Mayor Brown of the City of Ryde, the Council’s Executive Team and Councillors Keanu Arya, Tina Kordrostami and TECO Sydney attended a book donation ceremony this morning.

Mayor Brown said multiculturalism has been deeply rooted as the way of living in Ryde. Thanks for the generosity from Taiwan, so the Mandarin speaking communities in Ryde can enjoy the top-tier Taiwanese literature works, and the city’s diverse heritages are further enriched.

Director General David Cheng-Wei Wu said that he is also a City of Ryde Library member and honored to represent the National Taiwan Museum of Literature in donating 60 books of 2023 and 2024 Taiwan Literature Awards Finalists and Award-Winning Titles, for the very first time in history.

The Awards recognize outstanding work across all literary categories, including fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry and also provide a window into the richness and diversity of Taiwanese society and culture. This is the pilot program that the National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates books to Australia, and we hope residents of this community can know more about Taiwan through reading them, and most importantly, enhance the connection between our two peoples.

The plan is for the books to start touring the libraries from the week commencing Monday, 9 March. The books will be available at our Ryde Library (Top Ryde) for a week, before being taken to West Ryde Library for another week, before Eastwood for the final week.