Tenzin Dickie 
Old Demons, New Deities 
Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet

The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese.



Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful.



For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.

قائمة المحتويات

Table of Contents (by title and author)




Introduction




Wink

Pema Bhum




The Silence

Jamyang Norbu




Ralo

Tsering Dondrup




Under the Shadow

Bhuchung D. Sonam




The Agate and the Singer

Kyabchen Dedrol




The New Road Controversy

Takbum Gyal




Nyima Tsering’s Tears

Woeser




Hunter’s Moon

Jamyang Norbu




The Flight of the Wind Horse

Pema Tsewang Shastri




Letter for Love

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa




The Connection

Bhuchung D. Sonam




Light

Tsering Lama




The Season of Retreats

Tsering Namgyal Khortsa




The Dream of a Wandering Minstrel

Pema Tseden




The Fifth Man

Tenzin Dorjee




Winter in Patlikuhl

Tenzin Dickie




Snow Pilgrimage

Kyabchen Dedrol




Zumki’s Snowlion Tenzin Tsundue




Dolma

Dhondup Tashi Rekjong




Tips

Pema Bhum




The Valley of the Black Foxes

Tsering Dondrup




Contributor biographies




Acknowledgments

عن المؤلف

TENZIN DICKIE is a writer and literary translator living in New York. Her writings have been published in Indian Literature, Apogee Journal, Tibetan Review, Himal South Asian, and Cultural Anthropology, and anthologized in The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians from The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and The Tibet Reader, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her translations have been published in The Washington Post online and Modern Poetry in Translation. A 2014-2015 ALTA Fellow of the American Literary Translators’ Association, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Harvard University. She is an editor at treasuryoflives.org, a biographical encyclopedia of significant figures from Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan Region.