain"
Interview by Tsering Yangzom Lama: Dear Chrysanthemums 
Asymptote
September 2023

"Autofiction, History, and Beyond"
Conversation with Shawna Yang Ryan on Dear Chrysanthemums 
Singapore Unbound | Suspect 
July 2023

Podcast interview on Dear Chrysanthemums 
Asian Review of Books | New Books Network 
June 2023

Podcast interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain on Yu Xiuhua
Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast - June 2023            

2021

Interview on Rain in Plural 
Off the Coast - Summer 2021 
           

Fiona Sze-Lorrain Recalls the "Imperfectly Perfect"
"Take Five" Interview
Columbia College Today - February 12             

Webinar: Sze-Lorrain in Conversation with Christopher Merrill
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City - February 4

 

                     Watch on Prairie Lights' Facebook Live Virtual Readings

Zoom Video, American Library in Paris
Evenings with an Author: Fiona Sze-Lorrain - January 26

  

 

2020

Zoom Video, LOGOS Reading by Dan Beachy-Quick and Sze-Lorrain
December 6

 

Live Podcast, Rattlecast #66: Fiona Sze-Lorrain, by Timothy Green
Rattle Poetry - November 10

 

More Than Allusion: Fiona Sze-Lorrain's Rain in Plural 
Interview by William Sharpe
Cahiers at Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination - October 2                       

From One Wound, How to Navigate Another
Interview with Dan Beachy-Quick by H.L. Hix
Inquire - November 17             

MALBA Questionnaire Interview      
Watch the video at Instagram - September 23  

2019

La poésie d'une humanité partagée : 
entretien avec Fiona Sze-Lorrain par Magdalena Arnoux
Poezibao - Octobre 7                       

Art of Darkness: A Blue Dark 
Exhibition by Horstman and Sze-Lorrain
New Haven Independent - June 7                        

Dark Matters: A Blue Dark 
Exhibition by Horstman and Sze-Lorrain
The Arts Paper - August 5                        

Watch a video from MALBA:

2018

Between Image and Its Less Tender Life - 
A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain (PDF)
Quiddity International Literary Review - Vol. 11, 2018

Entrevista : Fiona Sze-Lorrain - La poesía es una forma 
de resistir la manera en la que se dicta el tiempo
Revista Colofón, Buenos Aires - July 11

Quería ser una astronauta - Viaje a la poesía alrededor de la
Residencia de escritores del MALBA de Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Revista Colofón, Buenos Aires - July 24

Malba, la lectura como arte - 
Residencia - Visitante : Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Revista Noticias, Buenos Aires - July 13

Una intensa actividad de creación y debate  
literarios en el Malba hasta fin de ano 
Télam, Buenos Aires - June 20
Diario de cultura, Buenos Aires - June 20

Quién es Fiona Sze-Lorrain, la poeta y musica   
de Singapur que llegó a la Argentina
Radio Cadena Sol, Buenos Aires - June 
Infobae, Buenos Aires - June 19 

Fiona Sze-Lorrain, la poeta que llegó de Singapur, es fan  
de Pizarnik y toca el arpa - primera huésped de 
la residencia de escritores del Malba
La Nación, Buenos Aires - June 15

Un foro para el diálogo y la creación 
Página/12, Buenos Aires - June 15

Tre preguntas a Fiona Sze-Lorrain 
Malba Diario, Buenos Aires - May 21

Interview on The Ruined Elegance, etc. 
The Literary Review - January 16

2017

Zheng Musikfestival in Europa 
The First European Zheng Festival
Zheng Festival and Concert Review - May 27

Noon Forum: Poetry Reading and Guzheng Performance
Omaha Public Radio KIOS 91.5 FM - May 1

2016

Article on Poetry and Zheng Performance in Nebraska
The Creightonian - November 3
 

 

Interview: "Why Do We Need a Women
in Translation Month"
Foreword Reviews - August 29

2015

Interview on The Ruined Elegance
Princeton University Press blog - September 10

Feature: 50 Red Dots around the World
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (PDF)
Be Movement - August 9

     

Taipei Poetry Festival: Poetry Feature
(in Chinese translation)
The Merit Times - October 19

                        

2014

"Themes and Variations of an Afterlife"
TriQuarterly - May 6                          

2013

"I try to write as a witness to something concrete"
Kitaab: Asia+n writing in English - November 24     

2012

Des musiques d'une troublante beauté :
avec Guo Gan aux Musicaves
Le Journal de Saône et Loire - 26 juin       

2011

Une seule prise (In One Take)
HD Mag : Musique - novembre 2011

2010

"On the Aesthetics of Empathy"
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore - April
www.qlrs.com

Retort Magazine - February
Interview: retortmagazine.com

2009

"Fact or Fiction, Sze-Lorrain's Poetry Exceeds Truth"
Columbia Spectator - November 30
Feature Article (PDF)

2008

Public Republic - November 10
Interview: www.public-republic.net
 

Tsering Wangdu et Sze-Lorrain
Ethnotempos - No. 39, June-August
Review: Cordes et vents (PDF 4.9MB)

Tibet-Chine : à la croisée des notes
Paris - May 12
leparisdechine.wordpress.com

2007

Interview in Feature Article,
"The Self in Silhouette"
Newsweek International - December 24
www.newsweek.com

Interview in Feature Article,
"Gao Xingjian: A Man Outside the Mainstream"
Jakarta Post - December 16
www.thejakartapost.com

Initiation International
Singapore - March 10

2004

Performing at Festival de l'Imaginaire
Paris - March 15
Monodomix, Maison de cultures du monde, Paris
Festival de l'Imaginaire (PDF 413KB)

Performing with IIIZ+
New York - February 24
New York Press
"Oh, those zany Asians… they're at it again…"
Review: Pling, Plang, Plung and [ka] Boom!

Alaska - February 19
Juneau Empire
Review: Zither Group to Embark on World Tour

 

2003

Concert Review
New York - December 8, 2003
Chinese Music Ensemble of New York Concert
Zheng with Chinese Music Ensemble of New York (PDF 737KB)

"Flying the Child's Hope"
New Canaan - September 11
Our Town (Arts), New Canaan, Connecticut
Review: Flying the Child's Hope (PDF 124KB)