Unlike his Malaysian-Chinese compatriots, Tash Aw and Tan Twan Eng who have become well-known for novels which fit pretty squarely...
Year: 2016
Prize-winning Indonesian novelist Eka Kurniawan isn't for the squeamish. Freighted with semen, menstrual blood, excrement and urine, his tour-de-force, “Beauty...
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He says his sister was killed by her husband three days ago. The couple had four children. It was a...
Literary agent Gillon Aitken of Aitken Alexander Associates has died. Aitken died peacefully this morning (28th October) after a period...
Online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. has signed a deal to acquire the publishing business of Westland, a Trent Limited subsidiary...
A collection of plays by William Shakespeare to be issued later this month will have an unusual credit line after...
Arundhati Roy once said: “ Writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it...
The 35th edition of Sharjah International Book Fair will witness participation by an impressive line-up of Indian writers, actors, chefs...
In a 2010-novel, Clockwork Angel, author Cassandra Clare writes, "Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and...
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