Stop beating yourself over not reading the “right” books. Fiction is about two things: curiosity and pleasure, says Malcolm Jones...
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Moazzam Sheikh was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied business, film and library science and is currently a librarian in...
Collection of translated stories to provide boost to Korean literature: The Korea Times In an international environment in which Korean...
It's been a blockbuster year for the leading names of Chinese literature. But if one trend hasmade 2013 a milestone in the world of books, says veteran literary critic Meng Fanhua, it is ashift in Chinese literary writing away from the traditional focus on rural life. “The collapse of rural civilization together with the construction of a new one centered on theurban culture is the basic feature of the society today,” Meng says. “The variety of newreleases proves the creative power of Chinese writers.” (more…)
The 128-page novella won Yasushi Inoue the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, and succinctly captures the national psyche of the postwar years...
With an extensive line-up of 139 speakers, this year's festival is set to make waves in Indian literature scene: DNA...
The Asahi Shimbun AJW’s series on internationally acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami, among the world’s most celebrated authors, was...
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Hemingway often derided fellow authors who wrote about what they had read, rather than what they had experienced. To him,...
An institution that exists between the private and the public, family becomes an important marker in the analysis of a...
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