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Asaa Newsletter June 2018 ASAA NEWSLETTER Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia Website: www.asaa.net.au Hyderabad Literary Festival 2018 Mission, Embassy of Spain in India, Mr Eduardo Sánchez Moreno. Also present at the inaugural was the Cultural Attaché, Ignacio Vitórica Hamilton. The Indian Language in Focus was Kannada and ten leading Kannada authors and artistes took part in sessions on literature, theatre, film, and performance poetry in Kannada, and a panel HLF 2018 Inaugural: Dignitaries with children dressed as Jnanpith Award winners in discussion on the language crisis in Kannada Karnataka. In addition, there was a The eighth annual Hyderabad retelling of the Ramayana from a Literary Festival (HLF) was held Kannada Dalit village woman’s from 26-28 Jan 2018 on the perspective. sprawling campus of The Cultural programmes at the Hyderabad Public School, a festival included a performance by heritage property in the heart of the the indie fusion band Bombay city. Besides India, authors and Bairag, a ‘Mushaira’ of humorous artistes from a dozen foreign Urdu poetry, and the staging of the countries—Canada, Colombia, play “The Prophet and the Poet” by France, Germany, Israel, Latvia, the Bangalore Little Theatre. The Norway, Serbia, Spain, UK, USA, play, with the Indian freedom Wales—participated in the three- struggle as the backdrop, is based day festival. There were more than on the correspondence exchanged one-hundred speakers, a group between Mahatma Gandhi and which included authors, activists, Rabindranath Tagore over 25 years. artistes, film makers, fitness experts, (See picture below). Besides, there legal luminaries, media celebrities, were film screenings, lecture thespians and other creative talents demonstrations on rare and from varied fields. endangered art forms, events for Spain was the Guest Nation children and young adults, and art at the festival and seven leading installations and exhibitions writers from the country took part including one by a Women’s in the festival which was Collective and a Mouth and Foot inaugurated by the Deputy Head of Painting Artist. “Promote a 2 | Concept” saw the enthusiastic Vale-Serge Liberman promotion of four interesting Writer-doctor noted for his initiatives: “The Human Library” humanity (where books are people and reading is a conversation), “Ka se Kavita” (to foster an appreciation of Hindi and Urdu languages), “Rise of Literati (to keep the spirit of literature alive by bring together book lovers and budding authors), and “Tale Tellers Troupe” (a platform to help people overcome stage fear by practising the art of storytelling). Serge Liberman (1942-2017) Dr Serge Liberman, author, editor, scholar, bibliographer and medical “The Prophet and the Poet” in progress practitioner, has died in Melbourne at the age of 75. For more than 40 Paying homage to eminent years he was a leading light in artistes who had passed away Australian Jewish literary and during the preceding year was a multicultural spheres. He was born feature introduced at the Festival in on November 14, 1942 in Fergana, 2017. Continuing the practice, Uzbekistan (USSR), to Abram Jacob tributes were paid at to Girija Devi and Regina Liberman (nee Minski), (Indian classical singer; 1929-2017), Polish-born parents made refugees Shashi Kapoor (film actor and by the war in Europe. After producer; 1938-2017), Tom Alter spending time in a displaced (film and theatre artiste; 1950-2017), persons’ camp in Germany (1946-7) and Gauri Lankesh (journalist; and then in Paris (1947-51), the 1962-2017). family of three arrived by ship in [Plans are afoot for HLF 2019. The Melbourne in 1951. Serge learnt dates: 25-27 Jan; Guest Nation: China; English and graduated in medicine Indian Language in Focus: Gujarati. in 1967. He worked in this For festival updates visit: profession until his retirement in <www.hydlitfest.org>. It is hoped that 2013. Australia will be the Guest Nation at Alongside his medical work the Festival in 2020.] he also pursued his literary T Vijay Kumar vocation. Over some 30 years he Director, HLF published six collections of stories. 3 | During that period he also worked Jewish experience would remain his on his groundbreaking Bibliography work’s centre of gravity; the stories of Australasian Judaica: 1788-2008 are universal in their exploration of (updated 2011). This is a towering our common humanity. work (of 800 pages), a compendium He was a person of supreme of meticulously organised dedication and immense energy. As information on all publications a doctor, he was revered by his concerned with Jewish life— patients for his concern for their literature, history, culture and the welfare. By nature a modest and arts in Australia and New humble man, Serge gave of himself Zealand—for which researchers freely and generously. He was kind, and readers will be grateful for courteous, softly-spoken and a decades to come. thoughtful, loyal and generous, He was an editor of the friendly; yet he could sport a Melbourne Chronicle, associate editor correspondingly understated wit, of Outrider, literary editor of the while his humour could display an Australian Jewish News and Menorah absurd, even wicked streak. He and vice-president of PEN played a significant role in fostering Melbourne. He served several Australian Jewish writing, through editorial committees; was three the publications he was involved times winner of the Alan Marshall with but also in less visible ways. Award and a recipient of the NSW Many other writers including Premier's Literary Award; his books myself were the beneficiaries of his were studied in Australian high encouragement and support. schools and universities. He was Confronted in 2016 with a diagnosis awarded the Medal of the Order of of motor neurone disease, Serge the Australia (OAM) for his medical professional fully contribution to Australian literature understood its ineluctable (2015). trajectory. Throughout his illness he His fiction is distinctive for maintained an extraordinary its vivid, highly-charged prose and outward demeanour: his its ethical, at times metaphysical, characteristic ready smile, intensity, and especially for its expressed by the merest crease myriad protagonists drawn with around the lips, could warm the colourful precision and a heart and lift the mood of any compassionate understanding of visitor…His dignity and grace in the highlights and shadows of the the face of his unspeakable human spirit.... Liberman's predicament were an inspiration. imagination was shaped by the Serge was looking forward to world’s great authors,… even more the publication of his final book, a so by the greats of the Jewish and selection of his finest stories under Yiddish literary traditions. His the title The Storyteller (which strong Jewish identity, and his Richard Freadman and I have been history as a child survivor of the preparing and Hybrid will publish). Holocaust …underpin many of the ... Yet it was not to be … Serge themes of his books… while the Liberman died on 22 December 4 | (2017) at Gary Smorgon House, gone”, she said, “Serge, the writer, South Caulfield. ... He is survived lives on.” by Anna Mow, his devoted second [Our sincere thanks are due to Anna for wife of more than 20 years, three sending us these documents, and to children, two step-children and six Alex for permitting us to adapt his grandchildren. special tribute for this Newsletter. They [The Storyteller was launched have enabled us to remember here Serge posthumously in Melbourne. See report as a much valued member of the ASAA below]. community and that goodness which Alex Skovron was his special attribute. He attended Melbourne writer and editor the ASAA Conference held at Mar Ivanios College in Kerala and while managing his own problem with two Launching Liberman’s Finest fractured ribs at the time (which we did The Storyteller, Hybrid 2018. not know about till the conference was <www.hybridpublishers.com> over) tended one or the other of the attendees minor discomforts. ASAA With no author to sign books, the friends from India and Spain stayed posthumous launch of Serge with him in his Melbourne home. He Liberman’s compilation of his best will be sorely missed.] short stories in The Storyteller at Peter Kohn Kadimah on Sunday was especially heartfelt. The 432-page collection, Busy Year for Satendra suggested to Liberman by friend and colleague Alex Skovron, had the late author’s enthusiastic support but his hopes to attend the launch were dashed when he lost his struggle with motor neurone disease.… Introducing the anthology of 28 of Liberman’s finest stories, La Trobe University emeritus professor, Richard Freadman described him as a medical doctor whose creative works explored “colliding worlds” of the real and the metaphysical. … Liberman was a universalist, said 2017 was a particularly busy one for Freadman, who believed that “the Emeritus Professor Satendra more a Jew cares about [Jewish and Nandan (University of Canberra). It non-Jewish] others, the more Jewish was the centennial commemoration he is”…. Anna Mow, Liberman’s of the abolition of the Indenture wife of more than 20 years) System in the British Empire, a portrayed him as “a wise, gentle, work which commenced soon after kind man with a great big heart”. the abolition of Slavery in the 1830s. Although Serge, “the mensch, is The Indenture Experience is a major 5 | theme in Nandan’s writings. In and Tansformations in Literature— March, he was invited to Fiji for A Pacific Perspective.’ The biennial participation in a number of conference is being organized by celebratory events in this the European Centre for the connection: a formal lecture, the International Study of Literatures in launch two of his books as well as to English (CISLE). His research and present Readings from them. writing on a historical novel set in The System was finally three countries continues at the abolished on 17 March 1917.
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