Čtení na sedm dní – Nokan Walis (2022)

Reading for Seven Days is a collection of essays by Taiwanese writer Walis Nokan (Walisi Yougan), focusing on creative writing from 1999 to 2016. The three sections of the collection explore the past of indigenous people in Taiwan and their navigation through modern society. Walis Nokan is mindful of the fate of Native Americans and is well aware that people who do not recognize their past must dissolve into the majority society and be forgotten. The essays present the story of indigenous people and their feelings in today's Taiwan. Walis Nokan, a member of the Atayal tribe, was born in 1961 in the Miho settlement in the Heping District of Taichung. Initially, he used the indigenous name Walis Youkan, which he later changed to Walis Nokan. His Chinese name is Wu Junjie, and he previously used the pseudonym Liu Ao. He graduated from the Faculty of Education in Taichung and currently works as a writer and university lecturer. In 2011, he received the Wu Chuo-liu Literary Award for The School of Small Poets, and in the same year, he won the United Daily News Critics' Award in the essay category. His published works include The Call of the Wild, Atayal Children: The Heart of Taiwan, The Mountain is a School, I Miss My Tribe, Eyes of the Savages, The Research of Ino Kanori, ...