Table of Contents

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

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About the Author

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 SouthAsian, 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.

Reviews

Praise for Old Demons, New Deities









"This book is the first of its kind, and presents a little-known literature that few readers in the West have been able to access. With the well-crafted translations of this collection, Tibetan literature takes a step forward onto the global stage." —The Los Angeles Times Review of Books







"Elegant and accessible stories . . . This collection will go a long way to encouraging further interest in Tibetan literature.” —Asian Review of Books





"A long-overdue and brilliantly edited volume on the Tibetan experience." —Gary Shteyngart









"Tenzin Dickie is to be congratulated on having gathered here these twenty-one short stories by arguably the best Tibetan authors writing today. Informatively introduced by her, this volume is a most welcome treat for anyone interested in literature per se and opens a much-needed window to the contemporary Tibetan short story for an international audience." — Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard University









"This anthology of contemporary fiction from Tibet, with stories from Tibet as well as the diaspora, paints the most real and haunting portraits of Tibetan lives in all their complexities and contradictions. Including luminaries like Woeser, Tsering Dondrup, Pema Bhum, and Jamyang Norbu, Old Demons, New Deities is a unique contribution to world literature." —Tsering Shakya, Canada Research Chair, Religion & Contemporary Society in Asia, University of British Columbia





"Elegant and accessible stories on a variety of themes by the most distinguished of modern Tibetan writers" –John Butler, Scroll.in