108 Riddles from Tibet
original title 108 devinettes du Tibet
publisher l’Asiathèque • 2020
project Graphic design and production • Manufacturing follow-through • illustrations under the pseudonym Sènga la Rouge
translations and texts Françoise Robin, linguist, Tibetan scholar, professor at the INALCO, and Véronique Gossot, translator and Tibetan scholar
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The riddle game is an ancestral tradition: Tibetan children still play it in groups today. The authors Françoise Robin and Véronique Gossot took on the task of translating it for the first time in French and to transcribe the sound and rhythmic games, humor and poetry.