We are not sure of the exact date, but we know it happened on a Thursday in the […]
Category Archive: history of literature
The stories of Javanese cultural hero, Prince Panji Inu Kertapati, dating from the 13th century, mark the development […]
I often ask myself and others: why has so little Thai literature been translated? We are a country […]
Translating a poem into another language—its content, its form, its tone, its nuance—is, as almost everyone who has […]
Lu Xun (鲁迅) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (周树人), one of China’s most famous fiction authors, […]
Bangladesh’s English language literature over the years … Ironically, it was the 1947 Partition and the carving out […]
By the turn of the 20th century, “sketching from life” had become such a popular literary form that […]
The narrative around the pioneering Indian English poet and translator must rescue him from his image of a […]
FLASHBACK A look at the history of modern Burmese literature from The Atlantic‘s February 1958 issue. It was […]
